Showing posts with label disaster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disaster. Show all posts
Stanley Cup Riot 2011; Vancouver, Beautiful British Columbia.
http://vancityriotcriminals.tumblr.com/
There were 70,000 raging lunatics in the streets last night. It is rumoured that one Bruins fan was tossed over a bridge and killed. Luongo, from what I have read, is still unharmed, so figure that shit out.
In the above video a man tried to deter people from smashing windows of businesses, shouting "This is MY city!!" and he, in turn, was beaten.
But there were 1300 (and counting) lovely Vancouverites up bright and early to help clean up the remains of the chaos and embarrassment that occurred:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Post-Riot-Clean-up-Lets-help-Vancouver/215683225132481
Unfortunately, the looting is still pretty widespread as the police try to keep up with the people of Vancouver who need widescreen TVs and Hudson's Bay blankets to keep them warm after the loss of the cup:
http://www.theprovince.com/opinion/Riot+substantially+under+control+looting+widespread/4953623/story.html
Of all of the shame and disgusted comments I have read on Twitter, Facebook, and various comment boards, I think this one sums it up pretty nicely:
There were 70,000 raging lunatics in the streets last night. It is rumoured that one Bruins fan was tossed over a bridge and killed. Luongo, from what I have read, is still unharmed, so figure that shit out.
In the above video a man tried to deter people from smashing windows of businesses, shouting "This is MY city!!" and he, in turn, was beaten.
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| Credit: Getty Images. Journalists are now looking to identify the loving couple. |
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| Credit: Dan Foreman facebook page; originally posted by Dave Whitney. |
But there were 1300 (and counting) lovely Vancouverites up bright and early to help clean up the remains of the chaos and embarrassment that occurred:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Post-Riot-Clean-up-Lets-help-Vancouver/215683225132481
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| Credit CBC. |
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| Credit: CTVBC. |
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| Credit: Metro. |
Unfortunately, the looting is still pretty widespread as the police try to keep up with the people of Vancouver who need widescreen TVs and Hudson's Bay blankets to keep them warm after the loss of the cup:
http://www.theprovince.com/opinion/Riot+substantially+under+control+looting+widespread/4953623/story.html
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| Credit: Twitter. This is circulating trying to take this guy down. |
Of all of the shame and disgusted comments I have read on Twitter, Facebook, and various comment boards, I think this one sums it up pretty nicely:
"I don't think I'm going to move to Vancouver after all. It's not the city I thought it was."
Slave Lake Fires Destroy 50% of Town. City in State of Emergency. UPDATES
“Ten minutes in the town and it was black," said volunteer firefighter Wayne Bacon. "You couldn’t see. People were going out of town like crazy. All four highways were closed. Finally they let us all get out."
"The town is gone," one woman sobbed. "There's nothing left. There's places where there should have been houses, and they're gone. We lost everything."
If anyone is able to help, here are some ways to do so:
TWITTER: Check the hashtags "#slavelakefires", "#slavelakefire", "#slavelake" and "#Wildfire". People are checking in to ask for assistance and offer help every minute. Many have already found places to stay, families willing to allow their yards to be camping areas, and many many mothers parting with children's items for the misplaced families. And don't forget the Edmonton hashtag "#yeg".
FACEBOOK: Slave Lake and Community Message Board is connecting people through Facebook. People are suggesting items the residents may need, offering places to stay, and alerting people as to what items they are willing to donate (baby clothes, food, blankets, etc.)
ALBERTA WILDFIRES LIVE is a live blog that is updating the situation in real time.
RED CROSS ALBERTA is taking donations via Twitter as well as their website for Slave Lake disaster relief. Their phone number is 1-800-418-1111.
FOR INFORMATION ON LOVED ONES call 1-800-565-4483.
WILDFIRE ROAD CLOSURE HOTLINE: 780-644-5653.
EDMONTON EMERGENCY RELIEF accepting slavelake donations starting at 10AM at 10255 104 Street. Unopened toiletries, clean bedding/towels.
If you have friends or family in Slave Lake who were medical patients - Call Alberta Health Service at 1-866-301-2668 to locate them.
http://watch.ctv.ca/clip467801#clip467801
Thanks for reading.
UPDATES:
- Athabasca shelter full. All asked to head to Edmonton.
- town office, provincial building, Sawridge Mall, RMS School, Catholic church, Radio 97, Scope Newspaper, possibly SL Ford... ALL GONE. 12:06pm
- Mayor confirms hospital and school still standing, though damaged
- CTV Reporter Sean Amato also believes that the Sawridge Hotel and the college are also untouched
- Wildfire information officer also says they are expecting additional wildfires to be ignited due to lightning
- Stretches of following hwys closed: 2 east and west of slavelake, 88 north of slave, 750 from hwy 679-hwy 88
- AB Sustainable Resource and Development says 39 of the 116 wildfires currently burning in AB are burning out of control
- SOUTH OF THE HIGHWAY IS UNTOUCHED.
- All are being asked to go to the EXPO CENTRE in Edmonton. There is food, water, cots, and counseling. 12:35pm
- If you need to direct someone to important numbers for Slave Lake, the site is: http://proudtobealberta.ca/2011/05/slave-lake-fire/
- Aerial view of Slave Lake:
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- FACEBOOK PAGE UPDATED WITH THE MOST URGENTLY NEEDED ITEMS: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=115084005244550
- Video of Slave Lake:
- Friend just tweeted "About 28 kms from #SlaveLake and just spotting the first plumes of smoke.."
- A Provincial emergency hotline has been set up: call 780-310-4455
- Water bombers and helicopters fly over #slavelake - smoke still billowing from almost every angle...
- Stelmach to arrive in Slave Lake within the hour
- Downtown core still appears to be intact near college at #slavelake
- Stelmach arrives in Slave Lake 1:41pm:
- Mayor of Slave Lake: http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/video/index.html?releasePID=CVfZceIQ9vnfjkILlRLzgBIQaHMHyywK
- 9 Street and 7 Avenue in #SlaveLake - Not much left of this neighbourhood:
- Apparently, the legion hall in Westlock is FULL and not taking any more donations at this time.
- AHS has issued an air quality advisory for Northern Alberta due to numerous wildfires
- Website created to help those misplaced by the terrible fires: http://www.rebuildslavelake.com/
- All banks safe. Rumour that Bank of Nova Scotia burned down unfounded. No banks lost.
- Now they are saying only 30% of town destroyed; better than the 50% they had estimated earlier.
- Slave Lake is low on gas and parts have been without power.
- There are now unconfirmed reports of looting in the area.
- Around 70 firefighters from the Edmonton area as well as 200 from B.C. and Ontario are expected to help fight the wind-whipped wildfires over the next few days.
- MAP OF ALBERTA WILDFIRES:
http://www.globaltvcalgary.com/story.html?id=4792284
- Slave Lake Fire and Aftermath, pictures from a Facebook page dedicated to cause:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150599730975527.674018.539910526
Ben Folds Covers Ke$ha's 'Sleazy'.
It never occurred to me that people may not have heard this yet, because it is necessary if you enjoy Ben Folds and things that are great.
It was recorded for the Tsunami Relief Fund.
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?4hwr20p5b4sb1ws
"fuck a duck."
**Title courtesy of Mr. LePage.**
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Gilbert Gottfried was fired from his job as the voice of the Aflac duck (which consisted solely of saying ‘Aflac’) this week after a series of “insensitive” tweets about the Japanese tsunami.
Perhaps for obvious reasons, I always take much greater offense to people telling comedians what they can and can’t joke about than I do to the content of any supposedly “offensive” joke.
Are “insensitive” words going to make more people die? Will they prevent anyone from donating to relief efforts? Does acting very somber and humbled actually help anyone? Or is it just a way to make the “somber” person feel like a caring humanitarian? I pose these questions as rhetoricals, because I’d hope the answers are obvious to any half-bright individual.
And that is to say nothing of the EVEN MORE obvious fact that anyone who knows anything about Gilbert Gottfried knows that 85% of the man’s career is making insensitive jokes. Remember that movie, The Aristocrats? That entire idea for that movie started because Gilbert Gottfried told the joke at a Hugh Hefner Roast. The roast was taped shortly after 9/11, and Gilbert Gottfried told a 9/11 joke, at which point people yelled “too soon!” and then, as a way to keep from bombing hard and ruining the show, he went into his insanely dirty version of the old joke The Aristocrats and brought everyone back. Can you see what I’m getting at here?
And he was the voice of the Aflac duck for a FULL DECADE after that.
It was for appearances. 75% of AFLAC's profits are tied to Japan. Let's not make this more than it is. It's economics, not propriety. Plain and simple.
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, Gilbert Gottfried was fired from his job as the voice of the Aflac duck (which consisted solely of saying ‘Aflac’) this week after a series of “insensitive” tweets about the Japanese tsunami.
Perhaps for obvious reasons, I always take much greater offense to people telling comedians what they can and can’t joke about than I do to the content of any supposedly “offensive” joke.
Are “insensitive” words going to make more people die? Will they prevent anyone from donating to relief efforts? Does acting very somber and humbled actually help anyone? Or is it just a way to make the “somber” person feel like a caring humanitarian? I pose these questions as rhetoricals, because I’d hope the answers are obvious to any half-bright individual.
THAT’S HIS JOB, as a comedian, to find the humor in something before the rest of us do.
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And that is to say nothing of the EVEN MORE obvious fact that anyone who knows anything about Gilbert Gottfried knows that 85% of the man’s career is making insensitive jokes. Remember that movie, The Aristocrats? That entire idea for that movie started because Gilbert Gottfried told the joke at a Hugh Hefner Roast. The roast was taped shortly after 9/11, and Gilbert Gottfried told a 9/11 joke, at which point people yelled “too soon!” and then, as a way to keep from bombing hard and ruining the show, he went into his insanely dirty version of the old joke The Aristocrats and brought everyone back. Can you see what I’m getting at here?
THIS IS THE SAME GUY WHO SPAWNED ‘THE ARISTOCRATS’, WHICH ITSELF WAS SPAWNED BY HIM TELLING 9/11 JOKES RIGHT AFTER 9/11.
And he was the voice of the Aflac duck for a FULL DECADE after that.
It was for appearances. 75% of AFLAC's profits are tied to Japan. Let's not make this more than it is. It's economics, not propriety. Plain and simple.
Another human being's suffering is never that far from home.
"Heys pretty!
If you get the chance, please do a short tweet/blog post for Zack Finfrock's 24-Hour Draw-A-Thon in aid of Japan. http://www.livestream.com/
Absolutely. *
I have done very little for the relief efforts besides donate to the Red Cross and we have two big bags of clothes and blankets etc that we are putting together for them as well. I shall be taking my own advice, I assure you. My friend Amber (who happens to have a Twitter page now-YAY-and blog about robots that I will link at the bottom of the page) does a Magic Penny every month and is dedicating this month's to relief efforts in Japan, she just needs some creative ideas. She was thinking perhaps books, because standing around while your city floods/burns/evacuates and you are left with no drinking water/electricity/food/emergency services/company can get pretty depressing. A good book can be the escape into another world that may very well be needed.
I mean, for Christ's sake, emergency personnel can not even BEGIN to reach the areas in desperate need. The damage is too extensive. I just imagine people who have lost (sometimes literally: check out the video of the woman who had a hold of her daughter until a wave came and the mother watched her child washed downstream) everything they have ever known in their lives and are now just waiting... waiting for help, waiting for direction, waiting to die? It breaks my heart.
So, try to do something, Guys. Twitter and Facebook groups are fine, but maybe if you have things around your house you aren't using... money you were going to use to take a trip that can be put off for a few months... even TIME to help pack up supplies at your local Red Cross depot, please do what you can. These people have NOTHING LEFT.
All the world peace preaching in the world doesn't do what the support of another during a time of crisis can.
*Amber, if you have any links or any other info in mind, let us all know. And Christina, I wish your friend luck in his Draw-a-Thon. He's a good man.
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