Posted on 09/03/2005 6:33:39 AM PDT by badpacifist
New Orleans braces for monster hurricane Crescent City under evacuation; storm may overwhelm leveesNEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans braced for a catastrophic blow from Hurricane Katrina overnight, as forecasters predicted the Category 5 storm could drive a wall of water over the city's levees.The huge storm, packing 160 mph winds, is expected to hit the northern Gulf Coast in the next nine hours and make landfall as a Category 4 or 5 hurricane Monday morning.The National Hurricane Center reports that conditions are already deteriorating along the central and northeastern coast.New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city. "This is a threat that we've never faced before," Nagin said. "If we galvanize and gather around each other, I'm sure we will get through this."He exempted essential federal, state, and local personnel; emergency and utility workers; transit workers; media; hotel workers; and patrons from the evacuation order.About 1.3 million people live in New Orleans and its suburbs, and many began evacuating before sunrise. Nagin estimated that nearly 1 million people had fled the city and its surrounding parishes by Sunday night. Between 20,000 and 25,000 others who remained in the city lined up to take shelter in the Louisiana Superdome, lining up for what authorities warned would be an unpleasant day and a half at minimum.City officials told stranded tourists to stay on third-floor levels or higher and away from windows.Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that New Orleans could expect a complete loss of electricity and water services as well as intense flooding.
Need you ask?
We've discussed, ranted and raved about this FACT on the live Katrina threads for several days...it's just unbelievable, isn't it?
The Old Media is dead. Long live the New Media!
It's so plainly obvious that the governor is a quivering estrogen bomb and the mayor is a total nut. The media can ignore their incompetence all the want, but there's no getting around it.
Real women like Condi Rice and real men like Bush/Giuliani wouldn't act this way.
LOL.
It's so plainly obvious that the governor is a quivering estrogen bomb and the mayor is a total nut. The media can ignore their incompetence all the want, but there's no getting around it.
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Well when you go back the very basic premise and fact about liberals you can understand the situation.
LIBERALS CARE ONLY ABOUT THIER OWN POWER AND CONTROL -- they do NOT care about the job or the people they are supposed to be working for....ala Clinton, for example.
Remember in the movie 'Airplane!' when the woman starts freaking out and all the passengers line up to slap, hit her with a crow bar, etc.? That's what people need to do Governor Estrogen Bomb.
That, + illustrating once more that there's a difference between the truth and the whole truth. B/c, after all, technically CNN did tell the truth: Nigel did advise people to evacuate.
Wonder how many people heard Michael Medved yesterday on the radio when he stated that many people have said they didn't want to leave their houses until after the first of the month because they wanted to wait for their Federal checks in whatever form they might have been. That is the only place I have heard that.
I just clicked on "File" "Save As" "HTML page" and then printed it.
Thank you for the post. This article will come in handy when arguing with the leftists that claim "Bush isn't doing anything!"
Journalism is antipathetic to putting things in perspective:
anyone have a link for the "doctored" article?
Unbelievable. I've seen this type of thing via Free Republic so many times. It's one of the things that keeps me coming back. To think they used to get away with this kind of thing routinely.
Funniest movie ever. My favorite scene is when the elderly woman said "I speak Jive" and translates the jive rantings of that black dude. Absolutely hilarious. Another part is when that one traffic controller is playing pong.
Thats was June Cleaver from Leave it to Beaver
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