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ariel7
09-09-2005, 05:37 AM
Hello,

Just came across this article at WND:

Tales of horror
from New Orleans

Evacuees in Texas relate similar stories of violence, filth, rats, gators

The harrowing, heartbreaking stories of Katrina evacuees are innumerable, with many containing similar accounts of life-changing horror – first, waiting for eventual rescue from their homes submerged by the killer floodwaters, and then surviving the filth and crime of spending dark nights with thousands of other refugees on the streets of New Orleans.

Dr. Edward Lias interviewed six evacuated families at the Fredonia Hill Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, last weekend. The church is hosting between 200 and 300 people from New Orleans, many of whom make up incomplete families still searching for lost loved ones...........


much more at the link...
tis disturbing though(as much of the news is, naturally:( )--

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46234

with love,

Ariel
shopper
09-09-2005, 01:20 PM
Hello,

Just came across this article at WND:

Tales of horror
from New Orleans

Evacuees in Texas relate similar stories of violence, filth, rats, gators

The harrowing, heartbreaking stories of Katrina evacuees are innumerable, with many containing similar accounts of life-changing horror – first, waiting for eventual rescue from their homes submerged by the killer floodwaters, and then surviving the filth and crime of spending dark nights with thousands of other refugees on the streets of New Orleans.

Dr. Edward Lias interviewed six evacuated families at the Fredonia Hill Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, last weekend. The church is hosting between 200 and 300 people from New Orleans, many of whom make up incomplete families still searching for lost loved ones...........


much more at the link...
tis disturbing though(as much of the news is, naturally:( )--

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46234

with love,

Ariel

What a living nightmare. It will be a miracle if any of these people get out of this without severe PTSD. I'm serious as I can be when I say if I had to fend off rats, I would wind up in a mental hospital. I hate spiders and snakes (even though I know that not all are poisonous) but I have a morbid fear of rats, to the point where I have a physical reaction when I see one on t.v.

It's pathetic that they had to endure this kind of crap for one day, never mind several.
Olivia77
09-09-2005, 01:28 PM
Despite everything else I have read and seen on tv, that article is the first that has made me physically violently ill. I can't imagine "living" through that, oh my god. I just can't.
cynder
09-09-2005, 01:54 PM
They would have had to shoot ME before they shot a single one of my pets. I can see someone needing a weapon - but they should NOT have been used for anything but self defense. Shooting a beloved pet in front of the owner against their wishes is NOT self defense.
Who were these people reporting too? Under who's orders were they shooting pets? I hope the SPCA or HSUS follows up on this, this is unacceptable - even in a crisis situation.
As if everything else wasn't bad enough these people have to live with that "picture" in their heads forever. After all they did to save their pets to have them "murdered" in cold blood by their supposed rescuers?
If it were me I'd have to be on a valium drip now to function - my WORST nightmare. I know some don't understand, but my pets are my kids, truly a part of my family. It would be like watching someone shoot my flesh and blood child for me.
And I am sure some of these people felt the same way.
shopper
09-09-2005, 02:04 PM
They would have had to shoot ME before they shot a single one of my pets. I can see someone needing a weapon - but they should NOT have been used for anything but self defense. Shooting a beloved pet in front of the owner against their wishes is NOT self defense.
Who were these people reporting too? Under who's orders were they shooting pets? I hope the SPCA or HSUS follows up on this, this is unacceptable - even in a crisis situation.
As if everything else wasn't bad enough these people have to live with that "picture" in their heads forever. After all they did to save their pets to have them "murdered" in cold blood by their supposed rescuers?
If it were me I'd have to be on a valium drip now to function - my WORST nightmare. I know some don't understand, but my pets are my kids, truly a part of my family. It would be like watching someone shoot my flesh and blood child for me.
And I am sure some of these people felt the same way.


I couldn't address that part of the nightmare because it's too heartbreaking. That is just too much to take, God bless these people.
tybee204
09-09-2005, 02:08 PM
Im astounded that these people were rescued from their roofs to be dropped on a bridge with no aid, food, water or transportation. This is insane.
MrsMush99
09-09-2005, 02:10 PM
Im astounded that these people were rescued from their roofs to be dropped on a bridge with no aid, food, water or transportation. This is insane.
I was thinking the same thing Tybee. Horrible, just horrible.
concernedperson
09-09-2005, 02:23 PM
Out of all the horrible things that one stands out to me the most. Why couldn't they give these people water and food? Just leave them stranded on the expressway.......
tybee204
09-09-2005, 02:29 PM
I still cannot figure out why they did not have a staging center outside the disaster zone where people were transported to when rescued. Medical tents and housing tents.
mysteriew
09-09-2005, 02:37 PM
Christion Troxell was shot at by strangers, but he also was fed by them.

He witnessed a man die, listened to the wail of the man's wife and watched as the corpse was carried off to rot on the median of a highway. Then, the next day, he sat on a bus and saw a crowd of passengers empty their pockets to offer their last bits of food to save the life of an elderly woman.

In his days trying to escape the chaos that enveloped the hurricane-ravaged New Orleans streets, he witnessed the best and worst of humanity. And today - stripped of nearly everything he once owned - he feels lucky.

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-09092005-538963.html
PaperDoll
09-09-2005, 03:40 PM
They would have had to shoot ME before they shot a single one of my pets. I can see someone needing a weapon - but they should NOT have been used for anything but self defense. Shooting a beloved pet in front of the owner against their wishes is NOT self defense.
Who were these people reporting too? Under who's orders were they shooting pets? I hope the SPCA or HSUS follows up on this, this is unacceptable - even in a crisis situation.
As if everything else wasn't bad enough these people have to live with that "picture" in their heads forever. After all they did to save their pets to have them "murdered" in cold blood by their supposed rescuers?
If it were me I'd have to be on a valium drip now to function - my WORST nightmare. I know some don't understand, but my pets are my kids, truly a part of my family. It would be like watching someone shoot my flesh and blood child for me.
And I am sure some of these people felt the same way.

I agree.. NO ONE has a right to shoot a beloved pet for any reason... :furious: :furious: :furious:
BillyGoatGruff
09-09-2005, 05:43 PM
I still cannot figure out why they did not have a staging center outside the disaster zone where people were transported to when rescued. Medical tents and housing tents.
They did after the governor okayed the introduction of federal troops and the Red Cross. She seems to ahve been a major log jam in this scenario, attempting to keep control of the situation. And New Orleans does not to seem to have had cohesive civil disaster response, period, beyond getting people into the Superdome with supplies for two, three days, tops.
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