Katrina Live Thread, Part X

Various ^ | 30 August 2005

[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

[dirtboy]

Can you believe that -- they loot and then swim away

And they will have to leave it all behind - or die of disease if they don't leave.

[Velveeta]

Oh dear.

[Pyro7480]

Ah! You beat me to what she was saying! I can't blame her at all...

[sarasota]

"Loot" will become meaningless unless they can eat or drink it. This is survival.

[NautiNurse]

Incredible story - thank you for posting it here.

[jpsb]

People have been living here for hundreds of years. My house was built in the 50's. We have not had a really big huricane here in 100 years, Carla the worst in memory hit far down the coast.

Few years back I remember a little topical storms, Francs, I live right next to a marina, people were deliverately sinking thier boats to collect insurance fema monies. I stayed up all night fending off and retying lines to keep mine safe. I think fraud is one reason insurance companies are abandoning east Texas. I havde seen homes rebuilt that EVERYONE knew would be ruined in the next heavy rain! Crazy, unless it's done just for the insurance money. In a sane world State Farm would insure me, once every hundred years is not a bad bet.

[texaslil]

Heard the DOD was setting up now. Does that involve the army? Even so, 11,000 in the dome alone sounds formidable. Many prayers going up.

[Trampled by Lambs]

"People are looting groceries and other stores and then swimming back to where they came from. Freaking unbelieveable."

It's difficult to excuse such a thing but I will say this. If my family was stuck in a situation like this, I would probably consider looting the local market myself - if I believed our survival depended on it.

Now if they're looting non-survival related items then they should be arrested or shot.

[dirtboy]

I-10 west also has several feet of water on it.

Wasn't that the last way out of the city?

[jeffers]

President Bush, we need the army in there. At least a division of airmobile reserves, better yet two.

Get them moving.

Navy too.

Don't screw around.

[cgk]

BTTT

[Strategerist]

I believe I saw a follow-up report yesterday on them and they were fine.

Yes, the boat they stayed on was in Louisiana west of New Orleans. They said basically nothing happened at all.

[Wolfstar]

Peach! Hi, thanks for responding to my post. It's nearly 9:00am here in Los Angeles, and I'm late for work. Just had to get this news posted since the cable news are all doing a lousy job of covering the unfolding nightmare that's going on in New Orleans. I'll be unable to do any more updates until tonight, since I can't use the internet at work. Just wanted to let someone know.

[Tiger Smack]

Can someone post a location for the bridge colloquially known as the "Twin Spans bridge"?

I havent lived there in a few years and cant tell if this is it or not, but a very close design and height to the twin span bridge that connnects new Orleans to New Orleans East

[HankReardon]

And here in the Ohio valley, the rain continues to pour, every bit of the water headed down river to New Orleans.

(Was that okay? I'm beginning to think the thread police have left)

[Smogger]

she said that the current conditions there ARE the worst they have seen.

I believe it was 1000 times worse than they imagined would happen. I would have to agree. Again. From what I saw last night CNN's coverage was superior, they did not downplay the fact that NO is an unmitigated disaster area.

[TheCornerOffice]

How many are in NO, 100,000 - 200,000? I'm afraid only the military could do that.

Marines, Navy, Coast Guard? Amphibious landing vehicles might be of help? Thousands of small boats? Airlift and drop in those self-inflating rafts? Anything and everything should be deployed that has any chance of working.

Hopefully, Martial Law has been declared over the entire area, so that the normal rules and "walls" won't keep the military from acting however needed.

[Tiger Smack]

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.

Like I said, easier said than done when you dont live in the city and you are looking from the outside in

[r9etb]

President Bush, we need the army in there. At least a division of airmobile reserves, better yet two. Get them moving. Navy too. Don't screw around.

I'm be very surprised if they weren't getting set up to do exactly that.

[cwiz24]

I agree, Trampled. If my family was hungry or cold, I would certainly break into a store to feed or clothe them. But when the worst past, I would make amends to the store and pay for what I took.