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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
From my travels and living in various parts of the country Boston, MA struck me as a much more racist and segregated city than, say, Birmingham AL.
There are gaping holes.
And then there is not even trying. Which IMO happened here - there was NO PLAN whatsoever to get out those without transportation - including tourists. How can a friggin' tourist town not have a plan in place to get stranded tourists out?
Press conference on now from OEP.
Anybody who was responsible for a child and did not evacuate that child was dead wrong!
Darn. Well, they and everyone else down there are in our prayers.
They moved the dolphins from Marine Life to a Best Western motel pool..don't know how the Sea Lion would fare in the Gulf Of Mexico after being in capativity..very sad..I've seen that show many times growing up driving down from Hattiesburg as a teenager.
That live feed is amamzing right now what they are saying!!!
Yes; this whole thing is tragic. My heart does go out for them...it's very sad...
You mean Boston, the last center in the world to intergrate their schools after all the Yankees insisted that the South do it?
mewzilla posted: "Anyone heard anything about Slidell?"
Here you go:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/083005/new_surge001.shtml
I think tourists should boycott NO untill there is a plan in place to evacuate them in case of an emergency. Otherwise, it won't get done.
Senator said it's equvalent to the tsunami, which she witnessed firsthand. Some places are just gone.?
Mary Landireau (sp?) - Damage equivalent to what she saw when flying over the Tsunami.
Senator L. is describing the area as similar to the tsunami....places are completely gone. No roadways in many places....
Are you sure about that? There were several reports that the mayor was at dinner with his family Saturday night when Max Mayfield at the NHC called to implore him in the strongest terms to max out the evacuation.
here is the latest:
Senator: Slidell area likely hardest hit by Katrina
Capitol news bureau
Much of Slidell is under water and likely sustained the worst damage from Hurricane Katrina, tate Sen. Tom Schedler, R-Mandeville, said Tuesday at 1 p.m.
Calling the devastation “total”, Schedler said, only slabs remain where dozens of houses were blown down and several feet of water remain in the Slidell Memorial Hospital on Gause Boulevard as well as throughout the old town area off U.S. 11.
Slidell is a suburban community of about 25,000 people northeast of New Orleans near where Interstates 10, 12 and 59 intersect in St. Tammany Parish.
Schedler was interviewed after being briefed at the state Office of Emergency Preparedness. He said he could not return to his district.
“Slidell is as bad as New Orleans east and some other areas in St. Bernard Parish,” Schedler said. “It’s a problem that will be with us for months and years.”
State Police Troop L evacuated its Slidell headquarters during the storm, set up a temporary command in a fire department, then had to flee that center, he said.
Yes. WOW.
I never have believed that "whites in the South don't like blacks" things. I know too many fine black people.......and so did my parents. We never had talk like that around us.
And it's not like the South isn't LOADED with white trash...... :-)
Press conference to evacuees: "Get down on your knees right now and thank God you made it out."
See
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/083005/new_surge001.shtml
Emergency workers save residents off rooftops after water rushes homes
By SANDY DAVIS
sdavis@theadvocate.com
Advocate staff writer
LACOMBE -- A 15-to 20-foot tidal surge swept over the northeast shoreline of Lake Ponchartrain at the tail end of Hurricane Katrina on Monday, devastating portions of Slidell, Lacombe and Mandeville.
"I pray to God that everyone made it through this nightmare safely," said Lacombe Alderman Joe Impastato. "But we won't know the answer to that until some of the roads are cleared and the flood waters go down."
CUT
The Northshore also had no water, no electricity, no land telephone lines, no cell-phone access and sewers were backing up.
"The damage is just unbelievable," said Debbie Hall, an emergency medical technician and dispatcher for the Lacombe Fire Department. "All we can do is hope and pray everyone is all right."
Hall said emergency officials in Slidell had their hands full.
"There are buildings in the downtown area that are under water," she said. "The damage is horrific. We have never had a storm like this at least that I can remember."
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