Death toll rises amid the devastation

[hedgetrimmer]

Bush ends holiday as hundreds feared dead

Jamie Wilson in Baton Rouge and Julian Borger in Washington
Wednesday August 31, 2005
The Guardian


New Orleans residents wade and paddle through a flooded street. Photograph: James Nielsen: AFP/Getty

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Hundreds of people were feared to have died in Hurricane Katrina as more bodies washed up in US Gulf coast cities yesterday in the aftermath one of the worst natural disasters America has faced in decades.
President George Bush will cut short his holiday and return to Washington today to oversee recovery efforts in a region overwhelmed by floodwaters that have sent tens of thousands fleeing and left millions without power.

In New Orleans, those who survived the initial impact of the hurricane faced new dangers yesterday as its dykes gave way under the pressure of the storm surge.

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...more... link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1559602,00.html

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'bout time vacation man... get your ass to work, don't expect you to do much but stop fund raising for your party and eating cake with mccain on cnn and do a fundraiser for all those fucking people in the south... further, this is not a photo-op so don't go standing on the super dome roof with a fucking megaphone! unless you want to:)

[Spinzonner]

1. Umm, you may want to change the spelling of dykes to dikes

Gives the story a whole new meaining.

But then again it's British; maybe the have problems with the difference.

[hedgetrimmer]

2. Wasn't me... you know those british...like those dykes!

I just cut and paste... they are not my DYKES!

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

5. There are Dykes in Amsterdam--but New Orleans has "Levees"

on second thought I have seen a few Dykes in New Orleans--in the Quarter
:headbang:

[pacifictiger]

4. The "y" spelling

was there long, long, long, before the more recent usage.

[uppityperson]

3. crap crap crap crap crap