After Hurricane Katrina. (photos of Miami after the storm)

[canman]

Wow, I didn't know that the rest of the world stopped to exist after Monday morning. That is what you would think if you were watching CNN. Who cares if 650 odd people were trampled to death in Iraq yesterday, or that thousands are dying in Darfur each and everyday. That is why CNN has gone to the dogs, they are a cheap rip off of that great network Fox News.
And I'm sorry but why do they have to continually show pictures of people scrambling to put up American flags. This wasn't a terrorist attack, this has nothing to do with patriotism or anything like that. But of course there were the requisite pictures of the Star Spangled Banner waving in front of a hotle with all its windows blown out.

[AssKissinger]

Don't worry, when Sudan builds an international news station you'll be able to get daily updates about how fucked-up life is in Darfur

That pic with the guy with the beer is hilarious.

[AlbertSiegel]

Don't worry, when Sudan builds an international news station you'll be able to get daily updates about how fucked-up life is in Darfur

That pic with the guy with the beer is hilarious.

Is that a mid-size garbage/rubbish basket he is using to transport that beer?

[IkemenTommy]

That pic with the guy with the beer is hilarious.

Identical?

[AssKissinger]

Is that a mid-size garbage/rubbish basket he is using to transport that beer?

I'm sure it's as deep as his intellect.

[emperor]

We got beer

At least some people have their priorities in order!


Some before and after links posted on boingboing:

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.314209,-89.305844&spn=0.024496,0.040076&t=k&hl=en
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24331945.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.313839,-89.327602&spn=0.012248,0.020038&t=k&hl=en
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24334575.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.364859,-89.094572&spn=0.012242,0.020038&t=k&hl=en
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24330924.jpg

http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=30.363248,-89.102983&spn=0.012242,0.020038&t=k&hl=en
http://mfproducts.nos.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24330930.jpg

Theyre saying Google Earth and Maps will update their topography of the area in the next few days: should be handy for any peeps who want to see if their house still exists.
...Its gotta suck for those who lost EVERY POSSESSION they owned.
Saw one family - 4 generations - who lost everything except their lives (and a truck..and possibly whatever savings they had in the bank).

[amdg]

Now there's a guy who knows how to weather the storm. Just break out the inflatable mattress, tie the beer bucket to it like a tender, sit back and enjoy the show.

PS - looks like Heineken to me. Good lord! Things are tough when all you can loot is Heineken - poor bastards. But what's even more disturbing is that there appears to be a can of Pepsi in there too...what the hell is he gonna do with a can of Pepsi??

[emperor]

If I were gonna loot - Id wear a well tailored, respectable looking suit and then hit as many jewellery stores as i could; load up a few ziplock bags with diamonds (not conflict diamonds... i have some moral fibre ) and platinum - stick em in a rucksack and get on the jetski id have stashed somewhere... and find a nice yacht floating off the coast

[Greji]

[quote="emperor"]If I were gonna loot - Id wear a well tailored, respectable looking suit and then hit as many jewellery stores as i could]

Before or after, the liquor store for your basket of beer?

[mr. sparkle]

You can hardly blame the guy with the Heineken. After the Loma Prieta quake in SF of '89, cans of beer soothed the situation (the bottles were smashed). The liquor store owners just handed us a coupla 6 packs. The Japanese restaurant had us over for a coupla Sapporos.

Hell yes, we copped a buzz.

[Charles]

Shooting people is probably not the answer either, but the National Guard is on its way to try to restore order.

It's a long way back from Iraq.

You've been listening to the MSM clowns. There is between 60 and 75 percent of the National guard available in all effected states. That was announced on the news yesterday, after most of the MSM talk shows claimed there was a shortage of guard available. One state, Louisiana, just mobilized 5,000 guardsmen.

Almost all the Guard equipment is in Iraq. Useful stuff like water treatment equipment, helicopters, and medical supplies.

[emperor]

If I were gonna loot - Id wear a well tailored, respectable looking suit and then hit as many jewellery stores as i could]

Before or after, the liquor store for your basket of beer?

The dude with that bucket of Heineken is my butler

..what the hell is he gonna do with a can of Pepsi??

He mustve run out of bullets when I sent him 'shopping'... good thing he was trained by Tibetan monks in the deadly art of throwing cans of Pepsi

[Blah Pete]

If I were gonna loot - Id wear a well tailored, respectable looking suit and then hit as many jewellery stores as i could; load up a few ziplock bags with diamonds (not conflict diamonds... i have some moral fibre Wink ) and platinum - stick em in a rucksack and get on the jetski id have stashed somewhere... and find a nice yacht floating off the coast Very Happy

I've got a giant sledge hammer and a map with all the ATMs in my area for when the big shaker hits Tokyo...

[gomichild]

It all just gets more insane - BBC News: The evacuation of stranded hurricane victims from New Orleans' Superdome stadium has been disrupted after shots were fired at a rescue helicopter.

Bunch of people on Fark following and posting from police scanners...almost surreal.

And it kinda makes you wonder what will happen if we have the Big One....(apart from the fact the locals don't have guns....it's the lawlessness I'm referring to)

[Mini_B]

What a wonderful world we live in:

New Orleans evacuation slows as shooting, chaos erupt
reuters

[gomichild]

FEMA has stopped rescue efforts until troops arrive.

*** edit - only some operations mainly those by boats

Unbelievable.

And some poor woman stuck in the Superdome has gone into labour.

[NeoNecroNomiCron]

God blessed America.

[Greji]

[GuyJean]

stats upon stats upon statistical stats..

Impressive. It's hard to argue a point when I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. ]receiving a warning of that it could happen[/url].. Maybe he should imagine more..

GJ

[cstaylor]

GJ, the Bush Administration cut funds for retrofitting the levees in NO for years now. That money, earmarked for protecting American citizens, has been sent to Iraq.

[Charles]

stats upon stats upon statistical stats..

Impressive. It's hard to argue a point when I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. ]
Neither does he.

More than 1/3 of the entire Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq. They took almost all their medical and engineering equipment, they leave it all there while units rotate in and out. Over 1/3 of all LA NG units are in Iraq now, and another 1/3 just came off rotation and are depleted.
So they had to call on nearby states' NG units. And of course those are all depleted too. NG presence is still small, the regular Army seems to have a wider deployment, and certainly they have far more equipment deployed.

[GuyJean]

GJ, the Bush Administration cut funds for retrofitting the levees in NO for years now. That money, earmarked for protecting American citizens, has been sent to Iraq.

I think you mean 'sent to Haliburton'. ]http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007023.php[/url]

Summer 2004: FEMA denies Louisiana's pre-disaster mitigation funding requests. Says Jefferson Parish flood zone manager Tom Rodrigue: "You would think we would get maximum consideration....This is what the grant program called for. We were more than qualified for it."

June 2004: The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans is slashed. Jefferson Parish emergency management chiefs Walter Maestri comments: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay."

June 2005: Funding for the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is cut by a record $71.2 million. One of the hardest-hit areas is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes.

Hhhhmmm.. Somebody's asleep at the wheel..

GJ

[Charles]

Hhhhmmm.. Somebody's asleep at the wheel..

GJ

That is a vile and intolerable calumny against El Presidente Jorge Bush. He was scheduled to finish his 5 week vacation on August 31, and in response to the tragedy, he cut it short, and instead, ended his vacation on August 31. In response to the massive loss of life, a mere 72 hours after he declared Hurricane Katrina an emergency, he sprang into action:

The Cabinet sprang into action as well. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice rushed to New York to attend the Broadway production of Monty Python's Spamalot and shopped at Ferragamo, undoubtedly she was purchasing $800 high heel shoes to ship to the homeless in New Orleans.

[IkemenTommy]

I am just waiting for somone to say that Hurricane Katrina was caused by Bush and it is the result of global warming from using up all the oil resources. The hurricane was also a conspiracy to overinflate the gas prices as it is the case now, and thus making his oil buddies in Texas more rich.

[cstaylor]

I am just waiting for somone to say that Hurricane Katrina was caused by Bush and it is the result of global warming from using up all the oil resources. The hurricane was also a conspiracy to overinflate the gas prices as it is the case now, and thus making his oil buddies in Texas more rich.

Why would anyone say that? He may not be responsible for the storm, but his penny-pinching on preventive public works projects so that he can lavish tax cuts on the rich has now cost NO hundreds of lives and billions in damage.

[Greji]

stats upon stats upon statistical stats..

Impressive. It's hard to argue a point when I have no fucking idea what you're talking about. ]
Neither does he.

More than 1/3 of the entire Louisiana National Guard is in Iraq. They took almost all their medical and engineering equipment, they leave it all there while units rotate in and out. Over 1/3 of all LA NG units are in Iraq now, and another 1/3 just came off rotation and are depleted.
So they had to call on nearby states' NG units. And of course those are all depleted too. NG presence is still small, the regular Army seems to have a wider deployment, and certainly they have far more equipment deployed.

I suggest you check on your information. If you read my post in detail about the Iraq assigned guard and you check other available information and there are numerous sites other than the MSM, you may find out that is not as bleak as you might aspouse.

Further, where the constructrion and maintenance of the levees for the Mississippi river belongs to and is funded by the Corps of Engineers. The levees and control of waterways in the interior of the states are that of the individual state, not the federal government.

[Kuang_Grade]

[Charles]

I suggest you check on your information. If you read my post in detail about the Iraq assigned guard and you check other available information and there are numerous sites other than the MSM, you may find out that is not as bleak as you might aspouse.

Further, where the constructrion and maintenance of the levees for the Mississippi river belongs to and is funded by the Corps of Engineers. The levees and control of waterways in the interior of the states are that of the individual state, not the federal government.

You are sadly misinformed. The canals and levees that broke were under control of the US Army Corps of Engineers. The USACE is also responsible for coastal flooding prevention. The USACE is currently deployed in Iraq and is below strength in the US, unable perform its mission to protect America.

[IkemenTommy]

This is why I don't live in the south.
These people who died were fuckin dumb to say the least.
If they were told that the whole place will be flooded and under water, get the fuck out of town. Yeah sure.. they have their homes and businesses to protect from the looters.. but that's what the national guard is there for to do and you're going to lose your home and business anyway from the flooding. All I gotta say is that they better have good flood insurance. There's not a whole lot you can do except get out of there. Thoese who stayed around chose to do so with great danger ahead of them and are now paying for it.

[gomichild]

Um IK - we all live in a place that's likely to be taking out by a huge earthquake - there is no place on Earth completely safe from natural disaster.

I think it's important to keep in mind here - if you've never lived through a major disaster then how bad do you think it's going to be?

Are you prepared to take care of yourself when the Big One™ finally hits? Do you know how you will react?