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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: NautiNurse
Prayers up, folks. FWIW you're the only story they're reporting on in the West. Even knocked that weirdo in Crawford off the front page.

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!

561 posted on 08/30/2005 8:51:24 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dirtboy
You can't stop the storm. But you can have a plan in place to get everyone out who wants to get out. That wasn't done. And it borders on criminal negligence.

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.

562 posted on 08/30/2005 8:51:25 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: ohioWfan

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.


563 posted on 08/30/2005 8:51:33 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: LibWrangler
The governor has instructed the highway patrol to block off all entrance into the state.

The whole state? Has this ever happened before anywhere?

564 posted on 08/30/2005 8:51:34 AM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: Dyxee

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.


565 posted on 08/30/2005 8:51:40 AM PDT by eyespysomething (What disgusts me the most is how other GStar families have had their wounds ripped back open! FU CS)
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To: RetiredArmy
Thus say the liberals. I heard one puke say this morning that it was because we have abused the environment.

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.

566 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:00 AM PDT by colorado tanker (The People Have Spoken)
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To: NautiNurse; All

Another source of information is www.2theadvocate.com
It is the Baton Rouge paper.


567 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:02 AM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: apackof2
I am hoping that running her ad at this time will have the opposite effect that the leftist want...people WILL BE offended that ads are running during coverage of a national disaster

Exactly my thought.

She will be even more offensive to anyone on the fence. She doesn't come across as sympathetic in that ad.

568 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:18 AM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: Spktyr

The amount of damage is unfathomable. Communication is almost non-existent. 504 area code is out.


569 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:23 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: JohnMac

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?


570 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:26 AM PDT by EmilyGeiger (Social Security Administration's motto: "Live fast, Die Young.")
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To: cwiz24

I'm glad you saw that and could report it. Thanks.


571 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:34 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: kenth

I have read nothing more than donating to "agencies offering aid." Office Depot and Anheiser busch are also donating money and water.


572 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:41 AM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

uh, oh! Anyone?


573 posted on 08/30/2005 8:52:49 AM PDT by HankReardon
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To: BlueNgold

Is the infrastructure secure for power? I heard this storm would wipe it out.


574 posted on 08/30/2005 8:53:07 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: PhiKapMom; Spktyr

Thanks for that info on the pumps.


575 posted on 08/30/2005 8:53:11 AM PDT by ohioWfan (If my people which are called by my name will humble themselves and pray......)
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To: NautiNurse

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.

}:-)4


576 posted on 08/30/2005 8:53:14 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: Spktyr
I believe that the dysfunctional old pumps are still underwater and inaccessible

dysfunctional??? please explain. These are modern marvels and not many pumps will work without power and under water.

577 posted on 08/30/2005 8:53:14 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: Spktyr

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.


579 posted on 08/30/2005 8:53:20 AM PDT by King Prout (and the Clinton Legacy continues: like Herpes, it is a gift that keeps on giving.)
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To: LA Woman3

Thank you for the link - and I'm so glad you checked in!


580 posted on 08/30/2005 8:53:26 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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