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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
MSNBC: Lester Holt moving from Baton Rouge to MS border(near Slidell) on 2 lane road, I-12 reported blocked by downed power lines, state police told them a bit ago that they just don't yet have an assessment of the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
Semper Giggle
No, Vicente edits Bush's speeches before W delivers them.
If you somehow forgot or lost your prescription meds, there are hospitals where these types of things are available. I'm sure that if you find looters in a pharmacy, they ain't walking off with a vial of insulin and a couple of needles.
Oh My Goodness, you are my idol. That is too funny!!!
a 76 year old male is possibly trapped at 2706 Jacob Dr.Please Help. Last time heard from him was about 9 am this morning. He said his son is at Chalmette High School.THANKS
from the net
Wrong again, New Orleans got the "big One" and survived.
LOL
Each time we sing "God Bless America", He answers our prayers.
CNN is better but now I have a Harrigan 'whoa' sound life for eternal posterity.
They would have had it that bad with this storm if it had come ashore just a couple of dozen miles more to the west. This was not a "diminished storm." It was a Cat 4 and everything people have been fearing. New Orleans got hit hard but they DID NOT get the worst of it.
If I'm not mistaken, someone said Chalmette is the site of a big oil refinery.
MOBILE, Ala. -- Rain and wind pounded the Gulf Coast today as Hurricane Katrina moved ashore, spawning tornadoes and flash flooding in Mississippi and Alabama.
In Mobile, what officials feared would happen, did happen: Part of the downtown area was under water. The Mobile Convention Center looked like it was sitting in the middle of a lake as winds pushed water from the bay into the streets.
About 10 a.m., operators of the Marriott Hotel near downtown rang up guests and invited them to a second-floor ballroom of the high-rise building, where they could watch a movie, "Robots," and eat sandwiches. About 200 people showed up, but many stayed in their rooms.
Hurricane-force winds pounded windows on the glass-front hotel, feeling at times like a minor earthquake, and two metal flagpoles nearby were thrashed about. At midday trees, were still swaying in the strong winds.
Hotel officials kept shooing the curious away from large glass windows. They also replaced plywood covers over the front door, placed there to keep the wind out.
Electricity went out at 11 a.m., shutting off lights and air conditioning. Hotel management brought in generator-driven industrial fans to provide some relief from 80-degree temperatures and 90-percent- plus humidity.
In downtown Mobile, near the bay, water depths reached 10 to 12 feet. Hospitals along the coast report flooding on their first floors.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050829katrina-gulfcoast,1,4054384.story?coll=chi-news-hed
We joke about "your turn" but is it right to pray for a storm to be sent elsewhere?
St. Bernard Parish is 15-20 ft under water according to WDSU reporter stranded on 2nd floor of government building
I would hardly call a cat 3 the big one.
Semper Proud!
As are we all!!!
Not much anyone can do right now.
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I think we're not going to get a true picture of deaths until they run a house to house search of attics.
That wouldn't have been you with Shep at the French Quarter, would it?
Give it a rest, had the hurricane not weakened and the storm surge been just a few feet higher the bowl that NO sits in would have filled with Lake water to a 15-20' depth, instead of being mostly dry. If that had happened, their doomsday talk would have been very accurate. Normally I am also bothered by media hype, but in this case everything they reported that you are complaining about was echoed by the Nat'l Hurricane Center, based on years of studying what could happen with a Cat 5 storm. You don't know what you are talking about, so drop it.
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