Wednesday, September 07, 2005
'Working class heroes'
Great we-were-there story
From EMSNetwork.org.
Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City. Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry.
Read all about it.
--ER
From EMSNetwork.org.
Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City. Outside Walgreen's windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry.
Read all about it.
--ER
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Maybe not most appropriate here, but it's fresh. Interesting commentary on blame-game going on:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007219
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007219
# posted by 
: 2:21 PM
: 2:21 PM
Thanks kind Anon -- as opposed to the other kind. Good points in that read.
I'm pretty sure that under the act that formed the Homeland Security Department, crises like this gives that federal agency primary responsibility for taking the lead. Maybe not.
Off with all their heads.
I'm pretty sure that under the act that formed the Homeland Security Department, crises like this gives that federal agency primary responsibility for taking the lead. Maybe not.
Off with all their heads.
Excellent report from the EMS folks. I don't know that there's much comfort in reading it and knowing the truth, but I'm glad to see people able to write what they have experienced.
Umm, sorry, but this makes me think of that old TV commercial: "What do you think this is, the HOLIDAY INN?"
# posted by : 8:32 PM
: 8:32 PM
I don't think too many people would be mistaking this for the Holiday Inn. I've never been shot at by the police while trying to leave the Holiday Inn.
Have you?
Have you?
Come-on folks. Do you really believe an officer of the law came and took water and food from these people? Or shot at them? This looks more like the result of a creative writting class than actual events.
# posted by : 9:13 AM
: 9:13 AM
I saw two officers of the law, in unform, taking stuff from the shelves among other looters-finders on TV myself. Desperate times cause desperate people to do desperate things. Why would a cop be any diferent?
Come-on folks. Do you really believe an officer of the law came and took water and food from these people? Or shot at them?
I absolutely do, yes. Based on other accounts and news reports I am reading, I don't have any reason not to believe this. Another account of guns being used for intimidation by an eyewitness here.
I absolutely do, yes. Based on other accounts and news reports I am reading, I don't have any reason not to believe this. Another account of guns being used for intimidation by an eyewitness here.
Anon, yes, I do believe that a cop would take food and water. A badge does not automatically make someone good. If you believe that, I have some lovely land just south of Lake Pontchartrain I'd like to sell you.
Don't forget that NO isn't the only place impacted. I think this newspaper will get the Public Service in Journalism Pulitzer for 2005:
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/
Check out the blogs here.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/
Check out the blogs here.
# posted by : 2:03 PM
: 2:03 PM
Another account of guns being used for intimidation by an eyewitness.
Sometimes the only thing that will make a person act right is a gun upside the head.
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Sometimes the only thing that will make a person act right is a gun upside the head.
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