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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: CHIZZY on August 30, 2005, 08:02:11 AM
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That shit is pretty fucking bad, eh? Only a matter of time before The Big Easy ended up under water....
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If Videoholic\'s life ain\'t in danger, it\'s just not entertaining enough to mention. Let us know if he dies. ;) I might reply with something funny. :p
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Yeah they got nailed pretty hard. But according to the news it could have been much worse
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Well I think it\'s becoming much worse. With the levy broken I just don\'t see how that place will even come close to starting a clean up.
Power and phone lines all underground under water. Nice.
Mississippi is where it would really suck to live Imagine losing a half mil of tax revenue every single day from the casinos vanishing.
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One appartment building got it really bad, 50 of the 55 people dead dies there.
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Well put. English your 4th language?
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Well put. English your 4th language?
:laughing: The part after the comma is what started to go crazy.
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Wow, New Orleans is under martial law, and looting is out of control.
Talk about wrath of God. I guess the south pissed off the big guy at some point. Not hard to believe.
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Yea, it went from being fascinating with a storm this big to just being plain sad. I was watching CNN lastnight and a lady was interviewing some guy and he barely could talk. All he could mumble out was that his wife was swept away from the flood.
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That sucks.
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damn. Storms a lot worse than i thought. They made a big deal out of the other ones earlier this year.
i guess brett favres childhood house (now mom/grandmas house) was taken down..or flooded up to the attic. Cant remember. Dudes had a shitty year.
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Originally posted by Bozco
Yea, it went from being fascinating with a storm this big to just being plain sad. I was watching CNN lastnight and a lady was interviewing some guy and he barely could talk. All he could mumble out was that his wife was swept away from the flood.
HEard that this afternoon on the radio. Damn near cried in my car. That\'s real tough. I remember interviewing some people in my past that just grabbed you like this guy. Amazing.
The video is on the front page of http://www.cnn.com/
it\'s on the right side called HEARTBREAKING LOSS
Watch: \'Take care of the kids\'
One man lost his wife as Katrina ripped his home apart (1:07)
It\'s a java script so I don\'t know how to post a link.
Very very sad.
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It\'s a good thing there\'s a god.....otherwise who ever would answer prayers?!?!? :rolleyes:
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i\'m surprised how little build up there was for this hurricane compared to the previous ones. The footage on TV is riveting, I can\'t believe all the destruction.
People are calling this our "Tsunami"... pretty good description I\'d say.
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
It\'s a good thing there\'s a god.....otherwise who ever would answer prayers?!?!? :rolleyes:
Where did this come from? Ignorant, much?
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Originally posted by JBean
i\'m surprised how little build up there was for this hurricane compared to the previous ones. The footage on TV is riveting, I can\'t believe all the destruction.
People are calling this our "Tsunami"... pretty good description I\'d say.
huh? The thing sat in the gulf for 3 days everyone knowing it was going to grow and they said the entire time it was going to hit right in this area. They concentrated their coverage on New Orleans since it was convenient/urban, but they weren\'t off by much.
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Yeah I wonder why none had been made. :/
Really this is far far worse than what I thought at first. Im reading some posts over at gaming age from people who are actually there, crazy!
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It sucks but at least they had warning.
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Originally posted by SwifDi
Where did this come from? Ignorant, much?
Going to cry?
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"Hurricane coming! Take only what you need to survive and evacuate!"
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Originally posted by SwifDi
Where did this come from? Ignorant, much?
yeah, I\'m pretty ignorant for not believing in an invisble man who can do anything. :rolleyes:
keep praying, it\'s doing loads of good in the world. If you stop, people might starve in africa.
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^keep complaining, it\'s even better for the world =D
When something goes good (ie- "Chizzy\'s ship comes in" thread) no one thanks God. But when something bad happens everyone\'s quick to point the finger. How could God let this happen, why do good things happen to bad people... blah blah
Wonder how much of party-capital New Orleans prayed anyway? Guess we\'ll both find out when I see you in hell (from heaven).
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I wonder how God decides who should live and who should die in a war where both sides pray for their lives and victory.
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Originally posted by CHIZZY
yeah, I\'m pretty ignorant for not believing in an invisble man who can do anything. :rolleyes:
keep praying, it\'s doing loads of good in the world. If you stop, people might starve in africa.
Haha... Wow, keep on posting like this, you\'re only making yourself sound more and more intelligent. Its obvious that your knowledge of Christian theology extends as far as the last Ren and Stimpy cartoon you watched.
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Originally posted by SwifDi
Haha... Wow, keep on posting like this, you\'re only making yourself sound more and more intelligent. Its obvious that your knowledge of Christian theology extends as far as the last Ren and Stimpy cartoon you watched.
God must of taken a day off . That or really had to piss when he created that hurricane.
;)
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N.O. story from person who lives there:
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Well last night I was watching the 6pm news when they announced the 17th street canal pumps failed as well as another break in the levee. My house is right off St. Charles Ave. and up to 6pm yesterday is was the only part of the city that was dry. Since the pumps failed and the new break St. Charles Ave. would be under 9ft of water in the next 12-15hrs. My brother and I felt if we wanted to save anything we had to leave NOW. We loaded up flashlights, rope, our medical ID\'s, both our .45 Glocks, 2 shotguns and rode out. En-route we listened to the radio which broad casted all the news about the looters and what not, in hindsight it was a mistake. My mother didn\'t want us to go by dad who is a Vietnam vet told to be safe and "shoot to kill" if it ever comes to that.
One the way we had to pass 5-6 checkpoints to allow entry into the city. We stated we were medical personnel who were activated, showed our ID and off we went. On the radio reports were coming in about the officer who was shot in the head, the 2 gunman who opened fired on the NOPD station, and how looters were carjacking cars to get out of the city. This started making my brother nervous and giving seconds thoughts.
Anyway we get to the city and it looks like a freaking war zone. The best visual I can give is the movie "Blackhawk Down" when all the Somalians are rushing the city. They are people EVERYWHERE, they are pissed off, and all have weapons, 2X4\'s, Axes, and guns. If this wasn\'t bad enough we are 2 white boys in a truck in a sea several hundred armed pissed off blacks. There wasn\'t a white person to be found. I couldn\'t get over the little 8-10yr old kids with weapons, I ever saw one carry a claw hammer!
These people were absolutely nuts rammed trucks(stolen I\'m sure) in to jewelry stores stealing items, they were tearing apart Wal-Mart carrying out TV\'s, Playstations, DVD players, etc. One lady was wheeling out an entire rack of merchandise, not sure what it was but sure wasn\'t clothes for food. They were all laughing and carrying on like it\'s freaking Christmas.
We got stuck in traffic when we see the group of guys walking down the street w/ AK-47\'s, at that point the "pucker factor" kicked in, a couple Glocks and shotguns were no match for that. We haul azz trying to get to Uptown when we see these people chopping down the front door w/ an axe of this $4-5 million dollar mansion on ST. Charles Ave. I was just in total awe because it was so surreal. Making matters worse it\'s 11pm at night there is no electricity and you really can see anything or anyone until they are right up on you.
Our plan was to be in and out in 30min, this included putting his Harley on the trailer. It would have taken me 5-10min tops to get my stuff, all I wanted was my pictures from college, my clothes/shoes, and my computer tower. Well he got scared saying we are going to get jumped while putting the bike on the trailer. Keep in mind this is the only area in the city that is dry. So just like rats who move to higher ground these people were doing the same. Word must have gotten out that Uptown was dry so there started to be a large influx of people.
Needless to say he wanted to go home rather than take our chances. While it was the smart thing to do I was beyond infuriated w/ him because we made it this far. He just kept saying our lives aren\'t worth it. So we turned around, our next challenge was getting out of the city while not getting jacked. Reports came out that people were jumping in the back of truck holding the drivers at gunpoint. Traffic started to slow so I just nailed it got out as fast as I could.
Even though he was the voice of reason I\'m still pissed. All I have is my life and the clothes on my back. I lost my house(which is now 9ft underwater) ALL my clothes, TV, computer, furniture, and photo albums and videos from childhood and college. What makes this worse is my brother owned the house and I was a tenant and I didn\'t have renters insurance, hindsight is 20/20.
I also hope everyone of the ****ing looters get ***anus, E-Coli and F*(KING drown. I\'m serious I really hope the all die for what they were doing to the city, killing people, and destroying homes. Never in my life have I ever seen people act live savages, it was truly sicking.
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Dirty south.
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Nothing to do with the south. Where\'s Jesse Jackson when you we need him.
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Oh man, THX, i am sorry to hear things are like you just mentioned i really think they have to get violent right back at these looters.The only thing i believe they will understand is a bullet right between the eyes. I do not condone violence but this has got to stop now, glad you a are ok, keep us up to date.
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THX is fine. He\'s sitting with his legs propped up watching his HD set waiting for his hoes to come over.
He just cut and paste that story.
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Regarding whoever wrote that story: Why didn\'t that dude take the important stuff with him when he fled the city? How much warning did they have? If I had 24 hours warning (and I think they had more) I would have loaded ALL my valuable stuff in a vehicle, ready to haul ass out of there. I wouldn\'t count on coming back.
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^I dunno man. Pre-Katrina I had no clue how much of a problem looting would be. Now if I heard a Hurricane was coming here I\'d take my pc, home theater, videogames, blah!!! Forget it I couldn\'t carry it all. What a mess.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/katrina.impact/index.html
die
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fucking scumbags