tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post5760608952427658689..comments2024-01-03T06:52:57.387-05:00Comments on Pappillon: Hurricane Katrina Revisted - In His Own Words: Brian WilliamsJMPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05346798683078093966noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-48391241115302796432010-03-23T13:02:46.744-05:002010-03-23T13:02:46.744-05:00You certainly won't find all of Spike's do...You certainly won't find all of Spike's documentary as it is on three DVDs in four hour long segments, plus an extra 105 minute follow up video. You should be able to get it at your local library, however. That's where I got it.Jim Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-24810689632201586572010-03-22T13:04:10.136-05:002010-03-22T13:04:10.136-05:00Jim F - I saw a mention of the Spike Lee program b...Jim F - I saw a mention of the Spike Lee program but couldn't find a link to a full version of it online. Is there one that you could share w/ the readers?JMPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05346798683078093966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-75897820603107060682010-03-22T13:02:19.304-05:002010-03-22T13:02:19.304-05:00Sad part about this is that it is typical self ser...Sad part about this is that it is typical self serving sort of program that implies that they did their jobs and are the force behind good. Take a look at Spike Lee's HBO program, When the Levees broke. Gives a more comprehensive picture. The legacy of this piece is said near the end when Williams says that if we don't have a debate in this country on race, poverty...etc., we will have failed. You failed guys.Jim Fnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29196779.post-56923225351338994542010-03-22T11:44:11.084-05:002010-03-22T11:44:11.084-05:00I can't say why, but when I woke today I had v...I can't say why, but when I woke today I had vivid flashbacks of the time I spent with my teammates in a pizzeria in New York watching Hurricane Katrina make landfall and ravage the United States. Thanks to the wonder and beauty of the internet, a single Google search got me to first the Wikipedia entry for Katrina, from which the intro to the post above comes, and then a video by NBC's Brian Williams. Dramatic stuff and still stunning to this day to realize that no matter what this country's "leaders" will tell you, one cannot rely on the government to ensure individual survival. I know that Pappillon draws readers from all over the world, and very few of you as a percentage of the total readership need to worry about catastrophic flooding as the natural disaster that could claim your life, but how hard is it to put together a basic survival plan and stockpile an emergency kit? I don't know, as I haven't done it yet myself (living 3/4 of the way up a stiff little climb makes death-by-broken-levee seem all the more preposterous), but should I? <br /><br />What does a portable generator cost at Costco? If you buy one, how much fuel should you stockpile? And where do you stockpile it? How many flashlights should a household have? And how many batteries? What's the natural disaster most likely to hit Western Pennsylvania? Mine subsidence? lol I can't see my middle-class neighbors going all "Lord of the Flies" on us and eating one another, but ... what if? Heck, this February's snow storms in Pittsburgh shut-down the city long enough that people actually died when emergency services couldn't reach them in their homes (Hazelwood man dies after 10 calls to 911 over two days - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10048/1036403-53.stm), so there is some connection to reality. Do any of you have survival plans? Stocked up your home-based armory? Eagerly awaiting the race/class/gender war? Lemme know.<br /><br />And for those too lazy to cut and paste that PG story link:<br /><br />"In his first call to 911, Curtis Mitchell sounded calm, explaining to dispatchers that his "entire stomach [was] in pain."<br /><br />By the time his longtime girlfriend made a 10th call nearly 30 hours later, she was frantic. He wasn't breathing. He was cold to the touch.<br /><br />"Oh God, oh God," Sharon Edge sobbed to dispatchers. "I've been trying to get an ambulance over here for three days."<br /><br />Paramedics arrived at their Hazelwood home as Ms. Edge tried to resuscitate the 50-year-old, but it was too late.<br /><br />"I sat up here with him, watching him die," Ms. Edge said Tuesday, after city officials apologized to her and pledged immediate changes in emergency response after Mr. Mitchell's death on Feb. 7. "They didn't do their jobs like they were supposed to."<br /><br />Snow-covered roads, poor communication and a 911 center deluged with more than double the average number of calls during last week's crippling snowstorms combined to cause Mr. Mitchell's long wait, city officials said..."JMPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05346798683078093966noreply@blogger.com