Hurricane Katrina

*MO* · #1 30th Aug 05, 01:56 PM

Hi guys

I hope everybody over the atlantic is doing good and everybody is safe!

My thoughts and prayers go out to all of you!

griz · #2 30th Aug 05, 10:51 PM

Jest checking out all the news reports on the tv. It does not look good right now. Once the waters recede, these people are going to need a lot of help to get back on their feet again. ...griz

Cyberion · #3 31st Aug 05, 02:30 AM

Saw the news about Toronto?

I'm going there at the end of the month. Sept.

Is there anything we should prep for?

Oh.. and Vancouver, on the West Coast is a little windy, a lil damp (drizzled today), but all-in-all are safe.

KingCobra · #4 31st Aug 05, 02:55 AM

My prayers are with these people. I know of a friend that was in the local paper, because they opened up their house to some friends that left and had no place to go. This warms my heart.

war59312 · #5 31st Aug 05, 11:39 PM

OMG its crazy out there. Wow as many as 1000s dead.

wase4711 · #6 1st Sep 05, 12:54 AM

Don't forget to send WHATEVER you can afford to the Red Cross, people....the need is overwhelming, and every single dollar helps!

wase4711 · #7 1st Sep 05, 12:55 AM

[quote=Cyberion]Saw the news about Toronto? /QUOTE]

what happenned in Toronto??

KingCobra · #8 1st Sep 05, 01:44 AM

Just seen 48 hours special.

Seems like more help was sent to NY on 911. Women and children alive after the storm on an overpass with no water or food. 48hrs. interviewed these people and I seen two week old babies out in the sun with no food or water.

Are we still in America?

JacKDynne · #9 1st Sep 05, 11:27 AM

I wonder if the news teams offered them help? Most of the people will be out of work for at least a year - we are doing what we can at my work (just added a toll free number direct to HR) to help those that are jobless - I can't imagine what it would be like to lose it all and having little children as well

Let's all do what we can to help in whatever way that is

/JD

rikytik · #10 1st Sep 05, 08:41 PM

Cyberion, everything is wonderful in Toronto. It's heavan right now. I have friends coming from PA for the long weekend tomorrow. It's going to be great.

As for the disaster, I have a long time buddy who evacuated Ocean Springs MS, just across the bay from Biloxi, last Saturday and is now 350 miles north in an RV park. He succeeded today in buying 8 gas cans (limit is 4 to any out of town customer) and is now looking for gas stations to fill them. Gasoline is in short supply all over the south right now, apparently. He's getting ready to head back to see if the house he had built this past summer and outfitted with mostly new stuff, is still there, and if so, what's left after looters might have visited.

The Canadian Red Cross has mobilized specialists to go to the gulf coast to assist the American Red Cross. It seems that financial assistance is not so much the issue as the logistical and information problems. We may not be getting an accurate pictrue of what's going on, but, the seeming lack of managment leadership is shocking.