I'm watching still more video from New Orleans. It's an addiction, I tell ya.
It's just... I'm speechless. They're showing thousands of people who have been rescued by private boats standing on the freeways. Just... wow.
You do well to flee, townspeople! I will pillage your lands and dwellings! I will burn your crops and make merry sport with your more attractive daughters! Ha ha ha! Mark my words! Ooh! Ale! I smell delicious ale!
Olaf the Troll ,'Showtime'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
dw - Aug 30, 2005 2:46:54 pm PDT #2811 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Allyson - Aug 30, 2005 2:47:10 pm PDT #2812 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Where is everyone supposed to evacuate to?
amych - Aug 30, 2005 2:47:38 pm PDT #2813 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Oz.
§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 2:47:39 pm PDT #2814 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How far to Mexico?
DavidS - Aug 30, 2005 2:48:07 pm PDT #2815 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
That's it. New Orleans is going to be the Lost Submerged City without that levee fixed. Fifteen feet under? That's not so fixable later.
Susan W. - Aug 30, 2005 2:50:40 pm PDT #2816 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I'm wondering how they're going to get people out of the Superdome (not to mention everywhere else, but there's what, 60,000 people or so there now). Helicopters are the only real option, right?
Scrappy - Aug 30, 2005 2:52:03 pm PDT #2817 of 10002
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Boats?
sarameg - Aug 30, 2005 2:53:05 pm PDT #2818 of 10002
I saw a piece on the NOLA zoo animals at the gym -- saw, not heard, and had to look away because it was too upsetting.
Oh dear. All those wee lion tamarin monkeys (or something. size of a child's fist.) Actually, they are probably mostly fine, running rampant through the countryside. They were supposed to be confined into one walk-through enclosed aviary, but...they had escaped. I saw them all over the zoo, even on the way to the ferry down to the river. It's the ones that can't get out that...going to stop thinking now.
It's getting all weird stormy here. The kids outside are playing.... club bouncer and druggies. They are probably 8. Sigh.
billytea - Aug 30, 2005 2:53:16 pm PDT #2819 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Hushed and eager. Like he was mentioning Jasmine during the thrall.
Yep. That's pretty creepy.
I still can't quite get my head around the New Orleans situation. I mean, given how much destruction there is, it's pretty clear the warnings about a direct hit weren't scaremongering. (I'm a little hung up on the notion that this could easily have been even worse.)
dw - Aug 30, 2005 2:53:36 pm PDT #2820 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
I'm wondering how they're going to get people out of the Superdome (not to mention everywhere else, but there's what, 60,000 people or so there now). Helicopters are the only real option, right?
Actually, no. The Mississippi isn't that far away. They could ferry people to the levee then walk them to waiting boats on the river, then send them to Baton Rouge.
Problem is, an armada like that would take a couple of days to assemble.