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Originally posted by: AaronB
Originally posted by: MaxDepth
Miller beer is sending trucks full of water to the outlying area.
Times-Picayune link
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I saw that well before I made my post. If you feel that Miller has the situation handled, I won't try to change your mind.
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Oh no, I'm in for sending money to help out. I just thought the Great Pumpkin could join the water caravan. I don't think they'll pay in cash, but they might pay in beer?
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I should report that my mother-in-law just checked in with my brother-in-law and said she's fine, but she's lost everything she owns. She's in Alabama with a friend right now I guess until things get situated back home.
 
Originally posted by: AaronB
Best Western, the hotel I am staying at, has lowered everyone's rate to $69 a night. This is specifically for the people displaced from New Orleans. I can't speak for every location, just the one at exit 23 in Lake Charles. I figured it was such a nice gesture that I would share this with you guys.

(my room was $99 a night. it's some kind of suite which was all that was available)
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They are doing the same thing here in Memphis and in Tunica, MS. The hotels and casinos in Tunica have lowered rates and opened up the Grand Casino event center as a shelter.
 
Originally posted by: bamacre
Bush will be addressing the nation soon.
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Gee...I can't wait.


:roll:



Sorry.




anyway:


NOFD on the scene, pumping floodwater out of the flooded Canal St. as there's a fire at the FootLocker at Bourbon and Canal St.


Sorry to hear about Andrea's house (and pets), Dave.

🙁
 
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: bamacre
Bush will be addressing the nation soon.
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Gee...I can't wait.


:roll:



Sorry.




anyway:


NOFD on the scene, pumping floodwater out of the flooded Canal St. as there's a fire at the FootLocker at Bourbon and Canal St.


Sorry to hear about Andrea's house (and pets), Dave.

🙁
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oh keep politics outta this!
 
Get this. My school's independent newspaper:

Day after(before all the majorly bad news) "TURN SPARES CITY" with subtitles about how the catastrophic possibilities were avoided

today(after all the majorly bad news) "HURRICANE HELL DESTROYS GULF"

how time changes things
 
Originally posted by: rleemhui
Get this. My school's independent newspaper:

Day after(before all the majorly bad news) "TURN SPARES CITY" with subtitles about how the catastrophic possibilities were avoided

today(after all the majorly bad news) "HURRICANE HELL DESTROYS GULF"

how time changes things
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Yeah...went from a great near-hit to the worst-case scenario.


And, it's still horrible down there. 10,000 Nat'l Guardsmen have been called up. There are dozens of people trapped on a highway overpass. FOX's Shepard Smith is up there with them and he's been PLEADING on national televsion for help and nothing happening. A woman has a baby that appears unconscious from heat exhaustion.
 
Yeah, this is so sad. I just saw footage of about 30+ people in an apartment building, surrounded by high water. About 7 people were on the roof, 2 carrying a sign saying simply, "help us." Another guy waving a red flag trying to draw attention. Any more of this and I am going to be in tears. It's just so sad.
 
man i feel for them soo many people lost there house and everything.

..just wonder where all the world attention is on this. have been watching BBC etc and very little covorage. they are claiming thousands are dead yet have yet to see it on world news.
 
Originally posted by: Rogue
I just e-mailed Kawasaki an inquiry to see if they'd considered supplying personal watercraft to the rescue and recovery efforts in NOLA and other severely flooded areas. Unfortunately, their phone lines were pretty busy and the only e-mail addresses posted on their website were for job recruitment purposes, but I e-mailed them anyway. Hopefully they will see the benefit in offering their services to the effort down there and will act.
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That's not a terrible idea, but I'm afraid not a great one either. A waverunner will make it about half a mile in that sort of situation before it sucks something up it can't handle (like a floating tee shirt) and then you will have all the original disaster, plus somebody floating around on a waverunner who can't get ANYWHERE.

All the vigilante rescue ideas are a nice thought - but temper them with reality. The guy wanting to deliver water on his own is going to be driving a 14000 pound truck towards a total disaster and will run out of gas halfway there and not be able to buy more. Then what? Then he has taken 14000 lbs of water that someone with the RIGHT resources could have used instead.

If you are local, by all means, go help however possible. But I honestly don't think they need anyone trying anything creative - at this point they just need to plod through and take care of problems/people one at a time.
 
Originally posted by: flot
Originally posted by: Rogue
I just e-mailed Kawasaki an inquiry to see if they'd considered supplying personal watercraft to the rescue and recovery efforts in NOLA and other severely flooded areas. Unfortunately, their phone lines were pretty busy and the only e-mail addresses posted on their website were for job recruitment purposes, but I e-mailed them anyway. Hopefully they will see the benefit in offering their services to the effort down there and will act.
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That's not a terrible idea, but I'm afraid not a great one either. A waverunner will make it about half a mile in that sort of situation before it sucks something up it can't handle (like a floating tee shirt) and then you will have all the original disaster, plus somebody floating around on a waverunner who can't get ANYWHERE.

All the vigilante rescue ideas are a nice thought - but temper them with reality. The guy wanting to deliver water on his own is going to be driving a 14000 pound truck towards a total disaster and will run out of gas halfway there and not be able to buy more. Then what? Then he has taken 14000 lbs of water that someone with the RIGHT resources could have used instead.

If you are local, by all means, go help however possible. But I honestly don't think they need anyone trying anything creative - at this point they just need to plod through and take care of problems/people one at a time.
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"The guy wanting to deliver water" is "local"
 
Interest in an ATOT sponsored truckload of water to New Orleans has so far amounted to a bit less than $200 "pledged" through this thread and via pm. If there is more interest we will look further into this idea.
 
Originally posted by: flot
Originally posted by: Rogue
I just e-mailed Kawasaki an inquiry to see if they'd considered supplying personal watercraft to the rescue and recovery efforts in NOLA and other severely flooded areas. Unfortunately, their phone lines were pretty busy and the only e-mail addresses posted on their website were for job recruitment purposes, but I e-mailed them anyway. Hopefully they will see the benefit in offering their services to the effort down there and will act.
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That's not a terrible idea, but I'm afraid not a great one either. A waverunner will make it about half a mile in that sort of situation before it sucks something up it can't handle (like a floating tee shirt) and then you will have all the original disaster, plus somebody floating around on a waverunner who can't get ANYWHERE.

All the vigilante rescue ideas are a nice thought - but temper them with reality. The guy wanting to deliver water on his own is going to be driving a 14000 pound truck towards a total disaster and will run out of gas halfway there and not be able to buy more. Then what? Then he has taken 14000 lbs of water that someone with the RIGHT resources could have used instead.

If you are local, by all means, go help however possible. But I honestly don't think they need anyone trying anything creative - at this point they just need to plod through and take care of problems/people one at a time.
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Excuse me? Show yourself out of this thread as you have no idea what you are talking about.

That truck was refueled this morning and now has close to 150 gallons of diesel on board. I could get to Virginia from here with that much fuel.

Also, I very well know the conditions I would be heading for as I was there during the worst of it.



 
Originally posted by: AaronB
Interest in an ATOT sponsored truckload of water to New Orleans has so far amounted to a bit less than $200 "pledged" through this thread and via pm. If there is more interest we will look further into this idea.
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If you set up a paypal account and post a link, you may get a bunch more. There are a lot of people here that use paypal and, if they even gave $1 each, it would add up to a bunch of money.
 
Originally posted by: waggy
man i feel for them soo many people lost there house and everything.

..just wonder where all the world attention is on this. have been watching BBC etc and very little covorage. they are claiming thousands are dead yet have yet to see it on world news.
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Think of this. They've had NO WATER for 3 days now!

They can't survive much longer!


🙁 🙁
 
Originally posted by: DAGTA
Originally posted by: AaronB
Interest in an ATOT sponsored truckload of water to New Orleans has so far amounted to a bit less than $200 "pledged" through this thread and via pm. If there is more interest we will look further into this idea.
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If you set up a paypal account and post a link, you may get a bunch more. There are a lot of people here that use paypal and, if they even gave $1 each, it would add up to a bunch of money.
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If you do that, Aaron, PM me and I'll add the link to the top of the OP.
 
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