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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
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| 29 August 2005
| NOAA - NHC
Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: NautiNurse
Go get some sleep, we have two more headed this way, thank you for everything you have done, above and beyond the call of duty and you still dealt with the kooks and the attention deprived.
4,021
posted on
08/29/2005 1:23:45 PM PDT
by
eastforker
(Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
To: RobFromGa
4,022
posted on
08/29/2005 1:23:47 PM PDT
by
fooman
(Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
To: ContemptofCourt
Delayed my response - had to wipe tears from my eyes.
4,023
posted on
08/29/2005 1:23:47 PM PDT
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: JerseyHighlander
I agree. It would be nice to see at least "one more" hurricane thread. FR is about the only place to get good news on what is going on once one weeds through the regular gab.
To: fooman
Any video or stills of looting?
4,025
posted on
08/29/2005 1:24:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: jveritas
"Take it easy, will you."
I will after I find out if all of my family is alive.
4,026
posted on
08/29/2005 1:24:47 PM PDT
by
LibSnubber
(Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
To: Quick1
???
NONE of these looters is "stealing" to save their own life, somebody's else's life, or their children's lives.
NONE have been "threatened" with anything but discomfort, pain from wind and exposure, and wind-blown debris.
What? Are we supposed to believe they are "starving" or dying of thirst after 6 hours of the hurricane? With shelters and fire stations and police stations and other official shelters and churches ...... all available in walking dist of every house in the city.
4,027
posted on
08/29/2005 1:24:47 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(-I contribute to FR monthly, but ABBCNNBCBS supports Hillary's Secular Sexual Socialism every day.)
To: BurbankKarl
"Wonder if Corky's BBQ made it..."
The Memphis Headquarters is fine so far.
4,028
posted on
08/29/2005 1:24:56 PM PDT
by
Cedar
To: JerseyHighlander
4,029
posted on
08/29/2005 1:25:06 PM PDT
by
NautiNurse
("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
To: silentknight; LibSnubber
The media can only report from where they are. Most bunkered down in New Orleans because that's where they thought the storm was going to wreak its worst havoc. They stayed in the French Quarter because that's where the hotels are and it's one of the higher (i.e. safer) points in the city.
As the weather gets better and they get out and about the New Orleans metropolitan area and beyond, they will report from there.
My guess is Slidell was hit pretty hard, but isn't completely submerged. The land there slopes up from the lake, not down, according to Google Earth.
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To: JerseyHighlander
Thanks for posting that. I will pray for the man with all the animals.
To: LibSnubber
God protect your family. Where do they live?
4,033
posted on
08/29/2005 1:26:14 PM PDT
by
jveritas
(The Axis of Defeatism: Left wing liberals, Buchananites, and third party voters.)
To: oceanview
I agree with you, all these models we saw about how NO can be flooded (the Atlantis type flooding we were hearing about in the runup to this) - they need reworking, because I think they make some assumptions which are very unlikely. it seems like to take out NO, the hurricane would have to be moving northwest, riding right up the mouth of the river into Ponchitrain.You are wrong. The hurricane lost just enough strength (down to a low Cat 3 by the time it was even with NO) and wnet just enough east, that the storm surge south off of Lake Pontchartrain was only about 15' instead of the predicted 20', which would have overtopped most of those levees. Instead only one area (so far) was reported to have an overtop from the lake, apparently in the northeast bowl. (There are actually 3 levee created bowls north of the river, not one.) The levee bowl that is most of the city wasn't overtopped but it was close. The reports of deaths and 40,000+ flooded homes are in the southeast(Ariabi) bowl where the Miss. River overtopped a levee, flooding that bowl to 8-12'. So that worst case scenario did take place to an extent in some of the city, just not in the one with the Superdome, French Quarter, and all the TV cameras.
To: LibSnubber
Thank you for stating what needed to be said. It is getting tedious.
4,035
posted on
08/29/2005 1:26:27 PM PDT
by
EBH
(Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
To: Pilsner; green iguana
The first thing they did was build a sea wall... ;^)
Most of the work was done during the 1930s.
To: jveritas
Who else did it? Who can lessen the fury of a storm and greatly weaken it before it hits land and spare the lives of so many people? Only the Good Lord can do it. Keep your faith my fellow freeper. Oh for crying out loud, if God can lessen the storm and spare lives, he could have prevented it from being created and any lives being lost. And no I will not debate his wisdom.
To: BurbankKarl
this question needs to be asked: will countries from around the world come HERE and help US rebuild what was destroyed? Answer: NO! We'll do it ourselves, just like we ALWAYS do.
4,038
posted on
08/29/2005 1:27:39 PM PDT
by
NCC-1701
(ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
To: Reborn; txflake; Izzy Dunne
4,039
posted on
08/29/2005 1:27:43 PM PDT
by
bwteim
(Begin With The End In Mind)
To: Marysecretary
>>>Ivan is not a woman...
Metro?
:))
4,040
posted on
08/29/2005 1:27:56 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
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