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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: Velveeta

Me too. :(


1,741 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:15 AM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: Txsleuth
Oh, sorry....can't figure out why they would put up an ALERT for 9 INCHES when most of the city is under FEET of water, though.

Because the condition of the French Quarter seems to be the media's measuring stick for how well New Orleans survived Katrina. If it's OK, they reason, the hurricane wasn't that bad.

1,742 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:29 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
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To: tomkat

Nice spotting.

That explains the debris piled at the bridge.


1,743 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:41 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: mware

Per CNN: "many" dead in Bay St. Louis. They are putting black magic marker marks on doors where there are dead.Red on doors of people who are injured


1,744 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:51 AM PDT by ContemptofCourt
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To: mhking

Mike, I do hope all is well with your family. my prayer list as quadrupled the past day..keep us posted. But you well know that good or bad news might take weeks to reach us.


1,745 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:51 AM PDT by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your s God is!)
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To: nwctwx

Prayers, prayers, and more prayers.


1,746 posted on 08/30/2005 11:35:53 AM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: BurbankKarl

this is all making me heart sick.


1,747 posted on 08/30/2005 11:36:09 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Sax
I noticed the holes in the roofs where they must have used an axe to break thru to the top.

sw

1,748 posted on 08/30/2005 11:36:10 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: nicmarlo

LOL! No, not imo...;)


1,749 posted on 08/30/2005 11:36:14 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Txsleuth

It wasn't flooded before, the waters are rising.


1,750 posted on 08/30/2005 11:36:40 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: tomkat

Nice spotting.

That explains the debris piled at the bridge.

That gives me an idea.....that bridge is a choke point. It's risky but if the bridge structure holds the flow into NO could be slowed down there.


1,751 posted on 08/30/2005 11:36:51 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: ContemptofCourt

They did the same thing during the Andrew. They also marked the buildings already searched.


1,752 posted on 08/30/2005 11:37:06 AM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: Torie
The looting appears pointless, since all the stuff will have to be abandoned anyway.

The long-dead Pat Frank ( Alas, Babylon, and How to Survive the H-Bomb-- and Why? ) was a reporter across the world before breaking into hardcover books, and he noted that looting always follows wars and natural disasters, and always follows a set pattern. Since it's been over 30 years, I can't recall the exact order, but it's something like, liquor and guns first, cigarettes, luxury items & jewelery, then necessities.

1,753 posted on 08/30/2005 11:37:14 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: Corporate Law

The Swiss Chalet Apartments were off of Montana. I guess when the day comes that I do visit Cincinnati to reminisce I'd better be very careful when I visit my old neighborhood.


1,754 posted on 08/30/2005 11:37:22 AM PDT by proudofthesouth (Boycotting movies since 1988)
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To: randita
No need to blame the officials just because they're Democrats.

I'm blaming them because they're morons - not Democrats. I'd be taking the same position regardless of political affiliation.

1,755 posted on 08/30/2005 11:37:29 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: the Deejay

It would be terrible of the looters caught Diptheria or Tetnus from the flood waters. I may not sleep tonight worrying about it.


1,756 posted on 08/30/2005 11:37:40 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Jack Black
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.

This is by far the most important news, because it suggests that the water in most of NO won't rise above the rooftops, and shouldn't rise much more (the Superdome is approx. at sea level.) The lake itself shouldn't rise back up much, if at all. The worst case storm scenario involved a 15-25' storm surge on top of the lake level, which won't happen now. IIRC, the lowest points in NO range between 8' and 12' below sea level. NO is actually composed of several different bowls, so the areas where you see the rooftop rescues have already had their waters rise to sea level(or slightly above.)

1,757 posted on 08/30/2005 11:37:51 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Lizarde

"CNN - talking about breaking windows and looting on canal street and the police can do nothing - city wide"


The police should be issued AK-47's to deal with that problem.


1,758 posted on 08/30/2005 11:38:02 AM PDT by Revel
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To: randita; BlueNgold
And since we are America, we don't leave people to suffer the consequences of their foolish choices. We are compassionate and bail them out. It's what we do.

Cheers to that! That's what we do...it's who we are...it's what sets us apart from the rest.

1,759 posted on 08/30/2005 11:38:20 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Txsleuth

Ya, I saw that. LOL. 9" doesn't make any sense either, unless it is coming out of some sewer or something, and running down to Canal Street. The French built NO where it did for a reason. It was the highest ground around. It gets up to about 10 feet high, a veritable mountain.


1,760 posted on 08/30/2005 11:38:55 AM PDT by Torie
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