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EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE
WWLTV ^ | 8/30/05 | WWLTV

Posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:03 PM PDT by va4me

****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 9 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED IN THE ENTIRE EAST BANK. WITHIN THE NEXT 12-15 HOURS****


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina; neworleans
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To: popdonnelly

?

Expand your horizon a bit.

There are jewelry stores being looted, and it is not the cubic zirconia they are going after but the diamonds and the rubies.

Some looters will reap fortunes.


41 posted on 08/30/2005 6:21:44 PM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: SkyPilot

Unfortunately the Atlantis option may be OK with many more people after watching the looting and the shooting and the carjacking and the hostage taking.


42 posted on 08/30/2005 6:24:54 PM PDT by spycatcher
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To: Tennessee_Bob
Saw a quote from a looter today - paraphrased, this is their chance to strike back at society for oppressing them.

I suppose he will not have any excuse when God demands his life from him, and asks this guy why when he died he had goods in his hands that didn't belong to him.

43 posted on 08/30/2005 6:25:57 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: spycatcher

Yeah, I know, but they have been "oppressed" all their lives.

44 posted on 08/30/2005 6:28:15 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

I watched the mayor and the governor on Sunday calling for the evacuation. Both seemed to be out of their depth. The governor, in particular, was confused and fumbling. Now she's crying. They waited too long to get people out. People who were stuck on freeways turned around and came back into the city. I'd say New Orleans is doomed. The Mississippi and lake are going to reclaim it.


46 posted on 08/30/2005 6:35:28 PM PDT by WestSylvanian
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To: SkyPilot
If this breech is not fixed, the entire city may be lost and become "Atlantis." This is no joke.

My hubby has been saying this all afternoon. In fact, he's been much more blunt. He thinks unless there is a drastic change, N.O. will be gone forever and will be devoured by Lake Ponchatrain and the Mississippi, which he says is unforgiving.

He was convinced after an Army Corp of Engineers expert said that IF they were to get all levys in perfect working order immediately, they could only pump out one inch per hour. The flooding has commenced. There isn't even an established 'command and control' at this point.

This is really, really, bad folks....

47 posted on 08/30/2005 6:36:02 PM PDT by demkicker ((Life has many choices. Eternity has only two. Which one have you chosen?))
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To: popdonnelly
And I doubt the National Guard is going to help the looters carry the loot to high ground.

Well I don't know about the National Guard, but it's clear from the news reports the police will be more than willing to help them...for a small cut of course

48 posted on 08/30/2005 6:39:25 PM PDT by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: demkicker
They actually have an excellent pump system in New Orleans. It can even handle a 15 inch rain storm in a day or so. I heard on the TV that many of the pumps were designed and built 100 years ago, and that they still worked brilliantly.

But they require electricity. There isn't going to be any electricity for a long time.

Your husband is right about the lake and the mighty Mississippi. This is very, very bad.

49 posted on 08/30/2005 6:39:53 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Dog

Lot's of folks get high on bourbon street.


50 posted on 08/30/2005 6:42:44 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: WestSylvanian
The governor, in particular, was confused and fumbling. Now she's crying.

I watched that same new conference. The mayor was bad too, but not as lost. Today, he was talking about "repairing roofs." I think he just must have been tired or something, because who the hell cares about that now.

The Governor did seem way, waaaay out of her league. Now she is a basket case. According to her bio, she is a former teacher who likes to watch "Steel Magnolias" over and over again. The State needs a Gen Patton now, not a weeping ex-union delegate.

51 posted on 08/30/2005 6:43:28 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot
What the hell were these people thinking?

They weren't thinking, they were "governing." Maybe next time the voters will do some thinking.

52 posted on 08/30/2005 6:43:52 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: jasoncann

Thanks. Nice pic, puts it in perspective.


53 posted on 08/30/2005 6:44:27 PM PDT by Free Vulcan
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To: SkyPilot
How many people in the affected areas currently are in a position to be able to hear the mayor's latest evacuation warning? How are they supposed to evacuate in the dark?

Does anyone have any idea how many people are left in the city?

54 posted on 08/30/2005 6:47:11 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: independentmind
I don't know, but a good question. They are talking about evacuating all the people who are in the Superdome now to a barge or something.

Thousands who don't get the word may die. The breech is now said to be blocks long.

55 posted on 08/30/2005 6:49:09 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: SkyPilot

Map of Levees


56 posted on 08/30/2005 6:50:31 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: va4me

Helicopters cannot carry in more than 6000 lbs at a run, most of them,If they dropped CONEX boxes filled with sand, it might make a small plug, but with too much area around each box to leak

All they can do is stop it once it has already emptied the lake, to fill the dike once it is empty, there are just not enough helicopters available nor conex boxes filled with sand to make a new rough breech, and then they would need tons of gravel to fill in the cracks around the CONEX boxes...

The only other thing is to sink a barge that is floated from the lake first, then sink it at the breech.

But how would you get the barge to the breech from the lake side?



57 posted on 08/30/2005 6:51:30 PM PDT by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: jasoncann

This link to a levee diagram was posted on a duplicate thread that got pulled.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/nolalevees_jpg.html


58 posted on 08/30/2005 6:52:13 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Sorry, I reposted your link just in case.


59 posted on 08/30/2005 6:52:42 PM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: SkyPilot

They also require someplace to pump the water into. Apparently the water from one of the breeches was being pumped right back to its source, only to return again. Unless the pumps work faster than the leak, the pumps will lose that game every time.


60 posted on 08/30/2005 6:52:55 PM PDT by ordinaryguy
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