FEMA Illustrated Glossary ( photos)

[jhain]

Vertical Evacuation:



People live on rooftop of a building surrounded by floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005 in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

De Layering:



(AP Photo/Rob Carr)

De Watering:



Leonard Thomas, 23, cries after a SWAT team burst into the flooded home he and his family were living in on Monday, Sept. 5, 2005. Neighbors had reported that they were squatting in the house in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but the authorities left after his family proved they owned the house. Some rescuers are not taking any more food and water to those who have decided to stay in an effort to force them out. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Mass Care:



Cuban doctors stand as Cuban President Fidel Castro arrives at the event in Havana September 4, 2005. Castro put on display some 1,500 doctors equipped with medical supplies on Sunday in hopes of persuading arch-enemy the U.S. to allow them to treat victims of Hurricane Katrina. Castro, in a televised meeting with the doctors, said the U.S. had not responded to his offer to send medical workers and 26 tonnes of supplies to the devastated U.S. Gulf Coast. REUTERS/Claudia Daut

Housing Strike Team:



US President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush prepare to board Air Force One in Maryland. Bush, under fire for the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, was due to tour the devastation as authorities readied roaming morgues to collect the sodden corpses from America's worst natural disaster.(AFP/Mandel Ngan)

Housing Area Command:




Surrounded by all of her belongings, Tanya Johnso, of New Orleans, sits with her daughter, Mizyria, 2, on the loading dock of Reliant Center next to Houston's Astrodome Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005.\ Reliant Center has been set to shelter more than 10,000 hurricane evacuees. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Commodities:



'A National Disgrace'

Evacuees wait to be moved from outside the Louisianna Superdome.
(AP Photo/David J. Phillip)









Additions welcomed.

[jhain]

1. my first self kick

[Sydnie]

2. Very powerful. Thanks! n/t

[mshasta]

3. thank you

breaks my hearth how can other people who does not have the luxuries that we have here in the US is ready to help as much as they can...

[jhain]

4. and now 'they" have asked for help

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1891072005

[jhain]

5. Do you realize what de watering means?

the act of separating sewage.

Has to be a Rove word plant.

[jhain]

6. one more moment of shameless kicking

before it sinks forever