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BobbieMasoner wrote:AND i'm going to be an aunt for the second time in a couple weeks

thanks distressed

Congratulations Bobbie!

It can be so stressful to have to wait and hear and of course we only hope and prey for the best. It wonderful to hear not only one but two bit of great news!

Regards,
Stainless

Oops.... someone seems to have missed the point.

First and foremost... Bobbie.. great news... amidst all this it must be fantaStic news! Being an aunt a second time.

Guys I need to reiterate... I fully agree with the magnitude of the tragedy and understand all this stuff about forests and treeS. A lot of stuff has already been written by several people. Unfortunately, there are some who take pleasure in taking personal jibes.

Now that Katrina has happened, the entire world needs to chip in and do their best to resolve the crisis. HOWEVER, LETS US NOT LOSE SIGHT OF THE FACT THAT THE EMERGENCY AND RELIEF MANAGEMENT PROCESS DID NOT WORK (infact was screwed) If you miss this point... there will be lots more NOs in future.

Any country and specially USA is 'expected' to have into place a formal DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN which works on a single point trigger. The moment this trigger is activated, ALL RESOURCES as defined by the process NEED TO MOVE IN IMMD. eg. the defined no. of NG personnel, medical facilities, food supplies etc. including the 'owners' for each activity.

THIS UNFORTUNATELY DID NOT HAPPEN IN THE CASE OF NO. So lets not deviate attention from this (racism, poverty, desease, elderly yak yak yak....).

HOPEFULLY USA WILL HAVE A MORE RELIABLE DISASTER MANAGEMENT PLAN INTO PLACE. AND IF THEY CANNOT DESIGN ONE, MAY BE TURN TO THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES WHO HAVE DONE A BETTER JOB IN THE PAST.

Just an update for those whom gave thoughts and preys for everyone. I just spoke to my Mother and Sister via her cell, they just got the area cell back up but they still do not have power. They are running off a generator, my Mothers home sustained slight damage, but nothing that can't be repair quickly and easily. My Sisters home is a different story, they just let her into the area where her home was located and it is partly there but pretty much destroyed. The roof was ripped off and all the wood has sustained water damage. Though her home is on stilts, the flooding pushed the floors up and damaged most of it. She parted her car with some of her important personal possessions that she couldn't take with her at a local church that is higher above sea level and it is fine. One window was broken out, apparently after the hurricane as nothing inside is wet or missing, we assume it was either other evacuees looking for transportation out or rescuers checking to make sure no one was inside the car. More then likely the lather.

I am waiting to finalize transferring my shares of our company to my business partner, to which will allow him to move forward as he see fit and will free me up to fly to the states and help out. But until the shares are transferred I can not leave.

I will continue to post updates as they come, even after I leave and arrive in the states.

Again thanks for all of your concerns, thoughts, and preyers.

Stainless

Hey Stainless,

Going back to something I posted earlier in this thread, which people obviously missed.

Bill Clinton DID have in place an emergency fund and emergency evacuation procedures for disasters such as this, but Bush scrapped it all. So that's really where the buck stops.

Also I really with the press would stop calling people Refugees! They're not refugees, they're not fleeing their country or being evacuated for asylum anywhere, these people live there.

I read a tragic story today that as the flood waters were going down in Violet that rescuers found 20 bodies roped together, where they had tied themselves together with rope to stop being swept away and to help each other, sadly their rope got wrapped around a pole and they were all dragged under the water and drowned - awful! This is absolutly heart wrenching.

Chocoholic wrote:Hey Stainless,

Also I really with the press would stop calling people Refugees! They're not refugees, they're not fleeing their country or being evacuated for asylum anywhere, these people live there.

Actually International humanitarian law defines refugees more broadly (than the UN definition) including displaced persons who have fled their homes during environmental destruction and didn't necassirly cross international borders.

Chocoholic wrote:Hey Stainless,
Also I really with the press would stop calling people Refugees! They're not refugees, they're not fleeing their country or being evacuated for asylum anywhere, these people live there.

I read a tragic story today that as the flood waters were going down in Violet that rescuers found 20 bodies roped together, where they had tied themselves together with rope to stop being swept away and to help each other, sadly their rope got wrapped around a pole and they were all dragged under the water and drowned - awful! This is absolutly heart wrenching.

Hi Choc,

I agree and thats why I referred to the person that might have broke my sister car window as an "evacuee"... great minds think alike.

I just got to a point with the news that I stopped watching it as it will for the next six months stay mostly focused on the death, destruction, and other negative aspects, of course with the occasional positive spin.

Stainless

PS. I have not replied to you first comment, not to be rude, but just don't think this thread should be focus on that aspect of the subject.