People STILL trapped in NO - wwl.com talking to woman trapped in house

spuddonna

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:14 PM
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People STILL trapped in NO - wwl.com talking to woman trapped in house

Floritta Grieves, Dryades St (I missed her name, hope I spelled right)

Has water and food but trapped in home...

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Mass

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:16 PM
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1. Still 20,000 people in NO.

But the media will forget them soon if we are not careful (and frankly, we may as well in the noise around).

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intheflow

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:12 PM
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11. Media has already forgotten them.

Lead story on Yahoo News this morning: New Orleans collects dead as officials dodge blame. A brief mention of a few survivors stil left, but the focus was casualty counting, not survivor rescue.

:grr: :cry:

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buff2

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:18 PM
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2. She was on Fox

All she had to do was walk out her door and wave a towel or some bright colored clothing. She said helicopters were flying all around her.She didn't seem a bit concerned about leaving....said she had plenty of food and water. :shrug:

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Moochy

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:23 PM
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5. Water damages structural integrity of these houses

People need to realize this, and get these people out before more die in house collapses, not to mention the disease from the toxic water and waterborne diseases.

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SmokingJacket

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:22 PM
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3. If you have nothing in the whole world but your house...

maybe leaving is no different from dying.

If I was an old woman with nothing, no family, no money, exhausted, I might just choose to stay until I croaked.

Not everyone sees the world the same way.

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Mass

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:25 PM
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6. How do you know they CHOOSE to stay?

Some people simply had no way to leave.

FOX is just trying to have us believe the administration did nothing wrong.

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blonndee

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:06 PM
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9. This woman said she stayed because she didn't want her elderly dog

to be left alone to starve or drown. And I think the tone of your post is offensive. Why would you think an old woman would have "nothing, no family, no money" etc. Is being old equivalent to being miserable?

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Mass

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:08 PM
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10. Actually, it is also offensive because it ignores the reality

many people could not leave.

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AlamoDemoc

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Sun Sep-04-05 04:22 PM
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4. BBC news crew also reported the same thing earlier

their news crew rescued a man and his dog trapped in this apartment in NO

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Mass

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:04 PM
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7. kicked, just in case people care

Amazing how threads trying to talk about the reality (THERE ARE STILL PEOPLE IN NO AND SOME ARE DYING) sink today.

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blonndee

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Sun Sep-04-05 05:05 PM
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8. Geraldo went and got her. No kidding. nt

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