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Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Various ^ | 30 August 2005

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.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Georgia; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; livehurricanekatrina; prayanddonate; tropical
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To: cgk

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.


501 posted on 08/30/2005 8:43:26 AM PDT by LibWrangler
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To: LibSnubber

WDSU - Three feet of water now surrounding the SuperDome.


502 posted on 08/30/2005 8:43:45 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: LibSnubber
Jefferson Parish (Metairie): All roads closed. Lots of people walking the streets searching for food, water... Do not use generators! The emissions are causing fires.

I hope elected officials are putting this out via short wave radio, etc.

503 posted on 08/30/2005 8:43:51 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: All

Lamar/Dixon Convention Ctr in Ascension parish - huge shelter will be opening up. Will post contact no. when they broadcast it.


504 posted on 08/30/2005 8:43:55 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
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To: NautiNurse

Can you post the link to WDMU again please?


505 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:09 AM PDT by Reborn
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To: sinkspur

Is it time for an "Operation Dunkirk"?


506 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:13 AM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: cyborg

"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.



507 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:24 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: Spktyr
Starting to be time to evac people out of there.

Yeah, but no idea where they're going to go. Water gets deeper outside the Dome's peramiter.

508 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:27 AM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: HankReardon

"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.)


509 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:37 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: Pete

Thanks

The people stranded in NO do not know about the levee breaks?

Is the French Quarter flooding yet?


510 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:45 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: sarasota
KHOU reporting now:

Water is lapping at the edge of the French Quarter. Water is toxic - oil, gas, etc. Snakes in the water.

511 posted on 08/30/2005 8:44:49 AM PDT by Pete
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To: Prokopton
Did you ever stop to think that some people did not leave because they were old, infirm or just plain poor? These people should have been assisted by the city and state in evacuating the city.

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.

512 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:03 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: Prokopton

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.


513 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:12 AM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: Txsleuth

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.


514 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:16 AM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: NautiNurse
WDSU - Three feet of water now surrounding the SuperDome.

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.

515 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:18 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: Reborn
I think you mean WDSU
516 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:57 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: spectre

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.


517 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:57 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: All
Just talked face to face with an investigator in the Mississippi Attorney General's office.

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

518 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:58 AM PDT by Malichi (!)
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To: stlnative

Just announced, there will be an attempt to drop sandbags into levee breech using helicopters.


519 posted on 08/30/2005 8:45:59 AM PDT by Pete
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To: HankReardon
oh, no grudges here, just trying to help

Oh good, thank you

520 posted on 08/30/2005 8:46:05 AM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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