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osaMABUSh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:24 PM
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Katrina may be 'our Asian tsunami'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/28/katrina.doomsday/index.html

"These chemical plants are going to start flying apart, just as the other buildings do," he predicted. "So, we have the potential for release of benzene, hydrochloric acid, chlorine and so on."

That could result in severe air and water pollution...

"So, imagine you're the poor person who decides not to evacuate: Your house will disintegrate around you. The best you'll be able to do is hang on to a light pole, and while you're hanging on, the fire ants from all the mounds -- of which there is two per yard on average -- will clamber up that same pole. And, eventually, the fire ants will win."
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:27 PM
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1. That is NASTY
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:28 PM
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2. "imagine you're a poor person who DECIDES not to evacuate..."?
Perhaps your poverty prevented your evacuating.

Corporate media. :puke:
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journalist3072 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:30 PM
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3. Exactly what caught my attention!
That is just a shameful comment, as if the poor had any choice in the matter.
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:42 PM
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8. Reason number 2546 not to watch the Conservative News Network
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 12:49 AM
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12. For too many, the choice was staying at home or

being packed into the Super Dome. I can see why many would choose to stay at home.

There should have been better choices.
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JoFerret Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 07:17 AM
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13. And now we don't need to imagine
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:30 PM
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4. Correction: Some had no decision to make.
My take so far is that if you are poor you had few choices. Not a lot of planning on their behalf.
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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:33 PM
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5. I wonder how many blow up in the process. n/t
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AlGore-08.com Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:40 PM
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6. There was an earlier story that many are heading to the football stadium
For shelter.

Heaven help them all.
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yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:41 PM
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7. in context, "poor" may not mean financially poor, but
rather the much more general use of the word, in this case simply in bad circumstances.

The person on the light pole being eaten by fire ants could be from any income range, just sol because he stayed there with the fire ants.

If you read it with emphasis on poor, it sounds like it means without money

If you read it with emphasis on person, it takes a different connotation.

used as an expression of sympathy or empathy often, as in "That poor woman; her husband died and then her house burned"

Or "That poor ole cat don't know his head from his hindquarters"
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alphafemale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 10:48 PM
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9. The majority of people who had no option to leave...?
Are poor - in the economic sense.

This is going to be an ultimate leveler though.
True survival mode for all.

The fireants add another level to the nightmare.
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daleo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 11:07 PM
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10. The latest Harpers had an article about termites in New Orleans
Trillions of them, they came after the war. Who knows how strong some buildings really are? Plus, I wouldn't feel too good about sharing a light pole with them either.
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ang6666 Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-28-05 11:37 PM
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11. I just posted on this myself ...
but my issue was with this ...

I cannot believe he would even compare the two!! Those people affected by the tsunami had no damn fucking warning!! The people of Louisiana are evacuating right now. Before it hits. Not to mention the resources available between the counties affected by the tsunami and our country by this hurricane is quite a huge difference as well!

You cannot compare the two. Louisiana has had many studies showing this exact thing might happen. Those countries affected were slammed with no warning.
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DrZeeLit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 07:56 AM
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14. May? May? Helllloooooo -----> it IS...now...later...forever. n/t
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