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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: nicmarlo

I was thinking the same thing. Disgusting, isn't it?


2,001 posted on 08/30/2005 12:14:59 PM PDT by EX52D
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To: PigRigger
Compassion and love of one's brother is not, and should never be, dictated by our nations constitution...

Of course not. But using a gun to take money from one citizen and give it to another is not compassion, it is extortion.

2,002 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:12 PM PDT by Sloth (Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
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To: the Deejay

back at ya. : )


2,003 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:21 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Abigail Adams

Thing is, they aren't going to be able to actually USE all the electronics they are stealing until the electricity comes back on. Now they have to keep themselves from being looted. The looters become the lootees.


2,004 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:24 PM PDT by lmavk
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To: NautiNurse; seamole; Torie
My question: if the levees broke a day after the brunt of the storm...why did they breach?
2,005 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:27 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Rutles4Ever
Name me one city in this country not afflicted with some level of poverty.

Overland Park, Kansas

2,006 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:33 PM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty hereā€¦ move on.)
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To: Rutles4Ever
The flag is a good way of signaling for help. But it's good to know they had one in the first place!

Just to show you how "Twilight Zoney" we've gotten around here, when pictures of flags were posted yesterday, some people were actually CARPING about the people having the flag outside in a hurricane.

2,007 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:40 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: swarthyguy

Wow, Russia and Venazuala offering aid. When has that ever happened after one of our major disasters? This is incredible. Seeing is believing. I hope they follow through. All other countries are welcome to join in. How many others will?


2,008 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:50 PM PDT by NCC-1701 (ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH!)
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To: Abigail Adams

Between NOLA and Gulfport.


2,009 posted on 08/30/2005 12:15:59 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Still, unfortunately, many overseas will wonder, and some ask me, why we are spreading order around the world, and have these pockets of disorder (i.e., 'looters'), within our own borders.

Tell your interlocutors that America is a free country, and thus in it you see man at his best and at his worst.

With the former we get scientific genius, the wholesale invention of many modern industries, overwhelming response to global distress (How quickly the tsunami response is forgotten!), bearing any burden in defense of lberty, accepting with equanimity all the world's people (from Japan and everywhere else) as our citizen equals, tremendous social entrepreneurship, etc. With the latter we get looting in a time of crisis, the world's most vibrant pornography industry, an appalling rate of divorce, out-of-wedlock birth, abortion, etc.

We are all things at the same time because we are left free to chart our own destiny in this world. And whatever we are, we are certainly not boring.

I predict that tremendous sacrifices made on behalf of complete strangers will be objectively a much bigger part of this story than the looting. But I also predict that the looting will get a lot more foreign press coverage.

The Money Tree.

2,010 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:13 PM PDT by untenured (http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
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To: jeffers
"I don't think the surprises are over yet"

Deserves repeating.

2,011 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:19 PM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

I haven't heard about any leaks from the river side. If there are, then water will flow from the river downhill through NO to Lake Ponchartrain VERY fast. The river is several feet above sea level, 14 feet at high water. If there is a leak from the river, we will hear about that one in a hurry.


2,012 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:23 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Howlin

CNN ticker: report of a man jumping to his death from the 2nd level of the stadium - which now has reports of 25,000 seeking shelter inside.


2,013 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:27 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: NautiNurse

Most of the reporters I've seen in NO say they can smell the gas.


2,014 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:38 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: EX52D

absolutely turns my stomach.


2,015 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:39 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Abigail Adams

"To: RobFromGa

Where is Bay St. Louis?"

Between Slidell and Gulfport, roughly in the middle, the only big bay in that area. The city of the same name is on the western arm of the bay near the Gulf.


2,016 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:53 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: Howlin
DB, on CNN the host just said that the mandatory evacuation was ordered Saturday morning...........wasn't it Sunday?

I thought it was Sunday as well when they realized that Katrina had bombed out - voluntary was issued on Saturday.

2,017 posted on 08/30/2005 12:16:58 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: SoothingDave
"Your analysis requires a prejudging of people. I know many tried to evacuate but returned when the highways were impassible. Others may have medical conditions that made travel difficult. Still others might have stayed intending to be a help to others, only to find themselves a burden."

Excellent points, which - unfortunately - need to be made over and over again on this forum. Other factors which might have kept people from evacuating: lack of a car; lack of money for air fare or rental car fees; unavailability of rental cars due to high demand; disability; the need to stay with and care for shut-ins; and just plain old fear of leaving the (felt) security of home for an unknown destination.
2,018 posted on 08/30/2005 12:17:02 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Howlin

I remember Sunday morning when they announced the mandatory evac (I think it was 11:00 est). The Governor of LA made sure to say that the President urged her and the Mayor to order the evacuation. I was thinking at the time that if this storm didn't live up to the hype they could pin the evacation order on Bush. Funny, I haven't heard anyone commending the President on the evacuation today.


2,019 posted on 08/30/2005 12:17:04 PM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: RobFromGa

An orange X usually means the house has been checked so that isnt checked again....they will leave 2x or 3x for number of victims.


2,020 posted on 08/30/2005 12:17:10 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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