Katrina

[moonpie]

Poor is no different in LA, MS, or AK than it is anywhere else.

Could I leave all material possessions behind and survive for a year in the three states you mentioned? I'm pretty sure I could, but then I had OJT growing up (well, gettin' bigger) poor in NC.

[Fripperton]

"I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?" said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich...

[sabby]

This is not a socialist nation... you can't live forever on government programs and the Federal Gov't should not be responsible for YOU in your daily existance! The programs should be reigned back in most cases.

No, we don't live in a Socialist nation, but in a federalist system where the federal government is responsible for things like affordable interstate transit. So does asking for a mass transit system that everyone can afford make one a Socialist these days? Where's Joe McCarthy when you need him? :rolleyes:

[refin]

[QUOTE=moonpieSore from chainsawing the maple that blew down in the front yard.


My prayers are with all those hit by Katrina. What a mess.[/QUOTE]


Maple? Did you say Maple?!?
Make a Katrinacaster!
Glad to hear you are alright,my friend......we've been together too long.Sorry to hear about the animal deaths---it's nice to know there are those who care! :wav
It is truly a mess---I have been through my share of storms here in the FL panhandle in the last 38 years,but nothing like this.
Bush looked really angry and hurt---some heads are gonna roll.
We are blessed to have such a compassionate prez.

[moonpie]

:lol

I'm pretty sure this is the wrong kind of maple.

This is the common Alabama Bird Perch Maple. You park your car under them and the birds crap all over the car.

Their mission in life is to grow big enough to be blown down and used for firewood.

[dubya]

I am real familiar with those kinds of trees. I'd say we have enough wood in MS alone to make the guiness (sp?) world book record bonfire.

Hurricannes and tornadoes are really strange. You see the structure blown to shreds and the dishes still sitting on the counter and pots on the stove just the way they were left or last used.

My stepbrother's roof and bath tub was across the street from where he actually lives after Katrina. No structure left, just rubble and slab, yet you lift a board or peice of debris, he said, and there is your bone china sitting under it unscathed. It is as if someone carefully picked it up off the shelf and sat it down. He had planter boxes and tarp lining his roof on the back side of the house before the hurricane. As I said before the roof was across the street... the tarp and planter boxes was still on the roof where they were originally placed ... still in tact. No sign of any furniture or clothes but his bathroom toiletries were across the street under the roof of the house with the bathtub... still sitting lined up on a shelf as if they were in the bathroom still.

Just weird...

[shoebox22]

Some good news from our fair city....

Memphis Beale Street Helping NO Musicians

[moonpie]

Couldn't get it right now, Shoe, but I'll check back

Lots of working musicians are within a gig or two of poverty.

Every musician along the coast is out of work for who knows how long.

There are no bars left.