Thank you world!!!!!

[elef]

My source is CNN and I don't say it's more correct. I think their info came from the National Hurricane Center. I don't find any description of Katrina on NHCs HP but definitions of hurricanes web page

[kamui]

Brink15 said:

You missed my point entirely.

 

Typically when a country suffers a disaster of this magnitude fellow nations offer condolences and offer support without having to be solicited for same. In this case not only are the messages of support sorely lacking but the major German news rag comes out immediately to, mistakenly, point the blame for the disaster at the victim's feet. Very classy and oh so heart warming.

 

The US government took until yesterday to accept German help. Actually when a large plane started from a German airport with 10 tons of supplies the German government had not received an answer, if the US would accept German help and if it would be permitted to unload the supplies (medication e.g.), but luckily it was accepted after the landing.

 

 

 

Following is a list of some of countries offering aid:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/katrina.world.aid/index.html

 

Africa

 

# Nigeria has pledged $1 million to hurricane disaster relief, government officials told CNN. "Nigeria will be happy to pledge $1 million to the hurricane disaster fund in the spirit of brotherhood," Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said.

 

Asia

 

# China offered $5 million in aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina. If needed, the Chinese government also is prepared to send rescue workers, including medical experts, officials said.

 

# Japan has offered to provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Japan also will provide up to $300,000 in emergency supplies such as tents, blankets and power generators if it receives requests, the ministry said.

 

# India is making a $5 million donation to the American Red Cross, Ronen Sen, Indian ambassador to the United States, said Saturday. In addition, Sen said India was willing to donate essential medicines to the relief effort.

 

# The Singapore armed forces, responding to requests by the Texas Army National Guard, has sent three Chinook helicopters to Fort Polk, Louisiana, to help in relief efforts.

 

# South Korea awaits a U.S. response after pledging aid, a government official said.

 

# Afghanistan pledged $100,000 to help provide aid to the hurricane victims, according to a statement issued by the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.

 

# Sri Lanka will donate $25,000 to the American Red Cross.

 

# Taiwan has pledged more than $3 million to the relief effort.

 

Americas

 

# Canada has offered to help in any way it can, and its navy is preparing a ship full of emergency disaster relief supplies to be sent when a request comes.

 

# Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston, Texas, with 26 tons of medicine to treat disaster victims.

 

# Mexico has offered $1 million and is sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas. The Mexican navy has offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles.

 

# Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the United States, offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area.

 

Australia

 

# Australia is giving $10 million, most of it to the American Red Cross, according to the Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.

 

Europe

 

# France has offered mobile help from rescue teams in the French Antilles in the Caribbean, including a civil defense detachment of 35 people, tents, camp beds, generators, motor pumps, water treatment units and emergency kits, two CASA cargo aircraft, a ship (Batral Francis Garnier) and the frigate Ventose with its Panther helicopter, and a hurricane disaster unit. France also has offered assistance from the French mainland, including several aircraft. In addition, the NGO Telecoms Sans Frontieres, which specializes in restoring phone lines and Internet service in disasters, is ready to send a team of experts and equipment. Veolia Environment, which has facilities in Louisiana, has offered to make its local water management resources available.

 

# Germany has offered a range of assistance, including medical and transportation services, water treatment capabilities and aid in searching for victims and supplies. Germany also has said it is ready and willing to "dip into its own emergency oil reserves" to release some 2 million barrels a day for 30 days.

 

# Italy has offered to send aid and evacuation specialists immediately, Italy's civil protection unit said. Authorities have prepared two military transport planes to fly amphibious vessels, pumps, generators, tents and personnel to New Orleans, Louisiana, and other areas. They were awaiting word from U.S. officials, the unit said.

 

# The Netherlands will provide teams for inspecting dikes and for identifying victims if there is a formal request from the United States. It also will send a frigate from Curacao in the Netherlands Antilles to New Orleans shortly to provide emergency assistance, the Dutch government said.

[if a country know about dikes, it's the Netherlands]

 

# Russia has offered to help with rescue efforts but is awaiting a reply from Washington.

 

# Spain expects to receive a formal request to release gasoline stocks to the United States and is prepared to grant it, an Industry Ministry spokesman said.

 

# Sweden's Rescue Authority said it was on standby to supply water purifying equipment, health care supplies and emergency shelters if needed.

 

# British Prime Minister Tony Blair has said his country stands ready to help the United States in whatever way it can.

 

Middle East

 

# Qatar has offered the United States $100 million to assist in the humanitarian crisis triggered by Hurricane Katrina.

 

# Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, will donate $5 million to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts for hurricane victims.

 

# Iran has offered to send humanitarian aid to hurricane victims, Reuters reported. "We are prepared to send our contributions to the people through the Red Crescent," Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told Reuters.

[sayjann]

'Afghanistan and Iran' offering help?.

 

i bet that pisses off GWB,one a Country he has helped bring to it's knees and another he calls a Member of the evil Axis.

it might put his nose out of joint that his 'enemies' are prepared to help the USA and show up the chaos which was evident from his Administration.

 

oh well,i suppose more Golf Courses to play on to take his mind away from the matter in question.

perhaps he might like to play the one which surrounds DM?.......

[Guest lazyphil]

When the big Earthquake hit Bam (something like this) in Iran I saw lots of US bags of produce, I hope and trust Americans (maybe not Dubbya) receive help from Iran in the good faith America helped them, lets hope ploitics can be kept at bay for the time being

[Lusty]

BadaBing said:

Don't really care what the " outside " world cares or thinks about this. It's " our " problem and we will deal with it. I for one hate sending my ass-working tax dollars to outside countries who have nothing but a middle finger to say thank you with. F them and their problems ... gonna cost me $3 fucks a gallon for gas this weekend , all foreign donations are gladly accepted....

 

Bada Bing

$3 a gallon!You have it good.Try $7.20 gallon and I bet there would be a national strike!

 

[elef]

# Sweden's Rescue Authority said it was on standby to supply water purifying equipment, health care supplies and emergency shelters if needed.

 

Fact is this flight which was waiting for take-off all sunday has been cancelled as the US told that they have too much help arriving and can't receive more now!

[kamui]

Now the US accepts help from the EU.

 

EU sends aid to Katrina victims

By Oana Lungescu

BBC, Brussels

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4216370.stm

 

EU countries are sending food and other supplies to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, after the US asked the EU and Nato for emergency help at the weekend.

 

Germany and the UK have already flown in more than 500,000 food rations.

 

France is flying tents, generators and water purifying plants from Martinique, and a Dutch frigate is taking medicine and helicopters to New Orleans.

 

Greece has offered two cruise ships to help house thousands of homeless people for several months.

 

Tiny Luxembourg has 1,000 camp beds and 2,000 blankets at the ready, and Sweden is providing equipment to restore mobile phone networks.

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After the aid has been requested, we have basically been able to respond within 24 hours

EU spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich

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According to an EU spokeswoman, a dozen EU countries have responded to Washington's request so far.

 

Romania, which has suffered devastating floods twice this year, is also taking part in the bloc's emergency operation - even though it has not yet joined the EU - by providing two medical teams.

 

EU spokeswoman Barbara Helfferich said European countries had moved quickly to help the Americans - despite a year of natural disasters at home, including severe forest fires in Spain and Portugal, and widespread floods throughout central and eastern Europe.

 

"Emergencies like that - forest fires, floods - happen all the time. We are prepared for it, and I can say that in this particular case we have reacted very speedily. After the aid has been requested, we have basically been able to respond within 24 hours," she said.

 

The aid is co-ordinated by a civil protection centre in the European Commission and by the UK, which currently holds the EU presidency.

 

Meanwhile, Nato has sent a liaison officer to Washington to assess America's needs.

 

The US ambassador to Nato, Victoria Nuland, thanked allies - many of whom are also members of the EU - for what she called the "outpouring of support, both emotional and concrete".

 

The US may not really need baby food from Italy or divers from Belgium, but its call for European and international help shows that, after the divisions over Iraq, it has now realised that even superpowers need friends.

[BelgianBoy]

KS,

 

Any chance to merge this thread with the one in news ?

Thanks.

 

BB

[ALHOLK]

Has it occured to you that the global warming is for real and most likely an elemen in increasingly nasty weather patterns.

[Guest lazyphil]

Perhaps but are we going to give up LOS trips via 747/Airbus or give up driving a gas guzzling Volvo and Chrysler SUV's (damn they're nice looking motors!)....or will us Americans, Ozzies, Euros and Brits start to live basic like 1% energy users mud hut dwellers in Niger and Ghana etc.........are we going to give up our *essentials*?