You managed to survive this in the past.
Posted on 08/30/2005 9:40:48 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Chaos Reigns In New Orleans Amid Katrina's Wake
August 30, 2005 11:58 a.m. EST
Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
New Orleans, LA (AHN) - While the exact wrath of Hurricane Katrina remains unknown, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warns of a "significant" death toll.
On Monday night, Nagin tells WWL TV the city is about 80 percent underwater, with some sections immersed as deep as twenty feet.
Many residents did not heed the mandatory evacuation that went up over the weekend, preferring to stay in their homes and shelters. Thousands were placed within the Superdome.
While officials have yet to release an exact death toll, Nagin predicts eastern New Orleans and the city's 9th Ward would be the areas hardest hit, adding the National Guard will set up temporary morgues.
Nagin says bodies have been seen floating in the flood waters. New Orleans' airports are underwater and no electricity is expected in the city until four to six weeks.
A two-block-long part of a levee has parted, giving way to Lake Pontchartrain at the city's 17th Street Canal - near the city's center.
The New Orleans Fire Department says the break is about 200-feet long.
The Associated Press reports a woman was leaning from the second-story window of her home, begging to be rescued, after the street below her turned into a river, filled with trash and garbage cans.
Karen Troyer Caraway, vice president of Tulane University Hospital, says water at the facility is steadily rising to about a foot an hour, and has already topped the first floor.
She says she's uncertain whether pumps have been powered to pump the water and she doubts they would be able to compete with Lake Pontchartrain, the source of much of the flood waters.
As a result, Tulane Hospital has moved its emergency room to the second floor and has been on generator power for the last 24 hours. If water continues to rise, however, the power source will be immersed leaving the hospital powerless.
Wake up! The crisis is real and only an idiot would pretend otherwise.
Some folks couldn't leave, some got stuck on the roadways when they had to shut down the bridges, some are in outliying states that didn't expect a need to evacuate anyway, some were emergency personnel and law enforcement. Quit assuming so much!
WHO CARES?????!!!!!!!! That makes their lives worth less in your opinion?
This is one of the worst tragedies to ever hit our country. Americans are stranded and dying, and it is only gonna get worse.
And you are making fun of it? You are an idiot, and I hope you get banned.
You managed to survive this in the past.
Yes, we're going to need an amphibious evacuation very soon or else those trapped in the city are going to run out of food and drinkable water within a few days. Marine Corps amphibious transport vehicles could be very useful here, because they can drive through mud and swim through water.
Something tells me that you don't know anyone who lives in New Orleans or in the Gulf Coast communities.
Yep. Don't do what the government tells you to do it's your own dang fault. They get what they got coming. /sarcasm
BTW - Welcome to FR.
My understanding is that as of this morning, 15 of 20 pumping stations were operating. Anyone have any better data?
What if, for some reason or another, they weren't able to follow the evacuation instructions?
Have a heart, man, these are human beings.
So, did you join FR just so you could make fun of some very real tragedy in the hurricane zone? Twit.
If you don't know better, don't post.
Has it occured to you that some who stayed behind were emergency personnel such as cops, EMTs and such? Don't be a twit!
New Orleans will rebuild. I hope they fill the bowl in, however.
Well duhh. Of course the people who die in New Orleans did not evac. The evac orders came too late. Do you have a clue what it takes to evac a WHOLE CITY in a few hours. It isn't going to happen. The mayor should have ordered the evac much earlier. The federal government finally made the call after it became evident no one else would.
Yep, this is very, very bad - the levee failure looks like Thor's Hammer for NO.
I certainly hope that, after billions of dollars from elsewhere are spent to stabilize those people's lives, they don't demand tens of billions more to reconstruct a major city on the coastline below sea level. This cycle of massive destruction of at-risk properties, followed by rebuilding on other's people's tab, has got to stop.
Uncle Joe is taking a verbal floggin' from his fellow FReepers.
Some survived, hogbreath. A bunch didn't over the past couple of days, and a bunch more will succumb in those ahead. For those folks, you can act this way? Take your crazy-ass bullsh*t back to hell with you!
I agree with you. I can't even begin to imagine being in there.
They ought to fill in the bowl.
That is, if Congress passes a special act to allow them to do so. Otherwise no way Jose, every environut from California to Maine, from Washington state to Florida will be on them.
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