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
Well, the problem is deeper than than that. His/Her hate blinds him to reality. His/Her willingness to lie to themselves and others is simply unacceptable in this fine Conservative.
Thank you. I needed that!!!
You sound like you are in area and have a better idea of what is going on.
My speculation was that if the flooding is bad now, it will only get worse with the rain runoff, and was trying to think of a way to help. Breaking upstream levees was used in the flood of 1993, and that is why I thought of it.
Weee-sa gonna DIEEEE! I am now rushing off for gasoline toilet paper and Jim Beam. Also for pliers to wrench the gold fillings out of my teeth, should it become necessary.
I don't believe this or some of your other facts. Got a source for this, or did you just make it up?
I'd like to see pictures of the broken levees.
Well, I'm not currently in the area, but I was born and raised north of the Atchafalaya Floodway and south of the Old River Control Structure, and did a lot of research on what the design for the "lower Louisiana" flood control system was for the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers.
"My speculation was that if the flooding is bad now, it will only get worse with the rain runoff, and was trying to think of a way to help."
True, but all that flooding/runoff is controlled by local rivers other than the Mississippi--smaller streams like the Amite and Comite rivers near Denham Springs and similar.
SSSSSSSSSSLAP!
"I am waiting for DU to start a thread about how the Hurricane Katrina disaster is but one more example of how Bush "Made It Happen On Purpose [MIHOP}".
It is a result of "Global Warming"...that's what I'm hearing from the DU-like liberals in my office.
Sorry, but reporters don't determine what airs. Producers back at the station do that. Sometimes that decision is a no-win one. If they show the grisly stuff, they'll get in big trouble for sensationalism. If they don't, they get criticism for withholding the truth.
Frankly, there are things we don't need to SEE. It would help nothing. Listen carefully to words, to what is being said, and draw your own conclusions.
Just imagining people trapped in dark attics with no food or water and maybe an antagonistic snake or two is enough. I don't need to see pictures of bodies floating.
Those men are dead and have been replaced by whinny metrosexuals. There are some heros out there, but they're few and far between. Good thing this is in the South and not the metro DC area. You'd have a helluva time finding real men there.
They mostly come at night,... mostly...
n the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled NEW ORLEANS. IT'S WORSE THAN YOU ARE HEARING!, Wonder Warthog wrote:
"I would suggest the Army Corp start breaking levees up stream of NOLA to help control the down stream flooding.
There is no need whatsover for this. The Mississippi River levee and floodway structures are designed to handle more water than any single hurricane can possibly drop in the drainage area. The only "downstream flooding" will be in low-lying areas of some small local rivers. The FIRST thing they would do would be to open the "Bonnet Carre" spillway--and since they have NOT done that, the corps of engineers obviously doesn't see any problems coming."
Opening the spillway would be one of the WORST things to do right now. It channels the Mississippi into Lake Pontchartrain. Right now much of the flooding is coming from the lake -- putting even MORE water into it would just make things worse.
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Indeed they do. I'd like to think Katrina did as much damage to the state's democrat machine as it did to everything else.
Last election, we did send a Republican Senator (Vitter) to Washington for the first time in 100 years or so. Jindal would have been an exceedingly competent Governor, and the dems had to cheat pretty hard in the last gubernatorial run off.
The wheel is slowly turning. If any good comes of Hurricane Katrina, perhaps it will give the dems the opportunity to clearly demonstrate their incompetence at a time when everybody is paying attention.
They have an over inflated view of themselves and just how much control man has over the weather. Plop them on a farm for a few years and they will get some perspective.
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Not only that, but the stuff these loons believe in is horse manure. Greenhouse effect, global warming, thinning ozone layer, ice caps melting = junk science.
"Did you hear him say "people waiting on their roofs for repair?" ??"
I'd give the guy a break. Odds are he gets 20 minutes sleep at night and has been up since early Saturday morning.
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