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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
There's a Confederate Museum about two blocks from the D-Day museum as well.
Haven't been there- but according to their web site (http://www.confederatemuseum.com) they have (or had) an impressive collection of artificats.
Not that I've seen. Remembered reading this one earlier today though.
Updates as they come in on Katrina
02:10 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Tom Planchet
2:09 P.M. - Video on WAFB-TV shows the Twin Spans between I-10 and Slidell broken in dozens of spots.
2:07 P.M. - (AP) -- A top casino executive is calling on the Mississippi Legislature to enact emergency legislation to keep the state's coast gaming industry alive.
Treasure Bay Casino President and CEO Bernie Burkholder says most of the casino hotels on the coast survived Hurricane Katrina, but several gambling barges suffered extensive damage. He says it could take several years to rebuild.
2:01 P.M. - Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard says there is no plumbing and the sanitary situation is getting nasty. He told WAFB-TV that he is carrying around a bag for his own human waste.
2:00 P.M. - Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi says "this is going to be the most expensive natural disaster that's hit the United States in history."
If water is waist deep around the Super Dome, isn't that pretty close to the French Quarter?
I understand the sentiment but those casinos may be one of the few places available for emergency housing. Most have large hotels nearby which may be the only place the refugees can stay for a few weeks while the water subsides and the infrastructure is rebuilt.
It won't be like *living* in a hotel (room service, etc.) but it is a place where you can lay down and sleep. For some people, that's all they're going to have for awhile.
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I don't know if I can find it now, but I read a report that the Corps think it may be weeks or months before they can open the Mississppi River Channel into the Gulf. They keep dredges going full time in the
delta to overcome sand bars and shoals anyway. This storm was capible of actually moving the river's channel and mouth."
Yup, just one of the things the media hasn't even begun to consider.
The LSU professor I saw on TV earlier said that the storm surges overspilling the levees caused the breach - apparently wearing them down until they gave.
Son of a gun. Chavez and Putin. Who else?
:)
No worries. No flames over here. News is coming in FAST, FURIOUS & All bad - and there is little to no way to verify a lot of it without hard sources (links, papers, etc.)
two breaches the other at industrail canel, pumping station 6 about to fail. CNN.
All wind carries dirt, that's what causes windows to get dirtiest fastest. Lots of wind (like in Katrina)equals lots of dirt on windows.
Alberta's Child told me that these folks just need to look to their neighbors and family for help. Uh, wake up and look around. What neighbors? What family, in most cases?
"...he/she is a public menace who is putting other lives at risk through their own ignorance, stupidity, arrogance, etc."
Maybe one of the most ignorant, stupid, arrogant statements I've seen today.
The casinos themselves are on barges aren't they?
To gain an additional 24 hours you would be saying that they should have started the evacuation on Friday morning instead of Saturday morning.
The 11:30 AM Friday morning official NHC track predicted landfall near Panama City Florida. At that point Apalachicola and Panama City had almost TWICE the probability of being the center of this event than New Orleans. Friday afternoon to evening is when things began to change dramatically, and by Sat morning it was clear that LA was at risk, and it was Saturday morning when the evacuation began.
There is a very important lesson in it. A lot of middle class and wealthier people grabbed a few items of sentimental value and headed to Houston even before the traffic, and certainly as soon as the order was given. They didn't load up, they just got out.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of those who stayed did so just so they could take part in the looting. They are wading through feces-laden water to steal something that probably won't survive the week anyway.
As much as the class warriors like to claim it is the case, over and over again I find that wealthy people actually tend to care less about material things than poor people. I know only a few greedy wealthy people, but most of the poorest people I have ever met have been wholly preoccupied with "stuff."
God doesn't need to do anything to punish us, the worst sinner is also the most self-destructive.
I think the plans for most major cities are going to have to include large-scale movement of people by rail -- freight trains, mainly. Load any rail car capable of carrying people, and just drag them out of town. Of all the modes of transportation available, trains can carry by far the most people in the fewest number of trips.
Hopefully, just ONE shoe.
Liquidfaction? Just my guess being that they were earthen levees.
Uh - get in line, pal.
Wolf Blitzer starting in on the meme that the war in Iraq has depleted National Guard resources. I expect to hear this ad nauseum over the coming weeks.
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