Re: Group questions


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...

For once we are better than most of the UK which is beginning to
drown under intense flooding.

But nothing compared with New Orleans ... :-(

Agreed but pretty messy nonetheless in the middle of summer. If we
get a hot spell in the next few weeks before this is all cleared up
its going to be an even more horrid mess.

Yes. It will make us think of those who suffer hurricanes ... :-(

People who suffer hurricanes do just fine if they are as willing to
get up, brush themselves off, and start over as they are to hold
their hand out. The city of New Orleans is its own worst enemy, which
it proved by re-electing Nagin.

The attitude to Search and Rescue and to Emergency Medical care throughout
the Katrina episode staggered us here. There are professionals in both
spheres, and we had a lass from Mississippi working with us at the time.
From this side of the pond we were APPALLED - at everything. The
selfishness and inactivity of the population and the politicians mostly.
The lass who came from the area was not at all surprised and was rather
bewildered by our responses.

The Mississippi politicians and population were not selfish. Our
representatives to Congress lost their houses themselves, while Ray Nagin
ran away while New Orleans disintegrated.


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