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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: overtaxed_canadian
Wolf Blitzer starting in on the meme that the war in Iraq has depleted National Guard resources. I expect to hear this ad nauseum over the coming weeks.

Not that facts or evidence mean a thing to acolytes of the TOM ( Tired Old Media ) but here is the refutation for that meme:


Remember the leftists who screamed that we don’t have enough National Guard personnel to handle Hurricane Katrina, and it’s Bush’s fault

Oops.

Wrong again.

National Guard: Enough GIs for Storm Duty. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 103 commentsbr clear="all">


Be sure to read the "103 comments" section-- LGF seems to have FReeper-like members...

2,161 posted on 08/30/2005 12:36:08 PM PDT by backhoe
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To: EBH

"To: jeffers

Actually saw quite a few people running around barefoot...didn't make sense to me with all the glass windows that had been blown out. But yeah, I could see shoes as a necessity once your only pair was wet,
muddy, and cruded up, even ripped up by broken glass."

Exactly right.

The mud will also take the shoes right off your feet.

I lost one way up traversing a swamp after an unsuccessful climb on the Maine Canada border once and didn't even realize it was gone for half a mile or more.

Even when you step on somethig sharp, your feet are already wet and covered in mud and used to the abuse. I had to actually check a couple times to be sure it was really gone.

From appearance, both feet looked identical even though one had a shoe and the other didn't.


2,163 posted on 08/30/2005 12:36:32 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: Lurking in Kansas
Name me one city in this country not afflicted with some level of poverty.

Overland Park, Kansas

Hah! I lived there as a child, up until I was 13. I have such fond memories. Having said that, the vast majority of major cities have some level of poverty. NO seems to have more than its fair share though.

2,164 posted on 08/30/2005 12:36:33 PM PDT by Paradox (Budweiser, fighting for the Right to Keep and Beer Arms.)
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To: BurbankKarl
President Bush attempting to contact Mayor of New Orleans via shortwave...

What's the frequency, Kenneth BurbankKarl?

2,165 posted on 08/30/2005 12:36:52 PM PDT by TonyInOhio (Would I lie to you?)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

The 11:30 AM Friday track was Panama City. That is a fact. I am not wrong.

I also state rather clearly that Friday afternoon and evening things changed dramatically, as you also detailed in your post.

Thank you for making the same point yet somehow finding it in your heart to call me wrong. I love FR some days.


2,166 posted on 08/30/2005 12:36:54 PM PDT by BlueNgold (Feed the Tree .....)
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To: NCC-1701

My backyard, in Germantown, acutally looks much worse than it did back in July a couple years ago, after "hurrican elvis" blew threw. And yes, there is much dirt all over everything. And little bitty leaves and sticks. And a new cat seems to have taken refuge under my back porch, on my table. Looked just flat worn out. Go figger.


2,167 posted on 08/30/2005 12:37:27 PM PDT by OleMissRebelYell
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To: Elyse
Australia has it's fine share of criminals that would take advantage in the exact same way.

You KNOW this, HOW?

You ever lived there?

I HAVE for several years.

Freeper AmericanInTokyo says they are saying much the same as the Aussies!

What does that tell ya?

No way can anyone justify LOOTING. It's just WRONG! PERIOD!

2,168 posted on 08/30/2005 12:37:34 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Chena

Those two are redeeming themselves today. Shep's telling it like it is.


2,169 posted on 08/30/2005 12:37:35 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Southwest Louisiana)
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To: Types_with_Fist

two breaches and a third pending, someplace called 6 pumping station. pics I've seen show the water in the cily well below the water in the levy. So the water will rise alot more in the city.


2,170 posted on 08/30/2005 12:37:38 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: Rutles4Ever

Agreed... except - get at the end of the line.


2,171 posted on 08/30/2005 12:37:41 PM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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To: SCDockman
think of a rat crossed with a rabbit) were digging burrows into the earther levees, weakening them. This may have contributed.

I knew they were good for nothing...:-) That's amazing to hear they might do that though. BTW... I'm from the area and am quite familiar with the critters. Used to run into them when I ran barefoot through the swamp (in my youth, of course).

2,172 posted on 08/30/2005 12:38:05 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: OXENinFLA

"...and leave a candle burring on your way out."

Heh.


2,173 posted on 08/30/2005 12:38:30 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: OleMissRebelYell

My mom had a rough noisy night in Memphis but didn't lose power. Is there still a threat of flooding there?


2,174 posted on 08/30/2005 12:38:48 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: cajungirl

That is why reporters need to have real degrees, not just go to J-school.

I am considering getting a master's in journalism, but I am proud to say my undergrad is in history/political science.

You can't have morons giving you the news.


2,175 posted on 08/30/2005 12:39:19 PM PDT by rwfromkansas (http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=rwfromkansas)
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To: BlueNgold
To say there was no plan is an over-statement.

No, it is not. There was no plan to get those without transportation out. Even tourists got trapped.

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

Government bears a responsibility to make sure that everyone in a city like New Orleans can get out if there is a disaster. The city failed in that regard. Grossly.

2,176 posted on 08/30/2005 12:39:26 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: TonyInOhio

not sure...I heard it on the net....

he is on AF1 no? deploy the longwire out the back!


2,177 posted on 08/30/2005 12:39:27 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: tomkat

WOW! Thanks for the picture tomcat, now I am a believer. I can see my old condominium and Deannies Seafood on the corner. This scares the snot our of me.


2,178 posted on 08/30/2005 12:39:38 PM PDT by strongbow
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To: cajungirl

I feel they have disgraced Americans...yes, I know there are thugs everywhere, but it's very sick to watch what they're doing...stealing cartfuls of merchandise, not food and water.


2,179 posted on 08/30/2005 12:39:39 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: luckystarmom

Re: Wetlands -

When they did all the work around the river/city, the result was the wet-land south of NOLA lost its usual replenishment of silt/soil. So there is less and less space between the Gulf and NO. IOW, New Orleans is closer to the point of possible landfall of a hurricane and therefore subject to stronger forces. The amount of territory lost to the Gulf is quite massive.

A theme in this whole thing is "don't mess with Mother Nature."


2,180 posted on 08/30/2005 12:40:01 PM PDT by D-fendr
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