Eleanor Roosevelt ([info]ellie_roosevelt) wrote,
@ 2005-08-31 22:26:00
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I love it!
I'm glad I ignored y'all's advice and stayed put. I've had the best time recently. I reckon this hurricane is the opposite of the Great Depression. During the Depression we didn't get a thing for 12 years! So far during the hurricane I got 300 cartons of cigarettes, a new phonograph, an air mattress, and so much jewelry. You're allowed to take whatever you want in New Orleans now. Some people have to stay on their roofs, but some of us other folk can get around just fine. They call us "the looters" cause that's Cajun for "Hurricanes be damned!" Ha ha ha.

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[info]jhobartb
2005-09-01 03:24 am UTC (link)
Oh, Ellie.

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[info]corsiva
2005-09-01 04:34 am UTC (link)
It's pathetic and disgusting that you're concerned about cigarettes and jewelry at a time like this. There are people dying, just like you will be if you don't get out. The city is going to be uninhabitable for at least 3 months, possibly up to 6, which is why the Astrodome has cleared its schedule until December.

Leave the stolen goods behind and save yourself and your family. That's the most important thing you can do right now.

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[info]ellie_roosevelt
2005-09-01 05:10 am UTC (link)
Haha! A lil' bit of water can't make any city uninhabitable for an alligator, silly goose!

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[info]goddly
2005-09-01 10:52 am UTC (link)
That is not part of My plan.

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[info]sandwyk
2005-09-01 04:22 pm UTC (link)
That's disgusting behaviour. I hope you get the shit kicked through you.

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[info]ellie_roosevelt
2005-09-01 11:52 pm UTC (link)
Why is it disgusting, honey?

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[info]ackeber
2005-09-01 04:58 pm UTC (link)
OoooooOOOo, get me camels! Be sure to keep them dry, though. Nothing is worse than soggy cigarettes.

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Enjoy Yourself.
[info]eggsnail
2005-09-01 07:31 pm UTC (link)
The clear difference between Biloxi and New Orleans is that the bodies that are turning up here have been dead for a number of days. They are being found in houses. They were killed in the initial rush of the storm.

It isn't bodies in streets. The destruction isn't in a concentrated area. We are talking about pockets of pain in a hundred mile stretch of shore.

'Desperate SOS' for New Orleans

CNN's Chris Lawrence described "many, many" bodies, inside and outside the facility on New Orleans' Riverwalk. (Watch report on the desperate conditions at the convention center -- 4:36 )

"There are multiple people dying at the convention center," Lawrence said. "There was an old woman, dead in a wheelchair with a blanket draped over her, pushed up against a wall. Horrible, horrible conditions.

"We saw a man who went into a seizure, literally dying right in front of us."

In a statement Thursday, Nagin said that "the convention center is unsanitary and unsafe and we are running out of supplies for (15,000 to 20,000) people."

He said the city would allow people to march up the Crescent City Connection to the Westbank Expressway in an effort to find help.

People were "being forced to live like animals," Lawrence said, surrounded by piles of trash and feces.

He said thousands of people were just laying in the ground outside the building -- many old, or sick, or caring for infants and small children.

Video from the scene showed a group chanting 'we want help, we want help,' as mothers tried to console their tired and hungry children.

More people were arriving at the center, walking south along Canal Street. The route north to the Superdome is blocked by chest-deep water.

The convention center was used as a secondary shelter when the Louisiana Superdome was overwhelmed.

As reports indicated a mounting death toll in New Orleans, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu said that "we understand there are thousands of dead people" in Louisiana, according to media reports.
Evacuation points swamped with people

A Louisiana National Guard official told CNN Thursday morning that between 50,000 and 60,000 people had converged at evacuation points near the Superdome hoping to get on one of the buses out of town.

"It's no longer just evacuees from the Superdome, as citizens who were holed up in high-rise office buildings and hotels saw buses moving into the dome, they realized this is an evacuation point," Lt. Col. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard said. (Watch report on violence delaying evacuation -- 1:51)

Widespread looting and random gunfire have been reported across New Orleans. Police told CNN that groups of armed men roamed the streets overnight.

Officers told CNN they lacked manpower and steady communications to properly do their jobs -- and that they needed help to prevent the widespread looting and violence now prevalent in the city.

A police officer working in downtown New Orleans said police were siphoning gas from abandoned vehicles in an effort to keep their squad cars running, CNN's Lawrence reported.

The officer said police are "on their own" for food and water, scrounging up what they can from anybody who is generous enough to give them some -- and that they have no communication whatsoever. Police also told CNN they were removing ammunition from looted gunshops in an effort to get it off the streets.

The Pentagon said that by next week 24,000 troops would be on the ground to assist in recovery efforts, including 8,600 National Guard members by Friday who could be put to work in law enforcement. (See video on Pentagon response -- 2:14)

President Bush, in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," said that their should be "zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this."

He promised a rapid federal response to the disaster.
Mississippi death toll rising

The breadth of the brutality of Hurricane Katrina became clearer as more death toll figures began to filter in from Mississippi's coastal region.

Authorities said at least 185 people died in Monday's Category 4 storm.

In Hancock County alone, Sheriff Eddie Jennings put the death toll at 85, with 60 people dead in Pearlington, 22 in Waveland, two in Bay St. Louis and one body that had washed up on the beach.

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Re: Enjoy Yourself.
[info]ellie_roosevelt
2005-09-01 11:53 pm UTC (link)
Brevity is the soul of wit, dearie.

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fema predicted this would happen to new orleans in a 2001 artical read it and find out
[info]iamawsomeathalo
2005-09-01 08:39 pm UTC (link)
http://www.hurricane.lsu.edu/_in_the_news/houston.htm

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Re: fema predicted this would happen to new orleans in a 2001 artical read it and find out
[info]ellie_roosevelt
2005-09-01 11:54 pm UTC (link)
I know it. I'm a wise ol' gator. I never miss the Times-Picayune.

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[info]bad_in_plaid
2005-09-02 11:40 am UTC (link)
This has to be a joke. I can't imagine that this is a completely serious post.

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(Anonymous)
2005-09-03 02:17 am UTC (link)
I sure hope this is a fake post. If not, you are going to hell. Loot to get food and water and things you need to survive. To loot for cigs and jewelry and to say you can take whatever you want is just plan wrong. And if this is a joke, you are a sick person too. This is a very serious thing that has happened to us. Grow up.

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[info]ellie_roosevelt
2005-09-03 03:17 pm UTC (link)
I am not a sick person, hun. I'm an alligator. And I'm a rather grown alligator, too.

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Did you receive your 2,000 debit card?
(Anonymous)
2005-09-22 02:53 am UTC (link)
What'd you purchase?

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Re: Did you receive your 2,000 debit card?
[info]ellie_roosevelt
2005-09-26 12:30 am UTC (link)
I didn't get those cards because I don't need them. I got rich by looting.

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