Hurricane Katrina and me

[dkc62 10+ year member]

Well I just got back into town from VA and I have a job. The job will be going to help clean up after the hurricane. I'll be living in a tent for six months but the pay is going to be around $200,000. Now when in my lifetime will I ever have a chance to make that kind of money? Never. It probably will be depressing but money talks and seeing the video footage on t.v. is heart breaking.

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[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

good luck man. good to see people going for that cause. my unlce said that they sent 10ppl from his work down there. and the power companies and stuff around here are sending people down there.

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

A real man would go for free. I tried but the boss wont let me.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

good man jntar

 

[negativezeroz 5,000+ posts]

Red Charter buses from my city are headed down there to get stranded people and bring them back or to other cities.

 

[Nikuk 5,000+ posts]

Outside the center, people complained that they were evacuated, taken to the convention hall by bus, dropped off and given nothing.

While most stranded residents were orderly, police warned reporters to be careful given the desperation.
“We were told don't drink or eat in public as it could lead to a mob situation,” NBC's Michelle Hofland said. “We were told that by sundown to get out of here.”

An air ambulance service official said helicopter transfers of the sick and injured were suspended after report of a helicopter being fired on overnight.

Zuschlag added that when another evacuation helicopter tried to land at a hospital in the outlying town of Kenner overnight, the pilot reported that 100 people were on the landing pad, and some of them had guns.

My point being that there is more then just "clean-up" needed. Someone tell me where the **** FEMA is? Please.

-Nick

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

good man jntar

TY, I really want to go and help, but i am afraid that I wont have a job when i get back. We had a family reunion planned for this upcoming weekend. More then likly I will be driving to meet relatives stranded and they will be a guet in our home.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

yea i would like to go help out also, but being a senior and wanting to graduate dosent exactly compliment that.

 

[dkc62 10+ year member]

It's sad seeing whats going on over their.//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[Acidburn 5,000+ posts]

my respect goes out to all those who help with the relief effort

 

[JonJT 10+ year member]

A real rich man would go for free.

Not everyone can just pick up and commit 6 months of their lives to something of this magnitude without compensation; I know I couldn't. Doing so would be novel, but sometimes it's just not possible.

 

[noob with an RS 10+ year member]

daaaAaamn youre getting 200 G'z for living in a tent for six months and working? thats fuccing great man. HOOK IT UP!!!! i'd spend six months in the county jail for 200 Gz!!! how many other people are getting paid that much to live in a tent for six months? HOOK IT UP!!!!~!

 

[Primo 10+ year member]

i wouldn't do it for free.

 

[dbhittin 5,000+ posts]

shi t is crazy over there... people shooting other people, stores getting robbed, ect...

 

[Johnny Drama 5,000+ posts]

Not everyone can just pick up and commit 6 months of their lives to something of this magnitude without compensation; I know I couldn't. Doing so would be novel, but sometimes it's just not possible.

You added rich in the quote, I never put that there. Read my other comments, I have tried to go. And 6months for $200k????come on, there are hundreds of thousands to millons that need that cash more then he does. Let them pay his bills but no more. Others are without everything they owned. They need it WAY more then he does.