*books.
And those of you who haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, do so promptly! (And no, you can't just watch the movie!)

How are people without cars and money supposed to evacuate?

With a cat-5 hurricane barreling at them, and living in a city that is 85% below sea level? Answer is: any way you can! Sell stuff you own to get the money to ride a bus or train... Trade goods or services for a ride... Catch a ride on the busses that Nagin & Blanco commissioned for evacuations... Ask a family member, friend, or neighbor who has a car to give you a ride... Beg for a ride... Hitchhike... Bike... Walk... They had over a week of leadup to the storm and knew for 2 days before it made landfall that it was cat-5.

The fact remains that the people had plenty of warning. They knew for over a week that Katrina was a monster and that evacuation was recommended. But a lot of them stayed because they thought it wasn't going to get 'that bad'. They made a bad situation into an even worse one because of thier decision to stay in a flood zone as opposed to buying/borrowing/begging a ride by any means necessary. They were told to evacuate. They didn't. That makes them a party in the responsibility for the aftermath.

I might add parenthetically that I live in an earthquake zone. I have 3 months of food, water & fuel storage for myself and my family. My primary vehicle has first aid kits, blankets, and emergency cash in the trunk. Quite literally I can grab a tent, toss in a few 5-gallon containers of water, be out of town in five minutes, and survive without any problems for over a week. I somehow doubt that the people who stayed in New Orleans were prepared the way I am for a disaster. But I've made my plans solid because I've lived in this risk zone for years and I have not been idle.

i just downvoted my first qm comment.
(i think, i maybe proven wrong, but i dont REMEMBER voting another one down)
taking care of eachother as a national ideal is not the samething as "celebrating" being downtrodden. i suppose you celebrate the kind of greed which creates this human refuse. with compassion, we all grow stronger.
im confused as to your idea of morality.


imstellar, then youve probably never been a victim of gross abuse or mental illness.

the homeless i have known and loved were either teenage runaways- victims of abuse and addiction. or the severely mentally ill. in one way they choose it i suppose.

i know very well what the point when you give up, reject the abuse and violence youve been subjected to and run. that cave looks better than another beating with the nearest kitchen appliance.

i never liked these kinds of underground squats either. i prefered camping on rooftops or the shanty towns that spring up around rail yards and creeks hidden in the city.

i also know very well the point when you give up on someone you love, who means the world to you, and sit by in your house with your paycheck while they give up and run out of options and choose this kind of squalor.

last thing i heard about the father of my children, he was brutality beaten at the public shelter and spent a few weeks in ICU at the county hospital.
the same problem exists with transportation. its illegal to quietly hop aboard an empty freight car and in many states you can be shot for having the gall to do so. but the alternative is to hitchhike (also illegal, but they cant shoot you) and hope the trucker who picks you up doesnt hold a knife to your throat while hes cumming on your leg. or take your chances with getting felt up when you pass out on the greyhound.

many teen runaway friends ended up joining cults. which look like concentration camps really, they clean you up, shave your head, put you to work and preach to you the word of jesus......... and of course they wouldnt dream of helping you attempt to locate some family or some assistance so you can get an education.


also, hiv positive men and women can not safely attempt to spend the night at the shelter, they will be beaten up. (which makes no sense)

>> ^pierrekrahn:
>> ^SaNdMaN:
That was gay... Nothing happened. Why did this get so many votes?

I'd like to see you sitting in that front seat!


What does that have to do with anything? The prank wasn't funny to watch.

>> ^pierrekrahn:
>> ^SaNdMaN:
That was gay... Nothing happened. Why did this get so many votes?

I'd like to see you sitting in that front seat!


not enough room

>> ^SaNdMaN:
That was gay... Nothing happened. Why did this get so many votes?


I'd like to see you sitting in that front seat!

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>> ^mefa:
I know you shouldn't bother with it if the story and characters are great, but I got so damn turned off by those bad CG animations that I don't think I could watch this without getting angry. =(
Must. Be. More. Tolerant. bangs head against the wall


Typical Hollywood sensibilities. Good Scifi has existed far longer than good CGI. Dr. Who, Metropolis, Tron, Videodrome, The BBC Hitchhiker's Guide, the original Star Wars, Time Bandits, Repo Man, Brazil... dare I throw out cult classic scifi shlep like Krull, Rocky Horror Picture Show, or the ingenius (though not scifi) pre-LotR Peter Jackson flicks? You're killin' me, Smalls.

I found a bunch for my phone, but they require a 'Z-code' emulator to run. found that, too, I even found the unzip ap I need to install them, but it's zipped! drats.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Might this be the game you're referring to? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

I never got too far in it, but I did rather enjoy the bit that I did play. Text-based games are both frustrating and amazingly fun at the same time, since you're never quite sure exactly what limitations there are, unlike conventional games.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
that's the stuff. my fav was 'hitchhiker's guide' which still runs out there on the web as an emulator. I found a bunch for palm os that I'm going to check out.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

Might this be the game you're referring to? http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game.shtml

I never got too far in it, but I did rather enjoy the bit that I did play. Text-based games are both frustrating and amazingly fun at the same time, since you're never quite sure exactly what limitations there are, unlike conventional games.

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
that's the stuff. my fav was 'hitchhiker's guide' which still runs out there on the web as an emulator. I found a bunch for palm os that I'm going to check out.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

that's the stuff. my fav was 'hitchhiker's guide' which still runs out there on the web as an emulator. I found a bunch for palm os that I'm going to check out.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
I remember playing some Oregon Trail back in early elementary school. My younger brother was the one who inevitably died of something or other every single time I played.

What sort of text games are you thinking of, purely text-based, or stuff like Police Quest back on those actually floppy disks?

In reply to this comment by schmawy:
Good times indeed. I go all the way back to atari. I even died of dysentary on the Oregon Trail. I always loved text adventure games and was recently looking to see if there is still anyone writing good ones. perfect to run on phones or pda's you'd think, right?

omg i'm soooo scared

In reply to this comment by EDD:
you will love this one lol

dft: no it's not, it's a hitchiking ghost, stupid.

you will love this one lol

dft: no it's not, it's a hitchiking ghost, stupid.

Ender's Game
Watership Down
1984
Dune
The Hobbit
Hitchhiker's Guide

That's all I can think of for now, no particular order.