Splendora, TX: local news tonight: no, water, food, ice, or FEMA.

[babylonsister]

No help due at all, and power is expected to be out for 2 weeks. It's been like that since Rita hit, and temps are unbearable-in high 90s. Yeah, Brown, ice is not a necessity. Keep thinking that.

[Der Blaue Engel]

1. Has it occurred to this asswipe that ice keeps food from spoiling?

Apparently, he thinks they should just go down to the corner store.

:mad:

[knitter4democracy]

2. Ice keeps lots cool in that kind of heat.

It's for the food, the people, even the pets. When it gets that bad up here, I put ice in our pets' water dish to help cool them down. What about the medical needs?

That idiot just needs to learn when to shut up and disappear. The more he talks, the worse it gets.

[Beetwasher]

4. Brown: "We had no idea that ice kept things cool or that food could spoil"

n/t

[babylonsister]

6. Did he REALLY say that? You jest! nt

[FlaGranny]

5. It doesn't keep the food cold for long.

When we were without electricity for two weeks after Hurricane Frances, a cooler full of ice lasted only a few hours. We kept drinks in the ice, and at least for a short while each day, we had something cold to drink.

[knitter4democracy]

7. I've never been without electricity that long in the summer.

Here, we lose electricity for that long in the winter with ice storms or really bad blizzards. Ice is always the problem, so keeping food good isn't difficult. Keeping warm enough to stay alive for that long is.

You're right--in that kind of heat, the ice won't last long at all.

[sandnsea]

13. Blocks of ice do, for several days

Have some folks never been camping? Even a bag of ice will last for 2 days. You don't empty the ice out of the bag, you just stick it in whole and set food stuffs around it.

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. If you can find it

Block ice lasts a lot longer. Plus they have some super-insulated coolers that hold ice for a couple of days.

[FlaGranny]

21. When I was a kid some of my

neighbors still had "ice boxes." Ice man wouild come around with a big block of ice every few days. I haven't seen block ice in years. I didn't know they still made it.

[jbnow]

3. I recommended this because

people need to see FEMA STILL isn't working.

People are going through so much and the things they have a right to expect still aren't getting to them. Sadly there are still Katrina victims going through that too.

[GOPAgainstGW]

8. Related Thread-TX Officials, FEMA Hurr Rita Response a Bunch of Bull

Here's a related thread. I am running a Hurricane Rita Command Post ops in Houston for the last 8 days.

TX Officials - FEMA Hurr Rita Response "A Bunch of Bull"

www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4898747&mesg_id=4898747

[babylonsister]

9. Can you elaborate on what you're doing at

the command post? Inquiring minds...

[Cleita]

10. Is the population mostly brown and do they vote mostly

Democratic? That could be a reason why.

[txindy]

11. SE Texas is like this in a number of places - devastated & with no help

They're white and repub, for the most part. Gov. MoFo and the feds are in sooooooo much trouble with these people. :evilgrin:

[Cleita]

12. Well, that's good news politically, but I hope they get some

help soon from somewhere even if they are freepers.

[txindy]

14. I hope they get a lot of help soon

I'm just glad their eyes are being opened. And, boy, howdy, are they ever! The b*tching and moaning is deafening. :evilgrin: Hey, they voted for them, they own them. Now they can return them from the dung heap they came from and vote for some human beings, for a change.

[GOPAgainstGW]

16. A # of Deaths Being Under Reported In The Area Also - eom

[Jane Austin]

15. Did you hear the Mayor of Nederland, TX on Blitzer today?

It was right at the end of the show, and he said they hadn't gotten squat from either the state or the Feds.

He said they finally got two generators yesterday, for which they contracted privately from a Houston company.

Those generators are going to help them get their water supply going, he said.

He said he'd met with bush today and bush "seemed interested" but he doesn't know if he'll see any results.

Nederland is a city of 17,400, and within the county are Port Neches and Groves, which are in the same pickle, making for a county-wide population of 50,000.





Edited for dumb typo.

[GOPAgainstGW]

17. Yeah, I Saw It and He Said the Same Thing On MSNBC Hardball

[Jane Austin]

18. Excellent!

n/t

[Silverhair]

19. Ice is not a necessity. I grew up in TX without it.

I grew up in South Texas around the Beeville area. Even the rich didn't have air conditioning as nobody made home air conditioners back then. We were sharecroppers and didn't have electricty AT ALL.

I remember one summer when the daytime temp hit 115 degrees, and for over a month it hit over 100.

Millions of people need help. Food and water come first.