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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: Yellow Rose of Texas
Rose, I too offered ....if any one replies to you about how we can make a connection to someone who needs a home, please ping of freepmail me.
Thanks
2,421 posted on 08/30/2005 1:18:32 PM PDT by Centaur (Never practice moderation to excess.)
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To: AppyPappy

updated links and info for those who need it.


2,422 posted on 08/30/2005 1:18:32 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

I for one was planning a trip to New Orleans later this year.

I am more determined than ever to take it. Laissez les bon temps rouler!

Regards, Ivan


2,424 posted on 08/30/2005 1:18:45 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: cajungirl

Landrieu does look to be extraordinarily, internally distraught.


2,425 posted on 08/30/2005 1:18:46 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: Petronski

Oops.. My bad


2,426 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:00 PM PDT by Smogger
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To: cajungirl
Dude, never mind. Have you noticed the city is destroyed?

Yeah, I have. And I also saw tourists with no way out, many of who will probably die from this. They were extremely vulnerable and the city apparently didn't plan how to get them to safety.

2,427 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:08 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Many kids from Tulane are in Jackson, Mississippi. They have a program between Tulane and Jackson State to assist each other during disasters. Jackson had some rough weather yesterday, but nothing like the coast.


2,428 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:08 PM PDT by truthluva ("Character is doing the right thing even when no one is looking" - JC Watts)
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To: flutters

Thanks. Staying out is good advice. If folks have water, food and shelter where they are, they're better off staying put and waiting to go back.


2,429 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:26 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: airstrike

Why not? Could be the best crowd the 'aints have all season. ;-)


2,430 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:30 PM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)
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To: mewzilla

IN reality people were unable to get out period.


2,431 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:38 PM PDT by bayourant
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To: beltfed308
What, tourists should not go to any coastal areas during hurricane season?

I wouldn't go to a major city that doesn't have a plan in place to get me out - a fair number of tourists got trapped.

2,432 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:47 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Howlin
I'll take it one step farther and say in my travels around the USA I've seen as many or more bigots in the North as in the deep South. You HEAR more about Southern Bigots because of movies like Mississippi Burning, but they are not just indicative of the KKK... in some ways we all bear responsibility for this misunderstanding. There is also bigotry in the other direction.

We lived in an upscale neighborhood in So. California with quite a few well-to-do blacks who would not join in when invited to neighborhood functions and one neighbor would not let his children play with the white children in the neighborhood...

Personally -- as long as I'm on an off-topic roll -- while I think what Oprah does in Africa is great... what about the people in this country who could benefit from her largess? Certainly, she pulled herself up, got an education and made something great out of herself.. I'd like to see her fan out more into these truly-poor neighborhoods and encourage the young to follow in her footsteps.

2,433 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:50 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: RDTF

Senator - 'one way into the city'


2,434 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:53 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: flutters

Why yesterday did they give the impression that New Orleans was spared. Now people trying to get back in have to be rescued from cars. They do this so the those bankers in New York didn't face a Black Monday?


2,435 posted on 08/30/2005 1:19:55 PM PDT by eternity (What's it all about...Alfie?)
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To: Sloth
"And it will be. We will all happily extort & be extorted from. That doesn't change the fact that it's both morally and legally wrong....."

Please respect my wishes, peddle your constitutional speak elsewhere today....

If your belief is that helping Americans stave off death and disease is not warranted than you have every right to believe such....but please, enough, the situation many of our citizenry face today is far more grave and urgent....and if the government is to help, so be it....
2,436 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:06 PM PDT by PigRigger (Send donations to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org)
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To: Petronski
Is (Republican) Senator David Vitter at this news conference? I fear much will be made of his absence if he isn't.
2,437 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:22 PM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: MadIvan

God bless you, Ivan. You're a good egg :)


2,438 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:38 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: MadIvan

Thank you for that, Ivan.


2,439 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:43 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: Rutles4Ever
Wow. I'm sorry for my ignorance, but is that the main route out of the city?

I don't know for sure, I haven't lived there for 30 years. I think it's one of the ways out... well, not anymore. :-(

2,440 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:50 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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