I'm just going to keep beating this drum. I can't stand that no one is talking about this. It actually makes me sick. So, here again, is the news on Ike's aftermath:
More than 400 people are listed on the [Laura Recovery Center's] Web site from Galveston, Harris, Chambers and Jefferson counties.
The center is providing assistance to help those searching for loved ones, according to a news release from Beaumont police officer and spokeswoman Crystal Holmes.
Family members and other loved ones have been calling in reports of the missing, said Terry Arnold, one of the center's founding volunteers. Those missing could have evacuated and be just fine, but they haven't gotten or aren't able to get in touch with family members. Still others might not have returned home yet.
From the dwindling numbers of people commenting on these posts, I'm just going to conclude that you're okay with that.
First, watch this video.
You can't have pity for someone who lived through this....
....and then died, in the middle of this kind of horror?
And for the record, most of these people were not partying on the veranda or surfing or giving the finger to their generous rescuers. Here are just a couple of stories:
KHOU-TV is reporting that 15 people who had lashed themselves together are stranded on a church roof on the Bolivar Peninsula.
Earlier today a Coast Guard helicopter crew plucked 60 people from the peninsula town of High Island after the only road out was flooded.
-- USA Today
The water started rising too fast and Bobby Anderson couldn’t get off the peninsula.
He and two others headed to a place where they figured a helicopter could land and called in for lift out.
They called an hour later at 2 p.m. and then at 3 p.m. to see if a rescue helicopter would come. At 3:30 p.m., they were told the winds were too high.
No rescue was coming for them.
Anderson declined to talk about the storm itself, but said that he hadn’t been able to find a few of his friends.
-- Beaumont Enterprise
I guess I'm just superstitious or something, but I would never want to think that this couldn't happen to me. I grew up going to Bolivar in the summers and had been planning a trip for the weekend this happened. Of course, I probably would have come home, or tried to. Then again, that's probably what all those people thought, too.
I mean, hating on FEMA, raaagh! Crank up your liberal rage!
Hating on city or state government---grr. You're scary!
But, wondering about, thinking about, insisting on MSM coverage for the missing---meh. They probably deserved it, right? That's what you heard, isn't it? They had plenty of time to leave and they didn't leave. Or, they'll probably turn up. Right?
After 2 weeks. They'll turn up? Because, yeah, telecommunications equipment is impossible to come by and people love living in shelters so they definitely would not have called their families or friends to come pick them up by now.
WAKE UP AMERICA! We just lost 400 people.
Here is the link to the story.
Here is the link to the website of the missing.
Hey everybody! I wonder what stupid crap Sarah Palin pulled today? Right? Right.