whats being done to help people that suffer in katrina? what can i do to help?

What do you mean?

our gov. dont give a d-mn about the people thats why it is the way it is in new orleans.

mabe they should move UPHILL. Im not too bright but i know better than to build below sea level next to the ocean. Why should i bail them out everytime the towm floods when theyre shouldent be a town there in the first place.

you could go to new orleans and put signs pointing towards the hills that say build there.

damn not a single retort for that one. lol

another example of the failure which the bush administration is.

... failure to support a bunch of people who dont know enough to live away from danger? why is that the presidents fault?

I agree with you rambill. Why is bush to blame for all the mess from katrina? that mayor had ALOT to do with much of that carnage caused by a NATURAL DISASTER. And my thoughts are from a PROUD DEMOCRAT. IMAGINE THAT.

barbie n rambill, you guys musts be joking.... So, should people move out of miami, the midwest, because theres a chance a storm could hit?

question for u guys. Natural disaster happen all over the world? right? n the usa comes the rescue, without question asked with some sort of aid is given? right? but why whenever a nutural disastor happen in the usa things take forever? there r still homeless from hurricane andrew?

what does bein a donkey or elephant have to do with helpin people? "proud democrat" well im justs a proud american

what kind of AID did those victims of katrina receive from their own MAYOR???? He sent them off to the superdome to DIE. IGNORED the fact that there were many ways OUT of that city including the use of school buses. I do NOT see where george dubbyah is the ONLY one to blame here. It makes no sense to me why NO ONE ANYWHERE could get into that town to provide much needed disaster relief when the disaster HIT. Republican, Democrat, WHAT THE PISS EVER. There WERE ways into that city and i am sick of hearing this was all the presidents fault. Why rebuild a city that has already failed with this disaster and most likely will AGAIN???? THINGS THAT MAKE YA GO HMMMMM???? Where WAS the major during the hurricane? In a nice comfy and safe area watching his citizens DYING. He sent them to the superdome. Lets not forget the TRUTH.

OK. I googled it and came up with this. I don't know if it's of any help. But hell. I'm English and don't live over there.

How to help Hurricane Katrina victims
Web Posted: 09/11/2005 05:20 AM CDT

MySanAntonio.com

Below are organizations looking for donations or volunteers to help Hurricane Katrina victims. Those wanting to volunteer should contact the OneStar Foundation Hurricane Relief, 800-707-6768, the Red Cross, 800-HELP NOW, or the Salvation Army, 800-SAL-ARMY. Local volunteers are asked not to call 211, which is reserved for those needing assistance.


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Hurricane Katrina: News, video, multimedia, information for victims and volunteers



San Antonio Food Bank
(210) 337-3663
Website: www.safoodbank.org

Adventist Community Services
(800) 381-7171
Web site: www.adventist.communityservices.org

America's Second Harvest
(800) 344-8070
Web site: www.secondharvest.org

American Red Cross
(800) 435-7669 English,
(800) 257-7575 Spanish;
Web site: www.redcross.org

Baptist Child & Family Services
(210) 283-5113
Web site: www.bcfs.net

Catholic Charities, USA
(703) 549-1390
Web site: www.catholiccharitiesusa.org

Christian Disaster Response
(941) 956-5183 or (941) 551-9554
Web site: www.cdresponse.org

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
(800) 848-5818
Web site: www.crwrc.org

Church World Service
(800) 297-1516
Web site: www.churchworldservice.org

Convoy of Hope
(417) 823-8998
Web site: www.convoyofhope.org

Daily Bread Ministries
700 W. Houston St.
San Antonio 78207
(210) 223-4707
Fax: (210) 223-1405

KENS 5 Spirit of Texas Relief Fund
(210) 470-5001
Web site: www2.mysanantonio.com/promotions/kens/relieffund/

Lutheran Disaster Response
(800) 638-3522
Web site: www.ldr.org

Mennonite Disaster Service
(717) 859-2210
Web site: www.mds.mennonite.net

Nazarene Disaster Response
(888) 256-5886
Web site: www.nazarenedisasterresponse.org

Operation Blessing
(800) 436-6348
Web site: www.ob.org

Presbyterian Disaster Assistance
(800) 872-3283
Web site: www.pcusa.org/pda

Salvation Army
(800) 725-2769
Web site: www.redshield.org/crisis

Southern Baptist Convention — Disaster Relief
(800) 462-8657, ext. 6440
Web site: www.namb.net/site/c.9qKILUOzEpH/b.224451/k.7BDB/Disaster_Relief_Homepage.htm

South Texas Blood and Tissue Center
Web site: www.bloodntissue.org

Texas Clearinghouse for Katrina Aid
Web site: mcculloughsite.net

United Methodist Committee on Relief
(800) 554-8583
Web site: www.gbgm-umc.org/umcor

United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County
Clearinghouse for area Katrina volunteers
Help Line, 211 (in San Antonio) or (210) 227-4357
Web site: www.unitedwaysatx.org/


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and its NOT just katrina...lets not forget the victims of RITA and many other major disasters happening now AND then.

Let's get real. A storm the size of England, Scottland and Ireland than smacks -mutiple states- and we have individuals indicating that the local residents didn't know how to avoid it, brilliant!!! How is that for being uninformed. Further; The Fed's, read El Preseidente', bare the blunt of the responsibility since he gave 900 million to the Mayor & the ARMY Core of Engineers to repair the levy. Then Bush and the VP run out of cash for an illegal war and steal 600 million for IRAQ. So the Mayor couldn't fix JACK!!! This means' You don't know JACK!!!! Seems the US can FIX the WORLD's Problems but NOT OUR OWN!!!! Finally; if we have a local/National Guard on the job; the residents of New Orleans aren't nearly as devastated but guess what; THEIR ASS's WERE ALSO DEPLOYED TO IRAQ, as well. So no funds and no National Guard means The Mayor & Governor were not to blame and El Presidente', in his infitinite wisdom, is and reamins the culprit. He also appointed incompetent BOOBS to run FEMA and Emergency Response so the folks that got hit were SOL:-0) Let's call a spade a spade, BUSH is an idiot and ill prepared to deal with Wars, which he created, and National Disasters!!!!

the real culprits are the building inspectors and zoning people who allowed this area to be devloped in the first place.

I dont recall ANY RESIDENT in NEW ORLEANS being ILL INFORMED. That storm was HUGE. If they stayed they were fools. BIGGER FOOLS to return and try to rebuild a town that is ruined so who is hired? ILLEGALS to rebuild new orleans. Uninformed bobbyblue? HARDLY. I have FRIENDS living and WORKING in NEW ORLEANS. seems its CHEAPER to employ illegals and try to restore a town that simply should be BULLDOZED. Then you have the residents too good to LIVE in the FEMA trailers because of what? FORMALDEHYDE? BEEN THERE AND DONE IT WITHOUT WHINING. Mis informed? NOT QUITE. I am NO FOOL but my tax dollars are being WASTED on a city that should be simply DECLARED A LOSS.

barbie... wheres your compassion? someone must be to blame besides the people who lived below sea level next to the ocean. it couldent be thier own fault. we SIMPLY MUST blame someone else and revere the victoms.

BOBBY THE LIBERAL,

I ask you.... compared to whom?

BUSH DID IT!!!
bush didn't tell anyone the storm was coming.
oh yea, that was the weather service.
bush didn't tell them to get out.
oh yea, that was the govenor and the mayor that didn't say that.
bush didn't have any way for them to get out.
oh yea, there were school buses under water that were under the control of the mayor.
bush didn't help after the fact.
oh yea, the tractor trailers were outside of town waiting to be told my the state/city it was ok to come in.
bush started a war that took the national guard away.
oh yea, congress approved it and it was done intentionally because GW knew that katrina was coming.

give me a break.
i live at the north end of the state and we were ready for them to evacuate to here. why didn't they??
oh yea, lack of transportation. damn the luck and the buses. and they reelected the mayor. we won't the govenor!!!!

yah this whole business of katrina being bushes fault is a knee jerk reaction, nothing more. The data dont support that conclusion at all.