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

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

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

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

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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!!

my school is donating to our sister high school in new orleans and the senoirs at my school are going over to new orleans sometime to help clean up

It's horrible, indeed. To think that where my father lives, in Florida, they only faced the eye, and it was at a lower rank at the time. I'm glad he's ok and nothing big happened there.

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

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im glad theres gonna be a concert for this to raise money. green days playing (haha woo ) and a lot of other artists, so a lot of money will be raised from this, thank god. my dad was considering going down to help, because he does plumbing, electrition stuff and carpentry and all that stuff. i wish i could help out in a way :\
oh, the concerts on September 10th and i think they're airing it on MTV and probably other stations. 93  billion (i think, maybe million...i forget) dollars were raised when i watched the news yesterday

that place looks like a poor place now cause of all the mess

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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!!!

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The weather seems to be getting WAY out of control

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Sooo Patchou is there anyway that we can setup like a donate to katrina storm thing??? on behalf of all msgplus users!!

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Originally posted by brianjdupuis
Patchou should setup some donation thing!!

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Patchou should setup some donation thing!!

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Hm patchou is canadian, he sure is a human being, but, wtf...why patchou??!

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MsgPlus! Store
All the benefits made on this store will be doubled by Patchou and donated to the Red Cross.

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Originally posted by Time
"I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."

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"I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."

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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...
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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

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I just heard on the news that the Police of New Orleans were given the order to shoot to kill andbody who is looting.

Man who cares if there looting, they have no house, no food, NOTHING. And its not like those stores are going to reopen any time soon, and by the time they did open back up everything would be ruined. It's taraible.

yes i heard that too they have been told to shoot to kill, yes thats severe but also this is a time when i think they should be enforcing laws because if everyone can do as they want run around and steal things nothing can get done, they need as much order and peace as they can get and its not like people are stealing from grocery stores because im sure they are already emptied for the aid effort but no one needs new tvs furniture at this time, also its still the law and its there job to make sure its done its not there choice when its time to enforce the law or not to finally i think its the main goal of that was to scare the majority of people off of stealing and from people coming into the city to take advantage

What would you do if you had no water, no food, no clothes, nothing to lay on? If I were down in any part of that state and I was going through this, you can bet damn good and well I would be looting. Especially people looting to fee there families.

That is outragous.

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



they say it will be atleast 6 months before its drained




Source :blink:?

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There's a lot I could say about this subject but I'd just like to respond to an early post here:

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It's terrible.

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

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Before it hit Florida it was only a category 1 I believe, and after it hit it gained a crap load of strength, and was a category 4 like a day after it hit Florida.

Was just watching the local news, the governor of Tennessee is wanting to declair Tennessee a disaster area. Why? I don't know but I'm going to find out.

President Bush is a idiot for the way he is handleing this catastrophy.

richest country in the world ey?

- USA government pays loads of money to make war with Afghanistan.
- USA government pays loads of money to make war with Iraq.
- USA lets down people when their own country, their own people, gets hit by bad weather.

what goes around comes around.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
- USA government pays loads of money to make war with Afghanistan.
- USA government pays loads of money to make war with Iraq.
- USA lets down people when their own country, their own people, gets hit by bad weather.

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- USA government pays loads of money to make war with Afghanistan.
- USA government pays loads of money to make war with Iraq.
- USA lets down people when their own country, their own people, gets hit by bad weather.

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Thats cause USA friggen sucks! I hate my country .  At least we have a general idea of where DX might be

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i am more than suer that they are doing the best they can, another thing too, when another country suffers for any thing who is always the one that wants to help or actully helps? the US isnt it? so when something happend to the US everyone spects it to come up w. somthing big, i am not sayin that tht uS needs help but, i think it is dealing w. it like what it is. the most powerful nation on the planet.

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A doctor has reported to Fox News that 6 murders and 12 rapes have taken place inside the New Orleans Superdome in the past two days. Dr. Charles Burnell also said that there had been a suicide.   
20,000 residents took shelter in the stadium after Hurricaine Katrina struck and the doctor has described the situation there as "very unstable, very high tension, a very dangerous environment."   
He complained about the lack of medical supplies available to treat those in need of help but said that the threat of violence has forced him to leave the Superdome and remain outside until his safety can be more assured.

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Considering the magnitude of the problem..I'm surprised why the federal govt was caught in wong foot.  US deployed troops in Iraq even faster than they started aid operations.

I hope the aid reached to people before the situation worsens.. I hope they could drain water from  the city as fast as thay can and not take 80 days

USA seriously needs to build better houses. Over here in Puerto Rico, some call it a third world country, our houses have resisted for decades hurracanes that come and go like an everyday thing.

All those houses, looked like they were made of straw, wtf... Why build such houses in dangerous areas? NY is almost 200 years old, if it isn't already, and I bet those buildings wouldn't fall down with a damn hurracane.

Use some god damn cement, leave the luxorious wooden panels and nails for indoor crap, not the actual house.

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i am more than suer that they are doing the best they can, another thing too, when another country suffers for any thing who is always the one that wants to help or actully helps? the US isnt it? so when something happend to the US everyone spects it to come up w. somthing big, i am not sayin that tht uS needs help but, i think it is dealing w. it like what it is. the most powerful nation on the planet.

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USA seriously needs to build better houses. Over here in Puerto Rico, some call it a third world country, our houses have resisted for decades hurracanes that come and go like an everyday thing.

All those houses, looked like they were made of straw, wtf... Why build such houses in dangerous areas? NY is almost 200 years old, if it isn't already, and I bet those buildings wouldn't fall down with a damn hurracane.

Use some god damn cement, leave the luxorious wooden panels and nails for indoor crap, not the actual house.

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Yes I have always wondered why people in us use timber and stuffs like that to build houses.. esp when US is more prone to Hurricane & twisters... Why not buid using concrete & bricks?

It's a tragedy, but will everyone stop flaming Bush for one minute and think that he has actually done, and is still doing all he can to help? You can't blame him for a natural disaster. It has been said over here in our papers that he knows he has neglected that area, and is very sorry to see what has happened. There was even a picture of him talking to two girls, and hugging them. (No, I don't think he was doing it to keep up an image.)

The raping and looting and killing is horrible. I can understand looting for food, but killing and raping is just sick. Especially when i've heard they're raping little children.

It's a very sad time, all we can do is pray for those who are affected. The city will get rebuilt, the people will get back on their feet, but it doesn't stop me feeling terrible for them.

I don't see why they're raping people to be honest, what's the point, does it even help at all?

It's very sad. Everything. From the power of a natural disaster to the delay in helping, as well as any form of abuse.
If intrested, links to pictures of looters in action are on my website plus a help plea, and several New Orleans cams.

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It's a tragedy, but will everyone stop flaming Bush for one minute and think that he has actually done, and is still doing all he can to help? You can't blame him for a natural disaster. It has been said over here in our papers that he knows he has neglected that area, and is very sorry to see what has happened. There was even a picture of him talking to two girls, and hugging them. (No, I don't think he was doing it to keep up an image.)

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And about him huggin those two girls, it's called a show.

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With all due respect to everyone here, USA is the self-proclaimed most powerful nation in the world. It took action in the whole Tsunami Incident faster than the New Orleans thing.

This kind of stuff isn't supposed to happen in the first place, build strong houses and EMPTY the god damn dams before Hurracanes arrive.

But anyways it did, and Bush took a while to send help, it's almost mandatory to send the god damn aid to people in his OWN nation instantly. I just wonder what the hell he was thinking about for four whole days.

theres more than just bush who runs this rescue effort and i doubt he really is the guy in charge because he isnt a rescue and disaster expert and only knows what he is told his, a figure head who everyone is blaming.

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I don't see why they're raping people to be honest, what's the point, does it even help at all?

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new orleans isnt new at all its a historic city thats also probably why so much damage happened because most of it is really old

no mardi gras this year

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Originally posted by Tasha
It's a tragedy, but will everyone stop flaming Bush for one minute and think that he has actually done, and is still doing all he can to help? You can't blame him for a natural disaster. It has been said over here in our papers that he knows he has neglected that area, and is very sorry to see what has happened. There was even a picture of him talking to two girls, and hugging them. (No, I don't think he was doing it to keep up an image.)

The raping and looting and killing is horrible. I can understand looting for food, but killing and raping is just sick. Especially when i've heard they're raping little children.

The city will get rebuilt, the people will get back on their feet, but it doesn't stop me feeling terrible for them.

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My heart goes out to anyone affected by this.

I think this should serve as a wake up call to the american government.

As the London Bombings showed, the war on terrorist hasn't worked, and we are still very much at threat.

If the American government can't respond in a quick and efficient manner to something that they have known was coming for a while, i dread to think what the response will be like to a terrorist attack on a similar scale.

they are totally different situations.

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they are totally different situations.

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they are totally different situations.

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the goverment wouoldnt have to do so much if people would have listen, most of them were warned, but they thought it wouldnt hit them hard enough and see now where they are,
witha terrorist atck you are most likely to not be warn, thats why you have to be prepared, which brings back to the new orleans situation, they know where they live thye should know that they get hurrican there

luckly its all clearing out now

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the goverment wouoldnt have to do so much if people would have listen, most of them were warned, but they thought it wouldnt hit them hard enough and see now where they are,
witha terrorist atck you are most likely to not be warn, thats why you have to be prepared, which brings back to the new orleans situation, they know where they live thye should know that they get hurrican there

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we have something call tv, and radio, where u can hear/watch news

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What would you do if you had no water, no food, no clothes, nothing to lay on? If I were down in any part of that state and I was going through this, you can bet damn good and well I would be looting. Especially people looting to fee there families.

That is outragous.

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wow that video, and who knows what else went or is goin down over there sad just sad

Bush always says "lower taxes, lower taxes", and now happenes this and there is no money to enforce the area there you go with lower taxes. He gives shit about the population. Clinton had 4% of the people who were workless, since Bush it is now already 8%. He spends 11000$ on weapons a day. Jezus. What a labile system. And the weaponindustry is so powerfull in Amerika, glad i'm not living there, when you open a bankaccount you get a gun! omg

thing that i dont get is why everyone is concerned about new orleans...


the entire state of mississippi was hit. its the poorest state in america

well wasnt it the one that got hit the hardest? and the most affected? but we are more concern about the everyone that was affected

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well wasnt it the one that got hit the hardest? and the most affected? but we are more concern about the everyone that was affected

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well thats up to the media, and u know they cant just put anything on the air, companies like NBC,CNN are controlled by bigger people thats one of the reasons why in the US some of the international news are filter before they are given to the publc.

they are concentrating on New Orleans because it is the Major City in the area and one of the worst hit so more people and lots of damage means its the priority plus if they can fix it up a bit they can maybe still use the some of the cities services like the hospitals and equipment

they are helping other areas too but you dont hear of it because the media doesnt want to talk about some place people have never heard of

and if theres 15 people in some little city helping and 1500 people in the big city helping it looks nicer to see the 1500 people

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we have something call tv, and radio, where u can hear/watch news

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Despite what Bush may have done wrong, despite the fact that he could've given help quicker, I have made a kinda poem dedicated to all effected by Hurricane Katrina.

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It blew through the land,
Tearing apart lives, homes, souls.
It left devastation,
It had wreaked havoc.
But amongst the wreckage,
Some were coming together,
as ONE.

Murders, rapes, looting,
All around us,
Homeless, helpless families,
Loved ones lost,
But still we will get through,
as ONE.

The devastation will be gone,
The homes and lives rebuilt,
We can never bring back our loved ones,
But they are still all around us,
In our thoughts, hearts and memories,
as we mourn,
as ONE.

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and if theres 15 people in some little city helping and 1500 people in the big city helping it looks nicer to see the 1500 people

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Originally posted by Tasha
Despite what Bush may have done wrong, despite the fact that he could've given help quicker, I have made a kinda poem dedicated to all effected by Hurricane Katrina.

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It blew through the land,
Tearing apart lives, homes, souls.
It left devastation,
It had wreaked havoc.
But amongst the wreckage,
Some were coming together,
as ONE.

Murders, rapes, looting,
All around us,
Homeless, helpless families,
Loved ones lost,
But still we will get through,
as ONE.

The devastation will be gone,
The homes and lives rebuilt,
We can never bring back our loved ones,
But they are still all around us,
In our thoughts, hearts and memories,
as we mourn,
as ONE.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
- USA lets down people when their own country, their own people, gets hit by bad weather.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
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I guess you weren't watching the news when they showed the huge trucks bringing in all sorts of supply's into the city.  Like How many miles long was the line of suply trucks again? hmm...

USA letting down the people? I think not. 

Plus, it was the choice of most of the people in that city to stay there.  They were worned a good 2 days ahead of time.

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I guess you weren't watching the news when they showed the huge trucks bringing in all sorts of supply's into the city.  Like How many miles long was the line of suply trucks again? hmm...

USA letting down the people? I think not. 

Plus, it was the choice of most of the people in that city to stay there.  They were worned a good 2 days ahead of time.

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and how many days after hurricane katrina struck did this happen?

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I just watched the Oprah Winfrey show on the damage in New Orleans, she went there and interviewed people and showed in the superdome after the people had left.

It really brings a tear to your eye when you see the real side of everything. The news hides it all by only reporting the good news, but we need to also know the bad.

It's sad, I wish I could go there and help. But I live in Canada and I'm only 15.

apparently Michael Jackson is releasing a charity song to help.... called From The Bottom Of My Heart....

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13431718,00.html

News today, women on top of a building shouted down to policemen for help, they said if you show us your breasts, when they refused, the policemen said fine and drove off on thier boat...

What has happened?! People living like animals in america... EVERYBODY should be pitching together, making money, and flying MORE helicopters in....were all humans, we all feel pain...nice to hear john travolta took his own private jet and flew food over there.

Also, some people actually WANT to stay in thier homes in fear of getting shot/mugged/raped..., which is understandable.. its your home, your life. But it wont be for longer if they dont get out, i say bring on the forced removal. Cruel to be kind..

Oh yeah, cheers Bush for helping. Too little too late