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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: eyespysomething
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.

Jean Meserve

721 posted on 08/30/2005 9:15:56 AM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: jayef

The sad thing is that the levee's that were meant to save the city will now doom it.


722 posted on 08/30/2005 9:15:58 AM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: eyespysomething

That was Jeannie Mezerve (sp?)


723 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:02 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: dirtboy
I can't understand why some people don't want to address this?

I'm watching what is literally The Day After in Zone Zero, and wondering how much money it will take to EVER make things inhabitable for just New Orleans alone?

Our responsibility to the our own unfortunate is overwhelming. Sorry about the rest of the world...

sw

724 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:06 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: buickmackane

The reaction of the home improvement companies does not surprise me - they were right there with assistance last year in Florida as well.


725 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:19 AM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: buickmackane

Good for them. They are doing what any good citizen/business owner should be doing in the face of unprecented disaster. I better start hearing more about large corporations, including the one I work for, stepping up. I've only heard of a couple of companies stepping forward so far.


726 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:25 AM PDT by Trust but Verify (Get over yourselves!)
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To: HankReardon
I've always been in favor of dormitories to house the people who insist on living off of the public dole.
727 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:26 AM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: najida

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-083005katrina_lat,0,256776.story?coll=la-home-headlines


Google Photos are amazing and heartbreaking. Click on the right under "photos"


728 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:26 AM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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To: jeffers

I read last night it was the I-10 that is referred to as "Twin Span."


729 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:39 AM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: superiorslots
This is not some fricken african sh*ithole country. It's the USA

You've heard of the term getting bombed back to the Stone Age? New Orleans is getting flooded back to the Stone Age.

730 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:40 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: All
KHOU:

Drug addicts are looting drugs stores looking for anything to satisfy their fix.

Gretna police chief reporting...some flooding, a lot of debris, some building collapsed, problems with looting by people coming in from outside.

731 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:49 AM PDT by Pete
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To: Smogger

Seeing the wind and storm surge damage in Mississippi, I'm having a hard time buying the downgrade of Katrina to a CAT 3, 125 mph sustained winds at the final landfall. I think it will turn out like Andrew - analysis of the damage will support higher wind speeds. The relative weakening on the western side of the storm seems not to have had much effect on the east side at all. Maybe it wasn't CAT 5 any more, but I'll bet the east side was still well into the strong CAT 4 range at landfall.


732 posted on 08/30/2005 9:16:52 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
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To: jeffers

Go to maps.google.com, search on New Orleans, LA and look across the Missippi River for the US 90 crossing. Double-click on that bridge to center the image. Now select 'Hybrid' mode to overlay the satellite image, then zoom it as far as you like. You'll see the shadow of the twin spans that I believe is the bridge you're looking for. It's the center NO area river crossing.


733 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:01 AM PDT by alancarp ((Piedmont of NCarolina))
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To: katykelly

Here is a Google link to news for Houma -

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&hs=Hgm&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&tab=wn&scoring=d&q=houma+katrina&btnG=Search+News

From that I found following:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/nation/12514265.htm


"David and Wanda Milstead of Houma, a city in the marshes southwest of New Orleans, were among the fortunate.

David Milstead called the state police and learned that the roads to Houma were open. After two nights sleeping on lawn chairs purchased at Wal-Mart, they were going home.

Neighbors told them their house suffered some roof damage, but nothing devastating.

``They were saying before we left Houma that it might end up under 18 feet of water,'' Wanda Milstead said. ``That little jog to the east that it (the hurricane) did at the last minute really saved us. So I guess we were lucky.''


734 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:15 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: JohnMac
Did anyone see the clip last night of Chris Matthews calling the gulf coast "The Redneck Riviera?

The Liberal NE hates the South. Why any Southernor would vote for a Democrat is beyond me.

735 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:37 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Beware the Socialist-Islamist alignment.)
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To: jeffers

Thanks, but I'm looking for a location for the Twin Spans bridge...what highway iot carries and where it sits.

The southside of the twinspans is NO East, north is Slidell and the twinspan which is INTERSTATE 10, is underwater with sections completely missing.


736 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:39 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
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To: superiorslots
This is not some fricken african sh*ithole country. It's the USA

Judging by the reports, there are plenty of folks who are acting like it's the sh*thole, though. The mere act of living here doesn't make a person civilized. A lot of the folks left behind in those parts of the city clearly are not.

737 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:43 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: NautiNurse

National Guard might as well leave. 65,000 without power still in Memphis. Our yard looks like a war zone.


738 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:43 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: jeffers
Thanks, but I'm looking for a location for the Twin Spans bridge...what highway iot carries and where it sits.

I circled it here


739 posted on 08/30/2005 9:17:58 AM PDT by Tiger Smack
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To: Trust but Verify

The casinos are near the top of my list for one reason and one reason only.

There were reports from that casino yesterday that give some indication of the surge heigths.

With comms down from NO to Mobile, these anecdotal reports are all we have in trying to put together a big picture assessment.

I don't gamble, unless I'm the house.

The house always wins.


740 posted on 08/30/2005 9:18:04 AM PDT by jeffers
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