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Originally Posted by angel27
Didn't they rebuild the levees? Make them stronger.. maybe they'll hold this time? God I hope. What a situation. If we learned nothing else, hopefully we learned what it takes to make the levees hold. We can handle the rest.
I work with homeless all the time and help rebuild lives and my job is full of triumph and joy every day. I know when we got the Katrina refugees we all wanted to help them, remember? I finally did have one come to our program and she was just broken, unable to respond to help available. She ended up leaving our program, as she had the last, and drifting elsewhere. I hope there was someone along the way who was able to get through to her.
If you were there now and saw Gustav coming and had no car and no family to help or maybe all of your family was also in its path what could you do? Walk North to where? Thats why Red Cross and others should be setting up shelters now to receive refugees, far out of Gustavs path and so that basic needs will be met during the crux of it. The problem with the potentially flooded areas is that all the systems stop working. The problem with getting all the people out is some will wager the levees will hold this time. I hope they hold. We can't all do it on our own we need community. "The poor will always be with us."
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Hey Kid:...you've known me most of you life....I wouldn't lie to you at all. Most of the people that were stranded in N.O. had EVERY chance in the world to get out of harm's way. I was in N.O. during the shootings, during the lootings, during the police stand-offs. The people on the bridge that were getting interviewed had to do nothing but start walking east and they would have ALL the help they needed. The Red Cross was there..Feed the Children was there in a matter of days....Pat Robertson's group was alll over everywhere. There were people from Hattiesburg in both La. and Miss......I don't know what you do for a living now....but, there was a lot of "Hustle" going on down there.....I had one guy pull a knife on me telling me he was taking some shoes....I bought 40,000 pairs I would have given them to him...He didn't have to try and steal them...Working in a leader capacity I had to carry a weapon (Colt .380) and when I explained to him
and his friend you don't bring a knife to a gun fight. He really decided he didn't need (another pair) those shoes.....He probably could have won the Olympics in long distance running......I'll keep you posted if I end up there....b