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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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Tropical Storm 12
I see. The hurrican closed or consticted the drain. Interesting, except, that the pics don't show it, or the impact was very gradual. The odd thing, is that if this is so, why was the lake not much up 8 hours ago, and now will jump up another eight feet?
Oh boy I hope C2C is not saying that...
2 Things of note from that link...
Only 1/3 evacuated from Biloxi??
And the sat photo is DISTURBING! It looks like the Gulf is now MUCH closer to New Orleans than before!
Big tides could do it, newly constricted drains could do it as the hurricane changed the topography. Help me.
No..what did that guy say?
There are no significant tides on a lake, the body of water involved is too small. Lake Michigan (300 X 90 miles and 900 feet deep) has only a 1 inch tide. I'm sure Lake Ponchartrain's "tide" is less than .001 inches.
The Mississippi doesn't normally flow into the Lake, and I haven't read anything that says that it is currently doing so. The Amite and another river (the Comite?) drain into the Lake.
In fact, the Mississippi isn't particularly high this time of year.
As Hurricane Katrina dismantles Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, it’s worth recalling the central role that Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour played in derailing the Kyoto Protocol and kiboshing President Bush’s iron-clad campaign promise to regulate CO2
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We have friends you own a house there. I guess that the house has been destroyed but did the island itself get reclaimed by the water? Was the refinery there destroyed?
Do you have a link to that Sat picture?
It's beyond words, isn't it?
I didn't twist anything; you said "The mayor and ALL of the officials of New Orleans and Louisiana as a whole warned everyone beginning Friday that this storm was not going to turn, that it was a worst-case scenario, and that everyone had to get out. "
And I called it utter tripe.
Check out the DAY and TIME on the following post, which was posted WHILE THE GOVERNOR WAS GIVING HER PRESS CONFERENCE:
There's something you need to know about me and you should remember this: I do not EVER make factual statements I cannot back up
Well either the Mississippi is running through town, or the topography has changed, and the lake has assumed a higher elevation, because there is a lot much silt between it and the gulf, and the the open water between the lake and the gulf is now gone or close to it. I think I may fly into Baton Rouge, and hire a helo, and take some pics tomorrow.
Some idiot CNN bade just said the waters in NO could rise another 15 feet. I HATE this.
That's part of it, but there are number of factors as well. Geography (much of LA. is undeveloped and some uninhabitable), lack of new industry, etc. It is a self-perpetuating cycle that has been getting worse for decades. The poorer it gets, the worse the services get, the worse the economy is, which means fewer new businesses, which means fewer jobs.. which means the economy gets worse, thus the cycle. It was an agrarian economy for years and New Orleans found itself even more limited by it's location, could not grow like other cities.
Yet it still managed to be a jewell in its own way. It *might* be rebuilt, but will never be the same.
"Many parts of I-10 are flooded."
Could be true, but not the whole story. Do you know for sure that it is not possible to leave the bowl via either I-10 west or US90?
Ya Blanco was slow, inarticulate, and useless, and remains so.
"To: jeffers
The inflow can only come from two places.
The river, which drains so much of the US that you can't view all of it and the Lake on the same scale map
The Mississippi doesn't normally flow into the Lake, and I haven't read anything that says that it is currently doing so. The Amite and another river (the Comite?) drain into the Lake.
In fact, the Mississippi isn't particularly high this time of year."
The River is flowing through "multiple breaches" into St. Bernard Parish, per the mayor.
St. Bernard Parish is overflowing into the Idustrial Canal, in an image which has been posted in this thread several times.
The Industrial Canal opens into the Lake.
There has also been discussion here that the lock on the upper end of the Industrial Canal, at the River may have failed.
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