Mississippians Worry They're Forgotten

[ECH1969]

JACKSON, Miss. -- In Mississippi, there is misery and despair among victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Survivors are wondering how long it will take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they're more than angry at the federal government and the national news media.

Anger at the government stems from the belief that aid has been too slow in arriving.

There's also a feeling that Mississippi has been getting short shrift from the news media, which seem to be focusing most of their attention on New Orleans.

http://www.thewgalchannel.com/news/4933452/detail.html

[nookiemonster]

1. The sad truth is, fucking Barbour sold you out.

These assholes never change their stripes, especially when it comes to politics and the infamous "photo op".

I am so sorry for my nation. WTF has happened here?

:cry:

[liberaliraqvet26]

2. Your not forgotten our Miss. brothers...

I even changed my icon for you for the rest of the day.

[magellan]

3. I've felt bad for MS and AL all week, not to mention other parts of LA

Not that NOLA doesn't deserve the attention it's gotten. Certainly Bush** hugging those two convenient "damsels in distress" in Biloxi didn't go far in showing what dire straits the MS gulf coast is in, or anywhere else for that matter.

[bluestateguy]

4. Being a rock solid red state is not necessarily going to help them

Bush can take them for granted, while Louisiana is only a light red state, and needs to be tended to.

[President Kerry]

16. LA 42-57, MS 40-60 .. not that big a difference

[qanda]

5. But, but Bush said that the Governor of MS was doing a fine job

Oh well, chalk it up to just another lie.

[President Kerry]

17. and Barbour was saying Bush was doing a heck of a job..

quid pro quo. who was more right?

[Olney Blue]

6. Equal opportunity neglect.

:cry:

[RobinA]

7. MS and AL

are Katrina's Pentagon of 9/11.

[UpInArms]

8. related: Challenging job ahead for coroners

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/03/scene.blog/

CNN's Ted Rowlands in Biloxi, Mississippi

They continue to find more and more bodies. The coroner in Harrison County here is completely overwhelmed. They're using mortuary employees to help out with duties to collect the bodies.

The residents are telling people where the bodies are. CNN crew was shown a body here in Biloxi by neighbors. The body was under a porch and the neighbors said they talked to law enforcement but were told not to touch the body, but it's still there.

It is a very, very difficult process. There's no electricity here. They're taking the bodies and putting them in white vans, semi or cooler trucks, and that is where they are sitting now. (See Ted Rowland's report on the conditions in Mississippi -- 2:16)

The identification process is going on simultaneously but as every day goes on, that process gets more and more difficult.

...more...

[gulfcoastliberal]

9. Waveland, I grieve with you

At least my 81-year old grandmother evacuated here to FL safely but I've seen the hi-res pics of waveland provided by NOAA and her home, located around 2 blocks from the beach, is totally gone. It was built on pilings and the pilings are gone. There is so much debris covering the streetes all I can see of her 1.5 acre lot is the pavement where the single-car carport was. Growing up I spent most summers in Waveland with my grnadmother and garndfather, fishing and playing on the beach. Now Waveland is wiped off the map. Thank you Anderson Cooper from reporting from there for a couple of days. I'd go back to see if I could find any old pictures from her home but there's no gas down here. It's terrifying.

[susanna]

13. I'm so sorry, gulfcoastliberal...

I spent a lot of summers on the Gulf Coast as a child (AL, MS). My relatives cut their losses and moved inland after damage from Frederic.

I am still in shock at the images I am seeing of everything. I really loved Biloxi. I never made it to Waveland, but it sounds like it was a wonderful place...

I will keep you and yours in my thoughts and prayers.

[gulfcoastliberal]

18. Thanks Susanna

I think my entire family is going to move away from hurricane country after this last year. My mom doesn't even live in her beach house on Pensacola Beach even though it made it through Ivan with minimal damage that's already been repaired. She and her partner have a house in Gulf Breeze they've been living in ever since then and just don't want to deal with living in an area where you don't know if you're going to go through basically the effects of thermonuclear bombs each year. So they (and I) are leaving this vulnerable area. Especially with global warming accelerating to the point where the Alaskan and Greenland glaciers may raise the sea levels unimaginably. Thanks again.

[susanna]

19. Again, I'm so sorry.

I know what you're saying, especially about global warming and the uncertainty. But the fact remains that this is your home. I cannot comprehend what you are feeling. I'm so very, very sorry.

I do love the Gulf Coast region, I do love its people, and I am furious that help took so long to arrive. I will never forget this...mostly the inaction of the government to handle the freakin' obvious.

My heart is with you. Take care and bless you.

[really annoyed]

10. "Let 'em all rot there."

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20050904/D8CD55C00.html

Richard Gibbs was disgusted by reports of looting in New Orleans and upset at the lack of attention hurricane victims in his state were getting.

"I say burn the bridges and let 'em all rot there," he said. "We're suffering over here too, but we're not killing each other. We've got to help each other. We need gas and food and water and medical supplies."

[classysassy]

14. Gibbs

what a nasty thing to say,I bet my last peso that stupid f-----is a former dixiecrat now a republican asshat.

[KittyWampus]

11. Apparently if you suffer a major disaster, you need a PR person to get

some decent publicity.

[0007]

12. They will be if junior & Lott has anything to do with it!

[struggle4progress]

15. " .. Old Missus acted the foolish part, and died for a man dat broke ..

.. her heart. Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land .."

[LizW]

20. My brother has been there doing search/recovery

He was in Bay St. Louis, MS first. There was nothing left. All they could do was recover bodies. Now he's in Pascagoula. It is destroyed, too.

I have an aunt and uncle who live on a farm south of Jackson, MS. We finally heard from them today. They have phone, but no power. They hear it will be at least two weeks, and they are keeping their freezer running with a generator. But they're almost out of gas, and couldn't find any today in Crystal Springs. Their car is almost out, so their son was going to take gas cans and head on to Jackson to see if he could get any.

They're in good shape compared to people further south.

[JI7]

21. do they know their Senator said the administration is doing a good job

seems they would not agree with that.

[lateo]

22. You have to be thought of to be forgotten...

So...

[pursuivant]

23. My sympathy but . . .

historically, Mississippi has elected people who have done just about everything they could do to screw the state over, from Jefferson Davis to Haley Barbour. Maybe the good people of the Magnolia state will finally wake up and realize that letting conservative dickweeds (whether Repukes or Dixiecrats) run the state is what's been holding them back all these years.

[MalibuChloe]

24. Barbour told Russert they had everything they needed from day 1

he said the feds were doing a great job and the Coast Guard was in there on Monday saving people.

so if we forget them, they can thank their gov.