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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
Here are Bama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
Alabama Department of Transportation: Emergency Road Closures
http://www.dot.state.al.us/closures/
Alabama Department of Transportation: Press Releases: Hurricane Katrina
http://www.dot.state.al.us/Docs/Bureaus/Public+Affairs/
Louisiana DOT:
http://www.dotd.state.la.us/roadclosures/default.asp
Search form:
http://www.dotd.state.la.us/roadclosures/search.asp
Mississippi DOT Web Site:
http://www.mdot.state.ms.us/
Realtime Traffic for Mississippi:
http://www.mstraffic.com/upgrade/default.aspx
Florida: http://www.eoconline.org/welcome.nsf?Open
My understanding is that the water levels are so high that the pumps have had no place to pump the water to. Even the ones that are working, if they pump it into the Lake or the river, it is just flodding right back in again.
Thank you for your hard work on these threads.
Prayers for all.
Don't be too offended in this particular instance... that's what we "rednecks" call it.
Keep the faith, friend. You have a lot of people here praying for good news.
Anybody hear of other agencies in the city at this time.
Southern Baptist Disaster relief. 100% of the donations go to the disaster relief. The red cross uses them for the actual work. They have the mobile kitchens, showers, food, clothing, etc. ready to go.
http://www.namb.net/
How about we give it a few days to see the extent of the damage, and for relief efforts to be organized? We didn't start massively donating to the tsunami until we found out there were tens of thousands dead.
I feel the same way, I just can't believe it, I couldn't sleep last night and was up at 4:00am, checking this thread....prayers for your sister
I think we need to give Shep a break, he is running on very little sleep, no electricity, no shower, it is hot and humid, it stinks, the food is bad, there is devastation everywhere. He is trying to report what he sees, as he sees it.
Undoubtedly correct, and a ghastly prospect. There's going to be feet of water in those areas for weeks or months.
This is like 911,,did anyone see that poor elderly black man talking about losing "his Mary" when he couldn't hold her hand. That did it for me. This is so bad.
"ain't" that the truth. Many local governemtns are still democrat run(even if non partisan) In watching the flooded areas, you have to wonder how many developers were allowed to cut corners via variances from code board "friends".
Either scroll latest posts or start one. Starting with an article is best, if you can find something appropriate to what you wish to discuss.
However, tradition here that there is one, and only one, Live Thread; and this be it.
I suppose the easiest way to handle this is to get all national guard, cops, etc. and get everyone, EVERYONE, out of that city.
There's a way, somehow, some way. Get everyone out and start from scratch.
What still confuses me is all the dire predictions about NO, then I heard they dodged the bullet, yet what I see this morning looks EXACTLY like the dire predictions.
Wishful thinking?
What did he do yesterday in that you believe he's trying to redeem himself?
Totally agree but you gotta get used to CNN's high-gas scare about once every 15 minutes. One would think we are a bunch of dummies. I know gas will go up, plan to drive no more than necessary, and do not need these infomercials 3-4 times an hour.
Jeez!
The NO flooding is not a good thing, but there is an enormous difference between slowly rising still water, and a hurricane driven surge which undermines foundations and then knocks down bearing walls.
NO can be drained. Had it flooded yeaterday during the heigth of the storm, there'd be nothing left worth draining.
"If Hurricane Andrew didn't change the insurance business"< p>Huricane Andrew did as I recall, I can no longer get insurance (private) here in galveston county Tx. I think the costs of these storm will be much greater then Andrew, how much will be covered by private companies I haven't a clue. My insurace is already thru the roof, and I expect to see it go up alot more because of Katrina.
There are many factors that work against levees.
- Hydraulic action of flowing water pulling material away.
- Water coming up from underground on the dry side due to extreme pressure.
- Weakening due to saturation.
- Erosion from breeches.
Unfortunately, when any of these start, the levees completely fail very quickly.
This is not the end by any stretch. I fear what we are seeing is the end of the beginning.
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