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Posted on 08/30/2005 6:51:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Catastrophic damage occurred to Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Major bridges are destroyed. Mobile AL suffered its worst flooding in 90 years. In New Orleans, a large section of concrete levee broke last night. Water continues to rise, threatening, among many things, Tulane Hospital with 1000 patients. New Orleans officials: Do not attempt to return to the city at this time if you evacuated. It is too dangerous.
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula
Gulfport News via Topix.net WAFB Baton Rouge
Slidell, Mandeville, and Covington Updates Warning: website is overloaded due to heavy traffic
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
My GOD...I've been out of the loop for only a couple of hours...this is stunning..water coming up around the Super Dome now? I can't catch up with it all.
Is this going to be like Galveston?
I have a friend who lives in NO and thank heavens evacuated, and he says even the locals all it "Bienville's Mistake". You can't protect a city built 6-8 feet below sea level forever. I used to inspect levee like structures and small earthen dams, and the worst case scenario is that once one goes the others get undercut and start to fail. If there is a 200 foot section missing somewhere I would expect a much larger failure is a possibility. This is going to be a catastrophe of monumental proportions for that area and a monetary disaster for all of us.
Keep watching the world. One of my side concerns is that an enemy (foreign or domestic) will try to pull something while we are justifiably gazing at our national navel.
Store Openings Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola,Fl
8/30/2005
B & H Food Store on Hall's Mill Road is open.
Cain's Grocery Store in Loxley is open.
Medicap Pharmacy on Emogene and Florida is open.
Greers Food Tiger on Hwy 45 in Robertsdale, Fairhope, McIntosh, Camden, Grovehill, Jay Florida and Lillian are open.
LOWE'S on Airport and Schillinger is open.
Wal-Mart in Saraland is open. Three gas stations on highway 158 in Saraland are open.
Sam's Wholesale is open in Mobile, Alabama.
Cordova Mall and University Mall in Pensacola are open 10AM-9PM.
I also have my doubts that sandbags will stop the flooding.
They may be 3000 pounds, but with it already being unstable, having them dropped from a helicopter could make other parts of the levee even more unstable nearby.
Current report that the Hampton Inn in Slidell had 20' of water in it.
I would have thought that scene would have reminded him of downtown Philadelphia. ;)
LaRosa's tore down the restaurant and deli on Boudinot and build a big new restaurant on the site. Still great pizza and the chain is growing (expanding over into Indiana and up to Dayton). The old Italian Inn deli was in the new part for a while but it eventually closed, I guess sales were not enough after the rebuilding. Skyline and Graeters..........(insert Homer Simpson drool).
To put this in context, Diamondhead is fairly high ground in that area, isn't it?
Please - we have FReepers with family in these locations, keep unsubstantiated speculation about death tolls off this thread. Use common sense, please.
www.ak-47.net use the roadhouse forum... That's what it is for ;^)
The broken levees are on the lake. There's no "upstream" contamination because the Mississippi isn't what is overflowing into New Orleans.
15 feet of water in Slidell according to St Tammany Parish EMS guy, per WWL-TV
One would think somebody would announce some coordinated plan to get everyone out of the bowls - everybody. Maybe nobody is in charge, and nobody is trying to fit all the pieces together. Nobody is trying to set up some temporary camp to house tens of thousands of evacuees. Nobody is organizing sending in fleets of those big military helocopters to transport those in the bowl to the camp outside it. Why? Their probably isn't a chapter on it in the Fema handbooks that one can readily turn to. All three levels of government on this one appear to be horribly and tragically incompetent. Heck that one levee was leaking for 24 hours with nobody knowing about it, and just some reporters and Freepers chatting about just why the water was rising.
Foxes ratings are going down after this. If the conservatives are watching CNN for their professional coverage, then that's bad for Fox.
I couldn't stand Shep going into a bar in the French Quarter yesterday. I'm sure the people were relieved, but there were also a lot of people stranded (and dying) in other parts of the city.
Actually, his little state of denial started early that AM, before dawn broke, when he said he had been listening to the local newscasters and the storm had jogged a bit and the eyewal was ragged on the NO side.
I really think all his "positive" talk was a way of self-coping. But not a good thing for a reporter to do.
He seemed really scared the night before.
15 FEET of water....omg!
"To: EBH
Just heard a story that the 17th street levee had just broken...any truth to this?"
I have seen reports to this effect, that may be where the engineers are looking at helo drops in attempt to seal the breach..
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