Live feed via Houston...

[i have issues]

http://www.click2houston.com/video/5000985/detail.html

[don954]

1. oh holy cow, somones staying on Bolvar Island??!!!!

that island has NO seawall, the houses are well built but are all on stilts embedded on SAND. The sand has been getting eaten away and the shoreline has been marching NW for years, the shore IS NOT STABLE, these people are suicidal!

[Peter Frank]

4. Yeah but -- check out the view! n/t

[A-Possum]

8. Can you tell me more what they said about this?

I missed it. I know some people who live on Bolivar. Who was staying and where? (There is a brand new school which is up on concrete piers but not 30 ft up. More like 18-20.)

[i have issues]

2. Reply to my own thread... Horribly paraphrased....

"some blah blah shelter is full". "Can you tell us how they're feeling in there?" "Well none of them speak english, so I have nothing to report on that..." "O.K. so we're switching to sports reporer blah blah at some airport... WHAT THE FUCK? This is the news in TX? Oh yeah, they're brown people....Shit.

[Roxy66]

3. Thanks

[mshasta]

5. here is some of the invisible brown of katrina...

Invisible citizens

Approximately 150,000 Hondurans live in Louisiana, most in New Orleans. Estimates of Mexicans living in or around New Orleans range from 40,000 to 100,000. And other groups, including Salvadorans and Brazilians, also number in the tens of thousands.


Fearing deportation, Latinos - many of whom are illegal immigrants - prefer instead to seek shelter and support in Latino-owned businesses that they learn about through word of mouth.

They sneak out at night to look for food and water since many cannot understand the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (Fema's) English-language public service announcements about where to go for services.


more...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4266892.stm

[phusion]

6. Someone's Grandmother passed away in a car?

:(

Will these people still be on the highways when the storm hits?

Where is everyone going?

Jeezus...

[Lex]

7. Cool link.

:thumbsup: