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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
Me too. :(
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.
Nice spotting.
That explains the debris piled at the bridge.
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
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.
Prayers, prayers, and more prayers.
this is all making me heart sick.
sw
LOL! No, not imo...;)
It wasn't flooded before, the waters are rising.
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.
They did the same thing during the Andrew. They also marked the buildings already searched.
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.
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.
I'm blaming them because they're morons - not Democrats. I'd be taking the same position regardless of political affiliation.
It would be terrible of the looters caught Diptheria or Tetnus from the flood waters. I may not sleep tonight worrying about it.
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.)
"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.
Cheers to that! That's what we do...it's who we are...it's what sets us apart from the rest.
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.
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