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many local residents and even some public officials are expressing frustration over what they see as the snail's pace of rescue operations. U.S. Congressman Charlie Melancon, who represents the hard-hit district in the southeastern part of the New Orleans metropolitan area, says he expected the federal government to come in faster with all the resources needed.
http://www.voanews.com/english/katrina.cfm
I just cannot believe that we can go and set up as quickly as we did in Iraq, with communications systems, et cetera, and we cannot get that down in New Orleans,
i never thougth it would get this bad, this people is really sufering, look at some of the damge its pretty bad
Before
http://www.voanews.com/english/images/dg_new_orleans_msi_march9_2004_large.jpg
After
http://www.voanews.com/english/images/dg_new_orleans_msi_aug31_2005_large.jpg

Mnjul edit: The images were replaced with links because their filesize was too large

It's terrible.

The weather seems to be getting WAY out of control. And it's all our fault with Global Warming and stuff

it will take at least 1 year to build all that up again

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Originally posted by guanako
it will take at least 1 year to build all that up again

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and not to mention a lot of money, they are even thinkin about not buildin everything up again, heard it on the news, might have heard wrong so dont quote me on this

but the number of lives that were lost is terrible!

and to think that equal rights exists in the U.S....

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Originally posted by guanako
it will take at least 1 year to build all that up again

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they say it will be atleast 6 months before its drained

there was people that thought it was a tornado and went to their basement and drawn there its soo sad

the us spend all the money on iraq and now they have no money to give to help new orleans

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Originally posted by evm

the us spend all the money on iraq and now they have no money to give to help new orleans

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omfg, people say shit about anything they can...If US dont give a shit about iraq, it's cause they do, if they spend money there, is cause they do...
Blah!

I just want to say let God be with all those people on the streets and people who are in need of food and water......Let us all pray!!! Patchou should setup some donation thing!!