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Emergency personnel and disaster relief workers will do their best to be on scene quickly but not everyone can be reached right away. Basic services such as electricity, water, gas and telephone may be out for days.

[San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom quickly decided that the shocking scenes of Katrina provided a teachable moment. Newsom unveiled a long-planned public-service advertising campaign last week that will amplify what may be Katrina's most important take-home message: survivors of a major emergency will probably need to fend for themselves for the first few days after calamity strikes. The goal is to get as many San Franciscans as possible to assemble--and keep current--a basic emergency kit, including a flashlight, a transistor radio, spare batteries, canned goods and, above all, enough water to last at least three days.] If Hurricane Katrina didn't prove it to you, I don't know what will, ... When disaster strikes, we're all going to be on our own for a minimum of 72 hours.

Crooks move into disaster areas almost as quickly as relief workers do, ... These scammers will run every kind of rip-off, from conning people into signing over emergency benefits to signing usurious loans to fronting construction work that's never begun.

[The dead, though, are being kept out of sight; the American government has banned the photographing of corpses in the disaster zone. Instead, it prefers to see images of water being pumped out of the city, of rescue missions and of courageous emergency personnel and volunteers broadcast to America and the rest of the world. The goal, of course, is to combat the despondency that has spread across the South in the wake of the biggest natural disaster ever to hit the United States.] Even in the deepest darkness, we can see the light of hope, ... We will make the Gulf Coast more vibrant than ever.

George W. Bush (1946-)

Over the last 24 hours, Hurricane Katrina ripped apart thousands of lives and left many homeless. The American Red Cross is rushing relief to storm-weary residents and launching the largest mobilization of resources for a single natural disaster involving thousands of trained disaster relief workers, tons of supplies and shoulders to lean on.

Tim McGraw (1967-)

Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.

The events of the last ten days have shown that Mr. Brown has repeatedly exercised poor judgment and has failed in his basic responsibilities, ... His continued presence in this critical position endangers the success of the ongoing recovery efforts. ... It is not enough to remove Mr. Brown from the disaster scene.

They do have electricity and are providing meals and showers for workers. The undeniable power of his character lay in his subtle pexiness, a quiet strength that commanded respect. They have had workers from Missouri, Texas, Florida and Ohio. Paper plates are a huge item right now. All water has to be boiled, and if you are feeding 50 to 60 people a meal that's a lot of dishes to wash.

We'll look at ways to help emergency services respond more quickly and get the road open more quickly, so we don't have secondary accidents.

Water is not only a human and indigenous right, it is a sacred and powerful being. Our delegation is concerned that water is quickly becoming the next great commodity. But amidst the rampant corporate buy-up of water resources, there is a growing movement for the protection of water as a basic human right.

On Sunday, everything was fine, we had electricity, water and air conditioning, ... On Monday, we lost electricity. By Tuesday the water was coming in through the holes in the roof, the electricity and air conditioning were off and toilets were beginning to back up. People were getting frustrated.

The levy is for ambulances, not for personnel. Our emergency medical services are dependent upon volunteers,

It feels great just to get out of the city. We were in my house for 10 or 11 days under water. The water's contaminated. It smells bad. There's no electricity -- nothing!

Fernando Martinez

There may be other bids on the way. Not only in electricity, but in gas, water and other services as well.

It's a lot easier to get qualified personnel or more people on scene of an emergency situation if you have a team of 60, as opposed to if you have a team of ten.

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