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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:47:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse
lol! Guilty!
Is anybody hearing anything out of Gulfport?
See the slidell web site at http://www.slidell.la.us/
Mayor has a statement about evacuating the city, but that is about all the Katrina news I saw at their site.
Is that why Mt Belview (ms?) had the collapse that time?
I can't remember if this one was posted yet:
http://www.wwltv.com/
Live video stream is top link.
Bernard perish, Judge Perez drive, firefighters trapped at civic center due to rising floodwaters. They can't make rescues.
Hurricne Dora left us with no power and no running water for three weeks. That was a few years ago. My dad had prepared with a shallow well and a hand pump. We got some exercise just flushing the toilet.
No, that's fine. I've said my piece, at least until someone posts that I was encouraging looters.
SD
Mayor: 200 trapped on Ninth Ward rooftops; bodies floating in Bywater
02:37 PM CDT on Monday, August 29, 2005
WWLTV.com
Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several bodies are floating in the water in the Bywater neighborhood and in Eastover.
Nagin made the announcement in his first press briefing after Hurricane Katrina slammed just east of the city, but did plenty of devastation to New Orleans.
Nagin said that the 200 stranded people included 20 police officers who were riding out the storm at their homes in preparation to take over shifts from other officers. He said that boats would be dispatched on rescue missions later in the afternoon.
Mayor Nagin issued a "boil water" recommendation for water in the city - except for Algiers and the CBD due to a water main line break that may have compromised the water.
Nagin said at least 20 buildings in the city had collapsed and that it might be 48 hours before residents would be allowed back to their homes to assess the damage.
I prefer firecrackers ...and gasoline.
That's what I've been wondering. Haley Barbour's news conference was a little chilling concerning Biloxi and Gulfport, but no news casts about it at all. I guess they can't get in to find out yet.
Only that most structures in Gulfport are damaged in some way...maybe 75% of roofs is what I heard?
yep. Was there 28 years, went to Bienville Elementary, McDonough 28, Abramson High, then got my degree from UNO and worked at Delgado. New Orleans is more my home than any other place in the world.
A lot more my home than Ogden UT!
Gulf Port Fire Chief "We are looking at Camille II"
So what's going on? I've been offline for a couple of weeks.
I knew it was coming, but d*mn...
Sinking is sinking, no matter how it occurs. imo.
One of the news channels did a phone interview yesterday with a woman in Grand Isle who was reluctant to leave. She was saying how her whole life was there etc.
I keep hoping she came to her sense and got out of there in time.
LQ
I've been expecting to hear about bodies floating.
Lord have mercy on their souls.
WGNO is going to send a crew out to Slidell. Maybe we'll hear something more definitive when they get their report.
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