Times Picayune forum reveals true horror of NOLA...

[MnFats]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001053452



"there are 300 Vietnamese trapped in a church in sewage up to their shoulders....please help them..."

"my friends can hear gunfire outside their apartment...."

"My friend walked from .... to .... and saw bodies all over dead from gunshot wounds......"



What we've heard hasn't even scratched the surface of how bad it really is...

[johnnie]

1. Unbelievable

I don't think anyone here can even pretend to know what is actually going on there.

[no name no slogan]

2. OMFG

my God..... there are not words for this.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Remember when the fat-mouthed militia guys wanted to "rescue"

Terry Schiavo?

Why don't those sonsobitches go down to NO and rescue the living if they want to play with their guns?

[donheld]

4. from gunshot wounds......"

Makes me wonder if some aren't putting an end to their own misery. Just like on 911.

[Suich]

5. Your sig line reminds me...

Has anyone found Minnesota Fats yet? When I left this morning I heard he was missing...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. I think it was Fats Domino

and I haven't heard any more about it.

[evlbstrd]

7. Fats is still missing.

Fats Domino missing in New Orleans flood

02.09.05 11.35am

LOS ANGELES - Rock 'n' roll legend Fats Domino is now among the thousands unaccounted for in flooded New Orleans after rebuffing friends' pleas to flee as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city he celebrated in song, his manager said today.

The 77-year-old musician, beloved for his boogie-woogie piano style and such hits as "Ain't That a Shame," "Walking to New Orleans" and "Blueberry Hill," has not been heard from since Sunday night, hours before Katrina slammed into the US Gulf Coast, manager Al Embry said.

Embry said he spoke with Domino by telephone twice on Sunday, trying to persuade the singer to evacuate, but the musician insisted he was "going to try to ride out" the storm at home with his wife, Rosemary, and his youngest daughter.

[mcscajun]

8. Nope...he's been found.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3948940