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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: Arizona Carolyn
Hey... what happens to Tulane University and all the kids who were starting school this week?

I have a kid who was slated to be a freshman and go down there last Friday. Last Wednesday he tore up his knee so bad we decided to keep him up here for surgery. My wife had thought of going down there with him (on crutches); glad they didn't. He had e-mail from a prospective roomate who said they drove east six hours from TX and turned right around and drove home. Tulane told them to leave very early--Friday I think--and tried to bus out the kids who couldn't get out on their own.

Haven't heard much about the water on that side of town. Maybe someone else knows. Its on the opposite side from the levee breaks, but seems to be a few feet lower than the Super Dome. I expect they'll be under 6 feet of water eventually if it evens out with waist-high water at the Dome. What a disaster.

2,381 posted on 08/30/2005 1:11:58 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: cajungirl

I just heard them on the shortwave...there is a FEMA convoy enroute.


>>>Communication is impossible to Slidell. Flooding but not destroyed is what I heard.


2,382 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:05 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: jslade

TD13 had advisories stopped; it's officially "dead" but the NHC is still running models on it; it's pretty disorganized. All models take it N and nowhere near the US.

There's an INVEST 91L (things are called INVESTS when there are storm-specific model runs on it but it's not an official TD yet) that will probably be TD14 fairly soon, located SW of the Cape Verde Islands.

There are no models showing it hitting the US; of course, it's so far away it would take 10 days to hit the US and most models only run 6-7 days.

There are SOME indications it may eventually get trapped under a ridge days 8-9; or it might recurve into a weakness.


2,383 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:05 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Oh,for sure,nothing personal intended toward you.
My beef with MANY Southern-and Northern-whites is not that they hate and disparage the little thugs and gangstas out there.Hey,those types are anathema to any decent citizen.
I ran into way too many who simply did not care for darker skinned people except at the servant level.Thats wrong by anyone's defintion of human decency.I heard New Orleans police on several occasions refering to blacks as"niggers".Simply wrong.I saw personnel directors interview black job seekers and smiling in their faces and then throwing away their applications and laughing at their attempts to work"with us".
Looting is ridiculous.People risking felony burglary convictions for a pair of shoes.Thats part of the problem with black people today-materialism over everything.Cash rules everyting around me mentality.A recipe for moral and social disaster.


2,384 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:23 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: ladyjane

Children AND pets... hearing about all the dogs wrapped in live wires and moaning in pain is heartbreaking.


2,385 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:36 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: AaronInCarolina

Good points. Also that video could be old, and the lake and newly flooded bowl could now be reaching equilibrium.


2,386 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:51 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Gone GF
I'd agree with that, but you realize that whole neighborhoods or apartment complexes of people in N.O. have no cars.

That is definitely a challenge for any city government. Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't imagine living anywhere without having at least a general idea of how I would get out of town in the event of a disaster. And no -- relying on the mayor and/or governor to look out for me is not an option.

2,387 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (I ain't got a dime, but what I got is mine. I ain't rich, but Lord I'm free.)
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To: jeffers; cajungirl

Thanks for the info.


2,388 posted on 08/30/2005 1:12:59 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: NautiNurse

What the purpose of starting a new thread? I always wondered about that.


2,389 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:09 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Republican Red

There is a Sea Museum at Hiway 49 and Highway 90 right in Gulfport. That's where the dolphins came from that they put into the swimming pools.
The Sea Lions more than likely came from there also!

They have all kinds of animals in that park.
It's very small but neat!
I'm sorry it's destroyed and I'm sad for the animals! They are probably "people dependent"!


2,390 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:17 PM PDT by LadyPilgrim (Sealed my Pardon with HIS BLOOD!!! Hallelujah!!! What a Savior)
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To: BurbankKarl
Co-worker trying to find out about family in the Eden Isle part of Slidell...anybody KNOW anything!!
2,391 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:19 PM PDT by john316 (JOSHUA 24:15 ...choose you this day whom ye will serve...)
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To: RDTF
Neil Cavuto is having a segment next on how wal mart is helping out in the GULF

Paging the NEA, paging the NEA what are YOU doing????

2,392 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:21 PM PDT by mware (Trollhunter of Note)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

I'm not positive about it but they said that on the television Saturday morning that he had already evacuated his family and he was staying.


2,393 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:22 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dirtboy

Boycott NO?

Have you finally at long last lost your mind???

I am shaking my head, wondering, why you or anyone would imagine New Orleans will be back to business in a year or ten years.

And why given this, anyone would suggest a boycott.

You have truly lost your mind and need a rest


2,394 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:45 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: cajungirl

Off-topic question: In the news I've seen a lot of NO public officials and citizens interviewed, and none have that distinctive, cliche Louisiana accent. Are those people filtered out by the media? Or is that accent a cliche with little basis in reality?


2,395 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:50 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: BurbankKarl

Ah God. Have mercy. We came through Slidell just two weeks ago, indeed we came down all of I-10 from Fort Walton Beach, Fl. Such lovely places, such friendly people...

God have mercy.


2,396 posted on 08/30/2005 1:13:57 PM PDT by dandelion
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To: nuclady
IIRC, they were originally brought over to be raised for fur. The demand for overgrown water rat fur not being high, they were released where they have done what rodents do without natural predators, overpopulated.

They just can't convince enough people to wear or eat them. They have programs to pay trappers I believe, but there aren't enough trappers these days.


2,397 posted on 08/30/2005 1:14:14 PM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all in the path of Katrina)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I was wondering about the lack of accents, too.


2,398 posted on 08/30/2005 1:14:33 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: ContemptofCourt

I was listening to that too. This is all so heartbreaking.


2,399 posted on 08/30/2005 1:14:45 PM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: cajungirl
Boycott NO? Have you finally at long last lost your mind???

The city had NO PLANS to evacuate tourists. Unless they come up with such a plan, IMO tourists should avoid the place during hurricane season.

2,400 posted on 08/30/2005 1:15:44 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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