What's the context of the pic? Were the dolphins put in the pool to protect them from being washed out to sea from where they normally abide at the Oceanarium?
Posted on 08/29/2005 6:14:55 PM PDT by Howlin
Several people have requested a thread JUST for images of the storm.
Post them here, please.
It was removed from this thread, so I didn't know what was said. That was pretty bad : (
Good to see you safe, NerdDad.
Good lord.
I saw one picture of the Beau Rivage which had its hotel on a raised mound twenty-five foot high and its gaming spaces to the beach side on the required barges within structure. That picture showed a damaged gem sitting in wreckage. I can't imagine what some of the smaller properties had happen to them. Probably not only the gaming casino portion, but the entire properties were swept away. Alongside, in-between, and across the street were marinas, resturants, condos and the businesses. Some stripped down to the slab foundation from what I've seen.
Why was the flag left out in a hurricane?
Ahhh crud
What's that all about?
Maybe it didn’t make someone’s top 10 things to do before getting his family to safety.
You know that creepy-crawly troll-in-our-midst feeling? Yep. I had it.
Oh, thanks for making FR look good in the eyes of the outside world.
So did I!
Some DUmmie said she would not donate any of her money for disaster relief if it was going to be used for Republicans.
Unbelievably shallow and callous. Luckily, I am confident that NO FReeper would ever say such an evil thing.
As the size competition over the last twenty years has progressed, it has developed to huge casinos with floating floors -- actual giant barge floors.
You don't even realize you are on a floating floor within a fixed structure of walls and roof.
Imagine a barge built of 24 watertight steel segments of 50 to 60 tons each welded together to make a floor approaching a half a football field. Underneath it floats on a basin of water alongside a river, a basin carved in a beach area, or on a lock area alongside a river or beach.
With a catastrophic surge, the giant barge lifts tearing the whole gaming casino loose from the land based portions of the structure.
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Flood waters continue to rise in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/Dave Martin)
Flood waters from Hurricane Katrina fill the streets near downtown New Orleans Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005 in New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina did extensive damage when it made landfall on Monday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Living in a hurricane prone area that has been wiped out by a storm (Homestead) I know exactly what you are talking about. Many pets wandered around looking for their owners or something to eat/drink after storms. One funny thing that happened after Andrew was dozens of primates running all over the nuclear plant down here, Turkey Point. They had "escaped" during the storm from Moneky Jungle, a zoo type place for primates, and made their way to the plant. For days people were running after them trying to catch em. To this day, chimps etc can be found in the everglades that are either from the storm or decendents of the original storm chimps.
What we do is either take our pets with us if we leave or we set up a designated room in the house that is our hurricane "shelter" and leave the animals in their with us. With that said the fact remains that I will not leave them, either they come with us or we stay together.
Two people at the Super Dome were killed. All I have from Fox News.
I lived just north of Cutler Ridge during Andrew, and one reason I stayed was my 3 cats. When all hell broke loose, they found places to hide, no problem, it was the rest of us in the house that were in real danger. I decided that what I will do is that for the next bad storm, I will leave early and take my pets with me, I wont stay at any shelter, I'll get out of town. That is definately something I do not want to experience again.
This is a bit off-topic, but look at the quality of the woodwork on that porch (pic, post 23). You don't see that anymore on an "average" house.
any used cars in the aftermath should be run through the internet to see if they were in Katrina. Cars inundated with salt often end up on the market. I am posting back to your car jpeg.
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