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direcNIC.com
... Katrina - Supplies, Caravans, and Helicopters |
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Pictures taken on This is Sigmund Solares, I am the CEO of Intercosmos Media Group,
Inc., the operators of directNIC.com in Downtown New Orleans. For the past
week we have continued to operate our data center while just about everyone
else has left. See http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/
for details about our struggle to operate our business in Other pictures are available at: http://sigmund.biz/kat20050901 http://sigmund.biz/kat20050901b http://sigmund.biz/kat20050901c http://sigmund.biz/k0200509012 http://sigmund.biz/ http://sigmund.biz/0903/index.html
Disclaimer: Most of these pictures are displayed almost exactly as
they came from the camera, no time or ability to have them color corrected,
no time to rotate all the pictures, sorry the goal is to just get them out as
fast as possible to disseminate information. A very few of the pictures have
comments due to time constraints.
In the pictures taken today you will see a lot of supplies,
caravans coming to complete jobs on a large scale and more significantly more
helicopters than in prior days. |
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One of the keys to survival is being observant. If you
overlook one small detail, then it can cost you your life, your business, or
your sanity. This is the truck that dropped off fuel to us in the morning
yesterday. When fuel was dropped
off we gave the National Guardsmen some Little Debbie snacks, cold cuts and a
few other items. We knew they had MREs, but, we also knew they would probably
enjoy eating something else for a change. |
Here is a close up of the number on the truck. |
Hours later on |
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Taking a look at the full truck it looked strickingly
similar to the one that fuelled us up. Look right above the passenger side of
this vehicle and you will see a refugee who approached the truck and accepted
a box from the National Guard. |
Blowing up the identifier on the truck shows that the truck
is the same one that visited earlier. |
The refugee is looking at the box. Taking a close look at
the box reveals that it is a box of Little Debbie snack cakes. |
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Take a close look at the box of Little Debbies…. |
This is a box of Little Debbies that is in our office. Examine
the box closely and you will find that the box is from the same exact lot as
the box of Little Debbies provided to the refugee. So this just shows that
the National Guard was willing to give away the little bit of variety that
they had… |
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Our office… |
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Close up of our command center. |
If anyone can reach Robbie Kagan please tell him that |
NOPD were visibly much more upbeat on Saturday compared to
prior days… |
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Diesel arrives at our building. |
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This is me, Sig, opening a barrel of diesel which had the
lid stuck on it. Simple physics dictates that the secret to opening a lid
that is stuck is to obtain more leverage. Here I leaned hard to hold the tool
in place, I used a trusty ISPCreator t-shirt wrapped around the tool for
leverage and for friction as well (diesel is very slippery) and the lid came
right off. |
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The National Guard. |
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The yellow truck in the background was commandeered by the
rescue effort. I am told that it was taken from two 12 year olds who got it
from who knows where. |
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Our 500 gallon diesel tank. This will be used to move 500
gallons of diesel up to the 9th floor so that we do not have to
move them by hand. |
This is me, Sig, |
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Danos (left) and Donny (right) |
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Ben… |
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This view of our building from behind shows our balcony. |
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Brian Acosta and Dr. Tom |
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Fire from |
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Looks a little hazy there… |
