Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here (But please, no Getty images)

http:www.freerepublic.com | August 29, 2005

[Howlin]

Several people have requested a thread JUST for images of the storm.

Post them here, please.

[floriduh voter]

See if you can see your place from the satellite at google. I think david osborne has the link.

[Brytani]

When Katrina was coming on shore in S. Florida those of us in S. Dade were told it will be a rain event, a little wind but flooding, Broward and Palm Beach were in danger. Turns out S. Dade took the brunt of the storm as it moves southward once coming on land. Sometimes it seems like you just can't win.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Wow.

CNN (Radio) said "A barge broke loose....Hit the bridge." (Implied NO bridge, implied little damage.)

I was thinking "river barge" size!

[conservativebabe]

I just saw a man who was interviewed on the street on FOX, who had lost his wife in the flooding. He said he had to choose bewteen saving his kids or saving his wife. He was devestated.

This makes my stomach and heart just sick.

[ftriggerf]

Does that work for any removed posts and please send the link to me also. Thank you

[Robert A Cook PE]

Couldn't they flood it down say 5-8 feet instead of cutting the superstructure of the rig?

First thing is to secure it = Keep it from moving and hitting the bride deck (again!) as the river water rises with floods upstream. Tides (even the low Gulf tides will cause more damage as it goes "up and down" against the bridge.

Depth of water? Might need to pump excavate under the floats first.

[stlnative]

[Robert A Cook PE]

TV reporter: trying to pull his "Dan Rather" act in the hurricane.

See the camera behind him?

[GladesGuru]

I really do live in South Florida, perhaps better known as FloriDUH.

Actually, I live in the middle of the Everglades, on what is called an inholding in the Big Cypress National Preserve.

The good news is that I get to live in what was the least damaged part of the 'Glades (until the "Restoration" began) and still have Miami and Naples a reasonable drive away.

The bad news is that the faulty premises upon which the Everglades Restoration programs are based have resulted in severe damage to both the Everglades and to my inholding.

But fear not - the 'crats are going to bill the rest of America for even more money to do more "restoration".

It is beginning to look like I better learn to either walk on water or grow webbed feet.

Don't count another 1928 level flood out of the picture. Thanks to the many faulty premises whelped by the various GangGreen groups and agencies, the water level behind the levee surrounding Lake Okeechobee is often above design level.

Originally the US Army Corps of Engineers used to fly the levee once a month looking for "boils" which is their term for water which has found a path through the levee and is boiling up on the other side.

Unless fixed, boils can cause failure of the levee. When the water is above design level to the degree that the number of boils increased (or management anxiety increased) then they fly weekly.

When things are critical, they fly daily.

I am not sure about the wisdom of operating a levee system with that much water in it above designed water level. If it ever fails, things will get real ugly, real fast.

But they are from the government and they ARE here to help us, aren't they?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Pretty much.

[OXENinFLA]

See the camera behind him?

Oh I missed that, I thought he was just hanging on to that pole.

[OXENinFLA]

Homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina are shown in this aerial view, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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A trader in the natural gas pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange gestures during early trading Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in New York as reports came in on the condition of refineries off the coast of the southern United States in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The Gulf of Mexico normally produces 2 million barrels of crude oil a day and about 10 billion cubic feet a day of natural gas. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

A trader in the oil pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange yells out his bid during early trading Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, in New York. Oil futures surged by more than $2 a barrel Tuesday as traders awaited reports on the extent of the damage Hurricane Katrina had caused to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. Light sweet crude for October delivery rose $2.05 to $69.25 a barrel on the Nymex. Prices are more than 50 percent higher than a year ago. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

[Orlando]

bump

[zkbeta51]

After Ivan hit the housing market boomed here in Pensacola. Lots of good deals on property.

[Smartaleck]

It's Chavez's way of making Robertson look stupid. ;-)

[Velveeta]

Good point.

[Velveeta]

Water surrounds homes just east of downtown New Orleans on Aug. 30, the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. (AP/The Dallas Morning News, Smiley N. Pool)

[Velveeta]

Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans on Aug. 30, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP/David J. Phillip)

[HostileTerritory]

I wonder how much of that was speculation... and I know Pensacola has done better than some other places. I can't imagine the state of mind that would lead someone to move to the Panhandle given what y'all have lived through in the past twelve months, and knowing that so much more work has yet to be done.

It is a beautiful piece of land with good people, but such challenges ahead.

[CindyDawg]

I read somewhere that one of the reasons people won't go to shelters is because they don't want to leave their pets and there sure are a lot of pictures of people clutching them dearly as they wade thru the water.