Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LUG: I was in Honduras immediately after Hurricane Mitch. It was much, much worse than this. The water came up to the sixth floor of the high-rises downtown Tegucigalpa. The death toll was enormous. All of the bridges in the entire country were washed away. They still haven't recovered in many rural areas. But nobody looted. Nobody shot at people trying to rescue them. All I saw were people desperate to help each other. All of these people complaining about not being brought food should be airlifted to the middle of rural Honduras where there is never electricity, never clean water, no food unless you work for it, and no medical care. People in the US are totally spoiled compared to the hard working poor in any developing country. I leave tomorrow for Guatemala where I will have no TV, radio, or newspaper. I hope when I get back that all of the problems in the Southeast are over, but I doubt they will be. Discouraged - Tina At 04:54 PM 9/1/2005, you wrote: >Indeed, people knew this was a possibility. The >process had begun to try and prevent it. Then, >it was effectively stopped. Take a look at who >the Times Picayune (NOLA's daily paper) blames: > >http://tinyurl.com/bsttp > >Frank Farmer >Jackson, Miss. > >============================================================ >From: SonC@aol.com >Date: 2005/09/01 Thu AM 06:56:22 CDT >To: lug@leica-users.org >Subject: Re: [Leica] OT NOLA Katrina > > > >In a message dated 9/1/2005 6:34:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time, >wrs111445@yahoo.com writes: > >However, it could have been prevented IMHO. > > > >Yes it could have, the floodwall that was breached on the 17th street canal >was part of an effort underway to raise the levees, (though your opinion >doesn't sound very humble.) > >Regards, >Sonny >http://www.sonc.com >Natchitoches, Louisiana >Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane >?galit?, libert?, crawfish > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >============================================================ > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information