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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
Bump to your post.
New New Orleans should be build next to New Orleans Lake, if you know what I mean.
Where is a 'Governor Jindal' when we need him??
I don't think there are any roads going OUT of town that the trucks could use....unless I missed a report.
I got the impression that the highways out of NO are impassable...
The pic looks to the north. The lock and the Mississippi are just behind. So the breach in the levee is to the East, and not into the main NO bowl. And that bowl to the East was where the water got really deep, and apparently filled up to above sea level from the Mississippi overwash.
Sure looks worse than Camille.
Generally that type of event, when localized, is referred to as a "sand boil" and can be seen on the dry side of a levee when a river is at-flood behind the levee. However, the condition here is that local flooding within the bowl of NO has enough water, within the bowl (on the dry side, if you will), hiding the underlying ground where such sand boils could develop. They develop from the super-saturated subgrade being pushed by the higher hydrostatic pressure of the lake or the river on the other side of the levee and you would only have luck working if you spotted it.
Think of it like a boil on someones butt. The layers of skin hold the infection (the pressure) in place until it erupts at a weak point in the skin such as through an adjacent pore.
Usually, a levee allows one side to be dry and hence that works to keep the subgrade below the levee or dike dryer than the subgrade under the river or lake. One small weak point in the clay layers, when enough pressure is applied and the underlying sand starts "boiling" up.
Don't be afraid to show your ignorance of what goes on outside your little world.
And on this story, Fox sucks.
Absolutely -
Everyone turn on CNN
a looter shot a police officer in the back of the head while aprehending another looter!!!? OMG The Next Level . . .
Glad your family are with you and left N.O. What happens when all the tributaries like the Ohio start flowing down the Mississippi.
Cannot even fathom what everyone with you is going through right now. Prayers and thoughts are with your family.
It's worse than even we could have imagined.
(I wonder where all those posters who called us all exaggerators are now?)
Might be a stupid question, but...has anyone been able to dial a New Orleans tel # with any success?
I have a cousin there and have been trying for 24 hours to call his cel phone and all I get is an "all circuits are busy" recording.
Frankly, I think we're just beginning to see God's Judgment, and I think more than A DAY of prayer is required though--several days of fasting and repentance would be a good start for that city and this nation
LOL! Good for you.
Read a site today that said if you add red wine to water it can act as a purifier. Not as good as clorox, iodine, or peroxide, but better than nothing.
Of course, if you had the red wine, why would you add it to the dirty water, LOL.
Seriously though, 1 part red wine to 3 parts water has an antimicrobial effect on the water (won't prevent giardia or cryptosporidia though.)
http://millennium-ark.net/News_Files/LTAH_Water_Pure2.html
Guy on CNN just said that water continues to rise. Holy Lord in Heaven!
Called Oil Storm.... Google has a lot of links on it. http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/oilstorm/main.html
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