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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: dirtboy

To say there was no plan is an over-statement.

The argument as to the government's responsibility to provide transporation is not absolute.


2,141 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:29 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: nicmarlo

Does not matter what they steal, they can wright off NO if they cant get water out in over 2 weeks and power back on in 2 months. There will be nothing to come back to. Get everyone out and set a match to it and never build there again. It is a total loss.


2,142 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:37 PM PDT by eastforker (Under Cover FReeper going dark(too much 24))
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To: Arizona Carolyn

If truth be told,Sharpton,Waters,Jesse and the whole gang of demagogues could vanish from the face of the earth and blacks in a desolated place like New Orleans would catch hell.
The school system is a pathetic joke.Family structure is on VERY shaky ground.The whole "party and have a good time"ethos of the city is particularly destructive for blacks.Everyone wants to get their thrill on and to hell with intellectual and spiritual uplift.
And,flame me if you will,but many whites down there just plain DON'T LIKE blacks.I could tell you many stories of "nigger hating"among the whites I encountered down there from 1970-1977.Blacks have a GOOD reason,stemming from their own experience not to trust many whites.They don't need the good Rev'rd Jesse to tell them that.


2,143 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:39 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: BlueNgold

No other city is stuck in bowls several feet below sea level. NOLA was a completely different situation, known to anyone paying attention for decades. The mayor and gov should not only have ordered mandatory evacs on Saturday morning, but mandatory immediate shutdown of nonessential businesses, to emphasize the seriousness of the situation.


2,144 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:43 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Peach
Don't encourage him/her/...
2,145 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:51 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Rennes Templar

We don't know the details yet, considering that those 250,000 people were from several countries and not just one city and surrounding parishes, and a few counties from MS and AL. I'm not even counting the folks affected from the storm inland. We haven't heard how they have fared either.


2,146 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:55 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Southwest Louisiana)
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To: Abby4116

Last paragragh:

"Last week, Chavez offered discount gasoline to poor Americans suffering from high oil prices and on Sunday offered free eye surgery for Americans without access to health care."

Eye surgery? LOL....wierd.



2,147 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:56 PM PDT by penelopesire
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To: NCC-1701

We are in Covington. Do not notice a lot of dirt, but then who could see it for all of the leaves, limbs and other debris that blew in last night.


2,148 posted on 08/30/2005 12:33:56 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: the Deejay
They didn't steal guns to protect their families, they took them for sinister reasons

Actually, guns are like instant cash on the street. They are the easiest to sell.

2,149 posted on 08/30/2005 12:34:02 PM 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: Types_with_Fist

Down in Westwego (southwest NO) a couple of years ago, the shipyard workers told me the nutria (think of a rat crossed with a rabbit) were digging burrows into the earther levees, weakening them. This may have contributed.


2,150 posted on 08/30/2005 12:34:14 PM PDT by SCDockman
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To: BlueNgold
'That level of probability was not reached until after 4:00 PM Sunday."

4pm Sunday did not leave much time, maybe 12 14 hours? I liked dirt-boy idea about 2,000 school buses. I remember looking a probability maps after Kattrina hit Fla and recall Fla pan handle the predicted hit. I don't think the blame game is fair, NHC does it's best and it does an excellent job, but until the storm is in strong steering currents there predictions can be way off. I do think N.O. could have had a better plan since N.O. is so at risk, hopefully cities like Galveston and Mobil will see what awaits them if they too fail to plan for a worst case evacuation.

2,151 posted on 08/30/2005 12:34:23 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: the Deejay
What about the guns & ammo they stole from a sporting goods store? Cleaned them out I tell you. "Thou shalt not steal" (NO EXCEPTTIONS placed before or after that rule.)

Where are the thread police when you need them? Could you stop CARPING on this issue?

And perhaps the Spelling Police should be called in as well.

2,152 posted on 08/30/2005 12:34:48 PM PDT by technochick99 (firearm of choice: Sig Sauer....)
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To: BurbankKarl
President Bush attempting to contact Mayor of New Orleans via shortwave...

Has anyone even seen the mayor or heard from him today?

2,153 posted on 08/30/2005 12:34:48 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: BlueNgold
To gain an additional 24 hours you would be saying that they should have started the evacuation on Friday morning instead of Saturday morning.

You've got your timeline mixed up - mandatory evacuation began Sunday morning.

2,154 posted on 08/30/2005 12:34:50 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: cajungirl

As always cg- a breath of fresh air and SANITY:)

I agree the theft is disgraceful- and I also know human beings are flawed and a time like this will show us both sides of our nature...

God bless all in the Gulf region.


2,155 posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:01 PM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: ican'tbelieveit
Part of the problem for many of those who didn't leave is the government fostered reliance on the government . . .

That's exactly what I meant when I asked what people in New Orleans did before things like the Red Cross, FEMA, etc. even existed.

2,156 posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:10 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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To: Republican Red

I bet they have jobs before housing.


2,157 posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:26 PM 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: r9etb
Load any rail car capable of carrying people, and just drag them out of town. Of all the modes of transportation available, trains can carry by far the most people in the fewest number of trips.

I know for a fact that this used to be done in the sixties. My mother was a public health nurse who commanded and organized refugee centers inland during hurricanes. It worked quite well.

2,158 posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:41 PM PDT by Conservababe
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To: hopespringseternal
"As much as the class warriors like to claim it is the case, over and over again I find that wealthy people actually tend to care less about material things than poor people."

Well, as Hugh Hefner once said, "The best thing about having money is not having to worry about money." Wealthy people probably don't seem greedy because they already have money to spare. If you're poor or living from check to check, you might SEEM greedy simply because you have to actually worry about money, claw and scratch for it a little bit more, and have the perceived vulgarity to be preoccupied with it.
2,159 posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:48 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: technochick99

bump


2,160 posted on 08/30/2005 12:35:49 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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