Videos coming out of New Orleans
- Thread starter Lettuce
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It’s about 6” wetter at my house than I’ve ever seen. I didn’t count the raindrops and do the math, but some pumps have got to be offline.
Would have been nice if the newscaster went to try to help the guy instead of watching him almost drown. Nice to see someone helped that poor guy.
Put on my waders and found my way to a bridge across the west esplanade canal in Metairie. Those thin little silver strips barely above the water are guardrails for a bridge crossing the canal.
Tagging on to my last post, that view normally looks like this. Cars crossing in the background at the guardrails previously mentiond.
Isn’t there a pump station very close to where this picture was taken or am I thinking of somewhere else? Should be close to the ship yard down there.
Edit* disregard I was thinking of somewhere else
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The guy who saved him lived in the area and was sitting on his couch when his mom texted him to go save the guy… lol…per sources
Agree, there's too much watching and filming, not enough selfless people willing to get in and help today. He could have put the mic down, told the camera guy to keep rolling and went to try to help. But that's where we are these days it seems.
I saw somewhere early yesterday that one/some pumps were already not working; perhaps it had long not been working and just made the news because of the impending storm? No idea, but a friend of mine who lives in New Orleans was the source.
I have "shaken my damn head" at the number of people having to be rescued out of flooded cars trying to drive down the street today. Its just 17n amazin' how damn stupid people are. That first video, the guy said the truck was driving down the wrong side of a blocked off road. "Come on man"......
Probably George Bush’s fault…
If you live below sea level and you've known for days that there is a hurricane coming, maybe it's best not to put forth any effort to keep you in the gene pool?
Nobody in their right mind should be expected to die trying to save somebody determined to die from being stupid.
Whoa. Alrighty then, remind me not to die around you. I will assume you're not a cop or firefighter. Or doctor. Military. Security guard. Teacher. Airline pilot. Hell, I hope the guy at the table next to you tonight doesn't take too big a bite of his steak and start to choke. I guess you'll tell your wife,"17 that guy, he was being stupid"
*FWIW, I wasn't saying the reporter should put himself in danger. It looked like the rescuer walked through the water pretty safely. I was assuming he would attempt to get to the guy to try to help, but if the water was getting dangerous, then back off. Wasn't asking the intrepid reporter to commit suicide.
I know you shouldn't judge an audio book by it's reader, but based on the sound of that reporter's voice he's a bit light in loafers (NTTAWWT) and wouldn't have been much help.
Perhaps you don't remember the conspiracy theorists claiming that he ordered the levees be blown up during Katrina... Or, maybe you just forgot the sarcasterisks...
George Bush hates black people.
-KW
I live on the Gulf Coast, if some dumbass is dumb enough to go into the water during double red flags I'll be damned if I don't watch them drown.
17 em if they are that dumb.
You can nearly always count on my memory to fail. No sarcasterisks.
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