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Thanks guys!

I can't find our sling! I did think of that but it went in the roof somewhere and can't be found... Oh well

Thank you, Gould was the place. Can't believe I'm going back there after 9 years. At least this time my husband will be with me 😀

Hi

It's been a long time since I visited the London Embassy. We are going there for CRBA and I have got an email telling me what I can and can't take but wanted to check some things here.

It says no big bags, will a large nappy bag will be ok? It's not like a huge suitcase but it isn't small. What about a pushchair? 

When I went there, phones and keys were banned so we stored our stuff at a local pharmacy, I can't remember where now. Do people still do this?

Thanks! 😀

You don't need to register the birth with the FCO to get the passport. You can apply directly for the British passport.

yes, this one is so different than any other, i'm sure.

Your comment is as relevant as a cop telling someone who had their car totaled that they've been in 6 accidents and their car was fine so theirs must be too and to move it out of the road.

Good job dodging the irrelevant insurance comment too.

So... let me get this straight. The people who are "victims" of this hurricane were "victims" of the last hurricane and we're supposed to feel sorry for them?

I already told you the answer to this in another thread. Who asked you to "feel sorry" for anyone? I was addressing an idiotic comment about insurance...

gee, that's a real conundrum there - how do people get to a hotel? i suppose they're just screwed, as there's no sidewalks, no cars, and no one can walk!

i've been through about half a dozen hurricanes in my lifetime and a typhoon in japan. i probably know a bit more about hurricanes and flooding than you do, so your attempt to portray yourself as an expert falls a bit flat with me.

Uh huh. Keep telling yourself that.

You didn't go through this hurricane. You have no clue about it, clearly. Whole parishes are flooded. Most people stay in shelters, where nothing is provided for you, but you would know that right? Hotels. There are roads and sidewalks, under water, yes. Their vehicles are also in the water. You are as uninformed as Gary & Alla.

i don't know about whether it's that common down there, but in most of the usa there's this place called a "hotel"

How do they get to these hotels? How do they pay for them? You have no clue about flooding, clearly. People are in shelters.

Again, how is insurance going to help? No one can get to their houses, you think insurance pays up instantly on their "word" that their house is flooded?

You will be in January.

What will I be doing in Janaury? please keep your weird propaganda to yourself. This article was about victims of Hurricane Isaac and how much of a moron Mitt Romney is. Did you bother to read the story? Clearly not. No one cares about your weird political agenda.

If i live in a mobile home right up Tornado valley's ####'hole, and a tornado pickes up my house and throws it like a football, can i blame the government? Before Obama files for unemployment in November, can i blame him if he doesn't send me a western union to help me out with that cataclysmic event?

Who blamed the government? Nice overreaction.

So what? ####### in one hand, empathy in the other...what difference does it make. Romney did 100,000 times more than phoney "empathy" will do.

Obama hasn't visited the area yet. WHY?????????????

What did Romney do? Nothing? Yes. Good job Romney. His running mate is proposing to cut funding to federal plans so that these people have nothing. Good job Romney.

At least you got your wish, deaths in Mississippi.

besides the obvious of rebuilding their home and covering the contents, insurance can pay for their temporary lodgings - better than nothing, eh?

How is insurance going to pay for lodgings? You can't even get to the homes... Explain.

I bet you think insurance companies paid after Katrina too. :rofl:

Actually they did predict that much rain.

No, they didn't. No one could have predicted that much rain from a category 1 hurricane. I live here, you don't and have no clue what you are talking about. Nothing new here.

Flood insurance.

What on earth does this redundant statement supposed to mean? Are you so uninformed that you don't realize people still don't have power? Are you so uninformed that you don't realize that people have been evacuated because of flooding and are unable to return to their homes? How is insurance going to help these people right now? It isn't. Try learning about a subject before making uninformed and pointless comments, you don't even know the basics.

Bless his heart.

A prepared politician would have given that poor woman the special backline # to the FEMA Director in the next FEMA-District-Over from her particular FEMA district.

Ok la, he's a tard. Yay Mitt !

A politician who actually cared would have offered for one of his staff to call on her behalf, understanding that losing everything means they don't have a phone. They would also follow up the call and check on the person. Instead Ryan wants to cut funding for this. They will lose votes over this for sure.

If Obama were doing anything for her, she would not have to ask Romney. I guess she is just going to have to take care of her own business rather than depend on politicians. If it happened to me I would be calling my insurance company.

Obama hasn't visited the area yet, he is visiting tomorrow. Obviously you are as informed as Romney. She doesn't have a phone.

By her own admission she lives outside the flood protection zones. Are we supposed to feel sorry for people like this?

Yes? No one could predict this much precipitation from a category 1 hurricane. No one. Why should anyone be outside of the federal levee system? Aren't we all as important as each other?

b]Mitt Romney To Flood Victim: 'Go Home And Call 211' [/b]

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney launched the final leg of his quest for the White House by visiting storm-battered Louisiana on Friday. He drove through a town that was flooded by Hurricane Isaac in part because it's still outside the vast flooding protection system built with federal funds after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

Romney and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal ® spent close to an hour meeting with first responders and local officials. Romney shook hands with National Guardsmen outside the U.S. Post Office and talked with a local resident, Jodie Chiarello, 42, who lost her home in Isaac's flooding.

Chiarello said she told Romney, "I lost everything" and that the presidential contender advised her on how to get assistance. "He said that he was going to do the best that he could for us," she said.

"He just told me to, um, there's assistance out there," Chiarello said of her conversation with Romney. "He said, go home and call 211." That's a public service number offered in many states.

Chiarello said she will likely seek some other shelter because her home was submerged in the flooding. She expressed frustration about the town's lack of flood protection.

"We live outside the levee protection that's why we get all this water because they close the floodgates up front and all they're doing is flooding us out down here," she said. "It's very frustrating, very. We go through Katrina and Rita and now we're going through Cindy, Lee and now Isaac."

Romney's last-minute visit, announced less than 12 hours after he became the Republican nominee, took him to the disaster area ahead of his Democratic rival, President Barack Obama. The president was following with his own visit to Louisiana on Monday, the White House announced.

Romney went at Jindal's invitation, his campaign said. Jindal, a Republican, told reporters Romney had been in touch several days ago to ask how he could help with storm relief and Jindal suggested Romney come down and see the damage for himself. He said he had extended an invitation to Obama as well.

On the visit from the pair of Republicans, Chiarello said, "He’s good. He’ll do the best for us. He has our best interests at heart. I thought he’d be more like a politician, but it was more understanding and caring."

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Clearly Romney doesn't understand, or care, what losing everything means. Another great way for Romney to lose votes, keep up the gaffes!

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, fresh from his party's convention in Tampa, Florida, pre-empted Obama by touring a flooded community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, Friday afternoon, along with Governor Bobby Jindal.

Democrats pounced on Romney, whose running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, this year proposed eliminating disaster relief spending from the federal budget and requiring Congress to pay for emergencies like hurricane relief by making other budget cuts.

In a statement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called Romney's visit "the height of hypocrisy."

Isaac left some homes in the state under 12 feet (3.6 meters) of water. More than 500,000 homes and businesses across Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas were still without electricity Friday.

As Isaac fades, sparring over disaster funding

A K-1 is for marriage in the US only. You cannot get the K-1 or enter the US on a K-1 if you are married. There is no "file later" trick - married is married.

If it is important to marry in Australia, then I suggest a spousal visa after wedding there. A spousal visa is cheaper and less complicated anyway. If you are going to be living in Aus for a while, why not?

IR-1/CR-1 is far less expensive and you can get a GC once you enter the US.

Take the Dutch approach and let the water rise.

Dutch Answer to Flooding: Build Houses that Swim

I've see those before, they're amazing. What about the hurricane force winds though?

The Netherlands are very innovative, that's for sure. The dam they have is incredible, 1/4 of the country is reclaimed land. Double decker trains are the best idea ever too!

The problem for Plaquemines parish is they are outside of the federal levee system.

I believe that despite the lower category, that the storm moved more slowly and lingered caused less destruction by gales but created as much strain in the system as Katrina in terms of volume of water.

Braithwaite looks like a war zone. It is really sad and it reminds me or earthquakes... All you can do is look for shelter and watch it all go to waste...

It was a bizarre storm, it created an eye inside an eye, and yes it was extremely slow moving. It rained constantly, that's how Braithwaite got so screwed. They described the fast rising water as worse than Katrina. No one could have predicted this from a cat 1. I can see how this is like an earthquake, there isn't any notification of it happening and by the time it does there is nothing you can do.

Storm surge here was 6-8ft, and about 12 inches of rain. 60mph winds. The rivers will flood next. There are people in low laying areas who rebuilt their houses on stilts after Katrina, the water went up to their doors! It seems like whatever they try it isn't enough.

Hopefully some drought stricken areas can benefit from the rain.

I spoke with a couple of friends in NO yesterday and they were without power and grilling everything in their freezer lest it go bad.

Glad to hear you made it OK, or at least it seems so...

Thanks! We had tornadoes and lots of flooding locally, but nothing affected our house thankfully. Nola got a lot more wind and rain than us. Friends there told us they're without power too, lots of trees and power lines down. Glad your friends are ok. Have you seen the pictures of Braithwaite? It's shocking, this was only supposed to be a cat 1 storm.

So you don't live in MS?

It's really none of your business where I live. I'm sure you're going to make more jokes about how people died in their houses now. Have fun with that, again.

hey no cursing on vj.

Thank you so much that really helps me and my laziness Didn't want to pull those out.

No problem! Getting that info together would be a nightmare, the IRS actually makes this easier for us! They don't take long to order either.

I thought you lived in MS?

I don't live there. If you saw the devastation of Plaquemines time and time again you'd know what I meant.

heck of a name there

You should see the names of the rivers in Louisiana! Tchefuncte! Then there's all the French names too!

Just like God hurled Hurricane Isaac at the Republican National Convention, but missed.

Maybe god hates Plaquemines parish? They said the water was worse than Katrina. Plus they got really badly hit by the oil spill. Is god testing us?