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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
CNN: reporter in Hattiesburg had start out southbound from Meridian before they got into the storm, and said he saw light traffic, not traffic jams coming northbound (so hopefully everyone who tried to evacuated up I-59 were able to get out before the storm hit.)
Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor is on a completely man made island.
Wow. Thank you - that must have been one heck of an effort.
At least they knew that cell phones worked in the Superdome. Saints wide receivers are good for something.
Stop and think about this, though. How much more damage would the city have taken for each half mile west the eye had hit? Then consider how small a distance a mile or two is in the size of the storm. That last jog to the east was easily a couple miles worth of movement.
The Mound Underpass on Interstate-10 is flooded near downtown New Orleans on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, as Hurricane Katrina dumped torrential rain and battered the city when it made landfall near Grand Isle. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)
I was early for a flight once, and went to Corky's in Metrarie....they kept me eating for two hours with some sampler!
CNN: AL news conference: Storm down to Cat 2, 100mph, but hurricane force winds still extend out more than 100 miles!
I understand man-made islands. It's raising an island that already has buildings on it that had me a bit perplexed.
Oh, Oh, Oh...there's places near I10 that have just a little water, and other places that is really deep...I will be saying prayers for Liberty2004....
I suspect old Metry has parts that are really, really hit, and places between West Esplanade and Vets.... But I only some film, and it of course, wasn't exhaustive....I just happened to know two of the places.
They're just saying now downgraded to Cat 1.
CNN: AL news conference: waters may stil rise a bit in Mobile for a few more hours, should be subsiding by 6pm.
Wow, next speaker has big-time Gomer Pyle accent.
"How do you raise an island? Does the former first floor of a house that survived the hurricane become it's basement?"
There weren't any houses on the island after that hurricane. They started over.
Gov of AL on now? Wow, what an accent!
there is streaming audio here:
http://www.wjnt.com/
BurbankKarl may know another one?
You can get streaming feed from abc on the links that go with the article of this thread.
Of course you plan ahead and have supplies and medicine. But not everyone is always prepared and excrement does happen.
I was only objecting to the absolute statement that it is always wrong to take without permission. There are cases where I would feel no moral harm in doing such a thing, if necessity necessitated it.
Would you let someone die of anaphylactic shock rather than "steal" from a closed and abandoned pharmacy? I would not. To say it's always wrong is to say that we must let that person die rather than steal necessary medicine. I don't think that is the moral thing to do.
SD
not much left after that hurricane. It is surprising given the 6,000 dead that anyone WANTED to live there again.
No basements that near to sea level. For the few which did survive, very few, I guess the first floor became the foundation.
I forgot to ask you, do you all still have Chris and Pitts.? I grew up on that stuff.
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