Katrina Live Thread, Part X

Various ^ | 30 August 2005

[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

[Smogger]

OEP Press Conference:


Conf call with Corp of Engineers

Army Corp of Engineers is working on a plan that will hold.

It will set the efforts back if the fix doesn't hold.

Resonably short order, but not sure how long.

Sparing no resources.

Rising water causing problems at Superdome.

Generators in jeopardy.

[Texas_Conservative2]

on a positive note... this will give the city of New Orleans the ability to start fresh and bulldoze all the poor areas.

[cajungirl]

I am struck with this being a rescue operation now. I don't believe NO will ever be the city it was. I don't think it will be rebuilt. This is like Pompeii.

Mary Landrieu is in shock, her face keeps twitching. She looks like she is at a funeral.

[jackson747]

First post: Born and raised New Orleanian, now living abroad. In the oil business.

Have one brother at East Jeff Hospital in Metairie, and 1 at North Shore Hospital in Hammond doing their best. Last one doesn't know where his wife's parents are, as they rode it out in Diamondhead near Bay St. Louis. My Parents lost their home in Bay St. Louis, or so we assume, and they just rented an apartment in Lafayette today with my other brother.

I've got a crate with trophies from 5 African safaris sitting in a crate on a dock in the Port of New Orleans. It just cleared Customs and was supposed to be picked up and taken to storage in Slidell on Monday. Is it still there you think?

Venice, Boothville, etc. - essentially the lower half of Plaquemines Parish are gone - homes, businesses (oil service industries, etc.) I have the pictures from a flyover today.

No one, I am told, is quite sure where the Mississippi is now flowing, but you can be sure it is not navigable - meaning no ships in or out. Meaning the Port of N.O. won't be getting any relief from there, unless the Miss River Gulf Outlet can handle traffic. Not sure as it's not my specialty.

N.O is done. How can any city recover from this? The residents, and I am speculating based upon having lived there for 45 years, may well take matters into their own hands at some point, regardless of any NG presence. I hope not, but I am realistic.

[MadIvan]

I feel somewhat strange about this myself - I've been through Mobile, Biloxi and New Orleans in 1997 - Katrina seems eerily close to the route I took back then.

Regards, Ivan

[WoodstockCat]

my Lord..

that is 20 minutes of the most horrible images I've seen after spending much time in that area..
God bless those poor people.

[Petronski]

She said it in the Sunday 11:20am presser.

[jpsb]

" think tourists should boycott NO untill there is a plan"

That is of course if there is a New Orleans after all is said and done. Right now I do not think New Orleans will survive. Oh sure something will but a city of 500,000? I think not.

[Malacoda]

Hell, I'm planning on buying cajungirl a drink when I make it to NO again.

We go to NO at least once a year....we missed our last trip because our "little souvenir" from the PREVIOUS trip was only three motnhs old!

[dirtboy]

Already said I was dropping it.

Of course, now I'll have fifty people rip into me and I won't respond to them. :^)

[jslade]

And it's not like the South isn't LOADED with white trash...... :-)

Quit picking on the Klintoons.

[beltfed308]

Thank you in advance.

[eternity]

Were only about 70 trillions dollars in debt. Guess it takes a bit of time.

[Howlin]

Most whites would stare at me and wonder"why is HE with HER,HIM or THEM."

It sounds to me as if it's you who has the problem.

[Steve_Seattle]

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

Then maybe they would have been sitting in one of those other towns that was devastated. They might be worse off than where they are now.

[eraser2005]

Call me silly, but if I were stuck, I'd either head for the best shelter possible, or given enough time, hit the highway on foot and try to hitch a ride.....

If I were driving out of town and could in any way shape or form fit a person on the side of the road without transportation into my car, I'd do it in a second in a case like this....

[Riverman94610]

How old am I?
58
I mean REAL friendships.Not"I kicked it at the club with this real cute Mexican dude"

[cajungirl]

Correct. The Gov is a lightweight, Mary is a phoney.

We need Mike Foster back.

This sorry state has always elected sorry public officials. NO is corrupt beyond redemption.

[Saeder]

Water rising at Superdome knee deep and not threatens the generators on the ground floor, which require ventilation to operate. - just reported by an official on CNN

Could be lights out before long for our countrymen stranded in that vast dome and if the flooded sewage is creating a bad smell then I cannot imagine the panic that may develop.