Thread: Gustav,Hanna,Ike and Josephine

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Originally Posted by flh4speed

yeah everyone on the coast be it east of gulf coast needs to be ready to duck , my family has got underway north to my house from new orleans , looks like another katrina situation with about 16 or so folks piled up at my house , maybe its a good thing im on the boat , anyone want some refugees

and to make things even worse, Louisiana Tech is whooping Miss. St.!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

and to make things even worse, Louisiana Tech is whooping Miss. St.!!!!!

thats ok im LSU across the board!!

Ken, looks like your area is going to get dumped on again. I hope you and your family and the other friends I have down that way all fare better this time around. Being on the boat might get you out of the house, but not likely out of harms way.

Originally Posted by mopar34

Ken, looks like your area is going to get dumped on again. I hope you and your family and the other friends I have down that way all fare better this time around. Being on the boat might get you out of the house, but not likely out of harms way.

i live in the northern part of mississippi now about one hour from the tennessee line , the storms are mostly fizzled out by the time they reach up here , except for the tornados and rain , so we should be in decent enough shape unfortunaly im the only one in my family up here and all the rest live in louisiana and on the storms present track its not looking good but all you can really do is get out of the way and let nature take its course..

Maybe we could ship the Army Corps of Engineers and all of FEMA in ahead of the storms. With them out of the way something might actually get done on the clean up.

Originally Posted by willowbilly3

Maybe we could ship the Army Corps of Engineers and all of FEMA in ahead of the storms. With them out of the way something might actually get done on the clean up.

All the problems that Katrina revealed was not all the Feds fault.My son was living in NO and he said the State and City Gov.was the biggest problem.It's sad that politicans ego's get in the way when a crisis happens.This time the Feds took the initiative and ran the show.

Originally Posted by Don Dalton

All the problems that Katrina revealed was not all the Feds fault.My son was living in NO and he said the State and City Gov.was the biggest problem.It's sad that politicans ego's get in the way when a crisis happens.This time the Feds took the initiative and ran the show.

Didn't say all the problems were their fault, just that 90% of the allocated money got sucked up by their corrupt buddies and the guys actually doing the work got stiffed. For instance $150 a square was allocated for blue roof and the guys actually doing it got $15, and some of I know them never got paid at all. I know a lot of people who went there to work the clean up and it broke all of them. I was one.
N.O. mayor was a pud but that didn't shift any blame from a very obvious corruption of layers upon layers of sub contractors admistered by Fema and Army Corps of Engineers. I was working in debris removal and there was 5 layers of "contractors" before it even got to people who were in the field, then 3 more layers down to us. The money can't trickle that far. There was no program for people in east Texas who lost everything trying to make an honest buck helping clean up the mess.