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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate due to rising water levels and desperation. Search and rescue continues via boat and air. Authorities have announced the goal to evacuate all the remaining residents of NOLA. The New Orleans Mayor has reported numerous gas leaks throughout the city. Sporadic fires occurring. Attempts to evacuate hundreds of hospital patients from Charity Hospital and Tulane Medical Center are in process. Patients are being transported to other hospitals as far away as Florida.
The Army Corps of Engineers is at the NOLA levee breaks with current plans to drop 3000 lb sand bags in an effort to stop the flow of water. NOLA hospital evacuations continue for thousands of patients. Reports indicate all evacuees are being taken to the SuperDome, which is now surrounded by water. The generators at the Dome are now in jeopardy. The Governor of Louisiana has called for a day of prayer tomorrow...
Elsewhere, search and rescue continue in Mississippi and Alabama. Biloxi reports indicate catastrophic damage.
Links to various news and local government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends (very slow load)
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
Inside Houma Today needing boats, volunteers, lists gas station openings, water, etc.
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
Streaming Video:
WWL-TV (via KHOU/Houston): http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_khou&live=yes
WKRG/Mobile: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WDSU/New Orleans via WAPL/Jackson: mms://a842.l1291238841.c12912.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/842/12912/v0001/reflector:38841
All are Windows Media Player links.
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Martial Law Declared in New Orleans
Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.
www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.
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Tropical Storm 12
How long will that be? A few days, I'd guess. With no AC, it's going to be hot and sweaty out there and it doesn't look like getting water tanker trucks in there will be an option.
It seems to me like these people have only a couple of options. Hope to flag down a chopper or walk and swim their way out of town.
Am I looking at this too pessimistically?
here are the projected levels for the Mississippi river for the next 5 days
http://www.riverwatch.noaa.gov/forecasts/ORNRVAORN.shtml
Amen to that. In fact, that is when it really shines. It showed its usefulness during Op Desert Storm when troops went barreling through the desert with only GPS to guide them.
I can't imagine that it won't be there.
"Mom, the water coming into NO is from Lake Ponchatrain to the north via a 200 and now 300 ft breach in the levee coning down the 17th street canal. That has been the case for at least the last 6 hours."
That F'in canal is 75' wide - That can be plugged in hours!!What the F is going on?
The river levees are built much better and to withstand a 600 year storm while the lake levees are built to withstand a 100 or 200 year storm..
"The city is exposed to as much as four times the risk of hurricane flooding as it is to river flooding . . . that's always been an odd issue to me. Why would the government think that water from the lake is less dangerous than water from the river?"
JOSEPH SUHAYDA
LSU engineering professor
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/risk_1.html
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/nolalevees_jpg.html
Don't be sorry - we all owe you for telling the pig story that will surely scare AlQeida from FR. Many thanks. :)
Doesn't it stand to reason if levees are having trouble downriver that the ones in NO are having just as much trouble? Not to mention all that water coming down from rainfall north of NO.
How long can the earthen levees stand? I don't think we are getting the whole story on the Mississippi River levees but that is just my opinion.
Was that her that was on earlier this afternoon almost crying? If it was, real leadership there.
They have to get them there first. Lets not forget the information needed is moving from the ground up, not the ground down.
Thanks
Understatement. I guess people are litterally gropping in the dark. Fog of war.
6 hours? try atleast 17 hours!
Heroic efforts made at Charity hospital to save patients
07:14 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL083005charity.d037f7f.html
As floodwaters rose around Charity Hospital, nurses hand-pumped ventilators for patients who couldn't breathe. Helicopters landed on the garage to airlift critically ill babies. Doctors canoed supplies to and from Charity and three nearby hospitals.
"It's like being in a Third World country. We're trying to work without power. Everyone knows we're all in this together. We're just trying to stay alive," said Mitch Handrich, a registered nurse manager at the state's biggest public hospital. (excerpt)
right - that's what we were saying - especially if the prisoners get loose - 'Escape from NY'
It sounds reasonable. But IT'S NOT WHAT THEY SAID on WWL.
well sure, optimisitic is the word. if all the levees were sealed, and all the pumps were working, and all the people were gone and being taken care of - we could pump out the city in 10 days.
now how exactly is that going to happen?
Are you serious? Where are prices under these conditions?
They tried and failed. I suppose if the flow is strong enough what gets dropped in flushes out before the next batch can be put in. Maybe that's why they were looking for 3,000 lb sand bags,
Superdome.
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