Anyone in Katrina's path, stay safe.
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For sure!! everyone be careful
Prayers for your safety and comfort.............
Is New Orleans the Atlantis of the modern world? http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe
One thing is certain, the longer the water from the lake continues to pour into New Orleans from the broken levees the more destruction that will be evident.
Geeze, what else can happen to these poor people. This is from AP as reported to MSNBC :(
QuoteKatrina evacuee bus overturns, killing one
Local newspaper reports 10 wounded, several critically
Updated: 6:07 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005
OPELOUSAS, La. - One Hurricane Katrina refugee died and many others were injured when a bus carrying them west from the Superdome in New Orleans overturned and rolled across a highway median.
The Daily World of Opelousas reported on its Web site that at least 10 people were taken to hospitals, several of them critically injured.
Trooper Willie Williams, spokesman for the state police, said the driver lost control of the vehicle. More details were not immediately known.
The bus was heading north when it overturned on Interstate 49; it wound up on the southbound off-ramp to the town's main street.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9178253/
Top that off with Terryala's post @GSF (http://gladiator-antivirus.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=28737&pid=109261&st=0&#entry109261):
Katrina-themed malware attack hits the net
By John Leyden
Published Friday 2nd September 2005 13:31 GMT
Hurricane Katrina is bringing out the worst in people on the net as well as on the streets of New Orleans. Spam emails purporting to offer links to news about Katrina are been used to tempt potential victims onto a site hosting Trojan malware.
The site exploits well-known IE vulnerabilities to install a variety of Trojans including Cgab-A, Borobot-P, Borobot-Q, Borodldr-H and Inor-R. Security firm Sophos reports that subject lines used in the malicious emails include, but are not limited to, the following:
Re: g8 Tropical storm flooded New Orleans.
Re: g7 80 percent of our city underwater.
Re: q1 Katrina killed as many as 80 people.
The malicious site (hosted in Poland) also harbours a secondary line of attack designed to dupe Windows users, reports Secure Computing. It cynically offers a "free scan" for the Zotob worm that in reality infects users with code that gives hackers control over compromised Windows PCs.
Similar - though arguably less sophisticated attacks - followed last year's Asian Tsunami and July's London bombing attacks. The malware attack isn't the first Katrina-themed scam. Earlier cynical attempts to cash in on the Katrina disaster came in the form of fake charity email appeals and the time-honoured sale of catastrophe-related urls. ®
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/02/ka..._trojan_attack/ (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/02/katrina_trojan_attack/)
Grand Dad
I found this is being reported here also..
Warnings of Katrina e-mail scams
Computer users are being urged to be on guard for a bogus e-mail that pretends to offer news updates about Hurricane Katrina as a means to infect their PCs.
The malicious e-mail gives a brief news bulletin on the disaster before urging people to click "read more" and be taken to the full story on a website.
Yet once directed to the website, a virus is sent to the user's computer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4209182.stm
numbnuts..
Yep. I posted a couple of similiar articles about those trojans and e-mails from different sources at CNET today. It's incredible how BOTH ends of the spectrum come out during a tragedy like this. You get the scumballs of the Earth but you also get an outpouring of donations and help from strangers. . The people that are taking advantage of this should be hung by the _ _ _ _ _ IMO. You can fill in the blanks if you want.
American Red Cross Site - should you wish to donate..........
http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
I sent a check yesterday to the Salvation Army via a Telethon on our local NBC station. They are down there too and was told to write "Hurricane Relief" on the check memo and they tell me that 100% is going the the victims. Everybody will have to be careful though because there will be a lot of scams for sure.
QuoteGeeze, what else can happen to these poor people. This is from AP as reported to MSNBC
I am like many absolutely mystified at how conditions grow even more worse than better over time. A huge Explosion rocked flooded New Orleans as a chemical storage plant erupted in flames this morning, no water pressure was available for firefighters to even attempt to work that fire. Several other fires have been occuring in various sections of the severely crippled big city on a daily basis.
BTW, Fats Domino the 77 year old music legend surfaced today and was reported he was also one of the thousands rescued from his flooded home.
What's Next?
Yes, I heard about Fat's. At least some of the troops and relief trucks started rolling in this afternoon finally. It is going to take many years for them to recover from this. Our NBC news station in Wichita, Kansas tonight said that city officials have been contacted for possible help with people that have no place to go and it might be for a long term period of time. They were talking schools and housing and we are almost 1000 miles away so I'm sure the big cities that are closer are also getting calls. Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio all took some of them already.
I created a link from the News box to an Announcement document that has links to the Red Cross, Salvation Army as well as the FEMA list of other valid sites so have unpinned the FEMA document I posted yesterday.
Good idea. :D
I think it is a shame that some people have to be :evil: in this time of need for those who were affected.
Nearly 2 weeks into that disaster and what used to be the city of New Orleans Louisiana is still inundated with polluted flood waters, fires breaking out daily all over the city, and confrontations leading to shootings?
This is a definitely clear sign that it is an authentic genuine biblical Apocalyptic disaster of modern times unlike any other.
Someone or something needs to slow this turntable down some.
The following post was made by rgm714 at Freedomlist ( http://www.freedomlist.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=152227#152227 ). I haven't verified the links. Just reading the titles made me sick.
FEMA's Blocking
Relief Efforts -
An Amazing List
9-8-5
FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e..
FEMA turns away experienced firefighters
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048
FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec..
FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec..
FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862&BRD=...
FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826
FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509..
FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902dale..
FEMA turns away generators
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond"
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470
That last one is real -- not satire but straight from FEMA's website.
http://www.rense.com/general67/femwont.htm
"The response to Hurricane Katrina must be well coordinated between federal, state and local officials to most effectively protect life and property," Brown said. "We appreciate the willingness and generosity of our Nation's first responders to deploy during disasters. But such efforts must be coordinated so that fire-rescue efforts are the most effective possible."
I just heard that Brown is withdrawn from head of the operation. Many days too late, it seems.
I also heard that his biggest merite before this, is that he used to be chairman of the American Arabic Horse Association.
Die Hard :)
I joined WWL Forums last week and boy howdy what a free-for-all that is. Every conceivable opinion one could imagine is being bandied about and some fierce exchanges tempered with the occasional reasonable discussion or two. LoL
This country will be bankrupt with a few more events of this nature or some other pressing demand requiring billions of imaginary dollars. I always believed and still do that all the gov has to do is crank up the presses, feed in the ink, and print more paper and turn out all the dollars they want.