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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
"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."
I believe I saw a follow-up report yesterday on them and they were fine.
Excellent!
How many cubic yards of fill would be requirewd to bring the city above water level permanently?
Watching ABC local...Said an elderly woman called and said her neighbor's 3-story house fell on her 2-story house and she's wondering how to get to the roof to signal officials for rescue. Lots of people trapped in attics. Snakes in water. Toxic water.
Also, water in uptown rising 2 feet per hour. Yikes!
yes, I understand, but shhhhhhh!
"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."
I suspect we'll eventually see official confirmation of a surge, or surge plus waves, in excess of 40 feet in the area of the Beau Rivage Casino.
Last I heard, both Louis Armstrong International (KMSY) and Lakefront (KNEW) were closed to all traffic, flooded and unusable. Not sure if that's still true.
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Not too much water damage on west bank.
Police concerned that they will soon run out of supplies....food, water....gas....
I saw him. That poor man was just at a loss. He even said so, that he was lost. I don't think he really meant location. I can't imagine living through that kind of horror to be faced with losing my wife on top of it.
I'm speechless. That is an amazing report. It does sound just like Survivor.
Speechless.
WDSU just reported that looting is out of control. People are swimming into stores and swimming out with bags full of loot.
Can someone post a location for the bridge colloquially known as the "Twin Spans bridge"?
WDSU - looting is out of control. People are swimming in neck deep water with bags of stolen goods.
Dysfunctional as in "they're not working". The "new" higher capacity pumps that would work underwater were never installed due to NOLA corruption and are now underwater in a warehouse.
WDSU is confirming that martial law has been declared for the entire city.
People are looting groceries and other stores and then swimming back to where they came from. Freaking unbelieveable.
These levees are being breeched -- water is continuing to rise in New Orleans according to the Governor. Tells me that levees are in a precarious stage right now with breeches already happening.
The plan was to get everyone out by telling them to evacuate. But people don't often respond, either because they have no vehicle, no money, etc. Tragic beyond belief.
There were 100,000 people without cars in the city. Planners knew this. There needed to be a plan in place to get school buses into the city and get those people out.
Now they'll have to be taken out by boat.
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