[NormsRevenge]

Waves crash against a boat washed onto Highway 80 as Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 in Gulfport, Miss. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

[NormsRevenge]

A New Orleans city police car with its rear window broken is abandoned in flood waters on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans August 29, 2005, in advance of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast on Monday with 140 mile per hour (224 kph) winds as the powerful storm came ashore from the Gulf of Mexico and took aim at low-lying new Orleans. (Rick Wilking/Reuters)

[SkyPilot]

Not as bad as first thought, but we'll have to wait and see. Not over yet.

Perhaps the prayers of just a few were enough for the Almighty to spare the city.

[marvlus]

"I'm not doing too good right now," Chris Robinson said via cellphone from his home east of the city's downtown. "The water's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live."

Sheesh!! Darwin Award prospect?

[L98Fiero]

OK, our office is shutting down at 11:00 CST. Things are getting quite blustery here in Jackson.

[NormsRevenge]

Debris from a fallen building covers several buildings in downtown New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)

[jonatron]

Here is a good website with eyewitness accounts and stories from the storm:

Nola.com

I think I heard on the radio that the lower 9th Ward is flooded. Does anyone know?

[Veritas et equitas ad Votum]

Though I feel sorry for those whose property has been/will be destroyed by Katrina, I am equally outraged by President Bush and the entitlement mentality in this country which supports the notion that the federal government exists to provide "disaster relief".

FEMA, as well as any "aid" distributed by President Bush is socialism at its finest, and I oppose any and all attempts to use tax dollars for such purposes.

If it truly were in the best interest of Americans to help the people and businesses of New Orleans rebuild their damaged property, we would gladly pitch in and help.

But, for the federal government to march in and allocate tax dollars from my wallet into the wallets of other Americans is no less egregious that the Kelo v. New London decision.

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A vehicle makes its way through a flooded street from the overflowing Grande Lagoon in Pensacola, Fla., as Hurricane Katrina passes through the area, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)