It will take the USNS Comfort (the baltimore based navy hospital ship) 6 days to get down there. As noted, scheduled to leave today.
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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.
sarameg - Sep 02, 2005 8:29:27 am PDT #4116 of 10002
msbelle - Sep 02, 2005 8:30:11 am PDT #4117 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I am outie. Have a good and safe long weekend for those who get one.
ita, I'll be thinking of you as I watch Serena and Federer tonight. This year I remembered my camera, so I might get pics,
Fred Pete - Sep 02, 2005 8:30:25 am PDT #4118 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
a quick google suggests that the current generation of hospital ships travel at about 17 knots/20MPH
To give an idea: Expedia says it should take 18 hours to drive from Baltimore to NOLA. And that's a far more direct route than a ship would have to take.
In better news, the intercom is announcing that the office is closing at 2.
tommyrot - Sep 02, 2005 8:30:41 am PDT #4119 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think there's another hospital ship already there, or arriving soon. As well as an aircraft carrier and some other ships.
§ ita § - Sep 02, 2005 8:31:21 am PDT #4120 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'll be thinking of you as I watch Serena and Federer tonight. This year I remembered my camera, so I might get pics,
Jealousy! Please take many.
Fred Pete - Sep 02, 2005 8:31:37 am PDT #4121 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Le N, I've heard that UVA (I live in VA, work in DC) has offered to take a few students if need be. (UNC, my other alma mater, has said that they won't.)
Daisy Jane - Sep 02, 2005 8:31:41 am PDT #4122 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I know SMU is registering students on a case by case basis.
sarameg - Sep 02, 2005 8:33:49 am PDT #4123 of 10002
As far as the hospital ships go, I imagine they are meant to be used more as temporary replacements for the abandoned hospitals than as triage centers.
Sparky1 - Sep 02, 2005 8:33:50 am PDT #4124 of 10002
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Le N, I've heard that UVA (I live in VA, work in DC) has offered to take a few students if need be. (UNC, my other alma mater, has said that they won't.)
I know that the law school here at UC-Berkeley is accepting 20 2L/3L students tuition-free, with priority given to California residents. The publishing companies are arranging for free textbooks for them.
amych - Sep 02, 2005 8:37:39 am PDT #4125 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
(UNC, my other alma mater, has said that they won't.)
Not true: [link]
(on edit, I don't mean to suggest that they didn't say they wouldn't, just that they are doing so now).