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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
"A lot of people were probably moved. Many in nursing homes are very ill these days. The aquity gets higher all the time. We need more information. It may have not been anything to do with the storm."
Three Nursing Home Residents Die During Hurricane Evacuation
BATON ROUGE, La. The hurricane evacuation has turned deadly in Louisiana.
Three people being bused to a Baton Rouge church died: one aboard the bus, another at the church and the third at a hospital. They were being moved from New Orleans.
The coroner's office in East Baton Rouge Parish isn't saying yet how the three people died but says many other people riding on the same bus were dehydrated.
He says some of the elderly people already were "pretty fragile."
Travelers reported the trip on the evacuation route from New Orleans to Baton Rouge was taking several hours because of traffic jams.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3776385
WWL: Area around Celebration Station is under water. (IIRC, that is Metarie, which is on the west side of the metro.)
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Figure 25: Hurricanes 1947, Betsy, Camille and Georges |
Hurricane of 1947 (September 04-21, 1947) |
The 1947 Hurricane made landfall near the Chandeleur Islands, LA on September 19, 1947. Wind gusts of 112 mph and a central pressure of 967 millibars (mb) were measured at Moisant International Airport. A storm surge of 3.0 m (9.8 ft) reached Shell Beach, Lake Borgne. Moisant Airport fields were under 0.6 m (2 ft) of water while Jefferson Parish was flooded to depths of 1.0 m (3.28 ft). New Orleans suffered $100 million in damages. Total loss of life was 51 persons. As a result of this storm, hurricane protection levees were built along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain to protect Orleans and Jefferson Parishes from future storm surges. |
Hurricane Betsy (August 08-27, 1965) |
Betsy was a fast moving storm (22 mph forward speed) that made landfall at Grand Isle, LA on September 10, 1965. The central pressure at landfall was 948 mb. Grand Isle experienced 160 mph gusts and a 4.8 m (15.7 ft) storm surge that flooded the entire island. Winds gusted to 125 mph in New Orleans with a 3.0 m (9.8 ft) storm surge that caused the worst flooding in decades. Winds reached 100 mph over most of southeast Louisiana and exceeded 60 mph as far inland as Monroe, LA. Offshore oil rigs, public utilities, and commercial boats all suffered severe damage. Loss of life from Betsy was a total of 81 persons, with 58 in the state of Louisiana. Damage in Southeast Louisiana totaled $1.4 billion. The Orleans Levee Board raised the existing levee to a height of 12 ft in response to the flooding caused by Betsy. |
Hurricane Camille (August 14-22, 1969) |
Camille intensified rapidly in the Gulf of Mexico, reaching Category 5 status by August 16. The small-diameter hurricane headed NE at 14 mph and made landfall in a sparsely populated section of the Mississippi coast on August 17. Wind estimates during landfall reached 175 mph. Atmospheric pressure at landfall was 901 millibars, second only to the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 (892 millibars) as the most powerful storm ever to reach the U.S. coast. The storm surge generated by Camille flooded areas from lower Plaquemines Parish, LA to Perdido Pass, AL. The storm surge exceeded 24 ft in Pass Christian, MS. A 4.6 m (15 ft) storm surge inundated Boothville, LA. Storm surge reached 2.7 m (9 ft) in the Rigolets and 1.4 m (4.6 ft) in Mandeville, LA. The confirmed U.S death total was 258. Louisiana damages totalled $350 million. Structural damage at landfall was near complete. Louisiana damage was severe south of Empire, LA. |
Hurricane Georges (September 15 - October 01, 1998) |
Georges did extensive damage to Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands. Georges made final U.S. landfall near Biloxi, MS on September 28. The maximum sustained surface wind at landfall was 104 mph and the minimum central pressure was 964 mb. Maximum storm surge in Louisiana was 2.7 m (8.9 ft) at Point à la Hache. Maximum surge along the U.S. Gulf Coast was 3.4 m (11 ft) in Pascagoula, MS. Georges severely eroded the Chandeleur Islands which are the first line of storm surge defense for southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi. Total loss of life was 460 persons, all outside of Louisiana. Dozens of camps not protected by levees were destroyed along the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Georges again showed the vulnerability of New Orleans to hurricanes, and efforts resumed the following year to improve the levee system along the canals that connect the city with the Lake. |
Source: Hurricane dataset obtained from the National Hurricane Center website.
this is why TV news is so stupid. They sit there in the Walmart parking lot watching aluminum siding blow around instead of putting someone on the levies.
Anybody have any reports from Madisonville? It is apparent my wife's grandparents house in New Orleans in underwater, they are in Dallas hoping to find out about their house in Madisonville. My advice to them is get in the car and come stay with us in Seattle.
How do you raise an island? Does the former first floor of a house that survived the hurricane become it's basement?
Could they move it to Northern Pennsylvania? We need some excitement up here.
Pass Christian for Camille?..looks like Katrina is a twin path almost mile for mile..unreal.
Wonder if Corky's BBQ made it...
Hwy 90 went with Camille, too...it's right along the waterfront.
FReeper Liberty2004 is in Metairie...
Continuing to send prayers.
Concur, I think much remains to be discovered about the wider effects so far.
I think I'd be slow, also, to assume that we've seen everything so far. Lake Ponchartrain is still rising, presumably from runoff upstate, and I assume that the mississippi will rise as the upstate rain finds its way downhill as well.
Anybody knows about a thread that might have been started to collect or direct on how to help victims. Other than the Red Cross?
I don't want to argue with you. You're right, okay? New Orleans was wiped out by thge big one.
I believe the point is that the phrase "dodged the bullet" usually means that one has come out unscathed from a potentially life-threatening situation, but New Orleans has hardly been unscathed. While the "bullet" didn't kill the city, it is nonetheless badly wounded. The phrase "dodged the bullet" is not an appropriate one in the case where the bullet *did* hit the victim, even if it didn't kill the victim dead.
If the hurricane had swerved and missd the city entirely, *then* it would have "dodged the bullet".
The news folks really need to find a better, more fitting phrase to describe the situation.
Yep. They'll only report from there if they were trapped en route somewhere else.
That's exactly what my husband said yesterday!!
Instead of putting "someone" on the levies, I'd think they have the technology to put unmanned video cams in more important areas than Walmart.
Good point. IIRC, in one of his posts a few days ago he said that he was on some of the highest land in the entire NO area, so hopefully he isn't affected.
On the list of hurricane preparations is a first aide kit. You have your meds with you and take them if you leave or keep them close esp if life saving. You stock up on water and food. I have enough not just for mine but for a neighbor that might not have prepared too. That's the way you do it. No need to loot stores and RXs.
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