Chaos Reigns In New Orleans Amid Katrina's Wake

All Headline News ^ | August 30

[gumboyaya]

Your post in the past have been witty. You missed this time big time.

[Uncle Joe Cannon]

I am not saying it isn't bad for the people hurt, but the end of the world talk is crazy, and something the media does any time a disaster hits. They did the same thing with last years hurricanes.

In the hours after 9/11, the media was speculating that over 50,000 people died in the WTC. The actual carnage was far less. Yes, it is a tragedy, but it invariably turns out to be much less than what the breathless media hounds hype it to be.

[DJ MacWoW]

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

He deserves it. He should use the brain he was given. There was a thread shut down yesterday that was full of his kinds of comments by various Freepers. It was a shock.

[Lead Moderator]

Stop baiting other posters or your stay here will be short.

[RockinRight]

There are 485,000 people in the city and 1.4 million in the Metro area.

That's a lot of people to get out.

[Nov3]

There are 485,000 people in the city and 1.4 million in the Metro area.

That's a lot of people to get out.

The understatement of the year!!

[Salgak]

Methinks you're wrong. Some people will ALWAYS disobey instructions, and come out smelling like roses. The people to be worried about, and worried for, are the ones who DID follow instructions, and out of sheer bad luck, are now in danger. . . .

[DJ MacWoW]

I am not saying it isn't bad for the people hurt, but the end of the world talk is crazy,

No. That's NOT what you were saying. It's what you're saying now after being jumped on for being callous. What you said was: we'll find the only people who died are the ones who refused to follow the evacuation instructions?

[Paved Paradise]

I forgot the name of the guy who replaced Brokaw but he announced last night that the Dome was getting aromatic so you are right - imagine! Oy - it's gotta be pretty bad.

[Steve_Seattle]

"I am not saying it isn't bad for the people hurt, but the end of the world talk is crazy . . . "

There's no "end of the world" talk in the article you posted; it's a straight account of the disaster with no political finger-pointing or "blame it on Bush" nonsense. That's why your comments seemed particularly out of place.

[massgopguy]

Every Duck Tours company on the east coast should pull a Dunkirk.

[The Red Zone]

Or, maybe a dual-levee system.

[THEUPMAN]

Just thought I'd throw in another little bit of info.
I live in Georgia .... way fay a way from the heart of the storm.


We got tornadoes as a spin off from the event.
Several deaths ... but mostly damages.
Like the poultry houses that got nailed . Thousands of birds dead and injured thrown around the country side.

The place is quarantined now. The clean up is in process , but even with clear skies and lots of help this is a critical agricultural emergency.

I can only imagine it gets worse as you get closer to nola.

The point is ... there are a lot of things that have to be addressed quickly. Over a very large area. This is not over yet.

[SuziQ]

Yeah, I just saw footage of folks looting a store. It seems it would make more sense for the owners, if they can get there, to open the store and allow folks to take what they need. It would keep the criminal elements from stealing just to steal and later sell for cash. The owner is gonna write the whole place off as a loss anyway, and the perishable stuff won't last, so why not avoid the mess of broken door locks and glass, etc.? Maybe folks wouldn't get so caught up in the looting if they knew that they could get what they need.

[defenderSD]

Send fifty of these vehicles (LVTP7 amphib troop carrier) to rescue those trapped in flooded areas. I believe they can hold about 18 people, including the crew.

[Tarpon]

I agree with your premise, the saltwater intrusion into the homes are going to make them virtually uninhabitable. The downtown buildings may be OK.

I doubt the city of NO will be abandoned, but maybe the feds can buy out homes and make the area a park. They did a similar thing up the Mississippi valley. This would be my input.

As to at risk properties, I assume that all the CA residents on the San Andreas fault should leave now, right? I don't think that's going to happen, nor do I think we will require all Gulf and East Coast residents to go somewhere else. If we all had to live out of the reach of all natural disasters, we would be huddled in a small area.

I don't know about you, but my insurance costs much more than my mortgage does, so I pay my own way.

What is becoming obvious is building codes are nowhere near strict enough. It would be easy to require rebuilding to Miami-Dade standards in hurricane prone areas -- For instance, all of Florida. That would solve a lot of the problems. From what I see the buildings that appear blown apart would not pass muster with Miami-Dade code. We just went through Katrina when it was CAT 1, winds at our house were 77 max, not a scratch, unless you count the palm fronds. Building ground level height is also part of the Miami-Dade code. Strict building code do work.

[Rutles4Ever]

This reminds me of the tsunami. We're only getting info on places that can be actually reached and assessed.

On a sidenote, I can't see how the Saints start the season, even if it's in another stadium. I'm assuming the players and coaches actually lived in the N.O. area, so... they might have other pressing needs...

[NCC-1701]

"...The nightmare scenario has happened. The damns failed. The video is horrendous...."

And it's only going to get worse. There is a lot of water from Mississippi and Tennessee, runoff from Kitrina's storms, that is coming south via the Mississippi River. New Orleans and surrounding areas are going to catch it. I pray for those in harms way.

[defenderSD]

I believe there is a problem at post #54.