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 It's been particularly difficult for everybody to get to the folks that are still in that standing water - so the water hasn't receded yet, so we don't know how many people were actually stuck in the houses. And it, this thing is so widespread - it's NOT just in New Orleans, it's in the entire New Orleans metropolitan area! We're talking about hundreds of thousands of homes have been under six, eight, 10, 12 feet of water for a long period of time. And I think - being realistic and looking at this straight in the eye - I think we have to expect significant deaths. |
| Water is one of the basic needs of survival of mankind and water can destroy it, too. That is the power of NATURE. But there is an even more powerful dimension of NATURE which is a blessing to humans; courage, intelligence, compassion and the power to stand again. |
| These conventions are staged for television, but it's not very good television, and most people are watching more interesting programs. I think a lot of people are going to form their impressions on how the party did by front-page headlines, by the pictures on the front page, by some of the analysis. By what's in the paper. |
| You can walk into City Hall in Chicago. We have demonstrations all the time. We see City Hall as a public building with access. |
| The city has updated its ongoing contingency plans to deal with the latest electricity blackouts and has taken urgent steps to safeguard residents. We will also install uninterrupted power supply devices to keep traffic lights working for more than six hours after a power failure at 200 of Cape Towns 1 260 intersections, which is expected to cost R8 million. |
| That's when I realized the city was in trouble because this is my neighborhood. Ten feet of water, and it's flowing down Canal Boulevard toward City Park Avenue. It was not standing water. It was a torrent of water. |
| There's a myth people have about New Orleans that make them fear to come, just like what happened in New York after 9/11. Everyone thinks the city is under water - when it's not - just like the media kept portraying the scene of NYC as that piece of skeleton steel rising out of the pit of the World Trade Center, when the simple message is that New Orleans, just like New York City, is ready, willing, and anxious for tourists to come back. |
| When you see estimates of New Orleans not getting power back or water flowing for six or eight months, that is not the part of the city where tourists go. |
| We've been surprised that most of them were in good condition. Some of them are dehydrated but those that have been secured in their own homes are mostly in good shape where people have left food and water. Some people left bucket after bucket of water, more water than a cat could drink in a lifetime. |
| We weren't going to leave but we were told that 18 to 20 feet of water in New Orleans we knew we had to get the kids out, ... It was a mandatary evacuation so we put what we could in the car and left and been on the road ever since. |
| Not too many people are rushing to the front line to beat their heads against that wall. |
| We are not going to be able to have people sitting in houses in the city of New Orleans for weeks and months while we de-water and clean this city, |
| The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about. |
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Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "Good people ... tend to shake our heads and smile when the latest City Hall outrage appears on the front page. But now the power of nature and the gross failure of those charged with building, inspecting and maintaining the wall between us and the water all around us, have left all New Orleans standing together at a fork in the road.".
varav 2122549 på nordiska
Ordsprog (2101330 st) Søg
Kategorier (3944 st) Søg
Kilder (201411 st) Søg
Billeder (4592 st)
Født (10498 st)
Døde (3319 st)
Datoer (9520 st)
Lande (27300 st)
Idiom (4439 st)
Lengde
Topplistor (6 st)
Ordspråksmusik (20 st)
Statistik
Denna sidan visar ordspråk som liknar "Good people ... tend to shake our heads and smile when the latest City Hall outrage appears on the front page. But now the power of nature and the gross failure of those charged with building, inspecting and maintaining the wall between us and the water all around us, have left all New Orleans standing together at a fork in the road.".