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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: NautiNurse

Just able to get to thread...

Last night, Steve Harrigan was talking to Shep Smith while Steve was in Miss.---he made a remark about everything south of him being GONE....I am assuming he meant the cities and the casinos, hotels..etc.,

Am I right? Have you heard anymore about that area ?(I can't read the whole thread right now)


421 posted on 08/30/2005 8:28:50 AM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: CajunConservative

uh, oh! That's in my "not allowed to talk about" column. I'm sure about that!


422 posted on 08/30/2005 8:28:52 AM PDT by HankReardon
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To: dirtboy

You would prefer that they are left to drown?


They are taking the most serious patients out by air to Lafayette. The less serious are being moved by boat. I suspect that they're going to start evacuating the SuperDome inhabitants out as soon as they have somewhere else to put them and the means to transport them.

Anyone know if LCACs are being sent?


423 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:15 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: texaslil

So glad you heard from your loved one and that they are safe. Thank you for the prayers.


424 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:16 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
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To: Fishtalk

I think people were assuming that if the doomsday scenario happened, we'd see a half-mile of levees crashing down in the midst of 150-mph winds, and Lake Pontchartrain slamming into the Superdome like some CGI special effect out of "The Day After Tomorrow." But floods are slow-motion disasters, and they develop over days, not hours (even weeks, in the case of the massive upper Mississippi flooding several years back).

I'll admit it, I thought New Orleans hadn't quite dodged a bullet, but at least not gotten hit by the entire full-auto burst, yesterday. I thought they'd gotten off easily compared to what might have been, and the worst was pretty much over. I was wrong.

}:-)4


425 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:21 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: dirtboy

I saw upthread that there was a riot in the Superdome. I was offline last night, so I missed any postings about that. What happened?


426 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:27 AM PDT by technochick99 (firearm of choice: Sig Sauer....)
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To: LibSnubber
Still not a single word has come out of Slidell...

Kinda hard to get into there from the south or the east due to bridges being out. I havent seen any fly over video yet of Slidell

427 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:33 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: Lizarde

Tammanary Parish has been very badly hit and police tell people not to try and return to that parish until they give the all clear with no news of when that will be.

It's up the thread a few hundred posts, IIRC.


428 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:33 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: apackof2

Same stupid Cindy ad on FNC now.
Agree - bad timing and bad ad


429 posted on 08/30/2005 8:29:46 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops and their CIC)
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To: Spktyr

Heard last night, all the 142 toilets
aren't flushable in the SuperDome.
[Making people testy.]


430 posted on 08/30/2005 8:30:12 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: bwteim

Things are ok in Houma?


431 posted on 08/30/2005 8:30:23 AM PDT by katykelly
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To: buickmackane

That's a great idea...but who knows if it is possible.

WalMart is taking donations for disaster relief at all of hteir stores nationwide and on line at walmart.com


433 posted on 08/30/2005 8:30:32 AM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Lizarde

See post #67 for Tammany info.


434 posted on 08/30/2005 8:30:44 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: technochick99
RE: Ocean Springs, MS. Only this:

"The Biloxi to Ocean Springs bridge is damaged." http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=3782622

Oh gag, now the Cindy Sheesh commercial.

And this report: "I am from Ocean Springs, MS and moved to the Charlotte area around 5 years ago. I have been begging my family to leave all weekend before this monster was to hit the coast. Most of my family gathered at my mothers house as it is the highest elevation. The water reached within 1 inch of covering their main floor and they went into the attaic for refuge. My grandmother's house next door had 7 feet of water in it and the A-frame next to it had water up past the 2nd floor. They lost all vehicles except one. My family reports that the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast is comepletely demolished. East Beach homes in Ocean Sprins do not exist any longer as if there were never homes there. Mutiple reports of just mass destruction. Noone can move and most roads are impassable." http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3782912

435 posted on 08/30/2005 8:30:50 AM PDT by alancarp ((Piedmont of NCarolina))
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To: LibSnubber

I have a friend who's missing a bunch of relatives from Slidell.


436 posted on 08/30/2005 8:30:59 AM PDT by cyclotic (Cub Scouts-Teach 'em young to be men, and politically incorrect in the process)
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To: technochick99
I saw upthread that there was a riot in the Superdome.

No, no riot but people are getting antsy, smokers getting agitated, homeowners want to get out and get fresh air, Im also sure th homeless and the drug addicts and the special needs people arent making the situation a nice place to stat.

437 posted on 08/30/2005 8:31:16 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: Seattle Conservative

Really bad ad!!!!


439 posted on 08/30/2005 8:32:28 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: the Deejay

They aren't flushable because there's no water pressure. Starting to be time to evac people out of there.


440 posted on 08/30/2005 8:32:37 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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