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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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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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What hundreds of buses? Bus service stopped on Saturday. The rest of you ideological comments about the evils of liberalism, and that is why these folks are poor, and don't have car, and are not self sufficient, is all quite fascinating, but the word I would use for bringing it up now, would get me banned, so I will just say, the comment is what causes "conservatives" to sometimes get a bad name, due to those with diplomatic skills of the level that you exhibit.
"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
~ The Wizard of Oz
Someone clarify for me, please. But if rioting sets in earnest, can the Feds step in and call the shots?
While lake level may be sea level the river is higher than sea level. And if the industrial canal is breached which connects the river to the lake than it's possible that the river is now flowing in to St. Bernard and the lake at the same time.
It is only a matter of time before one of the numerous fires ignites the chemical mixture that is forming on top of the water too.
Watch the helicopter videos, the oil and gasoline that is fbeginning to form on top of the flood waters is quite obvious.
The only ones who've left so far seem to be the looters workin' the swing shift...
:-(
seems to me they can get them out and to hell with where they go,,bus them up out of the flood area and drop them off. The locals will help. When a place is on fire, you don't consider where you are going to take people, you get them out.
I would go up on the miss river levee and walk toward Baton Rouge myself.
Agreed.
'Nuff said, too late to do anything for the poor souls in NO.
Prayers for all!
But, we are not the ones in trouble.
If big things were made the same way as small things, they would be prohibitively expensive and inefficient. Making pumps that could function in a flooded city would certainly have been possible (simplest method being to build a waterproof wall around the pumping station, and using a small pump to keep it dry).
The bigger question, though, is what would be the purpose of spending even $10,000/pump on such an improvement? If the pumps are able to withstand a moderate rise in water level, a flood beyond that would suggest one thing: a breached levee. And if that happens, it doesn't matter whether the pumps are working or not.
Simply put: once a levy is breached, there is no possible amount of pumping that will prevent the waters on both sides from reaching equilibrium. Even if one had enough pumps to remove a foot of water per minute (that's 720 times what the NO pumps could do if working) it wouldn't take very many days before the levees were letting through more than that.
Has anyone heard anything else about water in the Superdome?
Nobody seems to know how many people are in the Superdome. First it was 30k, then 10k.
This is an unbelievable disaster and no one is in charge.
For the answer google Dunkirt.
LOL. Poor Shep. I think he's in shock. I thought I heard he is from that area (Miss?), it must be even more devastating to watch the ocean swallow it up. Even knowing it was built below sea level and this was a possibility. His kooky comments are endearing in a way.
New Database just given on Greta where people can register and post who they're looking for and people who are ok can register.
Mayor on CNN said water and food is being provided at the Superdome.
The wire services are saying 10,000 at the Superdome. Have more people been taken there?
"You're absolutely right - but what of the generators? They had only less than a day of fuel?"
Yet more incompetence, how the hell would anyone let this happen? There should have been a months fuel available for pumps that were impervious to water, behind levees 30% higher that necessary. But the libs who run the show just want to create more dependence by giving unlimited handouts, rahter than protecting the city as they should. Typical.
Dump rubble, big rubble, then sandbags, there's plenty of rubble at hand. fill it with cars, then sandbag.
bbbbbttt.... the Governor said the water was clean (this afternoon in her news conference.
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