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Posted on 08/30/2005 6:51:27 AM PDT by NautiNurse
FOX now- Rick Leventhal in Biloxi- UNBELIEVABLE- tidal surge damage
Agree....I did not realize how many town were in that Parish....potential for huge loss of life.
CNN should receive special accolades for helping these poor people.
And those who are looting should be shot.
They have completely disgraced the word "American."
I was captivated watching and listening!
I am almost positive I heard early on that the casinos moved their money out on Sunday.
Slammed by runaway oil platform, Mobile bridge still closed
Associated Press
MOBILE, Ala. - One of Alabama's largest bridges, a key route for hazardous waste shipments along the Gulf Coast, remained closed Tuesday after a huge oil platform broke free of its moorings in Hurricane Katrina and struck it.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/12509410.htm
I don't know how that is possible. That would mean the water is 14 to 20 feet above sea level.
Not to mention enough lifeboat space for everyone on board the ship. A tender could haul a bunch of lifeboats behind it and get some able bodied young fellas to volunteer to leave the stinking confines of the Superdome to row some folks (and themselves) out to the cruise boat. Or the tender could pull a few of the lifeboats out. Or maybe the lifeboats are equipped with motors - don't know.
If worse comes to worse, couldn't a bunch of inflatable rafts be air dropped in?
Starting up on this thread too, huh? Since there are NO POLICE and civil unrest is present ---> breakdown of law and order, YES, I would take those too. (Of course, I would pay for the ammo later, and return the guns...) But maybe you can drop it on this thread, huh?
Happy and relieved to share that hubby's side of family is finally able to call and will be showing up soon at relatives houses in TX and maybe some will come here - waiting to find out more.
Still waiting to hear something from my family (Metairie and Slidell).
Thanks. For a person who hates driving over bridges (hard to work the pedals and the steering wheel with your feet off the floor and your hands on the ceiling ya know!) that was the longest bridge I'd even been on...it went forever!!
It is bad.
If its a month in Jefferson, how long is the time out likely to be in Orleans Parish?
I am riveted watching this rescue on Fox right now! I feel so much joy for these people. So many are not so lucky.
"To: jeffers
The key right now, is how high the surface of Lake P. is relative to normal.
4.5 inches higher than normal, down from seven above at 10:30 yesterday. It may have gone higher the sensors went off line."
The 17th street Canal breach image indicated the lake side is still a little higher than that. Hard to tell but the water appears to be halfway up the boat ramp?, parking lot?
That FNC video showed entire multi-story buildings that had just vanished.
Wow
From WWL: Jeff Parish President. Residents will probably be allowed back in town in a week, with identification only, but only to get essentials and clothing. You will then be asked to leave and not come back for one month.
First, I don't like Shep and I don't watch Fox News when his show is on. So, I'm not a fan.
That being said, cajungirl is right. All Shep had to go on was what he was seeing with his own eyes. He didn't see much damage in the French Quarter and it was not flooding yet. He heard about the slight jog the hurricane took to the East and knew it was not a direct hit. In the hotel, the middle of the aftermath of the hurricane, without power, water, etc., Shep didn't have the resources we have of live satellite and cable TV and 24/7 updates on the internet. I'm cutting Shep some slack on this one.
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