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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
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.
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.
You read my mind.
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.
Remember from '93 - when earthen levees get compromised, they deteriorate VERY rapidly. Are the NO all earthen?
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.
Please do not start this stuff today.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Now that I got that off my chest, do you feel better?
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.
US 90 across Louis Bay is GONE. Only thing left is concrete pillars. Most of the houses in Bay St. Louis are gone.
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.
"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.
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