Riding Out Katrina

[sayjann]

just realised what i posted and i apologise,didn't come out the way it was meant to

 

the actual fact was that he sent me a Story about some episodes in his life and i wanted to post it on this Board as i felt it had real 'feel good' appeal.

i asked KS if it would be alright for me to post the link and he asked if i would get the permission of the Person involved.

i asked my Friend but never got a reply from him and forgot about it.

 

the person involved is a Member here but i think i could count his posts on one hand.

some of the London Contingent met him once.

 

i will get back to him and ask again and i really do think his story is remarkable.

sorry for any confusion.

[packy]

The MRE's that they issue to hurricane victims, You can gain weight on them. I use them when I too lazy to cook. Not half bad. The C Rations tasted like cardboard. Remamber the bread. You had to slice it and soak it in water before it would soften up enough to eat.

[BelgianBoy]

Back to Katrina........

 

Did any of you hear about the lastest (sad) story of Cindy Sheenan ?

She lost another son, this time in N.O.

 

BB

 

Bush Braces As Cindy Sheehan's Other Son Drowns In New Orleans

 

September 21, 2005 | Issue 41?38

 

WASHINGTON, DC?According to White House sources, President Bush is bracing for intensified criticism following Monday's report that the body of Tyler Sheehan, son of outspoken anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, was recovered from the receding floodwaters in New Orleans.

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Tyler Sheehan.

 

Although the White House has not released a statement, a firestorm of controversy is expected to follow the death of the dynamic, well-liked young man, who was working on a levee-upkeep crew while completing the EMT-certification training he needed to become a firefighter.

 

"Tyler was the very picture of an American hero," said Jorge Guiterrez, an Ochsner Hospital orderly present when Sheehan evacuated dozens of patients from its intensive-care unit. "He pulled off-the-clock double shifts moving guys in wheelchairs, guys without arms, guys on dialysis?you name it, he got them on a bus to Baton Rouge."

 

Before Sheehan moved to New Orleans, he was a struggling coho-salmon fisherman in Oregon's Klamath Basin. However, when the Bush Administration relaxed federal protection of the endangered fish, Sheehan's catch became contaminated with mercury. He gave up fishing and moved to Oakland, CA, where he opened a free clinic, which lost its federal funding in 2002 for giving out oral contraceptives to poor women.

 

A recent transplant to Louisiana, Sheehan reportedly went above and beyond the call of duty to aid imperiled New Orleans residents, dispensing bottled water and first aid to dazed hurricane survivors between shifts at the breached Canal Street levee.

 

Sheehan was last seen Sept. 4, hours after he and his levee crew sustained injuries while attempting to shore up storm-weakened levee pilings. According to sources, contaminated water laced with slicks of petroleum from a recently deregulated, poorly fortified refinery ignited, causing third-degree burns among the workers. Survivors recall seeing Tyler, badly injured and without the life jacket and medical kit denied him by recent budget cuts, digging survivors out of the wreckage.

 

"I don't know how we would have gotten out of there without Tyler," said Dom Ghivarello, Sheehan's crew chief. "Once we got clear of the break, we had no way of getting to high ground without our utility truck, which was requisitioned by the Defense Department last month for use in Iraq. But Tyler threw me his truck keys and went back to help others. That's the last I saw of him."

 

Sheehan moved to New Orleans in 2004 to take a year off from the University of California at Berkeley, where administrators had temporarily suspended the stem-cell research program in which he was enrolled in hopes of helping to combat his younger sister Ruth's spinal meningitis. Friends report that his public spirit continued in the Big Easy, as he delivered meals to elderly New Orleans residents affected by recent Medicare cuts, and doggedly petitioned the Justice Department for the release of his life partner, Amin Sagheer, who has been detained without charge at Guantanamo Bay for nearly three years.

 

"He made service to his fellow citizens his number-one priority," Ghivarello said. "He made that vow back in 1998, when his best friend, a developmentally disabled black juvenile, was put to death in Texas for a crime he didn't commit."

 

Cindy Sheehan was unavailable for comment, as she was busy trying to contact her lone surviving son Teddy, a meteorologist studying global warming with the International Geophysical Foundation in Antarctica, who is believed to be marooned on a 45-square-mile chunk of the shrinking Ross Ice Shelf that broke off Tuesday morning.

 

Here is the link

[Flashermac]

You ate that bread? You were supposed to punch holes in the tin, pour JP on it and set fire to it to cook your C rats over it.

[URA6ULDV8]

Maybe the best idea would be to sell New Orleans back to the French. Or would that be a too inhumane suggestion?

[ALHOLK]

Maybe the best idea would be to sell New Orleans back to the French. Or would that be a too inhumane suggestion?

 

Yes it would, the French have rights too yo know.

[BelgianBoy]

URA6ULDV8 said:

Maybe the best idea would be to sell New Orleans back to the French. Or would that be a too inhumane suggestion?

You mean you guys were stupid enough to buy it first ????? :: :: ::

[sayjann]

'Maybe the best idea would be to sell New Orleans back to the French'

 

not a good idea i think.

i thought the idea was to rebuild NO and improve it from it's current state,not fuck it up even further...........

[chuckwoww]

Well at least the Feds have the spending under control

 

1/83/8 NEW ORLEANS | Across the hurricane ravaged Gulf Coast, thousands upon thousands of blue tarps are being nailed to wind-damaged roofs, a visible sign of government assistance.

 

The blue sheeting - a godsend to residents whose homes are threatened by rain - is rapidly becoming the largest roofing project in the nation's history.

 

It isn't coming cheap.

 

http://tinyurl.com/8c2ow

[Steve]

Unfortunately profiteering from wars and human tragedy is a cottage industry. Its been that way for a while. As far back as the civil war and WW2 had people and companies who were accused of war profiteering.

I don't know if this is true but a friend said he heard that one can get paid $32 per hour in clean up work if they commit for a certain length of time.