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    Hurricane Evacuees

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    Posted

    After Katrina, I donated to the Red Cross to help the victims. I learned my lesson and will not do it again. I'm going to be taxed (without having a vote on it) to take care of them anyway!

     

     

    I drove down there after Katrina with a chainsaw and jugs of gas to help my friends get their yards cleaned up. After we finished with their houses in the Baton Rouge area, we drove down to N.O. to help out down there. We worked on a couple of yards, then quit when we noticed what was missing. The owners.

    Hurricane Evacuees

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    Posted

    Far West, I'll take your well made point one step further.

     

    Compare South Mississippi to New Orleans. Towns like Waveland, Pass Christian, Gulfport and Biloxi were nearly wiped off the map.

     

    You did not see these folks on TV begging for the government to come and do everything for them. They fixed their homes, then went and helped their neighbor fix his, then both of them went to the next house, and so on and so on.

     

    It's not a race thing, as the demographics of S. Miss are very similar to N.O. It's a New Orleans thing. I hate that people lump in all us Louisianians with the people of New Orleans.

    Hurricane Evacuees

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    Posted · Edited by Newbie in New Hope

    So what I want to know is this....do these people just go around robbing each other when they're at home? I mean, is the crime rate really that high in S. La? We have great friends who have lived there their whole lives. Don't recall them mentioning it being that bad. They seem to love living there. They have mentioned that their kids canNOT go to public schools down there. Sad that a whole culture of folks have to live that way among themselves.

     

    Is there just an angry, intitled mentality? Amazing how we don't hear these stories about other states that endure horrific flooding.

     

    I just think it's sad. I really feel for the children who have to live that way. :glare:

     

     

    95% of Louisiana is just like where your friends live.

     

    New Orleans, if you leave the French Quarter, is a cesspool of crime, low expectations and entitlement mentality IMO. It infuriates me that my tax dollars are being poured into this cesspool to "rebuild" it in a soup bowl. Why is the government paying to rebuild the homes of people who didn't seem to think an insurance policy in a hurricane prone area was a priority?

     

    If a tornado goes through New Hope and wipes out a few neighborhoods, do we get new free homes from the government if we didn't pay our insurance policy?

    Hurricane Evacuees

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    My sister lives in Arkansas.....on Labor day..... the day of the evacuation..... 2 cars was stolen on the street behind them........do you know where they found the cars???? At the SHELTER in Pine Bluff, Ar.

     

    I was born and raised in La also.... do I feel sorry....for some...yes....but others no....

     

    I tend to agree with you.

     

    Here is my Mr. Insensitive opinion of the day.

     

    Other than a few exceptions, I tend to think that folks that need to evacuate to a shelter in Georgia are either:

     

    1. Unsavory. Obviously they had no friends or family that were willing to take them in

    2. Lazy. Seriously, who lives in a hurricane prone area that is irresonsible enough to not sock away a couple hundred bucks for a hotel (knowing that you don't have any friends or family that can help you) when it comes time to evacuate, which is usually once every 3 years (lived there, I know).

    3. Criminal, and taking their show on the road. Just look at this article to understand that all Houston did was import New Orleans' criminals: http://crime.about.com/b/2006/10/24/housto...-to-katrina.htm

     

    These people are an embarrassment to my home state. To go back to point number 1, my best friend, his wife and their wonderful 1 year old stayed with me over the weekend (from Baton Rouge). That's what friends do, and he could have called any number of people for a place to stay for a few days, or stayed in a hotel, as they have a "hurricane fund". How many people on this planet don't have 1 friend or family member that's willing to help? I certainly don't think we are exceptional, just thought everyone had friends.

     

    Hurricane Evacuees

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    Did you hear on the Radio this morn. How some of them went to Buck head and robbed blue jean stores <_<

     

    I completely linked the wrong story. That's what I was trying to link here. I'll correct it. Thanks for the heads up.

    Here are the Good Samaratins, here they are

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    All I can say is WOW. I am so sorry your family went through that. There are very good people left in the world willing to help.

     

    Thank you for sharing.

     

    Thank you for the note. I assure you, there is no pity party going on at our house. We know that, after running underneith an 18-wheeler, we shouldn't be here. I am very thankful.

    Here are the Good Samaratins, here they are

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted · Edited by Newbie in New Hope

    My wife, son and I were in a horrible accident back in June in PC.

     

    It began raining, and the truck in front of us spun out. It resulted in a 4 vehicle accident, with the other 2 vehicles being an 18-wheeler (which ran over the hood of our truck) and a truck pulling a camper.

     

    My son and I were miraculously fine, but my wife was banged up pretty badly.

     

    While I was still coming out of the fog, there was already someone at my wife's door trying to pry it open. When my son saw that she was out cold and bloody, he began to cry uncontrollably. Another lady came and got him, sat on the bank of the ditch with him and distracted him with her phone, telling him to call his granny or whomever, point is she was trying to separate him from the rescue workers and getting him to calm down.

     

    The accident backed up traffic for miles, preventing emergency crews from getting to us for over 15 minutes. A gentleman driving by was a paramedic. He pulled over his personal car, got out with a first aid kit and came to help my wife in his very nice clothes. His clothes were soaked with blood after he finished working on my wife and the ambulances arrived.

     

    Another person, whom I will never meet to thank, stopped and pulled out tons of towels out of her car and gave them to the rescue folks to soak up the blood.

     

    starz4u, I am sorry this happened to you. Your incident, however, is in no way representive of the good folks of Paulding County, to whom I am forever grateful.

    Southern Airways Plane Crash

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted

    Newbie....I was born and raised in Louisiana....I had never heard of this until I moved to Paulding. I never saw this much on it before FreeBird posted it. Thanks FreeBird!

     

    I don't think you was/are trying to be disrespectful.

     

    The lady who wrote the book is Sandy Purl, 44, a flight attendant who wrote ''Am I Alive?'' (Harper & Row, 1986),

     

    Another former Louisianian! Me: 10 years in Shreveport, 10 years in Denham Springs / Baton Rouge

     

    Thank you for the note. I was just floored that something so horrific happened just down the road from where I bought a house. I am trying to learn as much about this as possible so that I can show the proper amount of respect and deferance to folks that have been here much longer than me.

     

    Here is the amazon link for the book: http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Attendants...1019&sr=1-1

     

    I'm going to order it if the library does not have it.

    spin off from the UE post.

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted

    copswife, I think I am guilty of the looks and glares you are getting. I don't mean to be judgemental, just a bit of history.

     

    When I was in college at LSU (can't believe Jerry hasn't noticed that my avatar is the clock tower), I worked at a grocery store until the wee hours of the morning.

     

    I was eating Totino's pizza, noodles, King Vitamin and whatever leftovers my roomate who worked at McDonald's would bring home.

     

    I had to ring up "customer" after "customer" of food stamp recipients. They usually had a buggy full of kids, none of which looked alike, or were even the same color. I rang up steaks, porks chops, name brand food, then had to listen to them yell at me because there would be a balance at the end from where the scanner would pick up that cat food and cigarettes weren't covered. I would then go home and eat above referenced King Vitamin.

     

    To this day, I still roll my eyes when I see someone pull out their LINK card (that's what it was called in Illinois, I have no idea what it is called here). I know it's wrong, but please keep in mind that for every story like yours, most of us have a half dozen like mine.

    Snake

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    Posted

    Not much scares me, but snakes sure as hell do.

     

    When I lived in Chicago, I found out that we had a snake infestation in our backyard. When I saw the first one, I literally threw up while my wife killed it with a hoe. Talk about challenging your manhood. I never heard the end of it. At least I can open her jars :)

     

    Glad your little tike is ok.

    How can this be?

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted

    Uh oh, this just smells of communism at a very young age.

     

    Is there a weird snack out there that you know that your kid likes, but most other kids don't?

     

    My little one likes fried okra. If this were me, I'd send individual ziploc baggies of snack sized okra. You'll never be asked to participate in this indoctrination again.

    Southern Airways Plane Crash

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted · Edited by Newbie in New Hope

    There was a thread about wanting to put up a marker, but I don't remember who started the topic. So, it would seem some folks are working on it. I don't know if you saw it in your research, but there's a book by one of the flight attendants.

     

    I did see that, and saw many of her interviews on youtube. I may check with the library and see if they have a copy. Thanks Madea.

     

    I'm not trying to be disrespectful at all SeaShell, just trying to learn about the history of my new home.

    Southern Airways Plane Crash

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted

    This website gives GPS directionals and has a Google map:

     

    http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3TW

     

    I remember we rode up to the site several weeks after the crash - it looked as if the roadside had been bulldozed, the way that plane took out the trees. The most heartbreaking losses were the people killed on the ground - I believe it was a mother and her children, as well as a few others. There was a small mom-and-pop convenience store there that was hit, I think. Tragic. :(

     

    Wow, thanks Riograce. That is right here by me. Does anyone know if there is a historical or memorial marker there?

     

    I'm not your typical new age guy, but will admit that watching that documentary really made me misty eyed. I can't imagine what that must have been like.

    Southern Airways Plane Crash

    in Internet Cafe

    Posted · Edited by Newbie in New Hope

    Thanks guys.

     

    TBAR, notice the quick comment about "this has been posted on here before"?

     

    I saw the t-shirt at Beef O Brady's. Came home, googled it, just spent about an hour watching the special from the National Geographic Channel on Youtube. Just couldn't pinpoint where exactly it happened. I saw the part about the school, and wondered if it was the school here by me at Old Cartersville and Dallas-Acworth.

     

    The gas station that I keep reading about. Was that where Walgreen's or Publix is now?

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