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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
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...
"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.
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.
What's the frequency, Kenneth BurbankKarl?
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.
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.
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!
Those two are redeeming themselves today. Shep's telling it like it is.
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.
Agreed... except - get at the end of the line.
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).
"...and leave a candle burring on your way out."
Heh.
My mom had a rough noisy night in Memphis but didn't lose power. Is there still a threat of flooding there?
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.
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.
not sure...I heard it on the net....
he is on AF1 no? deploy the longwire out the back!
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.
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.
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."
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