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
I just wanted to post this somewhere, and I figured this would be a good place. It's a link to the American Red Cross for donation purposes:
http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
The worst thing that could happen now is a couple of major terrorist strikes on oil producing areas in the ME or worse on refineries.
"They mostly come at night,... mostly..."
Yes, last night they had some electricity and the storm kept most folks indoors. Tonight will be a different kind of Hell.
It will be intersting to compare what Barbour does with what the LA governor does. Maybe she will recover but she sure did not look like someone is command of herself the other night.
-PJ
This is a major US city that is facing further devastation on an hour by hour basis. I think it is beyond our comprehension how dire the situation is because we have never faced this in our lifetimes.
Get a grip, Hudson. Light a campfire, sing a few songs..
Well I hope my optimism is contagious. The thing that folks have to do is get busy. Whether it's helping yourself or helping your neighbor - get busy. It makes the time pass, and things get done. All the nervous Nellies can stand off to the side and watch while people who want things to "get back to normal", get to work. Certainly "normal" will be different, but normal it will be.
How do you carpool when you live in Ferguson and work in Chesterfield, and your neighbors work downtown? In cities where carpooling is practical mass transit is healthy.
Actually, Bill Paxton's career got started in Terminator (the first one). He was one of the punks to whom Ahnald said "Give me your clothes".
AM radio station 870 WWL is reporting that compounding the danger of those daring to swim about in the nearly eight foot deep water are large rafts of fire ants and stinging red ants. EUWEH!
All true. But Galveston lost 8,000 - 10,000 people during the Hurricane of 1900 and the entire city was submerged, most of the buildings wrecked. No one thought Galveston would ever rebuild; but she did come back strong, albeit as a tourist haven, not the important port she once was.
I second that. The other day on TV before Katrina hit and he was announcing the evacuation, he sounded drunk of stoned and not all that bright. How did he get elected mayor of a major city?
He must have gotten all the conservative Republican vote. (sarcasm)
I've got friends in N.O. and am curious about if the neighborhood they live in was flooded.
Anybody know if there are any maps online outlining where the flooded sections are. Or, of course is EVERY neighborhood in NO flooded? If so, forgive stupid question.
Great. Now it's going to frickin' flood here!
Perhaps there are people outside metro NO who would be safer to rescue?
God Bless you, BTW...
" they make residents pay through the nose in income and property taxes, but where does that money go?"
Silly, it goes for salaries for the highly motivated, highly efficent, effective and hard working city employess most of whom are oppressed and disadvantaged "minorities" only seeking equality and a nice politically correct lifestyle.
""Is the mayor a democrat?""
If he is this is all his fault.
ask those idiots in your office if the Hurricane that hit Galveston in 1900 was caused by 'Global Warming'???
How bout Camille?
Ask them if they can think for themselves...
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