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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
To say there was no plan is an over-statement.
The argument as to the government's responsibility to provide transporation is not absolute.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Actually, guns are like instant cash on the street. They are the easiest to sell.
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.
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.
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.
Has anyone even seen the mayor or heard from him today?
You've got your timeline mixed up - mandatory evacuation began Sunday morning.
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.
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.
I bet they have jobs before housing.
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.
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