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Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Various ^ | 30 August 2005

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.

Sun-Herald Gulfport MS

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

Mobile Register via al.com

Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger

Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser

Pensacola News Journal


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; prayanddonate; tropical
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet

D-Day Museum is just off the Jackson Square block. Seems to be intact but water is rising.


1,801 posted on 08/30/2005 11:44:28 AM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: Txsleuth

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


1,802 posted on 08/30/2005 11:44:39 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I Support the President on Iraq and Our Troops; But 'll Freep Him In A Second for Illegal Alien Mess)
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To: Darnright

the Military is taking over soon....


1,803 posted on 08/30/2005 11:44:49 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: dware

Great post.


1,805 posted on 08/30/2005 11:45:05 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: Lizarde

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...!!!!


1,806 posted on 08/30/2005 11:45:18 AM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: All

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.


1,807 posted on 08/30/2005 11:45:22 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: proudofthesouth

I know exactly where they are, and unfortunately they are on the fault line, so to speak.


1,808 posted on 08/30/2005 11:45:26 AM PDT by Corporate Law (Xavier Basketball - Perennial Slayer of #1 Ranked Teams)
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To: Strategerist

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?


1,809 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:05 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: randita
To: randita To work a solution for this backwards,how about this: The gov guarantees hotels within a 200 (guess) radius of the expected landfall areas a certain amount per room. The rooms are used for the folks who can't afford or are not able to evacuate. That way, the folks at highest risk (nowhere to go, no $ to stay at hotel, no transportation) are rescued *before* their rescue from a rooftop is required. Saves lives, saves the Coast and National Guard, and saves clean up time and material.

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.

1,810 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:17 AM PDT by blu (only insiders knew about the AK-monkey-pumpers smack-down.)
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To: dware

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.


1,811 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:37 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: DollyCali
But you well know that good or bad news might take weeks to reach us.

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.

1,812 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:37 AM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: Dog

Time to start shooting to kill.

Looters are the scum of the earth.


1,813 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:43 AM PDT by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: spectre
Yeah, and the MSM is centered too much on the price of oil and the casinos! FGS!
1,814 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:49 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: BurbankKarl

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.


1,815 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:57 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: BurbankKarl
the Military is taking over soon....

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.

1,816 posted on 08/30/2005 11:46:59 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: jeffers
I understand your thinking, but if there's still a differnce in water level between that bridge and LakeP, even if the bridge were ultra-reinforced to do dam duty, the water would eventually spill over the levee above the bridge and just make a new path.

(?)

1,817 posted on 08/30/2005 11:47:12 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: tomkat

Holy cow!

I hadn't seen that picture.

Thanks for posting.


1,818 posted on 08/30/2005 11:47:15 AM PDT by confederacy of dunces (Don't forget the cheese!)
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To: shatcher
I meant high ground, relatively, for the area. If your dad's house is at 50', there probably aren't many around that are higher. That's probably what saved it.

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.

1,819 posted on 08/30/2005 11:47:18 AM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)
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To: Howlin

Howlin - you're killing me.
You will take FR threads over the official announcements of the NHC?

Catch ya later ... I need a smoke.


1,820 posted on 08/30/2005 11:47:32 AM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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