Swede
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:19 PM
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How many evacuees are there? |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 03:29 PM by Swede
How many buses would they need to get them out of NOLA? They should divert passenger trains to Baton Rouge to help disperse them to areas that can take them.
I edited,sorry if I offended.
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Oreo
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:20 PM
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What does a bus hold... 50 maybe?
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:23 PM
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3. Maybe set up tent cities? |
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At least til they can find places for them.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:25 PM
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4. Between the Dome and the convention center, 50K sounds reasonable |
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Edited on Fri Sep-02-05 03:26 PM by rocknation
Especially if you believe the initial report that there were 30K in the Dome to start with (subsequent reports insisted there were only one third of that). So that would one thousand one-way bus trips. If one bus left every hour 24/7 it would take nearly two days to get everyone out. Which wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it had been done on Friday.
:headbang: rocknation
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:21 PM
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2. You means Americans in need! |
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:28 PM
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6. I just saw Congressman Cummings? on CNN ask everyone |
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to stop calling them refugess. I had no idea this was not a correct term and will edit.
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:27 PM
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5. EVACUEES. Please don't call them refugees. They are American |
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CITIZENS. They are Americans who had to be EVACUATED from their cities. They are Evacuees. Thanks. ;)
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:29 PM
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8. 350,000 Homes destroyed in New Orleans...do the math... |
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...it's pretty bleak. You have to remember that most people fled before the storm and they too need someplace to go...
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Fri Sep-02-05 03:32 PM
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9. Maybe 250,000, maybe more. |
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I'm just guessing, but I assume the 50,000 is only people from the Superdome and hospitals in NOLA. This storm hit all over the Gulf Coast. We aren't hearing much about the people in Mississippi and Alabama, or the people being kicked out of the hotels they fled to in Florida, Alabama, upstate Louisiana, and elsewhere. This is a LOT bigger than 50,000 refugees.
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