Status Reports of... Gulf Ports - Waterways - Rivers - Highways - Etc

freepers ^ | 9/3/05 | freepers

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Please post any information you have that relates to the current status of gulf ports - waterways - rivers - highways - townships - etc.

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here is what I have...

The lower Mississippi River is open to deep draft vessels with up to 35 ft draft.

The only port that remains 100% closed is the port at Gulf Port MS.

All other gulf ports are now functioning with some restrictions.

approx 70% of bouys-markers-etc have sunk or they are missing or have been knocked off location. They are actively getting these replaced and or back into position.

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ping...

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please add this FR link to your future hurrricane thread headers.

Status Reports of... Gulf Ports - Waterways - Rivers - Highways - Etc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476522/posts?

[Road Warrior ‘04]

With all of the devastation bt Katrina, there must be one bright spot. Has anyone heard of any massive oil slicks in the gulf from all of the platforms that were destroyed? No! Because I don't think there are any. Lends credence for safe drilling in the Gulf of Mexico

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Thanks tons for starting this thread.

Will be keeping a very close eye on it and if I hear anything at all will post it.

Thanks again

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USACE New Orleans District - http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/

(USACE - United States Army Corps of Engineers)

River Stage Data
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/eng/edhd/Wcontrol/wcmain.htm

New Orleans District Lock Status Summaries
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/OD/LockUpdates/statusindex.asp

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Non-Corps hurricane structures - contact info
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/response/nc2.asp


Maps of USACE Hurricane Levees in NO (this info is published by USACE and is online)
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/response/amaps.asp

Parish Homeland Security &
Emergency Preparedness Offices
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/response/parish.asp

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Road Closures (not sure how updated these are)

Louisiana
http://www.lsp.org/roadandincident.nsf

Alabama
http://www.dot.state.al.us/closures/

Mississippi
http://www.mdot.state.ms.us/

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From Railspot

Subject: Rerouted BNSF On TIBR

BNSF train M LALBIR4 01A (Regular
Manifest-Lafayette,LA-Birmingham,AL) was seen
detouring north bound out of Beaumont around 1AM today
on the Timber Rock RR headed for handoff to the BNSF
at Tenaha,TX.

Power:
2 BNSF SD40-2's
1 BNSF GP39-2

Supposedly over 100 cars on this one.

This is the 3rd hurricane detour/reroute that I know
of that Timber Rock has handled.

Mark St.Aubin

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From Railspot Message: 11 Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 17:14:30 -0000 From: "Jim" Subject: Amtrak ... umm ... delayed in evacuation effort

Oh Brother. From Bloomberg.com:

Conditions Improve in New Orleans; Thousands Still Await Help

Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of people fled New Orleans yesterday as more troops and supplies were sent to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Airplanes, Trains Help from U.S. transportation companies also increased. American Airlines, Southwest Airlines Co. and at least 10 other carriers began evacuating residents from New Orleans, in what officials called the biggest U.S. airlift-rescue effort ever.

The first Amtrak train able to transport 600 passengers was set to arrive in New Orleans at 11 p.m. local time. Officials later said it was delayed.

``We've been working hard to open up another avenue to get folks out of New Orleans,'' said Brian Turmail, a spokesman with the Transportation Department. ``In terms of coordinating security for the train and busing people to the train station, it's taking a little longer than we anticipated.''

Turmail said he didn't know when the Amtrak train, which was in between Livonia, Louisiana, and New Orleans, would make it to the train station.

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Lots more info here:

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/railspot/