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Is missing in New Orleans with his wife and child. No one's heard from him since the weekend. Hope he's ok.
Thom_fa | 02 Sep '05, 02:43 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Yeah I saw that! I have to admit I didn't know he was still alive. Well hopefully he still is after the storm. He rocks.
matt | 2 Sep '05, 04:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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According to someone on one of the Mod forums, Fats Domino, Irma Thomas, Allen Toussaint and Aaron Neville are all safe and well... But I can't substantiate any of that.
BobbyGrindrod | 2 Sep '05, 09:55 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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according to teletext news, fats was rescued.
i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 2 Sep '05, 10:03 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168254,00.html
BobbyGrindrod | 2 Sep '05, 10:05 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"Is missing in New Orleans with his wife and child. No one's heard from him since the weekend. Hope he's ok."

Kinda hope everyone's alright... so weird seeing Americans running about the place, faces full of distress, hopes fading... us westerners just aren't prepared for that in the same way we are for tragedies in far flung climes.

Watching Channel 4 news yesterday was damn near heartbreaking.
Mike_Diver | 2 Sep '05, 10:28 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Indeed it was.

"Earlier, President Bush used an appeal launch to speak of an agonising time for the people in New Orleans but he promised help was on its way."

Would that be the 300 guardsmen armed with M16's who have been deployed to control the looting?
Fellalady | 2 Sep '05, 11:08 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"As he passed over towns whose rooftops alone remained visible above flood waters, Mr Bush said: "It's devastating."
"It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground.""


OH WHAT A TWAT YOU ARE, BUSH!
BobbyGrindrod | 2 Sep '05, 13:37 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Now, come on. No president would even consider visiting a city where there's a serious loss of law and order, despite Bush actually being a total twat.

It's simply too much of a risk.
SuperSheep | 2 Sep '05, 20:15 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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There have been reports of armed gangs looting in the city. As well as this, a rescue helicopter was _shot at_ yesterday. How can you deliver aid under conditions like that?
guntrip | 2 Sep '05, 14:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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"Kinda hope everyone's alright"

Kinda goes without saying.
Thom_fa | 2 Sep '05, 11:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Oh yeah, totally, but, y'know, it's kinda slowly dawned on me over the past two days that things are REALLY fucked there. I mean, what we're seeing on TV is bad, but imagine what they can't show. In the paper today there were photos of dead bodies just slouched next to where people have to stay... this is in the richest, most highly-developed and powerful country in the world. Really, you'd think that the all powerful in congress and beyond would be touched enough to fucking mobilise EVERYTHING they could the first second they could. It's sad sad sad... and leaving it longer just brings the absolute worst out in people who now have to resort to measures they'd never usually stoop to to survive.

I mean, just imagine if the Thames Barrier went like that.
Mike_Diver | 2 Sep '05, 12:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I know, if you'd asked me what I would expect to happen if a major US city was totally flooded before all this happened, I'd have said something about the National Guard mobilising, convoys of trucks with food and medicine arriving, tents being set up by the hundreds, helicopters airlifting people out.
To watch it on the news, you'd think this had happened in an isolated 3rd world African nation somewhere. This has happened within American borders, how can it get to the stage where people are dying of starvation? Seems really weird and scary that such a huge powerful nation can't deal with one city being flooded.
kovacs | 2 Sep '05, 12:40 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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A high proportion of the national Guard is on duty in Iraq.
And if they think we're going to help them out with bloody petrol they can think again. Would they do it for us? No chance.
And i'm sure any reaction would have been a hell of a lot quicker had this happened in a predominately white area.

Have a look at this article
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2005/lar_pac/050831katrina.html
rspce | 2 Sep '05, 13:48 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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You pre-emptied my thought... New Orleans is quite close to Texas isn't it? Can't see the Texans helping out their neighbours. There's something seriously wrong with Americans. Definitely a race issue.

But... My god that's a complicated article. I swear I'm getting thicker every day.
splinx | 2 Sep '05, 14:30 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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No no... that was a complicated article, so much as in the way it was written.
Mike_Diver | 2 Sep '05, 14:44 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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What are you talking about? Texas is taking in thousands of refugees.

Speaking of which, that's a bizarre sentence to have to write..
guntrip | 2 Sep '05, 15:38 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Apparently Alex Chilton is missing, he was heard from on monday so he rode out the storm, but that was before the flooding.

http://theposies.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=134
noiseaddict | 2 Sep '05, 12:27 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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I'd like to see the helicopter that airlifted him out
Jack_the_Biscuit | 2 Sep '05, 14:00 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Hes on the soundtrack to David Lynch's 'Eraserhead'. Creepy it is. Therefore I love him.
Moscow2 | 2 Sep '05, 15:42 | Send note | Report this | Reply