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Posted on 08/30/2005 6:51:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Catastrophic damage occurred to Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama as a result of Hurricane Katrina. Major bridges are destroyed. Mobile AL suffered its worst flooding in 90 years. In New Orleans, a large section of concrete levee broke last night. Water continues to rise, threatening, among many things, Tulane Hospital with 1000 patients. New Orleans officials: Do not attempt to return to the city at this time if you evacuated. It is too dangerous.
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula
Gulfport News via Topix.net WAFB Baton Rouge
Slidell, Mandeville, and Covington Updates Warning: website is overloaded due to heavy traffic
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
How sound is the dome? I mean, low level flooding they can climb higher for a while. If the structure is damaged..
I don't want to think about that.
Me, too. I JUST could NOT believe it!
But Dog, what I am saying is even those of us who live down here knew of the possiblity but we thought NO had dodged the bullet. Alot of us were in the same position so you can hardly blame Shep. I don't like Shep but I won't call him a moron over that. He may be a moron for other reasons but not that.
Someone was asking about that area earlier
The superdome is above sea level. I don't get it. Unless of course Lake Pontchartrain is still above sea level, which seems hard to believe. It is sad just how poor and ill informed the reporting is.
It wasn't, before, but is becoming such, now.
I hope so, too; didn't that poor man say, he's "lost half his heart" and "everything's gone."
How could someone not be moved for him? The reporter was, and that touched me too...that she was showing her humanity to him and not acting like a robot....
Agreed. Right now, we should be in compassion mode and trying to do all we can. Mother nature does her will and this is just a lesson as to how impotent we really are against it.
Where are you hearing/watching this?
"Was your immediate reaction "You don't say?" LOL."
Yep, I think you know.......NO SH**!
Most of the people were told to settle in upper seats as I recall. So the field may flood but they should still be above water.
yea, I lived (the hard way) not to believe early reporting, give it a day or too stuff can still happen and facts are not known 2 hours after a storm.
The water has been rising since this morning, it was just a matter of time. I wondered why they didn't start getting people out of there early this morning.
Can you post that over here?
FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472358/posts
Everybody who hears from anybody in the storm path should post over there; people are actively searching for their friends and family!
And the end of their nose is short!
Five feet of water in the downtown areas and in St. Bernard Parish have as much as 10 and 12 feet of water.
12:15 p.m. [CDT]: Looting Continues Throughout City
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter this morning, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers. When police finally showed up, a young boy stood at the door and shouted a warning, and the crowd scattered.
A tourist from Philadelphia compared the scene to "downtown Baghdad."
Nearby, looters ripped open the steel gates from the front of stores on Canal Street. They filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation. -- Associated Press
:-)
Prayers up for their safety as well as those who tried to ride out the storm.
I'm so very sorry.....I hope they are found safe and sound....your poor grandfather...oh..this is so so sad.
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