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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
I think they misreported. Those patients were being evacuated out to Baton rouge and beyond. They were not going to the dome.
I think they misreported. Those patients were being evacuated out to Baton rouge and beyond. They were not going to the dome.
Because they are probably that out of options.
Canal and Bourbon street under at least 9 inches of water right now and growing. main bridge into NO completely destroyed.
Any information about Pearl River, County Mississippi, or Poplarville, MS would be appreciated.
no fatalities reported in Forrest Co. (Hattiesburg).
Be glad he left Long Beach. Long Beach First Baptist Church is rubble.
I'd be trying to climb out through the holes in the roof at this point.
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!
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.
Which bridge? From the West Bank or on the east side? Good Lord.
Exactly!
I was talking about the governor, mayors, etc., not the folks in the SuperDome.
I am thinking any water that is boiled for an HOUR will end up as steam and evaporate...
ABC Reporter Terry Moran says an officer told him there are bodies everywhere in Gulfport.
Giardia takes a long time to kill, but an hour is really long.
Keep your wonderful memories close to your heart, they are more valuable than possessions and can never be taken from you. Prayers to you!
PTL! That is good news from the Diamondhead, MS area..I had feared much worse..
Still not much news from Pass Christian...
There is another hurricane on the horizon. Rebuilding or returning to the devastated areas is probably not an option at this time.
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.
OMG!!!!
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