Comments on: Still Struggling Forward From Katrina http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:39:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Strategerie http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1178266 Strategerie Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:30:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1178266 <blockquote><p>People need to realize that what happened to the Gulf Coast can happen to them anytime. It might not be a hurricane, but natural disasters and government incompetence and downright malfeasance can happen anywhere. </p></blockquote> <p>MadMommy, I’m hopelessly EPU’d, but it’s happening in Southwest Washington, and has been for a month now. The levees broke due to catastrophic failure, and thousands were flooded out of their homes. This is nowhere near the scale of a Katrina, but these folks went to bed one night in safe, comfortable homes, and slept the next night in a shelter, everything they owned completely gone. The same red tape and hassles have evidently contributed to at least one suicide since.</p> <p>If people think it can’t happen to them, no matter where they live, they’re not thinking.</p> <p>-S</p>

People need to realize that what happened to the Gulf Coast can happen to them anytime. It might not be a hurricane, but natural disasters and government incompetence and downright malfeasance can happen anywhere.

MadMommy, I’m hopelessly EPU’d, but it’s happening in Southwest Washington, and has been for a month now. The levees broke due to catastrophic failure, and thousands were flooded out of their homes. This is nowhere near the scale of a Katrina, but these folks went to bed one night in safe, comfortable homes, and slept the next night in a shelter, everything they owned completely gone. The same red tape and hassles have evidently contributed to at least one suicide since.

If people think it can’t happen to them, no matter where they live, they’re not thinking.

-S

]]> By: PhysioProf http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1178011 PhysioProf Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:57:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1178011 <blockquote><p>Wear a hat. You lose lots of hear though the head.</p></blockquote> <p>True dat. The best way to keep your hands and feet warm is to put on a hat.</p>

Wear a hat. You lose lots of hear though the head.

True dat. The best way to keep your hands and feet warm is to put on a hat.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1178000 Christy Hardin Smith Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:50:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1178000 <p>HAHAHAHAHAHAHA — I must have missed that one when I was making another cuppa tea. LOL</p> HAHAHAHAHAHAHA — I must have missed that one when I was making another cuppa tea. LOL

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177992 Beerfart Liberal Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:44:45 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177992 <p>Don’t get me wrong. I’m not in the least trying to make light of Katrina or its aftermath. That would be stupid and hopefully most of you know me better than that. And the post above is really frustrating and angering and depressing and everything. But I just remembered that guy who got a microphone shoved in his face by Shepherd Smith on Fox who was demanding to know what he was doing when everyone was evacuating and the guy says “Walkin’ my dog.” Not satisfied, Smith presses him to know why he isn’t leaving or some such shit and the guy says, for all of FOX’s live audience to hear: “None of your fuckin’ business.” It was hilarious. it was before we knew what Katrina would become and we could still laugh.</p> Don’t get me wrong. I’m not in the least trying to make light of Katrina or its aftermath. That would be stupid and hopefully most of you know me better than that. And the post above is really frustrating and angering and depressing and everything. But I just remembered that guy who got a microphone shoved in his face by Shepherd Smith on Fox who was demanding to know what he was doing when everyone was evacuating and the guy says “Walkin’ my dog.” Not satisfied, Smith presses him to know why he isn’t leaving or some such shit and the guy says, for all of FOX’s live audience to hear: “None of your fuckin’ business.” It was hilarious. it was before we knew what Katrina would become and we could still laugh.

]]> By: GregB http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177991 GregB Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:44:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177991 <p>BFL, keep the heater away from flammables…..Make sure it is standing firmly on the floor. Keep pets away from the heater too. Turn it off if you leave the room.</p> <p>Wear a hat. You lose lots of hear though the head.</p> <p>-G</p> BFL, keep the heater away from flammables…..Make sure it is standing firmly on the floor. Keep pets away from the heater too. Turn it off if you leave the room.

Wear a hat. You lose lots of hear though the head.

-G

]]> By: jayt http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177990 jayt Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:44:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177990 <p>Christy - best line of the night updated: Players Dingle and Berry sitting side by side. </p> <p>Announcer - “boy, they shouldn’t let those guys sit together!!!”</p> Christy – best line of the night updated: Players Dingle and Berry sitting side by side.

Announcer – “boy, they shouldn’t let those guys sit together!!!”

]]> By: MsAnnaNOLA http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177986 MsAnnaNOLA Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:42:49 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177986 <p>Yeah it is freezing tonight:</p> <p><a href="http://righthandthief.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://righthandthief.blogspot.com/</a></p> <p>scroll down to claiborne homeless camps on Dec 31st.</p> <p>Right hand thief links to this photo of the homeless camp under the I-10 overpass through downtown. It isn’t pretty:<br /> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=2151789121&context=photostream&size=o" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo.....038;size=o</a></p> <p>So what happens when more folks can’t pay their rent or mortgage? How are these folks going to survive? The homeless population in New Orleans is estimated to be around 12,000 I think. I hope the guy in the post doesn’t become one of those statistics. Good luck my friend. Good luck.</p> Yeah it is freezing tonight:

http://righthandthief.blogspot.com/

scroll down to claiborne homeless camps on Dec 31st.

Right hand thief links to this photo of the homeless camp under the I-10 overpass through downtown. It isn’t pretty:
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zo…..038;size=o

So what happens when more folks can’t pay their rent or mortgage? How are these folks going to survive? The homeless population in New Orleans is estimated to be around 12,000 I think. I hope the guy in the post doesn’t become one of those statistics. Good luck my friend. Good luck.

]]> By: jayt http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177983 jayt Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:39:29 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177983 <p><i>This is serious, guys!!!!</i></p> <p>lol. yeah, I know. But it’s 10 degrees here, with a wind-chill below zero. Can I come down and catch some rays?</p> This is serious, guys!!!!

lol. yeah, I know. But it’s 10 degrees here, with a wind-chill below zero. Can I come down and catch some rays?

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177982 Christy Hardin Smith Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:39:08 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177982 <p>Beerfart, extra blankets, get yourself an electric space heater and close yourself off in a small-ish room that will keep the heat in, and lots of hot tea. That’s how we lived through our furnace going out the coldest week of the winter last year.</p> <p>Oh and lots of clothing layers…</p> Beerfart, extra blankets, get yourself an electric space heater and close yourself off in a small-ish room that will keep the heat in, and lots of hot tea. That’s how we lived through our furnace going out the coldest week of the winter last year.

Oh and lots of clothing layers…

]]> By: Beerfart Liberal http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177976 Beerfart Liberal Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:36:36 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/02/still-struggling-forward-from-katrina/#comment-1177976 <p>This is serious, guys!!!!</p> This is serious, guys!!!!

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