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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
But if they had evacuated as many people as they could have, then they wouldn't be wasting this time going around looking for people.
I hope that's all it is...I don't know how I could broadcast with such gravitas while not knowing the status of my own family. She (and all other reporters) should be commended for their devotion to getting info out.
Thank you. It's good to not have to go through this alone.
LS
The engineers among us can provide the tech details, but all that water moving past the breached/ragged earth edges is just gonna make it worse as the day progresses.
Btw, someone else posted the original link to that pic.
I'd happily give 'em credit, but (typically) don't remember who and it was way upthread somewhere...
Just think of the raw sewage that will be floating around and getting into everything! No one should be out in it.
Alberta's Child posted:
"We may not have even seen the worst of it. With the remnants of the hurricane making her way up along
the west side of the Appalachian Mountains through Ohio, the storm run-off will be making its way down
the Mississippi for days."
I think it's important to note that I have not seen any reports of breaches in the Mississippi River levees. Right now this isn't important as the entire area is inundated, but if they hold, the levels in NO may well stay below those in the River in the coming days.
OMG, this is where they're bringing the rescued people, as well. They need to get boats there ASAP to rescue the rescued. God bless and protect these workers who are risking their lives to go find and save people.
LOL---thanks for the laugh!
They have 48 hours to get everyone out of there. 72 max before serious disease outbreaks happen and folks start going insane.
WOW. It just seems to get worse.
(And then this morning when I was getting ready for work I saw Robin Roberts bawling on ABC. )
Robin Roberts is originally from that area...Mississippi, I believe. She played college basketball at Southeastern Louisiana Univ in Hammond.
Notice the car on the bridge? Supose it is moving?
I assume the breech is above the bridge in the picture where the white top of the levee is missing?
Doesn't look like a 3000 pound sandbag is going to do anything to slow that gash down unfortunately.
So will the fundies - blaming it on Mardi Gras excesses. We are no different than the cave folk who blamed every natural catastrophe on human behavior or the whims of deities. Add global warming to that list, too.
They just need to get more people like Brit Hume. Brit is always professional. He doesn't get emotional, and he is always balanced. It seems like Fox could hire more people like him.
I don't think the Mississippi river is a worry. They have all those flood gates and the river is low now anyway.
Houma made out okay. Mostly just minor structural damage and tree problems. I talked to my sister yesterday. It was scary but they lucked out big time. "Hot as Hell" after the storm they say.
At the very least, they should get the Disney people in there; they know how to move large numbers of people. :-)
Okay - I've boiled a fair amount of drinking water in my time, and I'm not aware of anything that takes boiling for an hour to kill. Anyone know the purpose of this?
The Corps keeps full time dredging equipment in the mouth / delta area because of shifting sand bars and shoals. With the storm surge, large waves and rain caused flooding there is a HUGE mass of sediment moving around right now. Moving ships in at this time may just mean more people in need of resque.
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