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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
These fellas were engineers and seemed to have all their ducks in a row. I am not the one to say who is right (hell no!), I'm just passing on the engineerspeak.
The ground level of the dome is there. The water probably can't get any higher than the first row of seats, and probably not even that high.
As long as the water doesn't rise above the exits, they should be okay.
That was yesterday, and yes we always have those types of predators with us. But today N.O. is in basic survival mode. The groceries are going to be ruined anyway and people have to survive any way they can. Sure, maybe the honest ones will come back and pay for them later, if there is any place left to pay. For now, they have to do what they have to do.
The floor of the Dome is (IIRC) about 3 feet above sea level.
The problem with Fox is they are too focused on issues with a smile and then as much as I love their military coverage...there is life that goes on inside of this country. Not just Aruba,Iraq, and Israel.
Shep Smith reporting water is now rising along Canal Street on the edge of the French Quarter.
r9etb posted:
Bush has assigned a 3-star general to the area and made the zone a military operation. They will
take over search+rescue, airlifting, MASH units and tent cities if necessary.Will be formally
announce this afternoon and National Guard Units (more) are being sent now.
Well, j, from your lips to W's ears...."
Ha, so why doesn't he return my calls?
Seriously, NBC interviewed a two star in Biloxi a few minutes back and reported 7,500, maybe two brigades total Reserve guys in the area or headed in.
I'm guessing this will end up a multi-division effort.
I hate to say it, but I suspect it'll be more than that.
Boil water for ONE HOUR warnings.
OMG .. I just heard on CNN that someone had jumped to their death in the Super Dome
I suspect the Dome will be used as an intermediate staging area; have SAR folks ferry from the hospital to the Dome, and another set of people evac'ing them from there out of the city.
Hurricane Center asking if ham radio is the only communications available to Slidell....asking if officials have notified their family....
States no other ham radio operators on Slidell are on the air. Operators niece stuck on second floor of building, unable to get to her due to flood waters
Roads are flooded, streets are blocked,
Lake Ponchatrain now extends to OLD SPANISH TRAIL Cell towers down, repeaters are down, no cell service, no phone lines, no broadband, the La. State Trunked system was down, the local city radio system was down...
Police chief's house was destroyed, the ham operators house was destroyed.
So do I....my gut says otherwise....if not from drownings...then disease/pestilence.
I'm guessing the folks at Tulane didn't know what the conditions were at the Superdome when they made that statement.
Has anyone seen a picture of the breech on the 17th street canal?? I have not purused the entire thread, perhaps I missed it. The report of a two block breech would be an incredible sight. I used to live about a half mile from the lake right on that canal. I am sure I would recognize the area. Man that is one heck of a lot of water if the report if factual and the breech were total.
The track of this storm IS the very reason we are where we are this very day.
They had plenty of warning -- they just didn't pull the trigger when they should have.
Unless, of course, you consider the governor of a state asking the public to PRAY THAT THE WINDS DIE DOWN to be a plan.
Bluntly, they had time to do a hell of a lot more than they did.
But I agree we have no seen the worst.
Wait till those people realize they can't go home for six weeks.
Wait for the disease.
Wait for the body count.
Per Shep Smith: Lower Plaquamines Parish has been reclaimed by the Mississippi. No one has reached Grand Isle yet.
Its not surprising the server is timing out. I don't think any of the New Orleans schools servers are running--there's no electricity.
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