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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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The bowls are not lower than the gulf in parts of the city. Some parts of the city I have seen under water are a couple of feet above sea level. If there is water on Bourbon Street, which is six feet above sea level, it is seven feet above sea level.
There's a dam between the lake and the Gulf. Gulf salty, lake not. The lake is normally controlled at 1 foot above sea level.
Louisiana is very poor. Even in New Orleans, there are areas of extreme poverty, as bad or worse as any bad parts of a major US city. The oil business is usually rocking but that's about all they have going for them. As far as dipping in the till, I wouldn't doubt it. It's a pretty historically corrupt state, to add to the problems. Having one strong commodity, or two (oil and tourism) does not translate to a rich tax base necessarily. Especially in NOLA's case.
MSNBC earlier showed video taken from the third floor of a casino in MS made by a tourist. It showed an over 20ft. storm surge during the storm; massive water was rushing underneath a high overpass. Immense loss of life surely has occurred -- the report from My_Favorite_Headache about a phone conversation he had with an EMS worker in Gulfport is the only report of such devastation we have seen. MSM seems to be filtering the news, and that is disgraceful.
Black Fur Coats???????. I bet there are some sights after the lootings.
How much gas is going to be used up in this rescue? Bush has got to release those reserves. Now they have a problem in Atlanta with some pipelines.
Can flooded wooden buildings be restored so that they are habitable again? Or is there usually so much damage that they must be torn down?
If true; this is hell broken loose.
Oh, yeah!
What does that mean? That doesn't change the law of physics does it? It comes down to the size of the drain. It looks huge to me.
Oh, a competition? I knew you were a punk kid!
That's not what most of us are here for.
Go on back to your X Box.
Besides the two female police shoe shopping and filling their basket with things, I read an earlier report (on Nola.com) about a LEO who had a 27" television and a bunch of dvd's in his basket. One of the other looters was making fun of him because he said he was just getting necessities "for the children". That looter said, "yeah, I got some dvds for the children, too."
If true, it explains a lot. OMG...
Engineer on WWL earlier today said that all the measuring sticks in Ponchatrain were broken. The lake is now about 5 feet above sea level. This equates to 8-12 feet deep in most of the bowl when it equalizes.
If only Bush.......
An employees older home was flooded by rains here last summer...
FEMA-Paid contractors came in and basicly tore out EVERYTHING below the flood level and replaced it...
I imagine most of the flood-to-roof's are totals, though...
Old town Sacramento flooded in the 1800s. Afterward the city raised the city. What used to be street level became basements. You can still see the water marks on the buildings where the flood waters rose.
Air-tankering of jet fuel has already been occuring, intermittently, this summer. But likely to get worse in the near term.
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