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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I suspect that they can't use the NOLA airport until someone surveys the runway to see if it's been undermined. I'm not sure that they're not going to have to airdrop those items in that are too large for helicopters to carry.
Multiple Texas emergency task forces and organizations on the way to the AL-MS-LA Gulf Coast area per TXCN.
One would think so. Some of it would certainly be draining back into Lake Ponchartrain, but the bulk of it seeminly would find its way to the Mississippi. I haven't heard anything about what's happening to water levels in either of those lately.
"the only safe way in or out right now is air."
The WDSU video showed N O Int'l in detail. No large debris on the landing strips.
I could swear I heard Jamie what's his face, Clinton's old FEMA director, say that they had those things!
"More than one person ended up with HIV because of their attitude... :
A beautiful lady who was one grade below me in HS died this year because of this. She had a rare blood disease and rec'd bad blood. This fabulous lady became a spokesperson for HIV and remained so until her death. God bless Sue Sullivan.
Seriously?
They've got a big shock coming, don't they?
Those two are getting married!
Depends on the drainage basin. Eastern MS, AL, and east drain to the Gulf east of NO. TN and north of the Smokies will eventually reach the Miss. River, but most of that will take a long time to make it downstream, because of the slow flow rate of rivers and length. Look at a map of MS. and notice how much the river winds like a wet noodle. Might be twice as long as the straight line down that course. Roughly if you draw a line up I-55 to Jackson, then northeast to Columbus, everything to the north and west goes into the Miss. River, but a good bit of that was on the lighter side of the storm. North of Baton Rouge are massive floodgates, that can divert lots of water into the Atchafalaya River, a 20 mile wide swamp to the Gulf far to the west of NOLA. And by the time that much of the water gets down south of Baton Rouge, Lake Pontchartrain will be down and they can divert more water from the river to the lake at the wide spillway west of the NOLA urban area.
Americans built and designed many of the pumps that the Dutch use.
The US Army Corps Of Engineers is literally the best in the world at hydrodynamic control.
It is going to be rough going through detox with 15,000 new friends, MRE's, and toilets that don't flush. They may want to reconsider the pat-down proceedure next time. By morning, it would be a good idea to pass out adult beverages to take off the edge.
I agree 100 percent.
FEMA is ready go roll.
I'm just watching a wmv from storm chaser Mark Sudduth from Biloxi...hesistant to post the link here for fear of crashing his server....
It's really horrendous; lines of debris piles from the surge.
A really enormous Baptist church that basically is an empty steel frame...
There was a report earlier that the power was cut to the city....and the distribution lines are down, and the nuke plant is turned off...
how can there be power in those NO neighborhoods?
If you want a tag-team partner, I have one piece of advice for you: PRAY. It worked for us.
Removal, or just reposted him with an altered title?
Did you see the tiff at the gas station?
Video from Gulfport... absolute catastrophe. Reminds me A LOT of Tsunami stuff. Buildings just ripped from the storm surge..
http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?showtopic=48416
There will also be significant, and varying, delays for the storm runoff to make it's way through the various watersheds it's generated from to drain back into the Mississippi, and then down the Mississippi. The water won't come back as a large "slug", but rather as a broad "mound" dispersed over time.
Air Force base...they were going to Los Al...
maybe they took Bush's C17
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