<p>Thoughts and prayers are with all who are affected by Katrina.</p>
<p>Nice for those that can rent one, but sent the elderly and the poor to the Superdome which they say needs to be evacuated now.</p>
<p>“The Superdome opened its doors at noon Sunday, and New Orleans’ most frail residents got priority. The stadium is by far the most solid of the Big Easy’s 10 refuges for the estimated 100,000 city residents who don’t have the means, or strength, to join a mandatory evacuation.”…“We’ve got sick babies, sick old people and everything in between,” Stephens said. “We’re seen strokes, chest pain, diabetes patients passing out, seizures, people without medicine, people with the wrong medicine. It’s been busy.”</p>
<p>Nola.Com</p>
<p>Just in from the Tulane Emergency Website</p>
<p>“The emergency team located on the uptown campus has been in frequent contact with the university’s team at Jackson State University. The approximately 400 students who are located there and are accompanied by university officials, are doing well and are safe. Anyone seeking information about these students may call (601) 979-1964.”</p>
<p>The superdome had no food or water, according to the Emergency Management Spokesman</p>
<p>I feel SOOOOOOOOOOOOoo bad for all those people of French and African Descent.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, anyone else notice? 95% of the Superdome refugees appear to be African American. </p>
<p>Tulane students and parents take note. The Louisiana socioeconomic structure is worth a bit of educated contemplation.</p>
<p>“Tulane students and parents take note. The Louisiana socioeconomic structure is worth a bit of educated contemplation.”</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>What makes you think that it doesn’t get lots of “educated comtemplation” already? Rome wasn’t buiilt in a day.</p>
<p>Really, what is the point of that cheers? Do you think that we don’t know the makeup of N.O., that we walk around with blinders on? Do you think my son first asks to see a Tulane ID before he renders emergency medical aid on campus. Do you think he and the other Tulane EMS kids are going back to N.O. in the next day of two after additional training by FEMA in triage to render aid to only upper class whites?</p>
<p>I really do not think that I, or anyone else with kids at Tulane, need a lesson in morality or socio-economics at this time.</p>
<p>I am contemplating going to N.O. to work with my son, should I stop and pick you up?</p>
<p>Sorry. It wasn’t a ‘hurricane thought’. It was a general observation. Amazing that you (and your students) know everything about New Orleans and Louisiana already. Well done.</p>
<p>from CNN.com: </p>
<p><<Officials warned Louisiana evacuees to stay away for at least a week to avoid “a wilderness” without utilities that will be infested with poisonous snakes and fire ants.</p>
<p>Looting was reported Monday in some areas of New Orleans where toppled walls flattened cars and winds gashed glass windows. </p>
<p>“We would really encourage people not to come back [to New Orleans] for at least a week,” said Ivor van Heerden, director of the Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes in Baton Rouge.</p>
<p>“If you came back, you would be coming literally to a wilderness,” he said. “If your house is gone, it’s gone. If you come back in a day or a week,it’s not going to make any difference.”>></p>
<p>cheers, your sarcasm and your “thoughts” are way off base and extremely offensive. No one needs you to preach to anyone. And, I see you have failed to respond to actually doing something other than moralizing. Since I am speaking as a parent here, not as a moderator, I will simply refer this whole line to another moderator for attention.</p>
<p>Again, my apologies. No sarcasm intended. The best part of Tulane is the location and part of that is the unusual socioeconomic situation in Louisiana and New Orleans. It is unlike any other part of the US and well worth a bit of off campus study and thought. That was my observation.</p>
<p>Are you sure I ‘failed to respond’? Isn’t it possible to respond via a donation to the Red Cross? I cannot possibly ‘dirve down’ as I live on another continent altogether.</p>
<p>You are right that I ought not post non-hurricane thoughts. It was the sight of all the African American faces standing in the rain at the Superdome that reminded me. Blame the BBC?</p>
<p>I had no intention of insulting you as a Tulane parent. Quite the contrary. I truly think you misread the comments but I apologize for unintentional hurt in any event.</p>
<p>Cheers - your comments are thoughtless and rude - as tho YOU have just NO clue at all!!!</p>
<p>Wait a second…isn’t this the parent cafe? Didn’t we discuss race based issues in the aftermath of the London bombings? </p>
<p>I don’t remember Londoners internalizing those comments on CC.</p>
<p>Didn’t anyone else see those Superdome photos? I apologize for bringing it up but those photos were striking for their singular racial make-up. It was a sad comment on New Orleans and Louisiana. That’s not rude. It is just an opinion. Rude is a personal attack on a poster. </p>
<p>JeepMom, I do have a number of ‘clues’ about New Orleans and Louisiana–and about Tulane. NOLA is one of my favorite cities and Tulane is one of my favorite schools.</p>
<p>2 years ago - we delivered our freshman DD to school - 800 miles from home - not knowing another soul there. As soon as we got home we found out about Hurricane Izabel - and the resulting evacuation of our DD after a 5 day residence on-campus - new place - new people - new new new - having been thru a bad hurricane in her young life before - we told her to essentially get in a car - any car/with other student/s - and head west as far as they could go in the time they had to get moving - and to stay in touch as much as possible - talk about feeling helpless!!!. They did end up across the state of NC - and were away from campus for 5 days. This experience proved to be a challange for many - students and parents - especially the students from out of state - but in the end - it did bring many students together in a sense of ‘community’ - and will be a story that they will all share for years to come. I had to commend the school tho - their communication processes were wonderful - for students as well as us parents - we knew what was going on and how to find out about things.</p>
<p>But the memories at this school were still fresh from Hurricanes Floyd/Fran - a few years ago - that devestated the school - killing 1 student - and the school was closed for 2 weeks - with tremendous loss of facilities, equipment, personel belongings and homes - many of the students were left with nothing at all due to the horrendous flooding and resulting damage. </p>
<p>My thoughts go out to the students involved in the evacuations from Katrina - I am sure all will be well in the long run - please have patience - you will have a story to tell and make great friends in the process of all of this craziness. And I know this does not bring comfort to some parents - but know that your kiddos are in good and safe places - how this whole thing with the start of the school year finally happens - will certainly be an adventure - you are in my thoughts</p>
<p>Cheers, I saw those face too. It was the poorest, the eldery, the minorities that were left in New Orleans. What did they do? Put them in a Superdome with no food, no real shelter, and that is the best this country can do?</p>
<p>Okay, the superdome is a big stadium, with restaurants, bars, stores, and this people were huddled with minimum blankets. It was shameful. This is how the world sees us:</p>
<p>Those who were too infirm or lacked transport joined long queues to get into shelters in the city, including the 77,000-seat enclosed Superdome. Katrina’s rain drenched many of them as National Guards searched them for guns, knives and drugs. They gathered outside the stadium in wheelchairs, on crutches and on stretchers, most clutching children, blankets and pillows, and plastic bags filled with belongings.
The Sydney Morning Herald</p>
<p>Then Katrinas rain began, heavy and steady, drenching hundreds of people still outside, along with their bags of food and clothing.
Eventually, the searches were moved inside to the Superdome floor, where some people wrapped themselves in blankets and tried to sleep. In the designated medical area, people in wheelchairs lined the corridors.
Hundreds of others sat on the loading docks, their possessions around them, waiting to be taken elsewhere
<a href=“http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154095796&p=y54x965xz[/url]”>http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154095796&p=y54x965xz</a></p>
<p>Thank goodness the superdome was there for them in the first place - what would you have expected to do with any of the people that were in circumstances as having no other place to go?? Other evacuation centers had the same to offer as well - and actually some of those had to be re-evac’d. Under the circumstances - what would you have done different?? There was food - there was water - there was shelter - there was a roof over their heads - who could have known the roof would fail - and they all came thru the hell of Katrina in one piece - that is what matters the most in all of this - they were essentially safe and sound - and alive! There are no guarentees at any shelter that it will survive unscathed - and many a shelter has failed - and yes people have died due to those failures - but thank goodness for the goodness also of the National Guard that these people have a place to go - no matter their socioeconomic status - they were all the same for the time that they are there - evacuees.</p>
<p>Welcome to the world of cgmom. It’s a very sad world indeed. Everyday you wake up and it’s just like yesterday.</p>
<p>According to the Emergency Management Spokesman, he himself said no food no water…I heard him on the radio today, I guess he was mistaken</p>
<p>"Conceding that as many as 100,000 inner-city residents didn’t have the means to leave and an untold number of tourists were stranded by the closing of the airport, the city arranged buses to take people to 10 last-resort shelters, including the Superdome. </p>
<p>First priority in the Superdome went to frail, elderly people on walkers, some with oxygen tanks. They were told to bring enough food, water and medicine to last up to five days. SF Chronicle</p>
<p>“The people arriving on this side of the building are expected to fend for themselves,” said Terry Ebbert, the city’s homeland security director. “We have some water.” </p>
<p>So, about the food and water, well, I am not sure what they had</p>
<p>And it is important</p>
<p>I am glad it worked and people lived and the people that stayed to help are heroes</p>