Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII

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

[GovernmentShrinker]

That's why I said people who are grabbing survival supplies aren't really "looters". And I'm having trouble picturing anyone grabbing a stereo and swimming down the 10 foot deep street with it. If I saw anyone doing that, I'd assume s/he had sustained a head injury and wasn't thinking clearly. What does one do with a stereo that's been soaked through with muddy floodwater? And where would one take it under these circumstances?

[BenLurkin]

I'll join that FReeper in giving praise to God.

So that makes two of us at least.

[Gone GF]

Has anybody heard anything out of Thibodaux or Covington, La.? My parents live in the first (they are in NY this week) and I have other relatives in Covington.

[conservative in nyc]

See responses 3424, 3439, 3441 and 3468, among others, for information about Biloxi and Gulfport.


You can also try their newspaper and ABC affiliate for news. Someone else in another reponse posted a link to Southern Mississippi bloggers, but I don't have it.

[ctdonath2]

It saw him. It just didn't care.

[Types_with_Fist]

Yeah... me too. The fact that details are slow getting out from there is a very bad sign.

[CindyDawg]

You don't think they rationalize to justify they are stealing? Interesting. I never thought of a looter have a conscience.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Good map, I'm going to repost it and provide some references for those not familiar with the area.

For those who look closely, you'll see a faint blue line that is the Industrial Canal running north/south on the east side of New Orleans. Starts under the name "Seabrook", runs just west of the name "Gentilly" and joins the Mississippi River just south of the 'N' in "New Orleans". Running east/west just north of "Gentilly" from Lake Borgne in the east to the Industrial Canal is the Intercoastal Waterway. These 2 canals divide the city into 3 sections, each of which have their own levee system. So basically the NO area north of the Mississippi River is 3 bowls.

To the west of the Industrial Canal is the biggest, containing downtown New Orleans and further west Metarie and Kenner. So far it appears that none of the levees were overtopped, and the flooding is mainly rainwater confined to the lowest spots.

The smallest bowl is to the southeast, containing Arabi and Chalmette. The Miss. River rose high enough to overtop the levee, and so far it appears that this bowl filled to as much as 12' deep. This is the area where the water to the rooftop shots are from, and apparently where several casualties are. This area may have gotten the catastrophic storm surge flooding that was feared for the rest of the city. It was closer to the eye and full surge force than downtown.

Haven't heard much from the northeast bowl, but there were earlier some reports that an area of the levee along Lake Pontchartrain was (at least briefly) overtopped.

Other points of reference: Jefferson Parish is the area on the south side of the Miss. River from NO. Slidell is across the lake in the northest corner of the map. The hurricane made landfall several miles east of Slidell, just to the east of the map's edge, which is roughly the MS/LA border. Covington is just north of the map, where the causeway bridge reaches the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain(the green line.)

[SunnySide]

wind, rain probably some tornado action for the whole state of TN. The whole state will be covered by this system, so Tennessians better gear up.

[RobFromGa]

Man they will have a hard time to do an evac next time, unless the storm is tracking due west AND is a 5.

They can just show them pictures of what this storm did to people 30 miles away. And that's with the drop to Cat 4 at the last minute. New Orleans could have been a disaster...

[Moose4]

Yeah, but if I added that in, the tagline wouldn't fit. :)

}:-)4

[nascarnation]

Obviously this was an unsafe vehicle design.
Call Ralph Nader & Joan Claybrook & Brian O'Neil and a good class action law firm.
Any good minivan should be able to withstand a crash like that with no injury.

[kx9088]

I swear yesterday right before her outer bands touched the shoreline, she had a perfect circle for an eye and she looked like a friggin' buzz saw. Gave me chills down my spine.

[Dog Gone]

Would these bodies if just dead be floating this quick?

That's a fair question. But I don't know that embalmed corpses float any better than fresh ones.

As usual after a disaster, hard facts are in short supply.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Me too...loss of property is sad, but the fact that most people got out early enough to avoid death from the storm. WE should feel thankful that we have the technology to know where the storms are coming in and the means for large parts of the people affected had a chance to get to a safer location.

[Marysecretary]

Well, prayer sure helped!

[Abigail Adams]

Saying they may be able to get some copters up soon to get a first look around.

[conservative in nyc]

FOX News' Steve Harrigan is in Gulfport, too.

[No Blue States]

"We praise and give thanks to the Lord who spared the lives of many in this storm."

Who's "WE". Got a midget in your pocket? ;o)

I will be his "we".

[CindyDawg]

Make that three for we.