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.
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.
Your post in the past have been witty. You missed this time big time.
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.
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.
Stop baiting other posters or your stay here will be short.
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.
That's a lot of people to get out.
The understatement of the year!!
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. . . .
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?
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.
Every Duck Tours company on the east coast should pull a Dunkirk.
Or, maybe a dual-levee system.
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.
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.
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...
"...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.
I believe there is a problem at post #54.
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