Look at the work Spiff has done! Isn't it wonderful?
It IS impressive.
Okay, enough please. You know who you are. This is a hurricane thread. Please go someplace else to debate the morality of thieves looting on Canal Street, or who (Who) saved New Orleans, etc...
There are people on this thread who have displaced relatives, and people like me who don't even know if they've lost relatives yet.
This is a 4,000 post thread... Please free up some of this it so we can exchange information and learn more about relatives, property, travel conditions, etc.
Thank you.
LS
More Biloxi News:
Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005
Biloxi Sun Herald survives hurricane
Storm surge did not reach building
At 3 p.m., Biloxi Sun Herald Operations Director Marlene Kler reported, “The worst is over. Water didn't get anywhere near the building.” The plant is located less than a mile from the Gulf of Mexico.
The building is without power and phone service, and cell phone service is out.
She said, “We have many, many leaks, however. No power, and the roof blew off the generator switch. When the rain subsides we'll try to get it started. No phones, no cell service. I'm sending this while UPS (uninterruptible power source) is still up. We lost a vent in the print storage area, but I think we can salvage most of the newsprint. Being in the building and draping plastic, using wastebuckets, etc., I think saved a lot of damage.”
Publisher Ricky Mathews said his family was safe and his home survived, but a neighbor’s home did not. (Phone service gave out at that point, so no details.)
Earlier, several newsroom staffers went to the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer, where The Sun Herald will be printed.
Knight Ridder Asst. Vice President News Bryan Monroe and a team of journalists from The Charlotte Observer, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, The (Macon, Ga.) Telegraph and the San Jose Mercury News are in Montgomery, Ala., ready to move in to help. They are also rounding up generators and chainsaws.
The Sun Herald is keeping its Web site -- www.sunherald.com -- updated with local news reports and blogs.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12507262.htm