Little LA Towns underwater, Levee's breaching now/Animals Dead/Stranded

[KoKo]

Homes underwater, folks NOW being flooded, farms, and folks are trying to get help NOW. The AFTERMATH of RITA...Just now being discovered.

Photos of animals stranded, cows feet up dead, it's an agricultural area and the people didn't know the flooding would come up that far. Also, that levees in this area are now just breeching after the storm has passed and the MEDIA said "a bullet had been dodged."

More evidence that the poor in cities and the poor in Rural areas in America are the last we know about or care about when all the press goes to how WELL things were in Huston and Galveston.

We were warned by WeatherUnderground that there would be an AFTERMATH in rural areas of LA...but that the MEDIA ONCE AGAIN...would say "They Dodged a Bullet" and all is okay...Bush is there...Bush is there...but BUSH will NEVER set foot in those areas of "THE FORGOTTEN." :-(

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[NYC]

1. Thanks, KoKo01.

Who reported this?

[KoKo]

4. CNN...and Blitzer (I know...drop over dead) but he talked with helicopter

pilot who flew over and the guy is a local...lives in one of the flooded towns and works for the local CNN affiliate in LA. The pilot was devastaed by what he saw...he couldn't believe how bad it was.

I give credit to that cold hearted Blitzer he even continued to interview the pilot and resident of one of the little towns devastate after CNN BROKE to Bill Frist talking about his Stock Sales.

The photo's from the Copter were really so sad to see and CNN has a reporter who took an "air boat" through the area talking about all the dead and stranded animal life.

I couldn't belive Blitzer would show or focus on this...but he did.

CNN'S "Situation Room" with Blitzer, is the source.

[NYC]

5. Thanks a lot.

I don't have cable. CNN coverage means that most people will be finding out about this. (I think most people have cable.)

Is Bush gloating that things went well? Probably.

That's a really dismal report, KoKo01, but thanks for informing me.

[jobycom]

2. There are areas of Mississippi who still haven't been helped after Katrina

Has anyone heard from Maddy, for that matter? She lives in one of those areas. She posted after the storm, but I haven't seen her since.

They pulled the National Gaurd troops for Bush's PR activities in Texas out of Mississippi, as well as a lot of the assistance. The headline of the Sun Herald the next morning was "FORGOTTEN." That's on the Mississippi Coast, where rebuilding is already moving along. Regions around McComb, MS, and Bugalosa, LA are still without power and water and assistance, and now the government has moved on to declare victory in Texas and go on home.

A lot of people noticed the poverty in New Orleans. Most didn't notice the poverty of the rural areas of Louisiana and Mississippi.

[annabanana]

10. no maddy.. and nothing from Al-CIAda either...

I don't know what other DUers are on the missing list

[Sydnie]

12. Did this hit maddy again? I hadn't heard that

and Al-CIAda too? I suppose no one has heard from Swamp Rat either? Last I heard, he was in Tenn. But that was weeks ago.

:loveya: sending lots of love their way :grouphug:

[shance]

3. KoKo, I honestly don't know how much more I can read.

These people in the Administration are killing and allowing the murders of thousands of people and will continue to do so until we stop them.

It is breaking my heart. My best friends brother and mother have both lost their houses (one house is certain) in Katrina and Rita.

They are numb, all of us are numb and in shock at what is happening.

And now these blessed people who have died for no reason, and lost what little they ever had, appear so insignificant to this Administration and don't exist to this pathetically indifferent and racist Administration in the total disregard for those different and less wealthy than they are.

[KoKo]

6. I know...it just seems to go on and on..

It doesn't matter that CNN suddenly is reporting the truth...because if they'd been there before maybe what your family is suffering would have had help from reliable resonsible people...maybe America would have been compassionate and caring.

Now they suddenly realize there's an "America beyond DC/Beltway/Think Tanks" but it's on the backs of folks trying to cope with a disaster we thought we would never have to face.

:hugs: Don't know what to say...we just have to have hope that this will bring everyone back to focusing on "We THE PEOPLE" and not the greedy crap we've had for decades now.

Our Infrastructure needs money and attention. Bush's crap TERRORIST stuff isn't making us safe or giving us help to deal with our Natural Disasters from flood and drought and earthquakes, tornado's and floods.

We have to hope if CNN (Whore $$$ Media) is reporting some of this ...that there will be a change.

again. :hug: It all gets me crazy too...

[Coyote_Bandit]

7. An airport was built in the small community where I used to live

For years while the proposals were kicked around and studies were done and funds were raised I would hear folks talk about how it was such an ideal place to build an airport because there weren't any people out there. What that really meant was that the city folks were wealthier and had more concentrated power. They could and did do as they wished. Folks in the rural areas and small communities were not represented in any studies of the matter. They were simply left to hope they were in a mandated buyout area and then to negotiate the best price they could for their property.

I empathize with all the folks in small communities and rural areas devastated by Katrina and Rita. They and their needs are too easily dismissed and overlooked. Perhaps they are the best examples of how this country (and its media) treat its citizens.

[KoKo]

8. yes...I grew up in small rural community, lived in Big Cities and

have watched the POWER GROW. It's very disturbing. They bring in the lawyers and explain the job growth and economic value...and convince some locals nearby they will make big bucks selling off to a convencience store to serve the pilots from the little airport, or whatever they are proposing...and in the end the little folks are screwed except for the few around the area they want to develop who get the big bucks in the land trade.

Sometimes folks can get together and stop these schemes, though. We have to hope this will grow as more and more of the greedy..keep at it.

:shrug: I have to hope that.

[KoKo]

9. Lou Dobbs has it now. Vermillion Parish ...thousands of head of cattle

dead...it's Cajun Country.. And the folks thought they were okay until four hours after hurricane passed over.

I turned Dobbs off after that...he was going after Mayor of NO's again...so I didn't want to deal with his smirking.

[KoKo]

11. More reports tonight about this....Horrible..