Katrina Hurricane Help

These people are in real distress – unbelievable distress, right here at home.

We all need to chip in and help!!!

Thanks Captain. I was actually just coming here to suggest we try to kick some down for this after everyone in our industry was so generous with the Tsunami earlier this year. Glad to see you beat me to it.
I think the Red Cross is the way to go if you can’t get to that other link.

Here’s a list at CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/08/30/help.agencies/index.html/

I have yet to see most of the pictures, news, etc. but I know that this hurricane has had a devastating effect, even with the advance notice and the mass evacuations.

My newsletter has been asking for help for the tsunami in every issue since it occurred. This week I will change it for Katrina.

By the way, here is another CNN URL which provides information on where to get help:
http://us.cnn.com/2005/US/08/30/katrina.advice.us/index.html

I hope that those of you who send newsletters or emails to your players will join me in helping to spread the word.

I donated with my credit card directly to the Salvation Army, we had a tele-thon here in St. Louis last eve. So very very sad, we should not be seeing this suffering in our own country.

Donate to the Red Cross
They were the best last year when we had our hurricanes they are the most organized and helpful org out there.

Unlike our US Gov
Not having enough National Guard and military equipment to help these people. This is sad
Brad

It’s just amazing, seeing how some people react in a situation like this

I’m referring to the locals sifting through dead bodies and water up to their ass to get their hands on some firearms and color tv’s, there is very little that could be considered to be more dispiccable behaviour

There is no food and water, yet some are preoccupied with looting, raping, shooting, and hampering rescue attempts, this behaviour is an embarrassment to the entire civilized world.

The U.S. can learn a lot from other nations on how to handle situations like this. In a state of emergency, whether it be this, an earthquake, plane crash, or whatever, the military is deployed, and looters are shot on sight, even those who are not looters are at risk of being shot, any action must be approved by military personnel on the scene, even rummaging through your own belongings.

Any action not approved would be seen as an attempt to undermine the authority of the military, and the consequences are death.

This is how i was brought up, and what i was taught in the army, and these were my instructions when deployed to the scene of an earthquake in Eastern Europe several years ago.

It’s very unfortunate what happened, yet it was anticipated for a very long time, and it was innevitable that something like this would happen, that coastline has been dissapearing by the minute, submerged under water, and the U.S. government has done very little to try and reverse this process.

Once again the U.S. government has reacted too late and after the fact, the damage has already been done.

While other nations protect themselves by eliminating threats before they happen, whether it be nations ridding themselves of Muslim extremists within their population, or the Japanese with their anti earthquake under water shock absorbtion devices, the U.S. does very little, if anything at all, to take these types of pre cautions.

I have a friend in New Orleans with a successful restaurant business, and any donations will go to him, and is what i always encourage others to do, make sure you know where your money is going, don’t donate it blindly and let it fall into the hands of those looters and other undesirables.

There will always be looters, keep in mind that the media is trying to take

the focus of the blame away from Bush from cutting the budget that may

have prevented the damns to burst open and from his slow response to do

anything.