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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
BTW, some of those gas stations are only selling premium because that's all there is left. And any station that did get flooded will have to be checked to see if the tanks were compromised when the soil shifted. What a mess!
What? The mayor and govenor and radio and tv stations all said GET OUT! What did you want? The cops to knock on everyones door and say get out? This is a city of a million people and not some small beach town. Thats not possible.
It will be some time before they can drain that water, imo.
And I don't know how martial law works. It's been reported that anyone who can leave NO should leave immediately.
The whole state? Has this ever happened before anywhere?
Welcome to FR. I will pray for your mother, and please let us know when you hear something. And I will be right back with some links to local #'s you can call.
Interesting how well educated, erudite and oh so superior liberals think, isn't it? In the Dark Ages people would have said, this storm is God's punishment, we have sinned. Today's liberals say, this is the Environment's punishment, we have used SUV's. Yep, you've come a long way, baby.
Another source of information is www.2theadvocate.com
It is the Baton Rouge paper.
Exactly my thought.
She will be even more offensive to anyone on the fence. She doesn't come across as sympathetic in that ad.
The amount of damage is unfathomable. Communication is almost non-existent. 504 area code is out.
The Alabama Senator he was talking to corrected him and said "We call it the gulf coast".
That sounds like Senator Sessions. Was it him or Shelby?
I'm glad you saw that and could report it. Thanks.
I have read nothing more than donating to "agencies offering aid." Office Depot and Anheiser busch are also donating money and water.
uh, oh! Anyone?
Is the infrastructure secure for power? I heard this storm would wipe it out.
Thanks for that info on the pumps.
But taking ten thousand people, maybe without what few possessions they had, all of them stressed, some sick, some infirm, lots of children, and evacuating them all out by small boat...wow. The word "Dunkirk" keeps popping into my head.
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dysfunctional??? please explain. These are modern marvels and not many pumps will work without power and under water.
barges.
this is an emergency.
hell - whomp up some catamaran pontoon rafts, just get the live bodies out of there before they become dead bodies.
and for God's sake take them UPriver.
Thank you for the link - and I'm so glad you checked in!
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