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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; prayanddonate; tropical
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To: Types_with_Fist

CNN has reporter on said that a man jumped in the SUmper Dome to commit suicide.


1,281 posted on 08/30/2005 10:25:49 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: mhking

Prayers for your family members' safety. There is nothing worse than not knowing anything, followed closely being helpless to do anything about it. Hang in there.


1,282 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:23 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: Dont Mention the War
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.

These people should have been expending that kind of effort to get to higher ground. They'll probably pay for that lack of discretion dearly. All for some soggy clothing and jewelry.

1,283 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:33 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Lizarde

I missed it. Why did she cut her off?


1,284 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:34 AM PDT by Kewz1
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To: Right_in_Virginia

WWL reported five feet in the downtown area right now but water is still flowing into the city from the breech.


1,285 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:38 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: RummyChick
CNN has reporter on said that a man jumped in the SUmper Dome to commit suicide.

OMG!

1,286 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:39 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: SandyInSeattle
I just heard WWL say the Superdome is at the low point?

No, its not. I remember them saying on the news before the storm hit that it was on relatively high ground. Look at an NO topo map. Its 5 or 8 feet above sea level--which is a ridge in NO. That means a lot of NO is much worse of--if there's 3 or 4 feet of water around the Dome, there's really deep water in most of the city.

1,287 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:40 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Strategerist
with more pithy language

What can I say? :-)

1,288 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:50 AM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: RummyChick

Yes. The man was playing Dominos, just stood up, told a couple of people below to look out, and just jumped to his death inside the Superdome!! How awful!


1,289 posted on 08/30/2005 10:26:52 AM PDT by Adam-ondi-Ahman
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To: PhiKapMom
Five feet of water in the downtown areas and in St. Bernard Parish have as much as 10 and 12 feet of water.

The LSU professor on WWL said St. Bernard Parish flooded to that depth in two hours yesterday.

He said the levees are 17 feet high, but the waves were 22 feet high.

1,290 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:07 AM PDT by TonyInOhio (Would I lie to you?)
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To: Heatseeker
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.

Just the knowledge that I was trapped with no way to get to the outside would set my claustrophobia off in a major way.

1,291 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:07 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: OXENinFLA

well, that is better than what I thought it was...


1,292 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:12 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: mhking

Michael..your family will be in my prayers. I'm so sorry.


1,293 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:15 AM PDT by lysie
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To: EBH

Just heard a story that the 17th street levee had just broken...any truth to this?


1,294 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:15 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: dirtboy
Government has gone from the can-do attitude of WWII and space exploration in the 1960s to a "we can't do it" attitude we see today.

There is a huge difference between making disaster preparations and sending a man to the moon or fighting a major war. It's very easy to have a "can-do" attitude when you're dealing with something that doesn't have any cost limitations built into it. Disaster planning doesn't work that way, and in one odd respect you almost don't WANT it to work that way -- because entire cities could basically become uninhabitable if people are expected to evacuate the place several days before a potential catastrophe.

1,295 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:23 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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To: All

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

Updates as they come in on Katrina

11:58 AM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005


Tom Planchet

11:58 A.M. - Homeland security chief optimistic that 3,000 pound sandbags can plug 200 foot levee break at 17th Street Canal.


11:55 A.M. - Super Wal-Mart in Kenner open for supplies.


11:54 A.M. - Kenner mayor asking for more National Guard. Asks anyone with the guard to call 468-7200.


11:53 A.M. - Two dead in Slidell in rising waters after attempting to get back to their homes. The victims had initially evacuated.


11:52 A.M. - Entergy reports 1.1 million outages in Mississippi and Louisiana.


11:50 A.M. JP Sheriff asking anyone with a boat to bring it to Sam's Parking lot on Airline and Cleary to help with evacuations.


11:46 A.M. - (AP) The president asked individual Americans to get involved with the relief effort, suggesting anyone who wishes to help could call 1-800-HELPNOW, log on to the Red Cross Web site or get in touch with the Salvation Army.


11:44 A.M. - LSU becoming a major staging area for injured and evacuees. Campus allowing families of students to house with them. Making facilities available as "community responsibility" according to Chancellor Sean O'Keefe.


11:43 A.M. - Councilman Byron Lee of Jefferson Parish, "This is not life as it used to be. It's like a war zone."


11:39 A.M. (AP) - National Guardsmen brought in people from outlying areas to the Superdome in the backs of big 2 1/2-ton Army trucks. Louisiana's wildlife enforcement department also brought people in on the backs of their pickups. Some were wet, some were in wheelchairs, some were holding babies and nothing else.


11:35 A.M. - (AP) Downtown streets that were relatively clear in the hours after the storm were filled with 1 to 1 1/2 feet of water Tuesday morning. Water was knee-deep around the Superdome. Canal Street was literally a canal. Water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter. Clumps of red ants floated in the gasoline-fouled waters downtown.


11:28 A.M. - JP Councilman Chris Roberts: Three rescued from Grand Isle, according to Grand Isle Mayor.


11:26 A.M. - New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper evacuating offices.


11:21 A.M. (AP) - The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts.


11:16 A.M. - Gretna Police Chief...some people south of Gretna Blvd. trapped in water in homes, waiting to be rescued, but believed safe. Several looters arrested, chief says about 50. Lots of debris, at least some structural damage in 95 to 98 percent of buildings. Water is off in Gretna due to barge that was hit and dumped diesel into water supply. Plenty of homes with structural damage...a few that have collapsed. As far as police chief knows, No deaths in Gretna, two minor injuries. Chief says looting has been mainly for groceries. Law enforcement given "whatever authority they need" to prevent looting of homes.


11:15 A.M. - Hospitals with no power and rising waters are bringing patients to the Superdome.


11:13 A.M. - Plaquemines Parish...if you are found on the street...will be arrested. Marshall law in effect. 60 percent of homes flooded. 50 people rescued.


1,296 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:29 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: TXBSAFH

I am still trying to understand what this levy breech means for N.O. It appears that lake P is draining into N.O. if so that may very well be a fatal blow.


1,297 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:37 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: mhking

Prayers for you and your family that they will be found okay.


1,298 posted on 08/30/2005 10:27:43 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: r9etb

Martial Law has been declared many, many times since WW2. Detroit riots, Newark riots, multiple LA riots, etc.


1,299 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:24 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: NautiNurse

Listening to the cables, the reporters are just beginning to "get it."

Some of them are beginning to get quite edgy with the reporters in NO.

By tomorrow, there should be all out panic.


1,300 posted on 08/30/2005 10:28:27 AM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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