Article by
John on August 31st, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Nomad caravan $5000
Sounds like a few things were learned since Katrina…
No pets left behind in New Orleans evacuation
Pet owners stood in line to register their furry friends. Then they were given a machine readable band to tag on to their pet, in case they became separated.
Among the horrors of Katrina three years ago were dead dogs bobbing in the drowned streets of the [...]
Article by
missy on June 19th, 2008 at 4:03 pm
are condemned to 20/20 hindsight.
From the WaPo today:
As the Cedar River rose higher and higher, and as he stacked sandbags along the levee protecting downtown Cedar Falls, Kamyar Enshayan, a college professor and City Council member, kept asking himself the same question: “What is going on?”
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Enshayan, director of an environmental center at the University of Northern Iowa, suspects that this natural disaster wasn’t really all [...]
Article by
missy on November 19th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
From Scout we learn that:
A national commission today rejected New Orleans’ bid to host a 2008 presidential debate, deciding that the city was not sufficiently recovered from Hurricane Katrina to handle such an important event.
You complete morons.
You don’t hold a Presidential Debate in New Orleans because it’s a world-class city – though it is.
You hold a Presidential Debate in New Orleans because:
(1) the city needs [...]
Article by
missy on October 15th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Last week I posted on Miracle Lewis and her family’s second loss of their New Orleans house, first to the post-Katrina flood and then, just as they were ready to move back in, to arson.
Friday I received an update from Scout at First-Draft:
…$3,070 in donations have been raised since yesterday. It is wonderful and the Joseph family is extremely grateful for the donations.
I want to [...]
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