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Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Various ^ | 30 August 2005

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.

Sun-Herald Gulfport MS

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

Mobile Register via al.com

Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger

Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser

Pensacola News Journal


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; prayanddonate; tropical
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To: Petronski

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.


1,261 posted on 08/30/2005 10:23:47 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Rita was live from Aruba all last night in the middle of one of if not the biggest natural disaster in U.S. history...I wanted to vomit.

Me, too. I JUST could NOT believe it!

1,262 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:00 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Dog

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.


1,263 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:03 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: shatcher; Dyxee

Someone was asking about that area earlier


1,264 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:03 AM PDT by eyespysomething (What disgusts me the most is how other GStar families have had their wounds ripped back open! FU CS)
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To: Petronski

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.


1,265 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:10 AM PDT by Torie
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To: SandyInSeattle
I just heard WWL say the Superdome is at the low point? Why on earth did they evacuate people to the lowest available elevation?!

It wasn't, before, but is becoming such, now.

1,266 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:18 AM PDT by TonyInOhio (Would I lie to you?)
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To: buickmackane

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....


1,267 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:19 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: BlueNgold
It seems that the 'American Way' of late is that when bad things happen we seek someone to blame. I think that in this instance that is not only a waste of effort, but in fact counter-productive.

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.

1,268 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:20 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (Visit Club Gitmo - The World's Only Air-Conditioned Gulag.)
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To: cajungirl

Where are you hearing/watching this?


1,269 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:27 AM PDT by cwiz24 (I worked very hard on this tagline.)
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To: Howlin

"Was your immediate reaction "You don't say?" LOL."


Yep, I think you know.......NO SH**!


1,270 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:30 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: SandyInSeattle

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.


1,271 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:31 AM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: Kewz1

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.


1,272 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:34 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Petronski
WWL experts say the Superdome is at risk of flooding. Good Lord...

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.

1,273 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:37 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: shatcher

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!


1,274 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:43 AM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Howlin

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.


1,275 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:47 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: All
WDSU New Orleans:

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

1,276 posted on 08/30/2005 10:24:51 AM PDT by Dont Mention the War (John Bolton for White House Press Secretary!)
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To: toldyou

:-)


1,277 posted on 08/30/2005 10:25:13 AM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Agreed, by no fault of their own some of these people found themselves in this predicament.

Prayers up for their safety as well as those who tried to ride out the storm.

1,279 posted on 08/30/2005 10:25:48 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: mhking

I'm so very sorry.....I hope they are found safe and sound....your poor grandfather...oh..this is so so sad.


1,280 posted on 08/30/2005 10:25:48 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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