Hey, I've been in a firefight before! Well, I was in a fire. Actually, I was fired from a fry-cook opportunity. I can handle myself.

Wash ,'War Stories'


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.


beekaytee - Aug 30, 2005 3:57:30 pm PDT #2850 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant

Where the fuck is he? SAY SOMETHING

I remember Peter Jennings saying basically this on 9/11.


Trudy Booth - Aug 30, 2005 3:57:48 pm PDT #2851 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

He's talking, Allyson

Any second he'll send his baby bro on a campaign tour, um, I mean "survey of the damage."


askye - Aug 30, 2005 4:01:33 pm PDT #2852 of 10002
Thrive to spite them

Why the hell is the president saying those things?

Why isn't he calling for massive outpouring of finincial aid to the Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc? Why isn't he asking Americans to pull together and help those who are displaced?

What has he said about what's going on right now in this country?


brenda m - Aug 30, 2005 4:02:43 pm PDT #2853 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Video of flooding in the Quarter: eta - about 2/3 down this page [link]


Susan W. - Aug 30, 2005 4:03:32 pm PDT #2854 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights

I love Google. I've already determined that my plot bunny is historically plausible: [link]

Ironically, lack of communication meant that neither side knew that peace had in fact been signed two weeks before the battle. Wounded prisoners, all of whom had been well treated in American hospitals, were returned; and the 93rd were able to muster half their original strength when they landed back in Britain.

That's what I needed. British prisoners receiving treatment in American hospitals.

Gonna finish the WIP first, though. I'm in the homestretch on that one.


Cass - Aug 30, 2005 4:07:44 pm PDT #2855 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Oh. Shrub was here. He's not mentioning anything about Katrina in the clips I am seeing.

However, it was a gorgeous day on Coronado and he doesn't seem to have worn a flight suit. Small things, small things...


Nora Deirdre - Aug 30, 2005 4:09:58 pm PDT #2856 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)

man, the other video clip was heartbreaking too.

It's all too much. I don't know what to do with this fear and helpless feeling.


dw - Aug 30, 2005 4:10:44 pm PDT #2857 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval

The NOLA mayor has said that people shouldn't come to the Superdome but try to find higher ground on a rooftop or a second story tonight. They're also advising people who can to head west to Baton Rouge.

Apparently, the reason for the failure in plugging the levee hole is that the mayor's office and the National Guard had a failure to communicate.

Sigh.


Nutty - Aug 30, 2005 4:13:09 pm PDT #2858 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

the NOLA zoo animals at the gym

For the cheerfulness factor, I should report that the New York Times once published a photo taken during a hurricane that hit Miami (not the flooding kind, just wind and rain). The Miami Zoo had to do something with all its animals to keep them safe, so there was a photo of all the flamingoes herded together into a restroom. They put down straw on the floor, and there were backup generators so the birds had lights, and all of these gawky pink birds were staring at themselves in the mirror.

My grandfather cut this photo out of the Times, highlighted the fact that it was the men's restroom, and faxed it to all his children in mock-outrage.

(I also have a photo of the Central Park Zoo lion, catching snowflakes on his tongue, also from the Times.)


Sue - Aug 30, 2005 4:14:07 pm PDT #2859 of 10002
hip deep in pie

A lot of the buildings in NO are still standing. They'll be stinky and need new drywall and carpeting, but they're THERE.

But after a few days of waterlogging they may no longer be structurally sound. Water is incredibly insidious in it's destruction. Not to mention id the water is containminated. And they are saying that it may take days or weeks to get rid of the water.