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• Report on SNL Weekend Update - bewildered
  • SNL gets their info for Weekend update from - public newspapers and public websites..n/m
    • by the way, SNL last Saturday was a RERUN. - public newspapers and public websites..n/m
  • I'm having a hard time understanding why you - think they would think the story came from you
  • IMO, you violated a patient's confidentiality by even posting about this - that you transcribed t - Cali girl
    • I was thinking the same thing. - nm
  • You must be in the Albany area.. - mtor
  • This was all over the news weeks before it - see message
  • hmmmm - Anon2
    • But - Straight Dope story
      • But - Anon2
  • Not sure of accuracy, but here's the - Straight Dope story
    • I heard it wasn't a reporter's job to be accurate; - Thanks
  • Your response to the boss was goofy - Kim
    • SNL weekend update - bewildered
      • We live in Virginia sm - trose
      • A big fat baloney! - Kim
  • I wouldn't worry. - WA MT
  • I saw that story too, but not on SNL - TweedleDee
    • Talk about gross (sm) - Bugs
      • Morgellons isn't new - SCMT
      • Ah that must be the disease people have when the MDs can't - sm
        • Good luck with your search - bewildered
        • Bugs, exactly what kind of bugs - Hallie
          • Previously unknown worm-like creatures made of - Bugs
            • Get another physician - Hallie
              • Yeah, I'm considering it. Here is more info - Bugs
        • Yup. Thanks. Hope you get some - Bugs
    • Roaches - no web - bewildered
      • There is a certain kind of roach - Me
      • I don't know, I found quite a few of these stories on searching..... - sm

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The Army Corps of Engineers have grovele, begged & pleaded with the federal goverment fo the last 6 year for more funding to upgrade those levy's.  In fact, the first one to breach was the exact one the corps just sent an additional plea to Washington for more money as little as six weeks ago!

It is the City or New Orleans to maintain the levy's and they have done the best job they could with such outdated equipment, but it is the Army Corps of Engineer's overall responsibility, as is every inland waterway in America.

They have likened the despair and anger of the corps to the various CIA/FBI agents who kept telling Washington there was suspicious activity pre-911, that fell on deaf ears.

Not trying to start an issue here, trying to place blame or getting on a political soapbox, just stating fact. for the life of me, I do not understand why there has no been an emergency plan on the table for the type of evacuation that was needed?  We have such plans in my neck of the woods for Tornado's or flooding of our waterway's.

Convoy's of buses (provided in a joint effort of the local/state and federal government)lined up "just in case" may have cost the city extra money in overtime/fuel,manpower, etc,but look at the cost now! Those people did not have the money, fuel or four wheels to even make an informed decsion.

There is and will be plenty of blame to carry us into the next century, but now is the time for all of us to unite, to get these people out of that hell hole and to make a promise to our next generations that this will never happen again.  Yes, it was an act of nature, but the responses to cries for help was in the hands of our elected officials...all the way around

If anyone knows how to reach Margaret Mitchell of VTS other than via email, please let me know.  I am trying to reach her, but her email is not accepting my return email to her.  Thanks for any help

I go to my mom's and flip through and don't miss it at all.  All of her stations and hardly anything on to watch.

All local wages are low. I tried the school district, $6.50/hr; the local banks, around $7.50 - $8.00; and even considered traveling 45 minutes to the nearest industrial area but it wasn't worth it for the $9.50 an hour they wanted to pay. The hospital in that area paid the whopping $8.50/hr for MTs.

I ended up lucking out and getting a job with the DoD, Army. Luckily, they have put us on the same pay scale as New York City, so I get paid well for the area. I don't know how families here do it, my salary alone is more than what most families with 2 people working locally make, and I have much better benefits. Got paid fairly well for the area when working MT from home, but DH is also self-employed and we needed the benefits desperately. My benefit package is probably worth 2/3 - 3/4 of my salary if I add it all up.

So far, our little town got over 10" of rain last night and it is supposed to stop today. They expected another 3-5" before this is over. They evacuated parts of "my"  town. At least 5 other towns have sectioins that have been evacuated. They closed the main roads into the 2 towns that we use to get around. Dive teams are being called in from the surrounding counties.

I live on a hill too, but without the main roads being opened, I can't get out. The only info I can get is from the scanners. The TV stations we get are too involved in their own local flooding problems.

Today is my husband's first doctor appointment after his open heart surgery 2 weeks ago. I don't think we're going to make it.

Gee, to think if I worked outside the home, I'd have a day off. LOL I'm looking on the bright side, though. NO TRAFFIC.