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http://www.secondharvest.org/100% of the money will go to the relief efforts.
I have a good friend in Gretna, about 10 miles from New Orleans.
Haven't been able to reach her on her home phone or cell phone. This
affects more people than those who live there.
Bernie
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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley" <jonesalley@c...>
wrote:
> Not trying to be argumentative, I can only say that watching cable
news
> coverage of ordinary people trying to cope somehow with the sudden
> catastrophe that has befallen them, many of whom have lost
everything they
> owned with no hope of recoup, I have yet to see anyone carrying a
computer
> or a television set and I can't help but wonder about a media (I'm
sorry,
> that should be "liberal media") that films people trudging through
> chest-deep water that is filled with agitated displaced wildlife,
hidden
> obstacles, assorted poisons, dead things, sewage, and who knows
what else,
> and who are carrying a gym bag packed with loaves of bread,
bottled water,
> and packages of Pampers, damaged goods which will only end up in a
landfill
> otherwise, stuff that they scavenged from a washed-out WalMart
that they
> made it to without dying, and which has enough insurance coverage
to
> actually profit on the corporate level from this kind of event...
>
> ... and refers to them as "looters."
>
>
>
> > Unbelievable, the scale of this disaster.
> > Unbelievable also, the looting.