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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
The Friday 12Z GFLD model run had moved to SE LA. On Sunday when Gov. Blanco was spreading the lie that "We went to bed Friday thinking it was a FL storm, and woke up to find it a LA storm" I went back and documented in a post refuting evidence. There is a graphic link to the computer model projections at around 4pm that shows almost all of the models converging on SE LA. That was available to authorities early Friday afternoon. Search the Sunday night hurricane thread and you'll see that post, and its 5 links to supporting evidence, posted 2 or 3 times.
That there was a Friday morning track of FL is rather meaningless since it shifted to close to NOLA, with the warning that it could shift even further west, just a few hours later.
If you remember the evacuation last year in California because Prado Dam was too full and leaking and they "feared" it would break. They had officers knocking on doors and waking people in the middle of the night and telling them to leave... NOW! They people complied and got the heck out! Lines and lines of cars as the Corp furiously pumped water into the River system..... so other places are prepared with disaster planning and in a place like the Gulf Coast it's unconscionable that they didn't have an orderly plan.
Oh my, I had heard that the rigs were okay and the pipelines were okay. Oh my.
The bridge over Lake Ponchartrain - OMG
Updates as they come in on Katrina
02:43 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Tom Planchet
2:42 P.M. (AP) -- The question is not whether Congress will pass legislation to speed disaster relief to communities devastated by Hurricane Katrina, but how soon and how much. The answers: real soon and a lot.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has $2.5 billion in funds available for immediate assistance such as emergency shelters, food, and medical care, said Scott Milburn, spokesman for the White House budget office. But longer-term assistance, such as help in removing wreckage, rebuilding homes, and repairing highways and federal facilities will require a major infusion of cash provided by Congress.
2:41 P.M. - Jefferson Parish officials say schools could reopen by Dec. 1.
2:39 P.M. - Jeff Parish councilman Tom Capella says pumps working near Veterans and West Esplanade and water is receeding there. He says break in levee at 17th Street canal continues to pour water into Lakeview.
2:32 P.M. - LSU to begin classes next Tuesday.
2:30 P.M. - Coast Guard says it has rescued 1,200 people so far in Louisiana.
2:24 P.M. - (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina forced scores more flight cancellations involving New Orleans and other Southern cities Tuesday as airlines juggled their schedules around one of the worst storms on record.
I wonder if diseases like malaria could come out of this disaster.
Tropical Depression 13 has dissipated and is unlikely to reform.
However, two more tropical waves have pushed into the Atlantic from the coast of Africa, and they will be clsely watched for (likely) development.
Someone had to abandon his pewter Le Sabre on the heavily-damaged Twin Spans. It looks like a Lego bridge destroyed in a child's tantrum.
That was Gov. Barbor in a TV Interview.
What happens to the New Orleans Saints? First home game is Sept 18 vs New York Giants. Doesn't look like it will be at the Super Dome.
I am seeing that, I thought that highway was passasble. Oh my God, it is bad.
This is like watching hell happen. I am greatly worried the fires will go out of control in the city and I do wonder if this city will come back.
Oh, okay....so, the JEWLERY being stolen...that's not really looting....and the carts of t.v., jeans...that's not looting either.
Fine.
I watch my t.v. with my eyes wide open.
Rutles...that has been my thought as well. Everytime I hear about the looting, it seems that they are looting for sport and not necessity. But once there is the necessity..be it food, water, shelter, etc. it could quickly get very ugly.
FWIW, flood warnings have been posted for southern Indiana for at least two hours now.
Bookmarking this to take a break and pick up my daughter at school. I wonder if she's going to tell me that she's got new classmates since the School Board made the announcement that evacuee children should be registered here?
How long before the NCAA pressures Miami into dropping the "Hurricanes" nickname?
The morning after President Bush was first elected.
I recommend Davy Crockett's words to you.
Today, ten's of thousands of Americans need are help....this argument should be left for another day...
And it will be. We will all happily extort & be extorted from. That doesn't change the fact that it's both morally and legally wrong.
We will be doing the same -- we're going to NO next June, for a weekend getaway.
A truly gargantuan proportion of our GDP depends upon this.
Plus loss of the Delta underground/undersea pipelines for crude oil and refined petroleum products due to earth and mud movements. That was a significant problem with the last major hurricane through this area. The problem is likely bigger now, but rebuilding of those pipelines will be slowed by higher priority demands due to all the other damage this time.
But the shipping issue is the biggie.
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