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Carters Mom · 09-27-2005, 09:36 PM

It was brought to my attention in the yorkie cyberworld community that many, many people are outraged with me.

Back on 9/2, I posted a very long reply to this thread http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16342 that when I hit the post button, the page went to an error page and it lost my entire post. At the time, I didn't have access daily to the Internet and we were still dealing with energy issues.

Here is a post that I posted elsewhere to address this issue:

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Wanting to share for those that demanded an apology. By the way, the thread was closed prior to my return from being in a mandatory evacuation.

I did receive an email from admin at YT and it did state that two members left because of me and that they hoped my comments were made at a time when I was distressed. Until you go through what we, as a region, are going through, you'll never understand what we are going through.

Since Hurricane Katrina, we have endured Hurricane Rita and have many relatives and friends that have totally lost their homes as well - including my mother-in-law who is one of those "poor" and "impoverished" people. I bet most didn't know that Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes sustained tremendous amounts of damage from Rita. It hasn't been on national news yet!

Poor has no discriminating lines amongst sex or race.

If you want to get angry about something that is worse of a crime than leaving pets behind, ask FEMA why people being evacuated from their homes and the Superdome were separated from their children! Why children were taken from their rooftop on one helicopter ride and their parent was taken on a different helicopter. Then -- they never reunited. They weren't brought to the same staging area. When they were bussed or flown out of New Orleans, they were taken to different shelters, many in different states! How many of the human children still have not been reunited with their families -- especially those under the age of 2?

I volunteered at a shelter helping people trying to locate their loved ones. It was truly sad. My teenaged daughter also volunteered and helped new arrivals at the shelter get fresh clothing of the proper size - many of these people had been on rooftops and in houses for many days. I've done my penance and I have made peace with myself.

I will not post here in the future. I am a good person, just emotional at times. Walk a mile in my shoes and you'll give them back.

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I do apologize for saying what I did in the context that I did. Online in forums, we only have limited ability to express ourselves and I did it poorly.

There has been outraged expressed because people are not being allowed to take their animals with them on the helicopters rescuing them or on busses to Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Houma, Thibodaux and other cities where they are heading.

With tens of thousands of humans needing transportation to better places, just so that they can get water to stop from dehydrating, clean facilities so that they are not standing in their own feces and basic nuitruition to stop starvation, there just isn't room at this moment to take the animals.

Representative Charlie Melancon was in Chalmette yesterday in St. Bernard Parish - also referred to as New Orleans East. He was sickened by the sight of over 100 people who were dead from dehydration, exhaustion, heat stroke, natural causes that could have been prevented. These deaths were to people who had been plucked from their roofs and had been left on a dock in Chalmette to await further transportation to safety!

Resources are not available to care for the humans. It isn't that no one cares about the animals. Things have to be put in the proper prospective.

This is from my hometown and posted by the newspaper that I photograph for. It is a positive article about pets. http://houmatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...KING/509010318

Register and read it. It does show the compassion of people.

The President, the Governor, the Mayors, the Parish Presidents have all said on TV -- everyone was told to get out. People did not listen.

Red Cross shelters were set up in almost every town outside of New Orleans. Schools, civic centers, churches, etc all opened their doors. Those places did not expect payment for housing. If there is a will, there is a way. I made my arrangements 5 days before the hurricane struck. I feel bad for those that felt they had no way to leave. We're not rich but we're not poor. If we were totally wiped out of all our belonging and had no where to live, I'd be in the same position of those that are feeling the brunt of this tragedy now.

When you look at TV and see what is happening, you'd only expect to see this in a 3rd world nation. It isn't though . . . it is 50 miles from me!

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I am truly sorry to all my friends here that I offended. You are my companions as much as Carter and Cooper most of the time!

I really feel that we are seeing the collapse of society in our area right now. It is really sorrowful that this is happening. It isn't everyone that is acting out in poor judgmental ways but its always the negative that gets the press.

I hope that the words of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin were heard all over the US last night. I've never seen a mayor so pissed off and saying things that will politically derail him in the future. He put politics on the back burner and spoke from his heart with concern for his citizens.

I'm not a great big fan of Jesse Jackson but his press conference at lunch today (the part I saw), I was very supportive of. He commented that within 2 days, the victims of the tsunami were airdropped water and food. Here we are on day 6 and basic human essential things are still not in place.

There is no way for anyone to get into the area. All of the roads leading to the New Orleans area are blocked and police are not allowing access at all. Even if you want to volunteer in the area, you can't.

I'm praying for everyone that is affected by all this. I could not imagine going through what these displaced Americans are going through.

I am a military mom . . . I would pray that the Marines and Navy would be sent in to help. The National Guard is finally arriving in NO.

We are still void of any information on my husband's brother and sister-in-law in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. It may be weeks before we're able to get any information, good or bad. At least our phone is working so if they are alive and can get access to a working phone line, perhaps we'll get news.