--- In [email protected], "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I saw something last night while sleeping which illustrated clearly
> the response to the ego's desire, in that while I was sleeping, I
> witnessed the birth of a thought, and the thought by itself was
> interesting, but I wanted to enjoy it more fully, so out of nowhere
> I dreamt the perfect analogue of the thought, as if one was a
> written line and the other was a painting or movie sequence based
> on the writing. Then, enjoying and learning from the dreaming, I
> continued to dream for awhile.
MSNBC "Countdown" host Keith Olberman speaking to correspondent David
Shuster from Mississippi this evening:
OLBERMANN: As you well know, Governor Haley Barbour came
back from an assessment tour of that county and two of the adjoining
ones and used this comparison today to at least what his mental
picture was of, if not the actual recorded films, of Hiroshima....
SHUSTER: ...I think what he's getting at, Keith, is the idea
as far as the logistical headache that they have right now. No
power, no running water, no electricity, spotty cell phone service.
We have seen people almost battling with one another over bottles of
water. The Red Cross can't get in because some of the major roads
are still blocked because of debris over them.
And there are still concerns that because of the gas lines
that have been ruptured in so many places that there could be
explosions, or they're worried about that. So it's just a logistical
nightmare.
And then the other part about it, Keith, is because so many
people evacuated from this Gulf Coast region north, all of the hotels
that any rescue workers might want to stay in, they're already filled
with people. They don't have any power, they don't have any running
water, in many cases, but they already have people in the rooms,
because those are people whose homes have all been destroyed and took
the governor' advice to leave.
So there's not -- it's just a huge logistical nightmare. And
I think to that extent, yes, I mean, it is, this is a -- it is a
catastrophe of almost biblical proportions, according to the people
who live here.
OLBERMANN: Last question, David, you mentioned evacuations
before all this took place. Has there been any figure, any estimate,
as to what sort of percentage of the population left before all this
happened?
SHUSTER: Keith, based on talking to the mayor of Biloxi, he
estimates that out of a sort of a population of 25,000 -- and then
another 25,000 who used the casinos, the tourists, most of the
tourists got out -- he says of the 25,000, he estimates that probably
about 30 percent, 7,000 or 8,000, left. The rest all stayed.
And that's one of the reasons why they still have deep
concerns that, when they start going through some of the debris, that
they're going to find hundreds of people underneath it. And they
have a very difficult time accounting for a lot of people, again,
because there's no cell phone service, no electricity, no sort of
modern form of communication.
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