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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; dirtboy
Please, this is no time for arguements...what is needed now is help for our fellow countrymen....donate if you can and pray
741 posted on 08/30/2005 9:18:06 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: 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.


742 posted on 08/30/2005 9:18:14 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: superiorslots; Wolfstar

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.


743 posted on 08/30/2005 9:18:30 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: cgk

I thought Twin Span was a type of bridge.


744 posted on 08/30/2005 9:18:57 AM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: ContemptofCourt

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.)


745 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:00 AM PDT by LibWrangler
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To: Mr. Jeeves
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 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.

746 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:02 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: NautiNurse

"No one anticipated this," said NBC News' Brian Williams, standing knee-deep in flood waters in the quarter.




Uh, I suppose he should of read FreeRepublic. It seems that most (or many) here had anticipated exactly what is happening.


747 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:07 AM PDT by cmurphy
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To: SlowBoat407
I've always been in favor of dormitories to house the people who insist on living off of the public dole.

We already have them. They're called Housing Projects.

748 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:15 AM PDT by Clemenza (Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
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To: LibSnubber

Just checking in. Slept late. Have we heard anything encouraging -- anything -- about the stretch from Slidell to Biloxi?


749 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:27 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: jeffers

750 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:29 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: jeffers

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.


751 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:48 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
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To: apackof2

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.


752 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:50 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: Wolfstar

Chilling report.


753 posted on 08/30/2005 9:19:57 AM PDT by jpsb
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To: Spktyr

Excellent! I'll watch for the results with great interest and pride.


754 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:10 AM PDT by Iwo Jima
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To: Mr. Jeeves

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.

}:-)4


755 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:10 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: stlnative

Thank you. There has been a lot of confusion about that bridge.


756 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:14 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: Strategerist

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.


757 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:14 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: apackof2

My heart is also with th people of New Orleans, as well as the rest of Louisiana, Mississippi, alabama and florida.


758 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:14 AM PDT by Gabz (USSG Warning: portable sewing machines are known to cause broken ankles)
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To: superiorslots
Desperate* people do desperate things - independent of nationality.

* however you define desperate.

759 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:23 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Tiger Smack

Thanks - I made a guess and missed -- hopefully the US 90 bridge is still open in central NO.


760 posted on 08/30/2005 9:20:38 AM PDT by alancarp ((Piedmont of NCarolina))
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