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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: Txsleuth

I think they misreported. Those patients were being evacuated out to Baton rouge and beyond. They were not going to the dome.


1,541 posted on 08/30/2005 11:04:45 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Txsleuth

I think they misreported. Those patients were being evacuated out to Baton rouge and beyond. They were not going to the dome.


1,542 posted on 08/30/2005 11:04:52 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Txsleuth
if they KNOW that the sewer is flooding the Superdome, then why would they be transferring patients from hospitals there?

Because they are probably that out of options.

1,543 posted on 08/30/2005 11:05:13 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Petronski

Canal and Bourbon street under at least 9 inches of water right now and growing. main bridge into NO completely destroyed.


1,544 posted on 08/30/2005 11:05:14 AM PDT by RDTF
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To: NautiNurse

Any information about Pearl River, County Mississippi, or Poplarville, MS would be appreciated.


1,545 posted on 08/30/2005 11:05:26 AM PDT by alarm rider (Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
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To: 4everontheRight

no fatalities reported in Forrest Co. (Hattiesburg).
Be glad he left Long Beach. Long Beach First Baptist Church is rubble.


1,546 posted on 08/30/2005 11:05:31 AM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: dirtboy
Which means that everything that was in the sewer lines was pushed into the Superdome ahead of the floodwaters.

I'd be trying to climb out through the holes in the roof at this point.

1,547 posted on 08/30/2005 11:05:46 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: nicmarlo

Last night, CNN took calls from ppl
in northern states, who are looking
for their relatives.

CNN was getting the names/addresses/
location of the ppl needing rescued
and CNN was doing their BEST to get
rescuers to the stranded relatives.

I thought that was SUPERB of CNN!


1,548 posted on 08/30/2005 11:06:24 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: cwiz24

I'll agree with it when it is like the woman (Jean Messereau??) on CNN or the reporter that was talking to the man who lost his wife. However, Shep partying in the French Quarter was too much. I also think he sounds like he is reporting a football game. I'll take non-emotional over Shep.


1,549 posted on 08/30/2005 11:06:25 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: RDTF
main bridge into NO completely destroyed.

Which bridge? From the West Bank or on the east side? Good Lord.

1,550 posted on 08/30/2005 11:06:31 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: nicmarlo

Exactly!


1,551 posted on 08/30/2005 11:06:33 AM PDT by areafiftyone (Politicians Are Like Diapers, Both Need To Be Changed Often And For The Same Reason!)
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To: john316

I was talking about the governor, mayors, etc., not the folks in the SuperDome.


1,552 posted on 08/30/2005 11:06:59 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: lugsoul

I am thinking any water that is boiled for an HOUR will end up as steam and evaporate...


1,553 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:02 AM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: All

ABC Reporter Terry Moran says an officer told him there are bodies everywhere in Gulfport.


1,554 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:11 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: lugsoul
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?

Giardia takes a long time to kill, but an hour is really long.

1,555 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:26 AM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: Quilla

Keep your wonderful memories close to your heart, they are more valuable than possessions and can never be taken from you. Prayers to you!


1,556 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:37 AM PDT by EX52D
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To: shatcher

PTL! That is good news from the Diamondhead, MS area..I had feared much worse..
Still not much news from Pass Christian...


1,557 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:56 AM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: AppyPappy

There is another hurricane on the horizon. Rebuilding or returning to the devastated areas is probably not an option at this time.


1,558 posted on 08/30/2005 11:07:57 AM PDT by LibWrangler
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To: technochick99
then someone on the thread said there was no rioting. Any info?

I don't know.

But one hopes not.

To have vast sums of even one major US city, with pockets of ghettoes, already without any social framework to speak of, family system, weak group cooperation, with high crime and drugs, and then uproot these people as a massive group, plant them in temporary residences for months on end, and tell them they cannot return to their area, you are more than likely not going to get the normal social order and obeying of instructions you would get from other US citizens in non-anarchic situations.

It will be a very touch and go situation, in my opinion, in dealing with this large, uprooted, impatient permanent underclass endemically steeped in the mindset of entitlement, which has little to begin with (for whatever reasons, mostly their own) and are being told now what to do and where to go. They very well may not like it and may raise a ruckus and loose their cool, and then the authorities have two battles on their hands. Let's hope not.

1,559 posted on 08/30/2005 11:08:03 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I Support the President on Iraq and Our Troops; But 'll Freep Him In A Second for Illegal Alien Mess)
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To: nwctwx

OMG!!!!


1,560 posted on 08/30/2005 11:08:06 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (Born/raised on MS beaches (SC now)...Criminals feed on the indulgence of society's understanding)
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