Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

NOAA - NHC ^ | 29 August 2005 | NOAA - NHC

[Coldwater Creek]

Glad to see someone besides me knocks Ole Miss.

[CindyDawg]

Strange. I would have thought they would have kept people there for awhile. Maybe times are changing.

[rwfromkansas]

Fact: most of the people at the superdome are poor. Most are minorities.

The govt. did not try to evacuate them at all. They just shoved them into the Superdome.

[RobFromGa]

Bush should authorize release from Strategic Reserve only to replace losses caused by this act of God, not as a price-control measure.

It should be easy to calcuate lost production and replace it from the SPR, without significantly affecting the reserve.

[cajungirl]

Plaquemine parish,,Did you ever hear Marcia Ball's great song about the 1927 flood of the Mississippi,,she sang about the water in Plaquemine. But it was the city I do believe, not the parish. The parish of Plaquemine was home to Leander Perez, one of Louisiana's fine mobsters.

[cyborg]

:D

[Guenevere]

..already told her/him/it....seee #2108

[ChadGore]

"WWWhhhhoooaaaaaaa . . for Fox news, I'm Steven Harrigan"

[Types_with_Fist]

Compared to some of the speculation last night, they WERE lucky.

Considering what could have happened it's beginning to sound like they did get lucky. Still a lot we don't know -- and not all danger has passed. If the worst had happened we wouldn't be hearing any live reports out of New Orleans.

[battlegearboat]

His microphone sure does work well.

Sounds like he's in a studio.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Ah, wrong word. Thanks.

[cyborg]

Yeah I noticed that too.

[CFC__VRWC]

I would like to point out that during these storms, all kinds of wild rumors about damage and destruction go flying around. At this point, no one in the storm really knows what's going on outside their particular location.

Example - during Hurricane Charley a report went out on the radio that a famous landmark near me, the Bok Singing Tower in Lake Wales, Florida, has been blown down. I even reported that to my folks, who were in Ohio at the time. It turned out later, of course, that the tower, which is made of coquina, was just fine. I personally think some jerk-off decided to try and be funny and yank all our chains by calling in a completely bogus report.

So please view some of these really sensational reports with a fair amount of skepticism - we are not going to have a really accurate assessment of the damage until the storm is really over and people have a chance to go outside and start looking around!

[sonofatpatcher2]

I did not know he had apologized when I did my 2,055 post...

However, it has been said murder can be explained and forgiven, but exceedingly poor taste is always a death sentence, applied at once without appeal...

[oldleft]

Maybe he's on the same set where they filmed the moon landings...

[RushCrush]

"My sister told me this morning that her 7 year-old asked why almost all the people in the line were black. Of course, it was something we all noticed, but nobody but a child would say it. I saw alot of Blacks, but I also saw alot of Cajun White types."

I guess I just saw a lot of human beings. But that's just me.

[Coldwater Creek]

I wonder how many other had the same problem with their cinnamon toast. Lots of people were eating it last night/early morning. Broke the tension some. Others were mad as rip.

[Sprite518]

Gulfport is getting Pounded right now. Just caught a glimpse of some reporter there. It looks like he is in some wind tone that is blasting him with water.

[FreeAtlanta]

You know all this Hurrican stuff is just Karl Rove trying to distract from Cindy Shehan.

[Gone GF]

"These people were TOLD to evacuate and now they want to be saved ASAP? Amazing."

Let's see -- you have no car or money for gas and there's no public transportation leaving the city any longer. Or, you're too old, frail, or sick to leave. Now exactly how were you suggesting they evacuate? We could use all your novel ideas next time.