Posted on 08/29/2005 6:14:55 PM PDT by Howlin
Several people have requested a thread JUST for images of the storm.
Post them here, please.
Volunteer Shelbie Williams cradles 6-week-old Olivia Stephens at a shelter set up in a senior citizens center in Mont Belvieu, Texas Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. The baby and her parents are evacuees from Prairieville, La., outside of New Orleans. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
I saw this on the Hattiesburg online newspaper site and it touched me. No exciting water rescue, no windowless buildings, just two people weathering the storm.
adjunct to Edgewater Mall
right on the beach
original site of an old mob hotel...waaay back
I drive or maybe that should be drove over that bridge from time to time and it is the Africatown-Cochran Bridge, US 98 in Pritchard. Just this week or so I had notice that massive oil rig being worked on very near the bridge. It only had to be pushed up stream a short distance once it broke free.
Rising water springing the trunks on the low side of the lot? The water may well be going down in that picture.
If I understand the story correctly, he got caught by a gust from the hurricane as it was slamming into the gulf coast. If the guy was traveling, say, 65 ot 70 mph, and got caught by a wind gust of equal or greater force, you can easily see how such a devastating accident could occur.
yea....i sorta figured it had to be close...not washed all the way upbay from off Fort Morgan road
Not that it's their primary concern at this point, but hanging out with your feet in the water is best done without thinking about what's in the water.
Plumbers rule: "$#!t runs downhill."
Except during a flood when all sewer lines are saturated and everything diffuses everywhere. Just food for thought.
Thank you Mike..
Now, that is very interesting..
They are going to be rebuilding that region for years to come. I have a feeling the worst images are yet to come.
That's not gneiss! My boxes of rocks are smarter than these guys. LOL
"Attention residents, due to the disaster we will be serving fish for the next few days"
"The only bad part is I am out of tartar sauce"
Don't know if this has been posted.
Video from Gulfport...Ground Zero...No words to describe this....
http://www.hurricanelivenet.com/aftermath.wmv
I read that interview just recently. Not in Discover magazine, but somewhere - may have been online. I remember being shocked (well, ok, not really shocked) about his funding being pulled during the Clinton/Gore era as well.
Check out this image of Chalmette, LA that is too big to post here. Be sure to scroll down and across - notice the Home Depot in the distance on the right.
Now Frank - you're absolutely sure there's nothing wrong with the level you were using to install these poles?
Guy in the water: "For cripes sake Todd, this is no time to fix the pleat in your pants!!"
Actual caption
NOPD Swat Officer Lt. Todd Morrel, left, tries to fold up an ironing board as Lt. Chris Mandry, right, swims back from neighboring home as they, with New Orleans Times Picayune photographer Alex Brandon, work to rescue Lois Rice, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 after Hurricane Katrina. The officers cut a hole in the roof to rescue Lois Rice from her flooded home in the lower 9th Ward. She floated on an air matress to her attic. The neighbor on next roof gave the officers an ironing board for them to use as a stretcher. She cannot walk. Since the neighbor gave them the ironing board they took him on the boat also. (Melissa Phillip / Houston Chronicle / WpN ****No Tabloids USA Sales Need to Call for Details****)
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