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Offtopic but, Renee, I know what you are talking about, because I did the same thing with 9/11 -- and I would do it now except that I don't want to upset my daughter with too much exposure. It's one thing to see still photos and read reports, but to see the devastation "live" on TV makes it way more real.

Another city takes on refugees -- on a smaller scale.By: DEBBIE HUMMEL, Associated Press Writer
Utah is ready to accept up to one thousand (1,000) people displaced by
Hurricane Katrina, Governor Jon Huntsman said Wednesday. The State of Louisiana asked for help housing the refugees, he said.
"We did a quick calculation as to what we could accommodate immediately and we came up with one thousand (1,000)," Huntsman said. "I'm glad Utah is seen as a community that will reach out charitably."

Nighthawk, thanks for sharing the quotes. It's nice to have them publicly empathizing with us

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My fiance was telling me he heard on the news today that they will not be able to gain their final death toll by bodies, but by missing persons repors. How terrible is that? At least finding a body gives you a sense of finality.

I know our schools in my county, just as they are in Texas, are opening up for childred so they can try to find some semblence of normalcy. I think that's so wonderful.

Floridians don't take anything for granted. When Katrina was originally thought to be heading for us, we had people boarded up by Friday night. We've been hit so much, and to look at some of the complacency of thousands of people has really "urked" a lot of us, myself included. It's just so hard for me to fathom people drinking on Bourbon Street Sunday night without a care in the world. Yet they were there, doing it.

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I, too, have been watching everything I can about this disaster. It is so heart wrenching. This may sound awful, but this is different to me because these people are in my country. I know people are people everywhere, but when it happens close by and to people with the same life style or level of comfort, etc., that you have, it seems more real.

At work, I have organized a Red Cross donation drive. I have suggested that everyone decide what they can afford and then double it. This is what I have done. If my grandson gets a few less toys for Christmas this year so that some kid whose family has lost everything can have clean water and shelter, so what!

This is going to be very costly. We have lost control in New Orleans and need to send in many more soldiers to take control. This is a stark reminder of just how awful things can get when people are desperate. Again, it doesn't matter from where you come, people are people. When we see news reports in third world countries where there are so many people rioting and killing each other, this is a reminder that it isn't because they are different from me, just that they are so much more desperate.

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New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes

AP - New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out, cops turned in their badges and the governor declared war on looters who have made the city a menacing landscape of disorder and fear.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...rricane_katrina

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Here's a positive note amidst the wreckage:
https://www.wirednews.com/news/hurricane/0,2904,68725,00.html

Flood Waters Can't Sink Net Link
By Joel Johnson
10:34 AM Sep. 01, 2005 PT

Despite the loss of most public utilities, at least one hosting company in hurricane-battered New Orleans is still online, fighting against time and the odds to keep part of the internet humming.

Occupying the 10th floor of a downtown Big Easy office building, Zipa is a typical web-hosting and co-location center, with one key difference: It's sitting smack dab in the middle of some of the worst devastation the United States has ever experienced.

New Orleans' public utilities are down, but Zipa's employees are blogging live on-the-street reports, thanks to a diesel generator.A filing cabinet blocks broken windows.A trip to the street reveals this smashed lamppost, which is wrapped around a parking meter.On the street, flood victims scavenge for food.A crowd of hurricane survivors gathers at the Hotel Monaco, across the street from Zipa's building.

With buildings reduced to soggy ruin just a few blocks away, Zipa's data center -- built by Enron in its expansionist heyday -- still operates, powered by a 750-kilowatt diesel generator and connected to the rest of the world by a fiber optic connection buried deep underneath New Orleans' flooded streets.

That makes the employees of Zipa and sister company DirectNIC, which is just upstairs, some of the only flood victims in New Orleans with the ability to communicate with the outside world.

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World stunned as US struggles with Katrina

Reuters - The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ina_reaction_dc

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I have been reading a lot of negativity about the way everything was handled, is this another blunder by Bush?

Kanye West Rips Bush at Hurricane Aid Show

AP - A celebrity telethon for Hurricane Katrina survivors took an unexpected turn when outspoken rapper Kanye West went off script during the live broadcast, declaring America is set up "to help the poor, the black people, the less well-off as slow as possible."
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...na_nbc_telethon

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The whole "Let's blame Bush for everything that goes wrong" is getting rather old. The man can't control the weather, and he can't control the people who chose to stay. There were tons of people, albeit, who did not have the means to leave, but there were public transportations taking people to the dome and to other states.

On top of that, Louisianna government has known for years on years that the levee system would be inadequate in the face of a serious storm. They're old. Why was the government spending money that was supposed to have been designated for levee upkeep on casinoes. Is that Bush's fault? Absolutely not. He has no control in those matters.

I do agree that when he flew down, his trip could have been a bit more useful and transported food and other items that are desparetely needed. But other than that, he really could not have done anything. I believe Bush is in one of those positions that no matter how he reacts or what he does, people are going to badger him. What would have happened if he had tried to step in before the hurricane? People probably would have accused him of overstepping his boundaries.

I agree with Bush that this is not a time for politics, but a time for unity. People are dying everyday from starvation and dehydration and lack of medical treatment. Instead of stepping up and helping out, people are sitting and griping about what other people should and should not have/be doing.