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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Thanks--the other radars that are down said "Temporarily Unavailable," so when I saw Atlanta's, I thought I had heard the report incorrectly.
Any word on Picayune?
CNN: one of their producers got a message from their family that they are trapped on the 2nd floor of their house, and the waters are still rising. Didn't mention what part of time.
We need the facts as we find them right now; they may not be the "final" facts, but people are reporting what they are hearing.
We're all waiting to see what the final outcome is going to be; there are Freepers who have not been heard from.
That being said, this is the FR live thread, not the NHC Official thread; there's always plenty of discussion on these threads.
Any news on damage in Sidell? Other information?
"I'm praying for your family, my friend."
Thank you so much. The prayers and compassion shown by you and others here is of great comfort and gives me strength. Bless you.
That statement is probably true under any set of circumstances...
Howlin, I'm consistently hearing the same thing -- possible spinoffs in western part of the state. No. Zero. No predictions, speculations whatsoever concerning central and eastern zones.
Exactly.
Nice "Adult Toy Store" on the video from the French Quarter.
aqreed.
Yea...TV radar is still up. NWS radars in Atlanta, Columbus, MS, Jackson, MS, New Orleans, Lake Charles and Shreveport are all down. It appears to be comm lines.
Thank you; that is very informative!
The Atlanta damage report is still sketchy. The newscasters are too busy with new warnings.
They just mentioned "damage" but not the extent.
WSB web site:
http://www.wsbtv.com/weather/4908125/detail.html
Let's hope the "rampant idiocy" curse of Thread VIII has been broken.
I think people assumed that once the storm left the NOLA area, the waters would just start receding. It appears the exact opposite is occurring.
A couple anecdotal notes on CNN about yesterday's traffic: 1 person said it took them 6 hours to go 120 miles, another made it to Atlanta in 12 hours(normally 8 hours). So not real bad, all things considered.
"Andrew-like" translates to miles and miles of flattened homes, apartments, schools, stores, and public buildings along the Mississippi coast. I lived in SoFL and saw the Andrew aftermath....it took literally YEARS to clean it all up. So sad.
Any news from Pascagoula? Home of Trent Lott, and site of my grandfather's grave (at the little Catholic cemetery). Black Irish humor break: Granddad would probably enjoy floating away, old seafaring shipbuilder that he was. Trent Lott would rather stay put, no doubt.
Andrew was also primarily a wind event - the topography of the Florida coastline where it hit didn't lend itself to large surge, and the storm didn't have much of a fetch. This one had winds as strong as Andrew until the last minute (which got a lot of water moving), and it had a very large fetch for a hurricane. So we're gonna see a lot of surge damage here.
Advocate staff report The state senator who represents St. Bernard Parish and parts of Plaquemine Parish said all of St. Bernard is under water and people are trapped in the roofs of their homes. "There are people in their attics hollering for help," said state Sen. Walter Boasso, who was in the state emergency operations center Monday morning. He said he had been told that "this is worse than Betsy," the hurricane that flooded the same area 40 years ago.
"People are trapped and we cannot get them out," Boasso said. Plans are being made to launch 60 boats into the parish to try to rescue people once the storm has passed, which may be a few more hours, he said.
He said he thinks all four of the oil refineries in the two parishes are probably under water, which could further throw the oil markets into a panic and drive record prices even higher.
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