Thankfully I live up here in Canada.
It'll the be first time the Superdome's been filled in years
(football joke).
That aside, I really hope no one is hurt. If the Superdome collapses...well let's hope to God it won't
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It'll the be first time the Superdome's been filled in years
(football joke).That aside, I really hope no one is hurt. If the Superdome collapses...well let's hope to God it won't
.Why does it look like it hasn't moved at all? 
I keep losing my effing connections and it's pissing me off SO BAD! It's like I can log in for 2 seconds.. then get disconnected.. or load one page on the forums.. wait 5 minutes to get another...
>_<
oh.. but no school tomorrow and no night classes. 
Woot!
<3 Hurricane
>_<
oh.. but no school tomorrow and no night classes.
Woot! <3 Hurricane
QUOTE(Joli @ Aug 29 2005, 05:54 PM)
I keep losing my effing connections and it's pissing me off SO BAD! It's like I can log in for 2 seconds.. then get disconnected.. or load one page on the forums.. wait 5 minutes to get another...
>_<
oh.. but no school tomorrow and no night classes.ÂÂ Â Woot!Â
<3 Hurricane
>_<
oh.. but no school tomorrow and no night classes.Â
  Woot! <3 Hurricane
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...you really shouldn't be on the computer even with a storm, let alone a hurricane, near you anyway
.New Orleans is teh PWNED. 
QUOTE(Maedhros @ Aug 29 2005, 07:58 PM)
...you really shouldn't be on the computer even with a storm, let alone a hurricane, near you anyway .
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I have a UPS hooked up to this thing. It's not gonna touch me.
Just don't have a good connection. All I can do is talk on aim and maybe if I use a client other than java.. get on lusternia.
Hrm... New Orleans is screwed...
As for people trashing the inside of the superdome... I don't think they should be worryin about that, Katrina worked up the outside well enough...
looters need to be shot on sight though... Soulless bastards without an ounce of morality...
As for people trashing the inside of the superdome... I don't think they should be worryin about that, Katrina worked up the outside well enough...
looters need to be shot on sight though... Soulless bastards without an ounce of morality...QUOTE(Suhnaye @ Aug 30 2005, 11:36 PM)
Hrm... New Orleans is screwed...
As for people trashing the inside of the superdome... I don't think they should be worryin about that, Katrina worked up the outside well enough...
looters need to be shot on sight though... Soulless bastards without an ounce of morality...
As for people trashing the inside of the superdome... I don't think they should be worryin about that, Katrina worked up the outside well enough...
looters need to be shot on sight though... Soulless bastards without an ounce of morality...176371
Actually, I've seen a lot of it saying it's not rampant, unnecessary looting. People are looting for what they need to *SURVIVE*. Although at one point doctors had to loot a pharmacy, and people tried getting in to join them (the Walmart was severely flooded, and they had to go to the back of a dark, water-filled store). Police had to hold them off at gun point.
I'm going to be a very cruel, heartless person. I have very, very little pity on any of these people. They were all told that there was a category five hurricane, a very STRONG category five hurricane, about to hit their home. A very low-lying city. And they did....... nothing.
I've seen reports that thousands have probably drowned, that hundreds are turning up with strange diseases, and doctors that have turned a bar into a make-shift clinic in the French Quarter are kind of stumped..
Of course, I feel bad these people are suffering. It's a horrible thing. But you should have gotten the hell out when you had the chance. I believe my greatest sorrow is that there will probably not be another Marti Gras to attend for a while.
New Orleans is BELOW sea level..not just low lying. It's in a little valley. Which means when it floods like this, it's a great big spiky puddle and that's it. They're talking 2 months to get electricity, not even discussing how long it'll take to get the pumps up and water out. And you gotta keep in mind..not only are there dead from the flood and winds....alligators and other wildlife are having a fieldday down there. It's getting really nasty.
And keep in mind, although some of those that are still there are the idiots that refused to leave....most of them are those that could not. No transportation. No money to buy transportation (bus/plane/whatever) out.....they were screwed no matter what. Elderly living on their retirement barely able to feed themselves, etc. Those I do feel sorry for.
From what we're hearing from those that live down in that area (hour and a half away) when they DO start letting people go back to new orleans, for the first (long) time it'll be a matter of first proving where you're going, being ESCORTED there, get out whatever survived the storm, then you'll have to leave again. No one's going to be moving back to NO for awhile.
All I can say is thank the gods I left when I did.
And keep in mind, although some of those that are still there are the idiots that refused to leave....most of them are those that could not. No transportation. No money to buy transportation (bus/plane/whatever) out.....they were screwed no matter what. Elderly living on their retirement barely able to feed themselves, etc. Those I do feel sorry for.
From what we're hearing from those that live down in that area (hour and a half away) when they DO start letting people go back to new orleans, for the first (long) time it'll be a matter of first proving where you're going, being ESCORTED there, get out whatever survived the storm, then you'll have to leave again. No one's going to be moving back to NO for awhile.
All I can say is thank the gods I left when I did.
QUOTE(BranwynSunfire @ Sep 1 2005, 11:32 AM)
New Orleans is BELOW sea level..not just low lying. It's in a little valley. Which means when it floods like this, it's a great big spiky puddle and that's it. They're talking 2 months to get electricity, not even discussing how long it'll take to get the pumps up and water out. And you gotta keep in mind..not only are there dead from the flood and winds....alligators and other wildlife are having a fieldday down there. It's getting really nasty.
And keep in mind, although some of those that are still there are the idiots that refused to leave....most of them are those that could not. No transportation. No money to buy transportation (bus/plane/whatever) out.....they were screwed no matter what. Elderly living on their retirement barely able to feed themselves, etc. Those I do feel sorry for.
From what we're hearing from those that live down in that area (hour and a half away) when they DO start letting people go back to new orleans, for the first (long) time it'll be a matter of first proving where you're going, being ESCORTED there, get out whatever survived the storm, then you'll have to leave again. No one's going to be moving back to NO for awhile.
All I can say is thank the gods I left when I did.
And keep in mind, although some of those that are still there are the idiots that refused to leave....most of them are those that could not. No transportation. No money to buy transportation (bus/plane/whatever) out.....they were screwed no matter what. Elderly living on their retirement barely able to feed themselves, etc. Those I do feel sorry for.
From what we're hearing from those that live down in that area (hour and a half away) when they DO start letting people go back to new orleans, for the first (long) time it'll be a matter of first proving where you're going, being ESCORTED there, get out whatever survived the storm, then you'll have to leave again. No one's going to be moving back to NO for awhile.
All I can say is thank the gods I left when I did.
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Oh, I totally agree. Those in homes and such, unable to leave, I feel horrible for. If NO doesn't use public transportation to transport the needy out, they need to seriously rework their evacuation procedures.
Back home, they emptied the elderly and the trouble patients from hospitals (comatose, those safe to move but are difficult to do so) if they have any serious belief a hurricane is coming. They also airvac them to Miami, which is only about a 30 minute flight each way.
It's sad when cities are destroyed like this. There was so much history there, too.
I blame the French for building a city below sea level.
