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A Canadian search-and-rescue team reached a flooded New Orleans suburb to help save trapped residents five days before the U.S. military, a Louisiana state senator said on Wednesday.

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The Canadians beat both the Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. disaster response department, to St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans, where flood waters are still 8 feet deep in places, Sen. Walter Boasso said.

"Fabulous, fabulous guys," Boasso said. "They started rolling with us and got in boats to save people."

"We've got Canadian flags flying everywhere."

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posted by No Yards:
Cool. does this mean we finally won the battle of New Orleans, taken over the city and we now own it?

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I think there are some situations where people have to be in excellent shape, they have to be able to follow orders instantly, and they have to be able to take control of a situation quickly.

Obviously, good leadership is important, and brains and initiative when leadership isn't available. This means that those taking the orders must trust and respect those giving the orders.

My only reference is something I read about the aftermath of an earthquake in the former Soviet Union. It was shown that the USSR really had no emergency response plans or anything.

In one instance, survivors had found a boy, buried up to his chest under a collapsed building, alive by mere luck. At once, civilians ran to dig him out, while the writer of the piece had shouted "No! No!" (He was ignored.)

It turned out that the rubble and debris in which the boy was trapped was all that was holding his broken bones and wounds together. As soon as they pulled him out the boy died.

The writer said that a trained emergency response team could have prevented that and extricated the boy safely.

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Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton

In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip.
We took a little bacon and we took a little beans
And we caught the bloody British in the town of New Orleans.

[Chorus:]
We fired our guns and the British kept a'comin.
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago.
We fired once more and they began to runnin' on
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.

We looked down the river and we see'd the British come.
And there must have been a hundred of'em beatin' on the drum.
They stepped so high and they made the bugles ring.
We stood by our cotton bales and didn't say a thing.

[Chorus]

Old Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't fire our muskets 'til we looked 'em in the eye
We held our fire 'til we see'd their faces well.
Then we opened up with squirrel guns and really gave 'em ... well

[Chorus]

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.**

We fired our cannon 'til the barrel melted down.
So we grabbed an alligator and we fought another round.
We filled his head with cannon balls, and powdered his behind
And when we touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

[Chorus]

Yeah, they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast that the hounds couldn't catch 'em
Down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico.**

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Liberal Attitudes
Liberal politicians
Gay People
The French

Sounds like Canada to me.

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posted by Nanuq: The Acadians in those parts must be feeling mightly confused. First we expel them and now we come save them?

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Originally posted by West Coast Tiger:
That was great Skdadl! You just made my day.

Ya... New Orleans should be part of Canada. Lord knows we got plenty of Acadians in those parts. I'm one of them and my family to the south is one of the largest Acadian families in N.O. I am so glad that CANADA is right in there as pronto as they can. For the first time in awhile, I am feeling deep national pride.

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Originally posted by Nanuq:
The Acadians in those parts must be feeling mightly confused. First we expel them and now we come save them? They'll probably ask us to make up our minds.

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