Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

[cajungirl]

"we" doesn't include me. I voted for Jindal and Foster either of whom would be a better person as Gov right now.

We suffer our incompetent leaders down here because usually things just rock along slowly getting better in places, worse in others. We tolerate them because usually inertia works pretty well.

I will predict, and I mean it, that the Gov will be reelected as will Mary. I am the first to say it,,.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Morning, folks. Won't say good, but it is another day.

It's nearly 7 am in NO now.

I hear that Jefferson parish declared martial law.

There are National Guard being deployed.

I read how they are going to sink a barge today to try to plug the hole in the levee today.

We will see what today brings. I pray that yesterday was the worst.

[foreign devil]

We need ARNOLD or ZELL MILLER!

Stolid and reassuring, even humorous or reassuring and fatherly. Take your pick.

[Bahbah]

I thought I heard that Mayor say they all had to stay in that Dome for ONE week...was I dreaming?

Yes, I think so. They say they are trying to evacuate the Dome within 2 days.

[benjaminjjones]

LOL, Orlando was pretty good, and you're right about his directorial attitude to his camera man, er 'scuse me, person.

Every time Orlando did that, I kept thinking if I was the camera person, in that storm, I'd have said BLEEP you.

I missed the sleeping Steve Harrigan. That would have been better than watching him holding onto a cable in 90 MPH winds and getting hit by debris.

BTW what's a Hookies?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Every time he is on I say "I love that guy!" even if no one is around.

[Ditto]

I guess I am asking, if the Mississippi flowed as it did in the past, would NO be in such trouble today or is that one of those great debate questions no one can answer with certainty?

I think the correct answer is that "If" the Mississippi flowed as it "used to", New Orleans probably would not even exist or would be some small town, not a metropolis. Most of the city is natural flood plain that has been protected for over a century by man made levies. The Mississippi, the life blood of the city, would likely be many miles away from New Orleans now since the "natural" way for that river is to change course and find new ways to the sea fairly regularly.

[mad_as_he$$]

You are talking about the Corps of Engineers actually doing something that makes sense. They are infested with idiots. One of these leaking levies was just finished with much fanfare in the lat year. I could off had the hole plugged yesterday - 1,000 pound sandbags was a stupid waste of time.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Virginia Tech

[bwteim]

Ditto your "morning". I have been glued to tv coverage.

NautiNurse - thanks for the threads.

Am sending prayers for the families and dollars to Salvation Army and Red Cross.

[EBH]

Answers from Army Corps of Engineers on unwatering New Orleans

11:28 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
wwltv.com



Q.1. How long will it take to get the water out of New Orleans?


A.1. We are unsure. A number of factors play into this. First, Lake Pontchartrain is at roughly 4.5 feet above sea level and falling. The city is at a lower elevation so water will continue to flow into it until it equalizes.


Once the breach on the 7th Street Canal is closed, Pump Station 6 can pump...(excerpt)

[foreign devil]

I'll pray with you. Others will too I know. But keep typing and looking for resources. I contacted a Canadian outfit like Home Depot (Canadian Tire) and asked them to donate generators as their donation to the flood relief. As soon as business opens this morning, I'll call their head office here and suggest that and give them Bayou_King's contact address and let them choose what to do. I'll keep looking through the yellow pages here for companies to appeal to for products that may help right now. The company that makes solar blankets, for instance, to put round people shivering from the water. But I'll keep praying while I do it.

[MarMema]

She inspires no confidence, because she HAS no confidence.

She has no answers or information to supply at press conferences. She is a complete idiot. I cannot imagine what she is doing in a governor's mansion. She just rambles around and seems to fade off at times.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

BTW, Hookie = Hokie
A Hokie just is.

[Calpernia]

>>>>any one watching whou live link?strange they showing Gov live chatting between interviews

More interviews after Larry King?

I saw a comment last night about sandbags not making it to the levee because there were conflicting orders about who was in charge.

WHO is in charge?

[Tom Thumbs]

Still to be addressed is how to deal with the dead.

Stephens estimated that the death toll for his parish could reach the thousands.

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FINALLY an "official" invocation of the "t-word".

Note too that he used the plural form of the word.

Looks like they have decided to begin breaking the awful truth to "the masses".

[EBH]

WWLtv.com starting to show video from Slidell, NOW.

[SE Mom]

Uhmmm...not sure what to make of this...but this is an interesting thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473894/posts

[Petronski]

You weren't dreaming. The Gov wants them out within two days, but last night Hizzoner told CNN it would be at least a week.



Stunning.