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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
Philadelphia isn't below sea level in hurricane country.
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.
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.
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.
Good grief. It's because the breaches formed overnight.
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)
They waited too long.
He is there he right in back
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.
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.
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Do we know this is a fact?
"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.
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.
Fine, I'll leave the topic be for now.
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
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
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?
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