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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
D-Day Museum is just off the Jackson Square block. Seems to be intact but water is rising.
Just thinking, if this gets out of hand, Can Pepper Spray/CS Gas be outfitted to be disbursed from helicopter gunships, so that these quick birds could swoop in low and unload a good tearful batch on these groups of looters? Just keep loading up, returning to the area, and spraying them again and other groups with the payloads? I'm sure word would spread and they'd knock this crap off. It might be a little more humane than using the helicopter gunships for their main, designed purpose? Of course, the helos would probably take ground gunfire from the 'oppressed' justifiably helping themselves. /sarc
the Military is taking over soon....
Great post.
Is that a NEW report from Fox about sending patients to the Superdome?
If it is that is CRAZY---if the sewer is backing up in there like ABC News said...that is nasty and dangerous to healthy people, let alone, sick ones...!!!!
Updates as they come in on Katrina
01:29 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Tom Planchet
1:30 P.M. - --The American Red Cross says it has thousands of volunteers mobilized for the hurricane. Spokesman Bradley Hague said it's the "largest single mobilization that we've done for any single natural disaster." The organization has set up operational headquarters in Baton Rouge.
--The Environmental Protection Agency dispatched emergency crews to Louisiana and Texas because of concern about oil and chemical spills.
--The Coast Guard closed ports and waterways along the Gulf Coast and positioned craft around the area to conduct post-hurricane search and rescue operations.
--The Agriculture Department said its Food and Nutrition Service would provide meals and other commodities, such as infant formula, distilled water for babies and emergency food stamps.
--The Defense Department dispatched emergency coordinators to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi to provide communications equipment, search and rescue operations, medical teams and other emergency assistance.
--The Health and Human Services Department sent 38 doctors and nurses to Jackson, Mississippi, to be used where needed, and 30 pallets of medical supplies to the region, including first aid materials, sterile gloves and oxygen tanks.
Some six-thousand National Guard personnel from Louisiana and Mississippi who would otherwise be available to help deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina are in Iraq.
Even so, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said the states have adequate National Guard units to handle the hurricane needs. He said about six-thousand-500 National Guard troops were available in Louisiana, about seven-thousand in Mississippi, nearly ten-thousand in Alabama and about eight-thousand-200 in Florida.
1:26 P.M. - Officials at LSU and local hospitals say they are triaging thousands of people being brought from outside the Baton Rouge area for medical care. The people are being bused in.
I know exactly where they are, and unfortunately they are on the fault line, so to speak.
I completely understand strike probability tables. Not to worry. But thanks for the vote of confidence.
The question I posed remains the same for those who want to play the blame game: At what point do you order a mandatory evacuation of a major city if you are in charge?
Of course, eligibility would be determined by FEMA lists (which is one of the great features of those Hippa forms you sign at the doctor's office sarcasm). If your name doesn't show up (eventually) on their list, YOU pay the hotel. Tranportation provided by whatever local entity has busses.
according to that pic water has another 10/15 feet to rise before the water level in the city and the water level in the canal are the same.
I know. I'm trying to be positive; the three of them are together, plus they are in a location that - even if flood waters were to come in, they'd be relatively safe until they could get out.
Time to start shooting to kill.
Looters are the scum of the earth.
One of many probably, Karl.....we have yet to learn how many more....and heart attacks/strokes/epileptic fits....this is very bad; and very sad.
Popping in and out, so forgive if a duplicate question. Has this been confirmed - martial law, I mean? I am not hearing it on the radio news I have been hearing.
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Holy cow!
I hadn't seen that picture.
Thanks for posting.
The wind is survivable at the level of this storm when it hit MS. The surge, OTOH, which may have been 30' or higher, will obliterate most structures in its path.
Howlin - you're killing me.
You will take FR threads over the official announcements of the NHC?
Catch ya later ... I need a smoke.
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