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NEW ORLEANS. IT'S WORSE THAN YOU ARE HEARING!
WWL Television in New Orleans, LA ^ | Aug 29, 2005 | none

Posted on 08/30/2005 8:03:13 AM PDT by alligator

The attached is a video from WWL TV in New Orleans. The mayor of New Orleans gives a very detailed report of the condition of the city. As bad as the national news is painting the picture, it falls short of the devastation that has occurred.

There are 8 refineries located in the New Orleans to Mobile areas. Nearly 1/2 of all the gasoline in the country is refined here. These are all shut down, and they don't know for how long. Even if they were capable of running the refineries, there will be a huge shortage of workers as they have evacuated. All of Metarie, Slidell, Mandeville, Kenner, etc is under water and there is no place for them to come home to. Large oil super tankers will not be able to off load to the refineries even if they could run. The pipelines and transport facilities are all in jeopardy.

The New Orleans port and the Mississippi River structure carries nealy 1/4th of the entire countries goods and equipment. The export and import of goods will cease for a long period of time. Fill up your tanks, stock up your goods. Prices will be rising

http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=www.wwltv.com/082905mayor.wmv


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: damage; devastation; floods; hurricane; katrina; levee; louisiana; newoleans; neworleans; rescue; wereallgonnadie
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1 posted on 08/30/2005 8:03:19 AM PDT by alligator
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To: alligator

I will not go into panic mode.


2 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:47 AM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: alligator

BTTT


3 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:54 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: alligator; All

Doomed!!!


4 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:11 AM PDT by KevinDavis (the space/future belongs to the eagles --> http://www.cafepress.com/kevinspace1)
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To: wallcrawlr

amen to that.


5 posted on 08/30/2005 8:09:40 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: wallcrawlr

WE ARE DOOMED! THE END IS COMING! WE NEED HILLARY TO SAVE US!!! Man, what am I saying. Slap me back to reality.


6 posted on 08/30/2005 8:09:42 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Imperial Federal Government is your worst enemy! Don't give in to them!)
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To: wallcrawlr
I will not go into panic mode.

Then you will be left all alone............

7 posted on 08/30/2005 8:09:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Want to be surprised? GOOOOGLE your own name. Want to have fun? GOOOOGLE your neighbor's......)
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To: alligator

Not quite...according to http://news.ft.com/cms/s/182d0182-18c5-11da-8fe9-00000e2511c8.html, analysts estimated roughly 12 per cent of total US crude oil production and 10 per cent of US refining capacity had to be shut down - so your doomsday scenario is just as misplaced as you claim the media's rosy picture to be.


8 posted on 08/30/2005 8:09:52 AM PDT by Keith in Iowa (Liberals...they're so quixotic...)
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To: alligator

Last I heard NO has declared martial law. No wonder...saw some film of people looting, I think it was in Mississippi. And I'm sure before long there will be bogus "contractors" out to prey on the devastated, if they haven't already started.

Sad thing is that a devastating event like this brings out the bad as well as the good.

Also heard the death toll in just one part of Mississippi is now 80.


9 posted on 08/30/2005 8:10:55 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: KevinDavis

10 posted on 08/30/2005 8:11:12 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: alligator

geeze, and the President's on vacation too. Why isn't he down there rebuilding????????? what a slacker. (sarcasm)



11 posted on 08/30/2005 8:11:19 AM PDT by Pondman88
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To: alligator
"Well that's great, that's just f***in' great man. Now what the f**k are we supposed to do? We're in some real pretty s**t now man... That's it man, game over man, game over! What the f**k are we gonna do now? What are we gonna do?"
12 posted on 08/30/2005 8:11:29 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: RetiredArmy

Slap me back to reality.

***

Ok...

(((SLAP)))


13 posted on 08/30/2005 8:11:43 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: alligator

And to think Bush could've fixed all this!

[/sarc]


14 posted on 08/30/2005 8:11:52 AM PDT by patriot_wes (papal infallibility - a proud tradition since 1869)
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To: Pyro7480

LOL


15 posted on 08/30/2005 8:12:29 AM PDT by Constitution Day
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To: alligator

Your post made me feel like I had listened to Air American for 5 minutes. All doom and gloom, all the time.


16 posted on 08/30/2005 8:12:48 AM PDT by RushCrush (What Would Casey Want?)
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To: Constitution Day

bttt


17 posted on 08/30/2005 8:12:49 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: Red Badger

finally.


18 posted on 08/30/2005 8:12:58 AM PDT by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: patriot_wes

And to think Bush could've fixed all this!

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He could have prevented this...by signing the Kyoto Agreement.

Actually saw this on some other politics website. :)


19 posted on 08/30/2005 8:13:17 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: alligator
Actually, it sounds about as bad as I thought it was.

Far less deaths than the worst case scenario would have produced, but the death toll is going to rise considerably.

The economic impact is going to be severe for the nation, catastrophic for Louisianna.

Gas prices will rise further. New Orleans is flooding and will be under water for months.

Sh1t happens. Mother Nature's a bitch.

20 posted on 08/30/2005 8:13:42 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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