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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
Martial law is being enforced.
The governor has instructed the highway patrol to block off all entrance into the state.
People are urged not to drive on other bridges as their integrity is compromised.
Superdome surrounded by 3 feet of water. Dry streets yesterday are NOW FLOODED.
WDSU - Three feet of water now surrounding the SuperDome.
I hope elected officials are putting this out via short wave radio, etc.
Lamar/Dixon Convention Ctr in Ascension parish - huge shelter will be opening up. Will post contact no. when they broadcast it.
Can you post the link to WDMU again please?
Is it time for an "Operation Dunkirk"?
"Did you see the guy who lost his wife in the rushing water? Sad :( I'm all freeped out and my mind is overloaded. I'll check in later to make sure our freepers are okay."
I didn't see that, but I can't help wondering how a certain family of three are. I was watching Fox and CNN all day Sunday after the evacuation orders were given. They briefly interviewed a woman in N.O. who was shown with her boyfriend and three year old daughter on their small houseboat. She said they were going to "stick it out" on the boat. I can't get that darling little girl out of my mind. I just can't believe they stayed.
Yeah, but no idea where they're going to go. Water gets deeper outside the Dome's peramiter.
"I hear you! The United States of America! The greatest, most propserous, most generous, most
emmancipating nation the earth has ever known! More people immigrate to this nation than they all the
other nations of the world combined!
Galveston Island was rebuilt better than before, so will New Orleans be."
Right on, guy. That's how it is, that's how it always will be.
(Sorry about the ID/architect confusion, I always get you and Howard Roark mixed up.)
Thanks
The people stranded in NO do not know about the levee breaks?
Is the French Quarter flooding yet?
Water is lapping at the edge of the French Quarter. Water is toxic - oil, gas, etc. Snakes in the water.
ha! have you ever lived in new orleans? I have....the city is mostly poor. There is not enough time to go door to door to get these people to leave.
Hubby and I were discussing that last night. Mandatory evac by the city should have allowed for use of the CITY'S school buses to get everyone out who did not have means to do so on their own. That is the ONE thing in hindsight I have been critical about, as much as I don't know not living there I can't speak for any other local measures. They had that option and I didn't see them using it in any news coverage.
The pictures that I have seen of the Biloxi-Gulfport Casino strand show very vast devestation. Beau Rivage Hotel on its twenty to twenty-five foot mound still stands but I understand that they took water to the second floor. The McDonalds down the highway is slab, columns and mansard roof with no walls or contents remaining. But some people only a few block inland are in better shape. Downtown Gulfport was flooded but the structures are standing.
The structure will undoubtedly be fine, so there's no way that anybody will drown there. If anything, the higher water level will probably make it easier to get boats there for evacuation.
Medicine. Refrigeration for diabetics. Lots of problems. Short on answers.
Has anyone heard the mayor speak today on any channel? I'm hoping he's speaking to the people through short wave radio, regular radio for those with batteries, etc.
He said to report any gas station that is selling nothing but premium gas. He said that is the biggest type of gouging they are seeing.
PHONE NUMBER 601-359-4230
We're praying for the poor souls from Pascagoula to New Orleans.
TAW
Just announced, there will be an attempt to drop sandbags into levee breech using helicopters.
Oh good, thank you
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