Robrrt

Go to Google Maps and zoom in on the New Orleans area. Then click on the red "Katrina" tab for an AK (after-Katrina) view:

And here are the school buses that could have carried thousands to safety.

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Night of the Living Dead

September 3rd, 2005

How low can some go in their hatred of GWB? How about cannibalism in New Orleans?
After only 4 days?!
Well, I’ll give the HP credit. They know how to shill for traffic.
Update: As I would have suspected, the cannibalism claim has been retracted, but not the ensuing spewage (that had nothing to do with the subject.)

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The Mayor is pissed

September 2nd, 2005

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin:
What you are seeing is drug-starving crazy addicts that are wreaking havoc and we don’t have the manpower that we can deal with it
Uh, Mayor? Was that before or after Hurricane Katrina?
Sorry. That was a catch-22 question. Never mind.

Tags: hurricanes, katrina

Hurricane Katrina

September 1st, 2005

I remember being infatuated with Katrina when I was in Jr High. Over the past few days, I seem to have gotten over that case of puppy love.
Just to show how monsterous this storm was, my power was out for more than a day and I was at least a hundred miles from ground zero. [...]

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