My father recently returned from Waveland Mississippi. He works for the Polk County Radio Emergency Management team, and I'll go briefly into some of his encounters. Destruction wise- Waveland is no more. There are a set of railroad tracks five to eight blocks from the shore. Everything from the tracks to the shoreline is gone. Not even the debris was left behind, it was either washed inland or out to sea. There are a couple of foundations and stone steps, and thats it. From the tracks to several miles inland, all the homes and buisnesses are either completely flooded out, destroyed, washed away, etc., but at least the debris is still there. There was one home that looked to be completley intact, except that it was on the otherside of the street from where it originally was. Heavy tin roofs are sitting on the ground, the rest of the house being flooded or blown out from beneath it. The only structures marginally intact in the city are churches and shopping centers. They found five bodies on top of a local K-mart five miles inland, all of them died by drowning. Interstate 10 was under thirteen feet of water. Major highway bridges, railroad trestles, washed away. No sign they ever existed. Boats, cars, sitting on top of ten foot high pine trees, some of them resting up on 30 foot tall hills, clearly do not belong there. And everywhere you walked, there was a thick coating of Mississippi mud, makes you slip and slide, and hard to clean off of your boots.

After ten days of standard work, he goes back up there again for another two week.s

Ouch - doesn't sound good at all...

I mean, we've all heard about New Orleans, but sometimes I forget other places got hit too.

Yeah New Orleans was hardly affected by the storm compared to these other areas. It wasn't even until after the storm that the dikes and leeves broke, and then the looting was all the attention. The people in Mississippi were so pissed at the governer that they flew the American flag up first, then below it the Florida state flag, then below that the Mississippi state flag.

Forwarded to me from a friend. So true, So true:

Things I have learned from watching the news on TV

during the last eight days:





· The hurricane only hit black family's property





· New Orleans was devastated and no other city was affected by the hurricane.

· Mississippi is reported to have a tree blown down.





· New Orleans has no white people.





· The hurricane blew a limb off a tree in the yard of an Alabama resident.





· When you are hungry after a hurricane steal a big screen TV.





· The hurricane did 23 billion dollars in improvements to New Orleans: now the city is welfare, looter and gang-free and they are in your city.





· Don't give thanks to the thousands that came to help rescue you; instead, bitch because the government hasn't given you a debit card yet.





· Ignore warnings to evacuate and the white folks will come get you and give you money for being stupid.

Let's see... what's the word for this...

Oh yes! Bollocks.

That about says it, right?

No, as a certified english person, I can say that bollocks is almost an endearing term. Perhaps something of sterner quality is needed for this, considering it's inaccuracy and ignorance?

It depends on the usage; bollocks can mean something of a surprise expletive similar to "bugger". When used as "the dog's bollocks", it generally is describing something particularly good.

It can also be used as something synonymous to the word "rubbish" or "nonsense."

But something too stern wouldn't be needed because Kraken is just posting something sent via e-mail from a friend... and Kraken's Kraken. It's like blaming a child for saying a word he heard on television.

Kraken has a point...


(((DID I JUST SAY THAT)))


...this is what the news here in Ami-land has been saying. And it is true unfortunately. We may disagree but the truth does not lie.

Hah.

A load of bollocks.

At least Silus is spreading the news around the world of the correct spelling of that term. Rather than some folk citing thier ignorance by spelling it Bollox.