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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
Just able to get to thread...
Last night, Steve Harrigan was talking to Shep Smith while Steve was in Miss.---he made a remark about everything south of him being GONE....I am assuming he meant the cities and the casinos, hotels..etc.,
Am I right? Have you heard anymore about that area ?(I can't read the whole thread right now)
uh, oh! That's in my "not allowed to talk about" column. I'm sure about that!
You would prefer that they are left to drown?
They are taking the most serious patients out by air to Lafayette. The less serious are being moved by boat. I suspect that they're going to start evacuating the SuperDome inhabitants out as soon as they have somewhere else to put them and the means to transport them.
Anyone know if LCACs are being sent?
So glad you heard from your loved one and that they are safe. Thank you for the prayers.
I think people were assuming that if the doomsday scenario happened, we'd see a half-mile of levees crashing down in the midst of 150-mph winds, and Lake Pontchartrain slamming into the Superdome like some CGI special effect out of "The Day After Tomorrow." But floods are slow-motion disasters, and they develop over days, not hours (even weeks, in the case of the massive upper Mississippi flooding several years back).
I'll admit it, I thought New Orleans hadn't quite dodged a bullet, but at least not gotten hit by the entire full-auto burst, yesterday. I thought they'd gotten off easily compared to what might have been, and the worst was pretty much over. I was wrong.
}:-)4
I saw upthread that there was a riot in the Superdome. I was offline last night, so I missed any postings about that. What happened?
Kinda hard to get into there from the south or the east due to bridges being out. I havent seen any fly over video yet of Slidell
Tammanary Parish has been very badly hit and police tell people not to try and return to that parish until they give the all clear with no news of when that will be.
It's up the thread a few hundred posts, IIRC.
Same stupid Cindy ad on FNC now.
Agree - bad timing and bad ad
Heard last night, all the 142 toilets
aren't flushable in the SuperDome.
[Making people testy.]
Things are ok in Houma?
That's a great idea...but who knows if it is possible.
WalMart is taking donations for disaster relief at all of hteir stores nationwide and on line at walmart.com
See post #67 for Tammany info.
"The Biloxi to Ocean Springs bridge is damaged." http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=3782622
Oh gag, now the Cindy Sheesh commercial.
And this report: "I am from Ocean Springs, MS and moved to the Charlotte area around 5 years ago. I have been begging my family to leave all weekend before this monster was to hit the coast. Most of my family gathered at my mothers house as it is the highest elevation. The water reached within 1 inch of covering their main floor and they went into the attaic for refuge. My grandmother's house next door had 7 feet of water in it and the A-frame next to it had water up past the 2nd floor. They lost all vehicles except one. My family reports that the entire Mississippi Gulf Coast is comepletely demolished. East Beach homes in Ocean Sprins do not exist any longer as if there were never homes there. Mutiple reports of just mass destruction. Noone can move and most roads are impassable." http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3782912
I have a friend who's missing a bunch of relatives from Slidell.
No, no riot but people are getting antsy, smokers getting agitated, homeowners want to get out and get fresh air, Im also sure th homeless and the drug addicts and the special needs people arent making the situation a nice place to stat.
Really bad ad!!!!
They aren't flushable because there's no water pressure. Starting to be time to evac people out of there.
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