Been watching the news here about whats going on there. Was told my former Guard unit may be on ready alert to assist in the evac and help with food and water. Some have already volenteered to go on their own. Considering whats going on in the middle east it just makes you wonder who will be there for us ????
Rich Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Somehow a lot of the listers just have their priorities all out of >whack. I mean, I look here for info about BEER! But with all the idle >chatter about guns, dogs, email clients, and other random trivialities, >we are missing something extremely important. > >*Seriously, y'all, there is another important topic to consider -- this >hurricane thing is significantly huge.* This event is unparallelled in >our US history. Here in Htown we got lots and lots of folks who left >home a few days ago, now there is no home left. There are 2 hotels >walking distance from the house, packed full of LA license plates. I >don't even know how they would get back if there was anywhere to go, as >the roads are gone. GONE. Blown away, washed away. > >All of NOLA is a nasty toxic fetid swamp (not counting Bourbon Street, I >think it is actually cleaner now). A lot of the rest of region is not a >lot better, some even worse. > >Tomorrow the Astrodome is going to be the staging point for evacuees who >are left there and being pulled out, including lots and lots of very >sick people coming from hospitals all over the devastated area (which is >HUGE). Many arriving will be very very sick, no medical records, no >meds, no money, no jobs, no insurance records, minimal care for the last >few days. The Texas Med Ctr is being mobilized to help. My wife will >be triaging patients who make it, trying to figure out how to keep them >alive and where to park them. I saw some flights of mil helos headed >east yesterday, not sure if that is the evac method or what, but the >roads are gone 'tween here and there so I am sure that will be >happening. I hate to think what is festering in the area, no clean >water or sanitation, lots of dead stuff baking in the hot sun. > >We signed up to be a host family for girls who are coming to my >daughter's school, theirs in LA is gone. GONE. It ain't there no >more. Neither are their homes, jobs, neighbors, family, friends...I >can't even begin to comprehend. > >Refinery capacity just dropped by a very large percentage, and the main >pipeline from here to the NE is shut down right now. A lot of Gulf >production is off line, and even if/when it comes back there are fewer >places to refine it. That means much less gasoline, diesel, or heating >oil coming from down here for some time. Y'all up in New England might >have to turn down the thermostats a bit in a few weeks, get out the old >Schwinns again. > > From a friend in the industry yesterday: > >"Gasoline hit a record high today, settling at $2.47/gal (up */42 >cents/* from yesterday) on the New York Mercantile Exchange. > >In a nutshell, gas (and diesel) at the pumps will be up at least 42 >cents from where they are now. Probably within days. Katrina was a >monster....." > >(Benz content) I filled up the TD yesterday for $2.43, tonight it was >$2.53 at the same station. I am driving it now exclusively instead of >my truck, better fuel mileage and diesel is now a bit lower than >gasoline. While it will probably be available here for the foreseeable >future (the next week?) at a much higher price, I expect that it will be >in very short supply in other parts of the country, if at all in some >days...Time to get them veggie-mobiles going, diesel folks. > >Carry on rants about about guns, dogs, email, girly men, Canadians, >taxes, politics (don't forget it /must /be Bush's fault!), and all that >on the Benz list, full of text and fury signifying nothing, but please >do not lose sight of what is turning out to be, probably, the largest >natural disaster to hit the US, ever, both in terms of immediate damage >and ongoing problems. It really is way way way beyond the locals' >ability to deal with it (it now appears they did very little even to >prepare for it -- that is a whole 'nuther topic), umclear just how TO >deal with it even with national help. > >Oh well, it's bedtime. Whatever your politics or views on other topics, >there's a lot of folks who need a lot of help, and it is getting worse >daily for them. Please think about them, try to do something to help, >put some (all?) of the useless bitching about other random stuff in >perspective. > >Oh, and hurricane season is not yet over! Check out the central >Atlantic right now. > >--R > -- 69 280 SEL 120,000 Miles 72 350SL 108,000 Miles 2004 VW Passat 4 Motion 1999 Mazda Miata __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp
