Hurricane Katrina
Too big to ignore. Too sad to talk about? We’ll see.
Date: September 2, 2005
Categories: Non-Muse news
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Phoenix
in September 2nd, 2005 @ 11:27Too sad. But for YEARS people have been talking about how the dams, dikes and pumps wouldn’t work in a big hurricane, but did anyone do anything about it? NO! If Mostly Harmless ever gets going, we should DO somthing about that! It’s horrible in New Orleans now. You cant even go outside passed sunset, people are getting robbed and killed in hotels, and old and sick people, and babies, are dying without the proper care! and only some of the national guard can help, because all our troops are in Iraq.
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Pheebs
in September 2nd, 2005 @ 12:37Today I was passing a gas station. The gas prices were incredibly high – 3.50 or something. Mom says this is because in th hurricane, a lot of the oil reserves in New Orleans were destroyed. So, I suggest trying to refrain from driving your car for a while.
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Axa
in September 2nd, 2005 @ 14:04It’s terrible. I live in California, so I’ve never really been able to see these kind of things first hand, but from what I’ve read in the newspaper… It sounds completely and totally horrible.
My dad was saying, about the looting and killing, it’s just like the L.A. riots.
What always seemed weird to me, and I know this sounds totally insensitve and I’m sorry, but when animals are slaughtered or hunted in mass numbers, it’s seen as an okay thing that “helps” them. When something happens to humans one the same sort of scale of death, it’s the opposite.
Also, for anyone interested in donating, donate money only, as the Red Cross can’t properly distribute clothing and food.
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Queen Julietaini
in September 2nd, 2005 @ 17:59That’s nothing compared to Illinois. We’re up to 5.50 average a gallon, with some places in the southern parts up to around 7.00 or more per gallon. It’s dire. Also, has anyone noticed that dams, dikes, and pumps, to continue Phoenix’s thought, never work. Water is something like 3% freshwater. Around half of that is in glaciers in the Arctic circle. So water is important. Last I heard, dumbing sandbags down the leak and punching a hole in a dam lower that New Orleans was the plan. Dunno if it worked. Also there are a ton of big empty National Guard trucks milling around, and the Astrodome is not designed for hurricane relief. The hospital personnel are on overload. From all sides, though, Texas has been sending lots of things over. They’re close, so food, water etc. doesn’t really have a chance to go bad.
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Pheebs
in September 2nd, 2005 @ 19:39Nothing compared to Illionois? Er, I’m in Illinois. I haven’t seen any $7.00 per gallon gas stations yet, though.
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Morbid
in September 3rd, 2005 @ 00:00Nothing has directly affected me, but here’s the thing; the loss of all that creepy cool New Orleans stuff is abit too much for me to bear. People say that it’s just water damage, don’t worry Morbid, it’ll all come out okay, if not wet. But I’m not talking about that. Do you think many people were going to risk trying to rettreive all those gorgeous voodoo figurines and their French Quarter merch? And even if some person did, when worse comes to worse, which it did, what do you think you’re going to leave behind when you need to make a break for it?
I’m sorry, but any person who tells me that there’s a chance that all that could survive water damage, let alone stay where they were left (thank you current), isn’t considering facts.
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Lizzie
in September 3rd, 2005 @ 09:40Gas here is only about 2.90.. ha, only $2.90..
I live in Texas (unfortunatly) (it’s not my fault, don’t hate me), as some of you might know, and we have a fair number of refugees from Katrina in town..
I get why people would go into a supermarket, get food, water, diapers for the baby, but I don’t understand TVs, etc.. I mean, there wouldn’t be anything on.. and who would want to buy one now?
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Pheebs
in September 3rd, 2005 @ 09:51Ok, I just figured out that it took 4 DAYS for all the people in New Orleans to get food, water, doctors, toilets, or any way of keeping cool. 4 DAYS. Seriously, we’re in the same continent, the same country, and the USA has all the trucks and helicopters, etc., it needs. That’s 4 days of no food water, dpctors, toilets, or air conditioning for thousands of people, many of whom are children, mothers, mothers to be, senior citizens, and, of course, everyone who got hurt by the hurricane had to survive for 4 days. Or, rather, NOT survive, because, like, a ton of them died.
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Phoenix
in September 3rd, 2005 @ 21:46Yeah! WHERE IS THE STUPID U.S. NAVY WEN WE NEED IT? as a friend of my father pointed out, navy ships could save people, and sinking a few tankers could hold back the rising waters.
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Pheebs
in September 3rd, 2005 @ 22:21Yeah all the National Guard is out fighting in Iraq.
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ChinTsu
in September 4th, 2005 @ 17:55Gas prices here still are at $2.97 or something. I’m surprised. I expected them to hit $4.00 at least.
You know why the National Guard is fighting in Iraq? Because of our dear president.
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Axa
in September 4th, 2005 @ 18:57You know what’s terrible? There are some people who think that Louisiana somehow brought this upon themselves. People can be disgusting. How caould you think something like that?
And I agree with what ChinTsu says. Because it’s true.
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Lizzie
in September 4th, 2005 @ 21:33I second ChinTsu..
yeah, it’s really disgusting how people say it’s because of [insert group you don’t like here]… I mean, come on, this is a hurricane…
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Pheebs
in September 5th, 2005 @ 11:50I totally agree with Chin Tsu about the president thing, but let’s try not to get this to political, lest someone on this board might not agree, and than disaster would strike.
-Pheebs
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Phoenix
in September 5th, 2005 @ 13:57Bush is not a BAD president, just really unlucky. He should never gamble, he’d lose every time. By the way, as of today the fact that mostly African-Americans are homeless now has been turned into a racial issue, at least in Israel. I was watching the Israeli new today, so I know. But then, anything even slightly racist will be noticed by the Israelis; even I, who has lived here for eight years, have had some anti-semetic slurs tossed at me over the years. I don’t think te African-American thing is racial, precisely, but it might be… who really knows?
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ChinTsu
in September 5th, 2005 @ 20:22Unlucky? I won’t elaborate on that, Pheebs is right.
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Ultimate Supreme Executive Chairman Grant O.
in September 8th, 2005 @ 17:24Nuts to the president! He merely flew over New Orleans in Air Force One on his cozy way to California. Anyhoo, I predict that since Americans have a such a short frickin’ attention span, in about 2 weeks nobody is going to care anymore. Sorry if I offended anyone with those 3 sentences, but it’s how I feel. Here in Ohio, I’ve only seen gas as high as 3.19, but then I’m in the middle of nowhere.
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Axa
in September 9th, 2005 @ 18:45Yeah, Americans don’t have the best attention spans (or waistbands ahem). One thing I heard that was really touching was that Indonesia donated 125,000 dollars. I think it was that much. It so great that even with what they’re still dealing with after the tsunami ,which is so terribly mispronounced I think I might die if I hear “su nami” again.
Going off topic there. Many nations were silghtly suprised, and disgusted a bit too I think, how long it took for aid to get down to New Orleans and the surrounding areas. I agree. We can so easily get these hundreds of people over to Sumatra and Bangladesh, but not to our own people?
And as Phoenix said of people talking for years about it, I’m thinking something like this could happen in California, except an earthquake. Yes, the “Big One” as I ‘ve heard waaay too many times. But that’s what I get for living in California.
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Phoenix
in September 10th, 2005 @ 21:23I can say tsunami correctly, and it drives me CRAZY when other people say sunami or Hannuka or whatever instead of saying tsunami of Channuka (Americans cant pronounce soft ch or the tz).
to what [title] Grant O. said, here is my response (to the evil described in his letter, of course, not him):Boo! BOO!-the crone in The Princess Bride
Inconcievable!-Vizzini, The Princess Bride
Vos lobes d’oreles sont comme te’tes de poisson.- Limekiller, from Bloom County, a comic strip by Berkeley Brethed (who is, by the way, a man, not a woman.) It means, “your earlobes resemble fish heads” in French.
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Lizzie
in September 11th, 2005 @ 11:52how would you pronounce that? Or rather, how is it correctly pronounced, since I don’t know how well/if you speak French..
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Phoenix
in September 11th, 2005 @ 15:08No clue how to pronounce it. I can’t speak French at all, I told you I got it from a comic strip!
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TOPFOT
in September 12th, 2005 @ 21:25I haven’t been on for a while (I’m not really reading what everyone else wrote), but I think that it was kinda poor that we got aid to the tsunami victims in two days or so, but we took FOUR DAYS to get to OUR OWN victims.
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Robert Coontz (Administrator)
in September 13th, 2005 @ 14:09I think you’d pronounce it something like this:
“Vo lub dorAY [pause] song cum TET duh pwa-SONG.”
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Queen Julietaini
in September 13th, 2005 @ 17:15Phoenix?
Can you teach us how to pronounce “tsunami”? I would like to do it right? {Mostly Harmless plan, right?}Where I am some people have brought it down to 4.00 or so a gallon. However, they’re going up. Needless to say, traffic’s much better.
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Phoenix
in September 13th, 2005 @ 17:23All my friends are going to help PERSONALLY in New Orleans, as part of our Jewish relief force. I can’t go, though. *cries*
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Phoenix
in September 13th, 2005 @ 20:44I can’t teach you, guys, there is no way to type it on the Net. I could do it in Hebrew of Arabic, although even if I could get it on it wouldn’t help anyone.
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Mr. Hillbilly (Kit Kat in Disguise)
in October 15th, 2005 @ 22:05This is so sad!!!!
I was reading the reader’s digest (“Reader’s Disgust” I call it)
and they had a picture of a crying woman after Katrina with a caption reading
“Woman cries over loss of husband.”
And in the NY Times, they had a picture of a body clothed in white with a question mark. I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t believe that humans would just let bodies lie there to rot in the streets. And why haven’t people written on this for a llllooonnnggg time?
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Craw (Kitkat In Disguise)
in October 16th, 2005 @ 14:1722-11
That’s how many candles. (If you get what I mean…)
Sorry for going off subject, everybody else.
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lilbro777
in November 16th, 2005 @ 22:18We-ell, aren’t we a bunch of cheerful people. I suppose that it is my duty to remind everyone of the good that comes out of Hurricane Katrina. The people in New Orleans are famous for celebrating sin. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am NOT saying they got what they deserved. Anyway, Katrina was catastrophic. Because of that, the people in New Orleans were sent to these facilities in towns that are fairly well known for their great churches! :smile::smile::smile::smile::smile: Also, the christians who came up out of the muck and filth, when asked how they felt about the whole event, almost invariably said “Thank the Lord I’m ok and I have a chance to share His word!” Not “Dang, I have lost so much.” How totally awesome is that:!:
I am sorry to anyone this might offend.
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