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.
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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Children AND pets... hearing about all the dogs wrapped in live wires and moaning in pain is heartbreaking.
Good points. Also that video could be old, and the lake and newly flooded bowl could now be reaching equilibrium.
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.
Thanks for the info.
What the purpose of starting a new thread? I always wondered about that.
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"!
Paging the NEA, paging the NEA what are YOU doing????
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.
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
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?
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.
I was wondering about the lack of accents, too.
I was listening to that too. This is all so heartbreaking.
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.
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