Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[mystery-ak]

You can't just send a whole bunch of choppers there without having logistics in place...men, fuel, mechanics etc...the blatant truth is, it takes time..

[Peach]

Oh, Ohio, I am so glad for you. And for them! That is indeed wonderful news.

[NautiNurse]

Did you see yesterday - the photos of the submerged buses are getting legs.

[NonValueAdded]

I'm listening to the Army Corp of Engineers talking now on WDSU ... he is saying a contractor is about to poke holes in some levees to let the water out. Sorry, but all I can picture is Curley in the rowboat with his "water-letter-outer." I do hope they have an effective way to close the breeches they make.

Whoa, someone asking about the impact of pumping the toxic soup out into the environment. Answer is that there will be enormous environmental damage. Question -- why do the additional damage? I guess that is a Denny Hastert question, one that needs to be asked but the messenger gets shot.

[NautiNurse]

FRmail

[NittanyLion]

Yeah, right and that makes you about the most unrealistic poster on the FR. I guess you are suggesting the "action" is staged just off stage right or something and it spurs into action once Bush arrives on the scene. You must be in the film industry.

Whatever Chuck. I allowed for the fact that this may be coincidence - maybe this massive mobilization was well underway since early this week. Does a Presidential visit hurt/slow the timeline? I certainly can't imagine how it would do anything but help, but maybe that's just my "unrealistic" side showing.

[steveegg]

Corps of Engneers Q&A - Q: When will the water be pumped out? - A: 36 days after the pump stations are dewatered for Orleans Parish. St. Bernard's Parish will take more time and pumps.

Missed a vanilla question or two, getting the last - Q: Follow-up on when to get the pump stations on-line. A: - Estimate 7 days after we get the canals sealed off. Will need to bring in our own generators, the on-site ones likely destroyed.

Army on commenting on the evacs. Two-pronged approach; buses and aircraft. Over 35,000 evacuated so far.

[txdoda]

Our enemies are watching, and we look (and are) unprepared.

BUMP.....

[mhking]

Did you see yesterday - the photos of the submerged buses are getting legs.

"They can walk! It's a miracle!"

[mjwise]

My roommate (a reserve in the Ohio Army National Guard) got called up yesterday to go to NOLA and they are deploying THIS AFTERNOON. Talk about turnaround time!

Godspeed to them.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

Agree. The Governette and Nagin have been effectively set aside and replaced by people who know what they are doing.

55 airplanes and 700+ buses out of LA. Emptying causeway area.

Using military aircraft out of Belle Chase NAS.

[Spktyr]

The first amphibious assault carrier is currently supporting New Orleans from the sea. The second assault carrier is due in today, IIRC - it will support the rest of the coast.

We'd have more, but Klinton destroyed our amphibious landing ship fleet. In addition, navigation close to shore is now an unknown quantity after Katrina.

[plushaye]

Thanks for the info about the bus delay. However the evacuations are going fast and furious now, I hear, and that's really great news.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Where did you see it? I love the internet, it won't let stories that need covering die.

[SE Mom]

Your point is excellent and needs to be made over and over.

Unless one has ever been involved in the movement of masses of humanity it is inconceivable. Add to that the dynamics of this event, and you have logistics that can't be appreciated by the fast-food, video game mentality our nation has adopted as a way of life.

[Peach]

Shep has been over the top and ridiculous in some of his reporting. I know it's an emotional situation, but he's been unprofessional.

And Geraldo last night...I really don't have words to describe him.

[texasbluebell]

Bush kicked some *ss and this is the result -

And he's going to do it again on Monday, when he goes back there once more!

[oceanview]

there is no place else to put the water.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

I saw that info in an article this morning, that 700 people from the Hyatt Regency had been put ahead of those in the Dome for evacuation. Are you saying these were the Mayor's orders? They mentioned these people having luggage, as if they were vacationing.

There is no excuse for putting them ahead of the ones in the Superdome, none.

[ohioWfan]

I have a question..............I just heard Phil talk about the rapes.

I wonder how many rapes (or murders, for that matter) took place in NO every night under 'normal' circumstances, and if there has been any increase at all in their numbers, or just national coverage of them.

It may be a strange question, but I've been wondering......