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Chaos Reigns In New Orleans Amid Katrina's Wake
All Headline News ^ | August 30

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.


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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Wake up! The crisis is real and only an idiot would pretend otherwise.


21 posted on 08/30/2005 9:50:15 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"we're all gonna die"

I'm not sure what's so funny about this. Dozens, perhaps hundreds, DID die, thousands more - perhaps tens of thousands - are homeless and have lost everything. Entire towns have been wrecked, and you are being flippant about it.
22 posted on 08/30/2005 9:50:30 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

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!


23 posted on 08/30/2005 9:50:49 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
we'll find the only people who died are the ones who refused to follow the evacuation instructions?

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.

24 posted on 08/30/2005 9:50:53 AM PDT by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: gumboyaya

You managed to survive this in the past.

25 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:04 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
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To: Americanwolf

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.


26 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:16 AM PDT by defenderSD (At half past midnight, the ghost of Vince Foster wanders through the West Wing.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Something tells me that you don't know anyone who lives in New Orleans or in the Gulf Coast communities.


27 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:37 AM PDT by jpl
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

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.


28 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:40 AM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: RockinRight

My understanding is that as of this morning, 15 of 20 pumping stations were operating. Anyone have any better data?


29 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:45 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

What if, for some reason or another, they weren't able to follow the evacuation instructions?

Have a heart, man, these are human beings.


30 posted on 08/30/2005 9:51:55 AM PDT by baltodog (R.I.P. Balto: 2001(?) - 2005)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

So, did you join FR just so you could make fun of some very real tragedy in the hurricane zone? Twit.


31 posted on 08/30/2005 9:52:07 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
Leave out the idiotic comments. You should know better.

If you don't know better, don't post.

32 posted on 08/30/2005 9:52:20 AM PDT by TonyInOhio (Would I lie to you?)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
we'll find the only people who died are the ones who refused to follow the evacuation instructions?

Has it occured to you that some who stayed behind were emergency personnel such as cops, EMTs and such? Don't be a twit!

33 posted on 08/30/2005 9:52:33 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: gumboyaya

New Orleans will rebuild. I hope they fill the bowl in, however.


34 posted on 08/30/2005 9:52:43 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
How much do you want to bet that after we're done pledging billions of government funds towards "relief", we'll find the only people who died are the ones who refused to follow the evacuation instructions?

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.

35 posted on 08/30/2005 9:52:57 AM PDT by Nov3 ("This is the best election night in history." --DNC chair Terry McAuliffe Nov. 2,2004 8p.m.)
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To: Jack Black
So much for dodging the bullet. The nightmare scenario has happened. The damns failed. The video is horrendous.

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.

36 posted on 08/30/2005 9:53:04 AM PDT by Hank Rearden (Never allow anyone who could only get a government job attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
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To: DJ MacWoW

Uncle Joe is taking a verbal floggin' from his fellow FReepers.


37 posted on 08/30/2005 9:53:34 AM PDT by defenderSD (At half past midnight, the ghost of Vince Foster wanders through the West Wing.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

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!


38 posted on 08/30/2005 9:54:38 AM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Owl_Eagle

I agree with you. I can't even begin to imagine being in there.


39 posted on 08/30/2005 9:54:53 AM PDT by twigs
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To: Hank Rearden

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.


40 posted on 08/30/2005 9:54:59 AM PDT by The Red Zone (Florida, the sun-shame state, and Illinois the chicken injun.)
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