🚀 go-pugleaf

slim wrote:
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> Phil wrote:
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>>On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 22:31:07 GMT, slim <pickin's@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>>felton wrote:
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>>>>On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:09:07 -0400, Phil <dogglebe@yahoooo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Here's a portion of the Katrina timeline, as per CBC News:
>>>>>
>>>>>http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/katrina/katrina_timeline.html
>>>>>
>>>>>Aug. 28, 2005
>>>>>Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 260 km/h winds, and heads
>>>>>for the northern Gulf coast. Mayor Nagin orders a mandatory evacuation
>>>>>for New Orleans, but 10 shelters are also set up, including the
>>>>>Superdome, for those unable to leave. Evacuation orders are posted all
>>>>>along the Mississippi coast. Alabama Governor Bob Riley declares a
>>>>>state of emergency.
>>>>>
>>>>>Aug. 29, 2005
>>>>>Katrina, now a Category 4 hurricane with 230 km/h winds, makes
>>>>>landfall near Buras, La., at 6:10 a.m. CT (7:10 a.m. ET). U.S.
>>>>>President Bush makes emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana and
>>>>>Mississippi, freeing up federal funds. Katrina rips two holes in the
>>>>>Superdome's roof, with some 10,000 people inside. At least eight Gulf
>>>>>Coast refineries shut down or reduce operations. Airports close in New
>>>>>Orleans, Baton Rouge, La., Biloxi, Miss., Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola,
>>>>>Fla. Hundreds of flights are canceled or diverted.
>>>>>
>>>>>Aug. 30, 2005
>>>>>The death toll in Mississippi rises to more than 100. Two levees break
>>>>>in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 per cent of the city
>>>>>and rising in some areas to six metres deep. Many people climb onto
>>>>>roofs to escape. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco says everyone
>>>>>still in New Orleans - an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people - must be
>>>>>gotten out. Crowds swell at the Superdome and the convention centre in
>>>>>New Orleans. Rescuers in helicopters and boats pick up hundreds of
>>>>>stranded people in New Orleans, and reports of looting begin to
>>>>>emerge. About 40,000 people are in American Red Cross shelters, not
>>>>>including in New Orleans. President Bush cuts short his vacation.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Read August twenty-ninth carefully.  The day the hurricane reached New
>>>>>Orleans, Bush took action.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Phil
>>>>>======
>>>>
>>>>Oh please.
>>>>
>>>>Here is a much more detailed timeline that reflects just how much
>>>>"action" the Bush administration took.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline
>>>
>>>Don't tell Phil the facts.
>>>
>>>He's only interested in beer and hero-worship.
>>>
>>>The truth just RUINS his buzz as he drools over his
>>>"Ghoulee At Ground Zero" and "Bush on Carrier with Codpiece"
>>>photos.
>>
>>It's funny, Mike, how you slammed Giuliani over how he should've
>>waited before sending anyone in to Ground Zero so soon after 9/11, and
>>how you now slam Bush for not immediately jumping into New Orleans.
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> 
> Please repost my alleged comment where I state that, "(Ghoulee) should've
> waited before sending anyone in to Ground Zero so soon after 9/11."
> 
> Besides, a flood and a toxic atmosphere are two very different scenarios.
> 

The flood is a toxic environment.  Every first responder knows that. 
The chemicals and waste in the flood waters can be just as deadly as the 
toxic atmosphere from 9/11.  The difference is that the effects from the 
Flood can be immediate or quick, whereas the 9/11 situation will play 
out years from now.

MRC