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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
It's unclear just how much communication is getting out of New Orleans, and how much the authorities really know about what's going on there. Remember, I heard about this from a local TV station in LOS ANGELES, just because one of their people happens to be stranded there, and happens to be in a hotel that still has a land line connection he can use to get the word out.
No pictures but it is a 200 foot breech according to WDSU. Largest emergency mobilization in history. From Mobile back to New Orleans thousands and thousands homeless. Heard one report that 1 million people could be homeless.
Devastation is much worse than they could ever imagine.
Yes, they said that about two days too late. You can go back and look at the hurricane threads here as Katrina was being tracked through the Gulf and you can see when all the models converged on New Orleans. That was Friday and that's when people should have begun leaving.
Sunday morning was too late to evacuate a city of that size. But I guess that's water under the bridge and through the levee now.
New Orleans could use fire fighting aircraft making air drops to douce those non gas fires.
Not to start anything. But the reason homes arent built yet in Florida is because there simply isnt enough people to build them, there is plenty of money for it. Same thing will apply for MS,LA and AL.
Lets face it, casinos are big money for a state like MS.
Agreed - the city of New Orleans and State of LA elected incompetent leaders, and now are directly paying for it, some with their lives. It's tragic.
According to WDSU, it is the worst and getting worse as water continues to rise in New Orleans.
WDSU is furious at the MSM. The MSM finally went too far with their comments of not having as much damage as expected and WDSU said they are dead wrong.
I just came across this link about what Wal-Mart and other retailers are doing. Interesting how the home improvement chains are stepping up:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/30/news/fortune500/katrina_retailers/index.htm?cnn=yes
my understanding is the I-10 bridge is the one they are talking about. Not the causeway that runs through the center of the lake.
This is a large picture file - but if you wait for it to open you will see the I-10 bridge on the east side of the lake by Slidell.
http://img5.picsplace.to/img5/2/Katrina_Track.jpg
Here, the SA has 4 53ft trailers at a local Wal-Mart to collect needed material donations to send down there this week.
Gulfport MS: "Complete devastation."
Mobile, AL: "It's bad. Thousands homeless."
WDSU employes, contact Hearst, collect:
212-887-6810
email LLange@hearst.com
Well, thank you for taking the time to report that before work, Wolfstar.
When I realize what I'm hearing on CNN, which is bad enough, compared to your post and others like it, I'm gobsmacked and realize, the place to get the news is the internet, blogs, etc. The stories are so big that small stories of one man in a hotel struggling to find a way to eat get lost by the mainstream press.
And take these people WHERE exactly? How do you feed them? How do you give them safe shelter?
Feel free to fill out a application for mayor of New Orleans, Govenor of Louisiana, or the head of FEMA and save us all with your day-after extensive hurricanr plans
If they are looting groceries (food,water) because of desperation then that I can understand. I don't condone it but I understand it. The groceries would probably be destroyed anyway since I doubt it would be lawful to sell food items from a flood ravaged store.
If they are using the flood as an excuse to "get paid" by stealing unneccessary material goods, then they should be arrested and I wouldn't lose any sleep if they shot a few of those looters.
There will be some point, away from the impact area, where the grid is serviceable. That's where you start. Emergency plans generally call for creating rings around an affected area of known reliable services (water, electrical, sewer etc.). Emergency crews first seek to shore up the reliability of the rings, then seek the quickest routes to move from that ring into the center of the affected area, basically creating spokes on a wheel, and then connecting those spokes closer in, thus establishing a new smaller ring or reliable service. THis goes on until reliable services are available at the heart of the affected area. It's hard work and requires smart planning. However, without a reliable service starting point you cannot hope to provide safe water or electric, and that is what emergency planners and medical personnel will need to save lives.
Plus a revocation of all earmarks in the Highway Bill.
A pork hunt to eliminate junk spending.
And a review of Homeland Security spending to remove pork and put it into a relief fund.
Folks, this will be at least a $250 billion storm. Add up all the ripple effects and it will probably be a trillion dollar storm. Politicians need to realize it's time to stop playing with our tax dollars and act like adults.
Wish I had recorded what she had to say because I would be glad to send it to the morons at CNN, MSNBC, Fox, and the rest who have people that do not understand what has happened.
I remember reading that a couple of western states are sending their waterbomber aircraft, but I don't have a cite and I don't have confirmation.
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