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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
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.
You took that one comment a little out of context.
When you are surrounded by diseased water, snakes, rioting, looting, shooting, screaming people, with no food...it's a situation most of us have NEVER been in and never will be in.
And nearly all of us would be scared out of our wits.
I thought Twin Span was a type of bridge.
Gulfport: Heavy damage to hospital in Gp. 3/4 walls collapsed at school.
Fire houses significantly damaged. Emergency center swamped--directly hit by hurricane.
80 deaths. Damage to every shelter.
Elemetary schools gone, severely damaged. (Evacuation shelters all damaged.)
I think it put so much water in motion as a large Cat 5 that the water kept its inertia even as the wind speed slackened upon landfall. Same thing happened with Ivan and Opal - they were large storms with a large fetch and forecasters underestimated the surge because the wind speed had gone down - but the water was still in motion.
"No one anticipated this," said NBC News' Brian Williams, standing knee-deep in flood waters in the quarter.
We already have them. They're called Housing Projects.
Just checking in. Slept late. Have we heard anything encouraging -- anything -- about the stretch from Slidell to Biloxi?
The southside of the twinspans is NO East, north is Slidell and the twinspan which is INTERSTATE 10, is underwater with sections completely missing.
And its Lake Ponchartrain that it crosses.
I'm already donating. But we also need to make sure that we don't forget the horror that is resulting because of poor disaster planning - or else it will happen again.
Chilling report.
Excellent! I'll watch for the results with great interest and pride.
Agreed. Also remember that storm surge isn't driven solely by the wind, it's also driven by the barometric pressure; it's basically a "dome" of water that expands upward under the low pressure near the center of the hurricane. Katrina was still somewhere around 905-907 mb central pressure when it hit, if I remember correctly, and that's extremely low. Combine that with probable 135+ mph sustained winds, with higher gusts, and Biloxi/Gulfport being in the northeast side of the eyewall.
Still, there's some absolutely stunning stuff coming out of Mississippi now. One of the coastal county emergency operation centers got flooded out with a foot of water in it...and it's 30 feet above sea level.
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Thank you. There has been a lot of confusion about that bridge.
I know that--over $1 trillion every year is spent on domestic welfare (OMB budget classification HR superfunction--SOURCE: the office of Management and Busget).
However, the only silver liing in that socialistic point of fact is it is at least spent in the US for Americans.
Even though the total $ amount to foreigners is smaller, I totally reject that expense as our nation has needs here in America.
I see Floridians in my hometown paying back 30 year SBA loans due to the hurricanes, and when I see BILLIONS going to foreign governments with no strings attached (cash grants--no accountability), it is beyond outrageous.
While Floridians were homeless and going into debt for the rest of their life after the hurricanes, America gave the tsunami nations $1 billion dollars free and clear.
Why doesn't America take care of America? Be aware, New Orleans residents, that when you sign up for a 30 year SBA loan, our nation will more than likely annnonce within weeks more funding for the IMF and more canceling of foreign debt. It should leave you stunned and outraged.
My heart is also with th people of New Orleans, as well as the rest of Louisiana, Mississippi, alabama and florida.
* however you define desperate.
Thanks - I made a guess and missed -- hopefully the US 90 bridge is still open in central NO.
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