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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
Are you seeing this video?
Fires breaking out all over the place.
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I was preparing to take my boat to Bound Brook to work for S&R but was unable to get to a launch point. I went to work 2 days later to find porta-potties, bottled water, limited phone service and limited accessibility around the area.
For any with fly or friends in the Algiers area...
Tall Timbers area, Momus Drive area... word has gotten out of there that they are safe. Not much damage but surrounded by water. They want people to know they are alright.
1-800-Help-Now Salvation Army
1-800-436-6348 Operation Blessings
1-800-344-8070 Harvest Now (?)
Numbers from CNN, not sure if I got the name of the 3rd organization right.....also posted on CNN site
spot on. The scope of this is such that doing anything to fix anything is gonna take a long time. *sigh*
What a freakin' moron. The water is rising in New Orleans because water flows to the lowest point possible, and the city is below the level of the adjacent Lake Ponchartrain. The water from the lake is going to keep flowing into the city until the water level in the city is the same as the water level in the lake.
I don't think you need to be an engineer to understand some very basic elements of fluid mechanics. If Shep would just go home and try to fill the north half of his bathtub, he'd understand what the hell is going on in New Orleans right now.
It was a small story, a metaphor, for all the loss to come.
LOL!
I hope people in the drier parts of NO yesterday didnt get complacent and get caught in these floods.
Mother of God. Fires will burn whole blocks down to the flood water line. And if anyone is in those buildings, they will have to get underwater to get out - and will be caught in deep water with fires raging around them.
Part of the problem with the crisis in this disaster is the corrupt politics that went on for years. There was no adequate disaster planning. The democrats in charge, had no plan. This needs to be hammered home every chance we get. Their lack of planning has caused many to die. Their lack of leadership is criminal.
wwltv.com webcast is saying if people are in metro new orleans area to leave from rising water .. they do no know where its coming from ???????????
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Good grief. No, we must help those who have lost everything. Don't you know you'll gain your own life by losing it for someone else?
Please take the apocalyptic preaching elsewhere.
"No guarantees, but I expect this will not be addressed until the water levels balance on both sides.
Not only is the repair orders of magnitude easier when the flow stops, but I simply doubt the
resources are in place now, or that they will be before water levels equalize.
""Undoubtedly correct, and a ghastly prospect. There's going to be feet of water in those areas for weeks
or months.""
This is the start of a long day. A quiet rise in water in New Orleans may not be the worst news we get. The "dodged a bullet" crowd is in for a rude surprise, actually a number of them. Levees fail late just as often as they do early, the earth turns to soup as time goes by and tiny trickles find cracks and become torrents.
I am happy with the rate of water rise in New Orleans. A wall of water ruins foundations. A slow unstoppable rise weakens other sections of levee while there's still a "head" water level differential on the two sides, which can lead to a wall of water scenario.
This way the kinetic damage stays to a minimum. The best case scenario for New Orleans now is for the head to equalize as quickly as possible, short of a rate which undermines foundations.
placemark.
Could you explain briefly what is involved in the repair, say now versus post-flooding? At what point could it start?
It's on-topic enough I think.
They got alot of water from little lagoon and big lagoon that closed off 59so. Minor structrual damage.
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