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Post #222,249
by boxley
9/1/05 3:05:28 PM
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New no resources or will to evacuate and the last time people
went to the superdome it was also a disaster. If you were in new orleans, without a car or cash for a bus out of town you were abandoned by the government you pay to keep you safe.
thanx,.
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Post #222,251
by tuberculosis
Picture of tuberculosis
9/1/05 3:09:44 PM
8/21/07 6:06:03 AM
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New Yep - another article
[link|http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050901/2005-09-01T021157Z_01_MOL181874_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-BT-WEATHER-KATRINA-POVERTY-DC.html|http://reuters.myway...A-POVERTY-DC.html]

The legalization of gambling in Biloxi created an economic boom in the early 1990s and the city developed a reputation as a place where a person could get a decent-paying job in the casino or hospitality business.

But not everyone prospered. In the devastated streets and atop the rubble piles where their homes stood before Katrina blew through, a bitter refrain is increasingly heard. Poor and low-income residents complain that they have borne the brunt of the hurricane's wrath.

"Many people didn't have the financial means to get out," said Alan LeBreton, 41, an apartment superintendent who lived on Biloxi's seaside road, now in ruins. "That's a crime and people are angry about it."

Many of the town's well-off heeded authorities' warnings to flee north, joining thousands of others who traveled from the Gulf Coast into northern Mississippi and Alabama, Georgia and other nearby states.

Hotels along the interstates and other main roads were packed with these temporary refugees. Gas stations and convenience stores -- at least those that were open -- sold out of water, ice and other supplies within hours.

But others could not afford to join them, either because they didn't own a car or couldn't raise funds for even the cheapest motel.

"No way we could do that," said Willie Rhetta, a bus driver, who remained in his home to await Katrina.

Resentment at being left behind in the path of one of the fiercest hurricanes on record may have contributed to some of the looting that occurred in Biloxi and other coastal communities.


"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
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     The worst natural disaster in US history - (Silverlock) - (74) - Aug. 31, 2005, 09:43:31 PM EDT
         I agree completely - (Nightowl) - Aug. 31, 2005, 09:47:07 PM EDT
         compared to the galveston hurricane or the okeechobee - (boxley) - (30) - Aug. 31, 2005, 10:08:41 PM EDT
             You probably have something to say I'd be interested in - (Silverlock) - (29) - Aug. 31, 2005, 10:13:28 PM EDT
                 feel free to not read me in my posts :-) -NT - (boxley) - (28) - Aug. 31, 2005, 10:31:33 PM EDT
                     I try - (Silverlock) - (27) - Aug. 31, 2005, 10:42:31 PM EDT
                         Come on man, if he did that . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (26) - Aug. 31, 2005, 11:45:09 PM EDT
                             I agree - (Nightowl) - Aug. 31, 2005, 11:51:51 PM EDT
                             I'd rather have the anchovy. -NT - (Silverlock) - Aug. 31, 2005, 11:58:28 PM EDT
                             So what is the correct term, Ashtonese or Ashlish? - (jb4) - (5) - Sept. 1, 2005, 06:14:21 PM EDT
                                 Bafflegarblish -NT - (broomberg) - Sept. 1, 2005, 06:15:52 PM EDT
                                 Dupe - ignore. -NT - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 06:44:20 PM EDT
                                 Ashtonish? - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 06:35:42 PM EDT
                                 Ashtonese. - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 07:19:29 PM EDT
                                     I'd have to agree. - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 07:43:40 PM EDT
                             If I started writing in plain-vanilla instruction-manual - (Ashton) - (17) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:04:57 PM EDT
                                 Like I said elsewhere - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:15:18 PM EDT
                                 But this one was very clear - (broomberg) - (9) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:21:50 PM EDT
                                     As I've often said... - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:28:29 PM EDT
                                         Disagree - (broomberg) - (2) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:43:51 PM EDT
                                             I think we just demonstrated the "lossy" part. :-) - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:55:49 PM EDT
                                                 Experiences language teachers know it, too. - (static) - Sept. 1, 2005, 11:02:52 PM EDT
                                     Why are we who we are? - (Nightowl) - (2) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:31:46 PM EDT
                                         You are way off about Box - (broomberg) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:40:58 PM EDT
                                             As I said - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:42:45 PM EDT
                                     Gosh.. I'll have to revise, then - (Ashton) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2005, 02:04:29 AM EDT
                                         Thanks -NT - (broomberg) - Sept. 2, 2005, 07:10:21 AM EDT
                                 It depends on what you're trying to achieve. - (pwhysall) - (5) - Sept. 2, 2005, 01:45:08 AM EDT
                                     I Am Not a Number - (Ashton) - Sept. 2, 2005, 06:06:03 AM EDT
                                     Ashton's a playwright. - (Another Scott) - (3) - Sept. 2, 2005, 09:28:00 AM EDT
                                         And sometimes he's like this . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - Sept. 2, 2005, 12:07:59 PM EDT
                                             Exactly right, Andrew - (jb4) - Sept. 2, 2005, 01:06:39 PM EDT
                                         Damn, Scott -- - (Ashton) - Sept. 2, 2005, 07:12:35 PM EDT
         I still think this is over-reacting. - (folkert) - (41) - Sept. 1, 2005, 09:34:01 AM EDT
             oil and petrochemical is the main deal, has been for a while - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 09:43:46 AM EDT
                 Yep - one wonders if this will be the spark - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:04:50 AM EDT
             Read this. - (inthane-chan) - (18) - Sept. 1, 2005, 10:56:25 AM EDT
                 thin blue line erased in New Orleans, lord of the flies time -NT - (boxley) - (17) - Sept. 1, 2005, 01:04:05 PM EDT
                     All the smart people... - (ChrisR) - (16) - Sept. 1, 2005, 02:04:50 PM EDT
                         .. are destitute or invalids or hospitalized or ... :-( -NT - (Another Scott) - (7) - Sept. 1, 2005, 02:27:57 PM EDT
                             Desperate times... - (ChrisR) - (6) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:15:29 PM EDT
                                 I'm wondering if this event might not set off some - (jake123) - (5) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:22:26 PM EDT
                                     Not a chance - (hnick) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:30:28 PM EDT
                                     Didn't in Los Angeles -NT - (Andrew Grygus) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:39:18 PM EDT
                                     Third world country - (ChrisR) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:39:31 PM EDT
                                     Naaah - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:06:24 AM EDT
                                     Whatever else this massive boondoggle is explained-away with - (Ashton) - Sept. 2, 2005, 06:49:22 AM EDT
                         Are the poor who lack the resources to move - (tuberculosis) - (7) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:05:57 AM EDT
                             no resources or will to evacuate and the last time people - (boxley) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:05:28 PM EDT
                                 Yep - another article - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:06:03 AM EDT
                             Re: Are the poor who lack the resources to move - (Nightowl) - (4) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:27:00 PM EDT
                                 On the Titanic it was women and children first - (GBert) - (3) - Sept. 6, 2005, 09:35:31 AM EDT
                                     True, and that makes it worse yet - (Nightowl) - (2) - Sept. 6, 2005, 02:55:37 PM EDT
                                         Astute observation, O feathered One. -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 6, 2005, 05:20:27 PM EDT
                                         Gives you pause don't it? - (GBert) - Sept. 7, 2005, 06:06:21 PM EDT
             Hey there, driver man... - (danreck) - (19) - Sept. 1, 2005, 04:13:34 PM EDT
                 Believe me, you have my compassion - (Nightowl) - (18) - Sept. 1, 2005, 03:30:34 PM EDT
                     What I can't understand... - (danreck) - (17) - Sept. 1, 2005, 04:18:20 PM EDT
                         It's only the poor. - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 1, 2005, 04:23:52 PM EDT
                         The National Guard is committed to helping - (tuberculosis) - (5) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:06:34 AM EDT
                             Re: The National Guard is committed to helping - (altmann) - (4) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:02:46 PM EDT
                                 21k NG troops allocated now by the feds (they pay em) - (boxley) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:04:21 PM EDT
                                 Wow, really? - (drewk) - (2) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:17:29 PM EDT
                                     The bigger problem might be the equipment anyways - (altmann) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 06:57:51 PM EDT
                                         Heard in passing on NPR - yep. - (inthane-chan) - Sept. 1, 2005, 07:20:48 PM EDT
                         My opinion - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 04:31:53 PM EDT
                         That requires planning and forethought - (jake123) - (8) - Sept. 1, 2005, 04:44:52 PM EDT
                             I think this is a good time - (danreck) - (7) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:30:59 PM EDT
                                 I'll tell my cousin-in-law that - (Nightowl) - (5) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:35:46 PM EDT
                                     Re: I'll tell my cousin-in-law that - (danreck) - (4) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:44:26 PM EDT
                                         I hope you get to help - (Nightowl) - (1) - Sept. 1, 2005, 05:46:05 PM EDT
                                             Supplies and volunteers - (Nightowl) - Sept. 1, 2005, 06:33:27 PM EDT
                                         Why don't you an mmoffit fly over and drop water bottles? -NT - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:07:46 AM EDT
                                             I've got oil pressure problems at the moment. :0( -NT - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 6, 2005, 04:37:23 PM EDT
                                 I'm not talking about the fact that the levees failed - (jake123) - Sept. 1, 2005, 07:27:09 PM EDT

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