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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
You have people running all over looting bread and anything that they can get their hands on...but imagine what a professional con man theif could concoct to steal from those Casinos. How much money do they keep in there?
CNN Producer saying the conditions in Super Dome are getting bad...confusion, heat and things are breaking down.
The D-Day museum is, as I remember it, just a little west(?) of the Central business district (CBD). It's in between the CBD and the Garden District. Last time I was there DH and I had breakfast at Mothers (on Poydras or Tchipitoulas in the CBD) and walked there afterwards, then after touring the museum walked to the St. Charles streetcar stop and took the streetcar out to the Garden District. We had a wonderful day.
I have no idea how it's faring. What I'm hoping to find is a map of N.O. along with it's elevations and current flood status, but the situation is so in flux that it probably wouldn't be accurate for long.
I thought the museum was on a little bit of a rise but considering that there aren't many of those there I may be remembering it wrong.
Hopefully many of the exhibits could be moved to upper floors. The building is steel and concrete so should clean up easier than most if it does get flooded.
It's ironic that the landing boats used during D-day were made in Lousiana and modeled after boats used in the area for years. They could use a bunch of them now.
LQ, who adores N.O., was considering retiring there, and whose heart is breaking in two right now.
Oh my.
Sounds like people from Jefferson Parish will be allowed back in one week to get essentials and then told to leave again for about one month.
What bridge was it? I am still in shock. It reminded of the San Fran earthquake bridge
I am stuck in a cubicle and I am hearing of first pictures out of the Gulfport/Biloxi area. I hear it is bad. This is my home town and I have family still there, how bad does it look?
KALB reported that a delegation of 30 members of the Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office has been dispatched in a rescue effort, and that RPSO intends to rotate the teams. The downside of this is that RPSO was instructed to bring their own gasoline along with them, enough for the 5-day mission. Sounds difficult to accomplish.
Any news from Picayune (Pearl River County)? The eye went right over it.
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I'm thinking the same thing...Galveston 2005.
CNN is now showing Bay ST Louis...phenomenal.."
Can you post an overview of the CNN report on St. Louis Bay, especially any info related to surge heigth?
Thanks in advance.
Good Lord. Bon Temp Roulette.
Tom Planchet
1:05 P.M. - (AP) -- With much of the city emptied by Hurricane Katrina, some opportunists took advantage of the situation by looting stores.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers. When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" -- the radio code for police -- and the crowd scattered.
Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores. One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store. "No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."
Link for the status of USS Bataan?
I don't know, but there may be "The New Orleans National Park" and similar entities declared to prevent people from building and rebuilding.
But the rebuilding of an area will fuel several sides of the economy. And that may be judged ultimately of more value to the nation to offset the damage to oil and gas production.
We need to look for more terrorist action against BP and others in the Galveston-Texas City-Chocolate Bayou-Houston petrochemical complexes and ports.
That is the bridge running across Lake Ponchartrain to the north.
They're correct, actually. If there was more marsh the surge would in fact have been reduced.
Just a minor quibble here: the land was formed in the gulf by the mississippi. The land was reclaimed (to the gulf) by the storm surge from the gulf.
The twinspan? That was destroyed, according to the mayor.
Fox reporting 9 FEET of water in the French Quarter....there goes Shep's bars!!!
Hubby and I had lunch with a gent yesterday who is somehow connected to some of the Biloxi casinos. He stated the money was armor trucked out prior to the hurricane's arrival.
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