Pretty cool thing my Dad told me today

[Wilco]

So my Dad is in New Orleans still and he called me up today and was telling me some stuff. Turns out we accepted help from Russian and an An-124 is in New Orleans right now. My Dad got about five pictures of it parked on the runway. Expect to see them when he gets home.

[MARINO]

we send and LHD with 4 choppers.

[TuNeRsHaRk]

well,my dad who works for a shipping company, negotiated a deal with United States Sealift Command for like 4 Norwegian ferry boats to be brought to the new orleans area for releif/medical efforts, pretty cool stuff, theres planes,boats,vehicles from all around the world helping us out here

[Juicy]

Utah received 1000+ survivors from N.O. and put them all in Camp Williams, a National Guard training camp 10 miles from where I live. Since I had nothing to do in Labor Day weekend(yeah, I have no life), so I volunteered to show them around CW because I know this place like the back of my right hand. I think Utah just quadruple their african american population when the survivors got off the planes at Hill AF base.

Me: "OK folks, this area is prohibited. You will be shot if you trespassing beyond this point. Only military personel with proper authorization can have access beyond this point."
Everybody: "ohhh....ahhhhh"
p-)


p.s. don't call them refugees because they'll get pissed off. They prefer "evacuees" or "survivors"

[MARINO]

A lot of people to dance with ;)

[Fenna]

So my Dad is in New Orleans still and he called me up today and was telling me some stuff. Turns out we accepted help from Russian and an An-124 is in New Orleans right now. My Dad got about five pictures of it parked on the runway. Expect to see them when he gets home.

Are you sure it's from the Russians? I know there is a couple of An-124's run by a British company that flew over there

[Chuckie]

Utah received 1000+ survivors from N.O. and put them all in Camp Williams, a National Guard training camp 10 miles from where I live. Since I had nothing to do in Labor Day weekend(yeah, I have no life), so I volunteered to show them around CW because I know this place like the back of my right hand. I think Utah just quadruple their african american population when the survivors got off the planes at Hill AF base.

Me: "OK folks, this area is prohibited. You will be shot if you trespassing beyond this point. Only military personel with proper authorization can have access beyond this point."
Everybody: "ohhh....ahhhhh"
p-)


p.s. don't call them refugees because they'll get pissed off. They prefer "evacuees" or "survivors"

Juicy,

Did you teach them how to swing dance?

[Juicy]

A lot of people to dance with ;)
:backhand: :backhand:


I had a chance to talk to a few of them. Most of them were homeless back home. A few of them should be in a mental hospital. :lol:

You can see the Red Cross in the background.
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[henksmoeder]

So my Dad is in New Orleans still and he called me up today and was telling me some stuff. Turns out we accepted help from Russian and an An-124 is in New Orleans right now. My Dad got about five pictures of it parked on the runway. Expect to see them when he gets home.

A Dutch company who is hired to set up a mortuary (a mortuary tent) needs antonovs to get all the stuff to the US. Apparently it takes them something like 5 flights or so to have all the material there to build a tent.

[scrybe]

It's actually quite impressive to see how many countries are willing to help us. Even Cuba. That was a shocker.

[K.Johnston]

It's actually quite impressive to see how many countries are willing to help us. Even Cuba. That was a shocker.

i guess they felt sorry for us, for all the times hurricanes bent them over a royally ****** them...