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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Has anyone heard about Mobile? I thought I heard on our local station that water went inward for 2 miles.
Lots of boozers and po'boy eaters too.
Thank you both very much.
They set out a bunch of big pots to catch the leaks...
Those are Superpots!
He needed a cold shower.
No, FoxNews.
Uma cut off the president after his comments on the hurricane. But, I got to hear him say "and I want to make these comments on immigration".
Now - wonder how I will get to hear what the president says on immigration?
Just after Brit Hume took him to task for not getting his message out on the war and that he MUST DO A BETTER JOB OF KEEPING THE PUBLIC INFORMED.
I am furious at Foxnews. Oh, and my email was returned as non-deliverable to the posted Fox comments address.
There's a WWL (N.O.) weather forum where people are starting to post news from around the area. There's not much on there yet, but perhaps it's worth bookmarking and checking back on from time to time.
http://www.wwltv.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=1&sid=37d65c376f671954c2fb00658b13c1f6
I knew who was posting this before I even looked:')
Yep, well that's an accepted role for them, to help people involved in disasters such as this.
Isn't that pretty massive for so far inland?
Good thing they didn't use the Saints' receivers, they can't catch anything. (Ok enough Saints jokes for one day.)
MSNBC: Biloxi: reports that some persons had been spotted on rooftops. Surge may have reached 20', but weather is improving. Low tide in 3-4 hours.
It's hard to believe, but I don't think there's been a reported fatality yet. Doesn't mean it hasn't happened, but I find it awfully encouraging so far.
No, you are wrong. The whole world does not stop because of a hurricane and there are plenty of news reports on the hurricane.
Just another way to temper what and when the public hears the news.
FreeRepublic is giving far better coverage of the hurricane and all other news IMHO.
It was a prime example of the media screening what the American public hears.
Chalmette underwater
Monday, 1:30 p.m.
Hurricane Katrina hammered the Lower 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish, with residents telling tales of stranded people being plucked from their rooftops by passing boaters and flood waters as high as 12 feet well into Chalmette.
Residents fled the surging water, which quickly rose as the brunt of Katrina plowed ashore near eastern St. Bernard Parish.
Residents reported high water flooding such institutions as Rocky and Carlo's restaurant at the corner of St. Bernard Highway and Lloyd's Avenue. Others reported that homes on Campagna Drive were nearly underwater.
At Chalmette High School on Judge Perez Drive, officials had set up a shelter of last resort late Sunday. By Monday morning, the first floor of the high school was under water and the evacuees huddled in rooms on the second floor, reporting that they could only see rooftops of the surrounding homes.
The St. Bernard Parish government building, also on Judge Perez Drive, was said to have taken on 8 to 10 feet of water. The government building is in a stretch of the highway that comprises one of the parish's main economic centers, with a huge new Super Wal Mart nearby.
Semper Disgusted
One unconfirmed report spoke of 40,000 homes flooded in St. Bernard Parish alone, just east of New Orleans.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or serious injuries, but casualties seemed certain
Reports say the holes are so big it reminds them of what opposing offensive linemen open up on the Saints defensive Line......so big a locomotive could run thru.
After watching FOX all night, they sure did dodge the bullet.
FOX made it sound like NO would have to be rebuilt on another site, oh, and the dead would be floating all over.
The coverage from FOX has been so dramatic. With the drama queen Geraldo leading the way.
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