Race for the Rain Forest - #63

Teeny, candle lit plus many hopeful prayers sent for your familes safety.

Morning, all. Hate to start the day on a gloomy note, but this needs to be shared:

Several before/after satellite photos
of the devasted areas.
http://snipurl.com/hct6

for refugees. If you have family/friends in
New Orleans, maybe they've checked in to
confirm they're alive.
http://www.nola.com/

All the best to all the wildclickers and my toes and eyes are still crossed. (Hadda uncross my fingers to type.)

Merry, thankyou for the information.

I've posted the links at other sites as well.

Teeny and Danon ~ prayers and hope.

truly horrendous images, Merry.

Thanks everyone for your good wishes and prayers.

Neat links.....

Clicked and we are at 46 + acres now.

aktbird57 - You and your 283 friends have supported 2,004,607.8 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 62,972.5 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (62,972.5)

American Prairie habitat supported: 38,247.0 square feet.
You have supported: (10,464.1)
Your 283 friends have supported: (27,782.9)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,903,388.3 square feet.
You have supported: (163,415.8)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,739,972.5)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1211 46.013 acres

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Good Golly, Miss Molly - we slid right on past 46 acres!

Dance everyone - stomp and flail away the blues.

Yaaaay!!!!! Jump - skip - jump - skip, skip, skip - jump.

(My improv of Snoopy heading for summer camp at the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm)

Clicked.................................

I think I just threw my sacroiliac out of whack.












(BTW, what the heck is one's sacroiliac?)

A big old nerve, MA.

Sorry, that's wrong. The sciatica is the nerve.

First DRY, breezy day in months. All the windows wide open.

Gulf Barrier Islands - swamped, almost gone, certainly more vulnerable and less effective in protecting inner areas.Webpage Title

BEAUTIFUL! Thank You!

Received phone call from Florida, letting me know that 3 sisters I grew up with are safe there. One is a Professor at Xavier University and the other two teach high school students! We all attended Xavier Univ. Prep scheoll together. It's under water, too! Entered relatives name on craigslist.com and CNN. I take exception to American Citizens being called "refugees"! They were evacuated making them "evacuees". Refugees are from Cuba and Haiti or Mexico. Being from there and it's my home-town, I really resent resorting to one of the oldest community of color with its' rich, cultural, history, being relegated to that status, as though we are some, "other"! The news media are as guilty, for insinuating us back, to almost "slave" status! Are the so-called "shelters", concentration camps?
People left with the clothes on their backs! You'd be smelling to high heaven if you hadn't bathed or eaten in 5 days too.

Glad to hear that you've had some good news about family, TeenyB.

The language that's come out of what's happened to the Gulf Coast is distressing. When I caught a few minutes of Aaron Brown on CNN on Wednesday or Thursday night, he was reacting to someone using the term refugee - wasn't taking it well at that point. By last night, it seemed to be standard. My mother was a refugee within her own country 60+ years ago. Is it different to use the term for Americans? I don't know.

Not a good thing to be, wherever you are and wherever you're from.

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You and your 283 friends have supported 2,006,036.0 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 63,253.5 square feet.
You have supported: (0.0)
Your 283 friends have supported: (63,253.5)

American Prairie habitat supported: 38,270.4 square feet.
You have supported: (10,464.1)
Your 283 friends have supported: (27,806.3)

Rainforest habitat supported: 1,904,512.1 square feet.
You have supported: (163,462.6)
Your 283 friends have supported: (1,741,049.5)

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1 Aktbird57 .. 1212 46.050 acres

Hi teeny, thank God your family is safe and ok. It is certainly a good thing to have happen.

I have just heard from our friends who live in Ocean Springs, MS. They are alive and well and rode out the Katrina in their home. It flooded, but is still standing - albiet they said a tree is now sharing the garage with what remains of their auto. I am so glad they are alive and ok.

Hey, Wildclickers!! We are swiftly headed for 50 ACRES!!

aww, Teeny ~ such good news! Thank you for letting us know that your sisters are safe!

I thought "refugee" a bit much defining American citizens in their own country as foreigners <or referring as much> and I agree with eBeth ~
"refugee" a sad word in any language-but then what can we expect from some people in the news media. Not apparently. The people of New Orleans and MS are "victims" of a level 5 hurricane - and to blame poor folks that had no means of transportation <or a summer home to evacuate to> - ludicrous. Will be interesting seeing how the rebuild will accomodate all the poor residents of New Orleans. Oh, and btw, the teenager that took the school bus and loaded all the people in it - then drove to the superdome - should receive a medal!

Danon, just arrived home from work and read both yours and Teeny's posts ~ so happy you and Pattie heard from your friends from Ocean Springs!

We have much to celebrate today!

sumac, very sad news regarding the Barrier Islands, people, wildlife, and the eco-system affected by the the hurricane. Devastating.

Sorry to disagree, but I, for one, don't see what's wrong with the word "refugee." A refugee is a person displaced from his/her home and seeking refuge (safety). It has nothing to do with ethnicity or nationality. The media is using the word in its commonly accepted dictionary meaning, that's all.

Nice card Stradee. We are fortunate in that we may Celebrate this storm.

Great to have you back, Merry Andrew.

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