Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi [hundreds if not thousands dead]

Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05 | My Favorite Headache

[DollyCali]

Thank you for sharing your information. I think many of us have been dreading this type of inevitable news.. just the tip of the iceberg I am afraid with disease following.

[nwctwx]

Here, I resized and zoomed on the area... as I said, clouds in the spot of most interest, but there is definate sign of a SEVERE surge to those bays, and the area of SE LA. Wave forecasts were pushing 60-70 feet... this is on top of the water rise.

http://ianlivingston.com/weather/images/2005/highres_before_small.jpg
http://ianlivingston.com/weather/images/2005/highres_after_small.jpg

[Quix]

Did you read the prophecy thread? I hope the expected about the next few months turns out to have been prevented by prayer or just wrong.

Sounds like many people feel much worse is headed our way in a series of worsening disasters and terror attacks.

[JellyJam]

Horrifying ... that sends chills down my spine.

[foreign devil]

There's a silver lining here that occurs to me and that is...that all threats from al-Qaeda are rendered meaningless in the face of what we've already faced.

Al Qaeda's threats are offically irrelevant.

[MHT]

But the emphasis was so on the pathway it was taking to Louisiana, it would have been almost understandable for the people in MS to think that they were going to get the lighter end of the storm.

[cyborg]

Scooping the press once again ain't we?

[ARCADIA]

I can understand the drive to stay near your home, but when it comes to hurricanes, I'd leave the area.

It is very hard to leave the area. I have been down dodging these things for twenty years. Usually, your employer will not release you until the warning is issued and that leaves you with way less then 24 hours to get ready and get out. That is when the eye will hit land, but with large storms driving can start to get rough 8 hours before that. When you are looking at something like Florida, there isn't really anywhere to go. You have to drive up to eight hours in good traffic to get out of the state and you may be in the storms path the whole way. That doesn't leave you with much time to collect your family, seal up your house, and pack up your life; and, we are assuming that the thing actually stays on course and you get the full 24 hours of notice.

With Katrina, Broward county issued a hurricane warning, but Dade county did not. As a result people were ordered into work on Friday in Dade county. When the storm changed direction they actually ended up driving home in tropical storm winds. They would have been lucky to find enough time to put up their storm shutters.

Also, keep in mind that these warnings happen half a dozen times a year. You never know until the last minute what these storms will do. Who can afford to cut and run on every warning? You either have to develop a certain tolerance for these things or move away from the coast.

[Quix]

Have heard, read enough . . . am not so sure.

But hey, naysaying seems to be FR's main religion so help yourself.

[LibertyRocks]

I agree completely with you. I worried about that alot too. We were all I think focused on what this storm was going to do to New Orleans, and it turned right in the last few hours before coming ashore. It's truly sad.

[grey_whiskers]

Tass and Pravda in the USSR also blocked bad news. Sovietization of America is ongoing, and control of the news is part of it.

Not necessarily true.

Situation is so overwhelming, with so many of the ordinary things gone (like passable roads, electricity, working phones, light after dark, elementary sewage disposal, food, water) that people don't have TIME or EFFORT to look at the big picture.

And if they did release the news all at once, the US stock market would crumble at the thought of all the $$ and work it will take to regroup...not to mention speculators on commodities, etc.

Prayers for all!

[MHT]

I wonder, too, how many of those bodies they say are floating in the water are the long-dead remains of cemetaries which have been flooded.

[singfreedom]

Oh no, this really bodes ill for New Orleans. They haven't even started trying to tally the dead there.

[foreign devil]

What prophecy thread. What prediction?

[Prince Charles]

Someone should start a thread to track donations from all our so-called allies and eurotrash friends.

[Americanwolf]

agreed I pray for all those that are fighting to hold on through the night. My prayers to those working to recover those that are still alive they will need all the energy and fortitude to get through this..


Incidentally
I have been chastised twice for my meteorological skills... so i now put my weather guesser hat in the corner.

[Bush gal in LA]

I am sure you are right but wasn't the brunt of the hurricane originally supposed to make a direct hit on N.O. only? Then I think ,at the last minute, the hurricane, turned direction, maybe towards Mississippi , and authorities didn't have time to get the word out.My friends want me to explain why all these people [thousands?] didn't make it out in time and I don't know what to tell them.

[Quix]

Hmmmm. Stranger things have happened.

What do I know.

Thanks.

[ChocChipCookie]

I'm starting to feel sick. A dear friend of mine was headed to Alabama to celebrate her parents' 50th wedding anniversary. I believe they owned a beach home. Oh my God.

[malakhi]

Another storm is coming and EVERYBODY should be gone.

What storm is that? TD-13 just expired, and there are no other active tropical systems in the Atlantic basin.