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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: Malacoda
There's no plan to get my ass out of PHILADEPHIA if something bad happens!

Philadelphia isn't below sea level in hurricane country.

2,441 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:50 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: All

Fast moving thread, so I may not have time to post this later, it's early but I'll go ahead and do it now.

From Sunday morning onward, there was no power on earth to prevent New Orleans from taking a worst case scenario hit. But this goes well beyond the city of New Orleans. It goes well beyond Biloxi and Mobile and Gulf Shores.

This probably goes beyond Pearl Harbor and 9/11.

The news agencies are putting together their evening broadcasts as I type this, and if you don't already have your headspace wrapped around the fact that this event is something that most all of America will be dealing with even ten years from now, you are in for a rude awakening.

I urge preparing yourself, for these broadcasts, and for other developments over the next couple of days, because your attitude, and the attitudes of all the people around you will be a big factor in how we meet this challenge.

We lost a lot of people, we are going to lose more. We are all going to lose a lot of money, and it's going to take a nationwide effort to even begin to address what has happened here.

I'm thinking along the lies of some of Churchill's comments during the London blitz.

Stiff upper lips, we're going to need them. If you're in a position to offer strength to others, do so. If you're not, get there.


2,442 posted on 08/30/2005 1:20:53 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: dirtboy

WHAT I KEEP SAYING TO YOU,,,THERE IS NO DAMN CITY TO BOYCOTT AND WON'T BE FOR A VERY LONG TIME

Sorry to scream, but you have gotten on my last nerve.


2,443 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:03 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Howlin

Of course you find many Southern whites who are extremely kind to all.The Southern Hospitality phrase is based on substance.
Yet my job and volunteer work back in the Seventies put me in a lot of situations where I would be the only white guy in a mostly black environment.Most whites would stare at me and wonder"why is HE with HER,HIM or THEM."Once in a while someone would ask me if I was their"priest"or "teacher".
Blacks would also give me some strange looks yet seemed more accepting when they found out my intentions were benign.
Maybe things have changed now.I still prefer the racial atmosphere in the South to that of what exists now in California where mixed friendships are pretty rare.


2,444 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:20 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: eternity

Good grief. It's because the breaches formed overnight.


2,445 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:23 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: mewzilla

City of Slidell:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL082905ross.86c6840.html
Lake waters are beginning to recede. Water is still standing from Fremaux Avenue southward. The City of Slidell Police Department and the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s office are using boats to rescue citizens stranded by flood water. The City experienced major flooding from Gause Boulevard south. STAY OUT OF THE PARISH. There is major tree and power-line damage city-wide. All major arterial roads are impassable. (excerpt)


2,446 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:46 PM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: bayourant
IN reality people were unable to get out period.

They waited too long.

2,447 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:52 PM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: Heatseeker

He is there he right in back


2,448 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:52 PM PDT by bayourant
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To: mewzilla
No offense, but anyone who relies on any government to tell them what to do and when to do it, especially if waiting flies in the face of his common sense, he needs his head examined.

Tourists had flights cancelled. Couldn't rent a car. Now what do they do?

All it would have taken were shuttles out of town to get them to higher ground.

2,449 posted on 08/30/2005 1:21:55 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: kenth
She is one of the sorriest excuses for a governor I've seen. If she can't suck it up and handle the job, she needs to resign. If the President of the United States had to call me to tell me to issue evacuation orders, I'd be ashamed.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. For God's sakes woman, people are looking to you as a leader. Stop blubbering, stand tall and engender some confidence. Whether you have the details of the relief effort all figured out or not it is important to support morale in the city. Couldn't be more of a contrast to Giuliani post-911. Pathetic.

2,450 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:01 PM PDT by Lonely NY Conservative
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To: jeffers

bump


2,451 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:08 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: kenth
If the President of the United States had to call me to tell me to issue evacuation orders, I'd be ashamed.

Do we know this is a fact?

2,452 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:21 PM PDT by Trust but Verify (Get over yourselves!)
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To: Steve_Seattle

"Or is that accent a cliche with little basis in reality?"

Which accent? If you listen real closely, the mayor has a tinge of the N.O. accent. The cajun accent, however, is different and is not heard often in N.O. It's certainly out there in the bayous.

"Are those people filtered out by the media?"

I think the last thing the media has time to do right now is filter out people with "unacceptable" accents.


2,453 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:32 PM PDT by Gone GF
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To: lugsoul

No.It stopped where the last group of houses were built.From the gist of what I've seen not many houses will be left.I live in Cedar Key Fl now but was born and raised in Bayou La Batre Al.If you were watching Fox last night that guy was standing just to the north of BLB bridge.


2,454 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:34 PM PDT by cksharks (ew prayers for them because they will need it.)
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To: cajungirl

Fine, I'll leave the topic be for now.


2,455 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:35 PM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Leapfrog

Well I haven't had a coffee at the Cafe du Monde in years - have to go back for that, as well as for drinks at Pat O'Briens. A storm isn't going to stop me. And I don't think a storm is going to kill that old, venerable town either.

Regards, Ivan


2,456 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:35 PM PDT by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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To: bayourant
Thanks! My video feed is very dark and I can't see him for some reason.
2,457 posted on 08/30/2005 1:22:40 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: mewzilla

They didnt wait too long we didnt have any time to prepare. There is a 72 hour plan to evac we evaced over a million in a day and a half. The reality is that for people with no cars they had no choice to stay


2,459 posted on 08/30/2005 1:23:15 PM PDT by bayourant
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To: Riverman94610
Maybe things have changed now.I still prefer the racial atmosphere in the South to that of what exists now in California where mixed friendships are pretty rare

Strange. I would say SoCal is the most interacially mixed state I have ever been in. I am curious as to how old you are?

2,460 posted on 08/30/2005 1:23:24 PM PDT by Smogger
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