Hurricane Katrina « Sam's Thoughts

The real cost of the disaster

The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate. It will probably get much worse in the coming days and weeks. Many hundreds if not thousands of people will die from hunger, dehydration and disease. Although there is water everywhere, there is nothing to drink. I keep hearing about all the looting going on. However under [...]

August 31st, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina | Leave a comment

Spoke to soon

Although New Orleans missed the full brunt of Hurrican Katrina on the first pass, it apears that the end result is the same. The levee around New orleans broke allowing the waters of Lake Pontchartrain to inundate the city. All of the worst case predictions of what would happen if New Orleans was hit by [...]

August 30th, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina, politics | Leave a comment

Faux News on the Hurricane

I found this via boing-boing . Got to Thepoliticalteen.com see the video.

SHEPARD SMITH: You’re live on FOX News Channel, what are you doing?

MAN: Walking my dogs.

SMITH: Why are you still here? I’m just curious.

MAN: None of your fucking business.

SMITH: Oh that was a good answer, [...]

August 29th, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina | 4 comments

Adios New Orleans

Update: It looks like New Orleans is going to surve this one, but sooner or later it will get hit, and some serious thought needs to be given to this now to prevent a major tragedy.

Too bad I never got a chance to visit

URGENT – WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA [...]

August 29th, 2005 | Category: Hurricane Katrina | 3 comments
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