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.
I don't mind looters who are starving and loot the closed supermarket. That is a matter of survival. Food tends to spoil anyway and is most likely a total loss.
But I have no tolerance of theft of wealth goods like jewelry or computers or the people who are enriching themselves on the misery of others.
Today, a caller on talk radio revealed how a father/friend of his was going to New Orleans to take care of his son. The son was a gunshot victim of a looter of his house. While the son was out helping neighbors, looters helped themselves to his house. When the son returned, the looters shot him.
Looters of houses and non-edible goods should be shot on sight. No questions. Looters force the redirection of critical resources and shouldn't be tolerated. They are a threat to the health and well being of those in the community and it shouldn't be tolerated. We don't have the resources to jail or arrest them or take police and guardsman away from rescue efforts.
bookmark - good pics
Looters carry off goods from stores along Canal St. in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday August 30, 2005.(Matt Rourke / Austin-American Statesman/ WpN
Members of the Biloxi fire department work to remove one of six-bodies recovered in an East Biloxi, Mississippi neighborhood, Tuesday morning August 30, 2005. (Patrick Schneider / The Charlotte Observer
Ky Hoang, walks down the littered remains of Coon Street, as he worked to remove a few items from his parents destroyed house in East Biloxi, Mississippi, Tuesday morning August 30, 2005. (Patrick Schneider / The Charlotte Observer /
Deborah Duvall, wipes away tears as she sorts through the remains of her sister's home in East Biloxi, Mississippi, Tuesday morning August 30, 2005. (Patrick Schneider / The Charlotte Observer
Helen Waltman (left) comforts her granddaughter Hannah Mays, 5, after the two returned to their destroyed home in East Biloxi, Mississippi, Tuesday morning August 30, 2005. (Patrick Schneider / The Charlotte Observer
Members of the Biloxi Fire department search through the destroyed remains of the East Biloxi, Mississippi neighborhood, Tuesday morning August 30, 2005. The fire department had recovered six-bodies from the neighborhood, by early morning. (Patrick Schneider / The Charlotte Observer
Admonished to put "humans first" I use the argument that we humans are responsible to rescue and take care of creatures that we have domesticated, chained, caged, fenced, caused dependency on us for food and otherwise restricted from instinctively fleeing natural disasters.
We are the creatures' keepers.
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checking the pics following your comments.
The loony looters!!! I hope they figure out a way to eat those shoes and drink those coat hangers.
The architecture is one of the things about NOLA that I will miss (I hope O'Flaherty's Irish Channel Pub will be ok, best Irish pub I've ever visited for music and hospitality), you can about bet that modern rebuilds will not have the decoration. Without it, you pretty much have a dirty nasty town in many areas, flood or not.
Prayers for all my friends down there.
Yeah, a big "semi" .....semisubmersible barge, it's really floating on a catamaran-like pair of pontoons that stay submerged but support the big platform above it. This kind of arrangement evolved from a submersible barge, which was similar but much smaller and designed to sit on the bottom. Submersibles could work in up to about 50' of water, tops, whereas big semis, depending on their anchoring systems and dynamic positioning systems (propellers all over the pontoons, run by computers), can operate in up to 5,000' of water, or somewhere near it. You can probably find a good description of them on the website RigZone.com, an oil-industry site. They're classified by "generation", as they've evolved like computer chips, in spurts, and the "generation" generally corresponds to the water-depth capability (newer = deeper).
So there's a big "hull" (pontoons) that you don't see underwater, underneath the rig. The naval architect who posted up is right, that situation is a real mess, and someone's ass is going to hang higher than Haemon for not securing that rig better. You're probably looking at up to $400,000,000 worth of mobile drilling equipment there, capable of earning $250,000/day if it were working -- which was obviously what it was being prepped for in the yard, before all hell broke loose.
They may be able to jet around the pontoons, if the Corps of Engineers and EPA will let them, to try to refloat the rig (which will have been driven into shallower waters atop a storm tide). That'd be a ton of dredging, but cheaper than cutting the rig to pieces and reassembling it later. Ouch!
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ABOVE PICS.
The Gulf Coast recovers from Hurricane Katrina in Lake Charles, LA. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
Cars are piled up after the passing of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi Miss. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
Many homes are destroyed after the passing of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi Miss. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
Capri Casino and Resort suffered extensive damage after the passing of Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi Miss. Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
An oil rig is beached after the passing of Hurricane Katrina off the coast of Daulphin Island beach in Alabama on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
New Orleans Police officer J.J. Jacob guards the entrance to a drug store on Canal St. in New Orleans. Officers and others were inside the store gathering food and medical supplies for sick persons at a hotel.
A helicopter by the Hyatt Hotel damaged by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
The Treasure Bay Casino "pirate ship" is seen almost reduced to its frame by Hurricane Katrina in Biloxi, Miss.
The Hwy 90 Bridge across the Biloxi Bay is seen in ruins from the Ocean Springs, Miss. after Hurricane Katrina raged across the Mississippi coast Monday.
[Some of these houses look like they're just floating.]
An aerial of the 9th Ward area where water is up to the roofs in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, LA. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. (Bill Feig/Baton Rouge Advocate/WpN)
Two levee breeches in the Florida Street levee looking toward the Mississippi River in New Orleans, LA. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. (Bill Feig/Baton Rouge Advocate/WpN)
One of two levee breeches in the Florida Street levee in New Orleans, LA. on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. (Bill Feig/Baton Rouge Advocate/WpN)
anyone have the pic of I-10 over lake pontchartrain?
Twin spans of I-10 between Slidell and New Orleans, with many sections collapsed into the water as a result of the pounding dished out by Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
It's hard to take it in, isn't it?
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/
There are aerial photos of Biloxi and area if anyone has time to post them.
bookmarked
I couldn't agree more. My pets are "my children"
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