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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: Tiger Smack
And take these people WHERE exactly? How do you feed them? How do you give them safe shelter?

Like I said, school gyms upstate. And coordinate with FEMA to get them supplies within a couple of days.

You, apparently, are the type of person New Orleans had in place for disaster planning.

681 posted on 08/30/2005 9:08:34 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: aft_lizard

You miss the point. I live here. I know. People hads to take out 30 year SBA loans. Our foregn giveaway is free cash money.


682 posted on 08/30/2005 9:08:37 AM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: Trust but Verify

You read my mind.


683 posted on 08/30/2005 9:09:01 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: sarasota

I was shocked to hear the MSM minimizing damage when I turned them on this morning which is why I am so glad to be listening/watching WDSU streaming from Jackson.


684 posted on 08/30/2005 9:09:17 AM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: PhiKapMom

Remember from '93 - when earthen levees get compromised, they deteriorate VERY rapidly. Are the NO all earthen?


685 posted on 08/30/2005 9:09:21 AM PDT by IamConservative (The true character of a man is revealed in what he does when no one is looking.)
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To: Tiger Smack
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

It doesn't take immense insight or qualifications to realize you can't wait to order a mandatory evacuation until 6 hours before the weather begins to deteriorate.

686 posted on 08/30/2005 9:09:21 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: r9etb

Please do not start this stuff today.


687 posted on 08/30/2005 9:09:25 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: cwiz24
If my family was hungry or cold, I would certainly break into a store to feed or clothe them.

Perishable food will just spoil or rot, and other foods may go bad from the flooding. Can't say that I blame them if they are taking food to survive.

688 posted on 08/30/2005 9:09:48 AM PDT by technochick99 (firearm of choice: Sig Sauer....)
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To: Gabz
I have been left speechless from what I've been seeing and reading.

I know, I know it truly is unbelievable....I can barely tear myself away from the coverage....an entire American city devastated...but I have to go, got to buy books for class, but my heart is not in it, my heart is with the people of New Orleans

689 posted on 08/30/2005 9:10:03 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: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

People have a general misconception of where most government money is "wasted."

Only a tiny fraction is overseas.

Most of it is wasted on...us. Domestic Pork projects, and giveaway programs, not merely for the poor, but for the Middle Class.


690 posted on 08/30/2005 9:10:15 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Trust but Verify

Unfortunately the state economy of Mississippi is becoming more dependent on Casinos. If Casino operators found out that there multi-million dollar casinos were wiped out. Casinos that they believed would withstand a strong hurricane, would they come back? Unfortunately its important, not to the degree of human life right now, but important none the less.


691 posted on 08/30/2005 9:10:50 AM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: jeffers

How many cubic yards of fill would be requirewd to bring the city above water level permanently?


Just the city limits, not including Hahnville or Edgard, is a rectangle 33 miles by 13.

Area equals one point three billion square yards.

Depth...at least twelve feet, four yards, so somewhere on the order of five point three billion cubic yards.

Call it 253 million tri-axle dump trucks full.


692 posted on 08/30/2005 9:10:57 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: Seattle Conservative

All commercial advertising will of course continue to be run, I'm saying, the Sheehan ad has ALWAYS been ran at the worst possible time. why would it be worse so now? Hurricanes and floods have not a thing to do with this. I do remember no commercials on the television for a very long time after the enemy hit on 9-11-01.

The world will not stop because of this tragedy.


693 posted on 08/30/2005 9:11:31 AM PDT by HankReardon
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To: Smogger

Did you hear the CNN reporter lady who had tears in her throat as she was telling of how they couldn't get to people after dark, they could hear people yelling for help, the rescuers couldn't get to anyone, no one could do anything because of the debris in the water, cars beneath the surface, power and gas lines etc.

She said people didn't realie how bad this was and everyone was going to be shocked tomorrow (today)

Jeanne Mezeene I think was her name.

It had me in tears. She was genuinly upset and very shaken.


694 posted on 08/30/2005 9:11:47 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: jeffers

The lake is equalizing into the city. There's no place to pump it. Everything will sit under water for months. I'm sorry to say this . . . and it pains me because I have 5 Aunts who have fled the area . . . but, New Orleans is no more.


695 posted on 08/30/2005 9:12:00 AM PDT by jayef
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To: sarasota

Now that I got that off my chest, do you feel better?


696 posted on 08/30/2005 9:12:04 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Get over yourselves!)
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To: sinkspur

Sinkspur, it is beyond tragic and nothing we write or say can encompass it all. I know your clients must be in dire straits and you know that people in this country will do everything we can to help.

We love architecture and the older the city, the better so to lose this history is especially difficult.

It does seem sterile to write a check, but it's all most of us can do at this point. Our 25th wedding anniversary is next week and we are not getting each other anything beyond a small gift my husband has already bought me. We would feel too guilty and sick of ourselves and so will donate to the Salvation Army instead this afternoon when my groom gets home.

And think of that "evil" corporation WalMart donating $1 million already. It will end up being more before this is over, I'm sure.

Right now we have to focus our prayers on the rescue of those in need; the rest will follow as it always does.


697 posted on 08/30/2005 9:12:39 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: dirtboy

US 90 across Louis Bay is GONE. Only thing left is concrete pillars. Most of the houses in Bay St. Louis are gone.


698 posted on 08/30/2005 9:12:40 AM PDT by ContemptofCourt
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To: dirtboy
Like I said, school gyms upstate. And coordinate with FEMA to get them supplies within a couple of days. You, apparently, are the type of person New Orleans had in place for disaster planning.

Drop the personal attacks. You are sitting there and saying "Why didnt the city get these people out of new orleans?" and Im saying that most people affected are poor, didnt want to leave. No city in America is going to be able to evacuate a MILLION people out of this area. yeah, put them in buses and bus them north. Sure, but everyone who WANTED to get out did leave and if they couldnt leave they put them in the strongest building in new orleams. Some people just didnt heed the warning and are now paying for it. Im so sorry that you were expecting the mayor of new Orleans to put on a superman costume and forcefully remove people who didnt care about leaving in the first place.

699 posted on 08/30/2005 9:12:44 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: dirtboy

"That isn't that difficult to work out - if you give a damn."

But they were just dumb, poor, crazy, etc.; they don't count.


700 posted on 08/30/2005 9:13:06 AM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all in the path of Katrina)
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