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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: WVNan

You know, I don't care about the looting in this instance. These people are in survival mode now. It's going to be survival of the fittest. Natural instinct. Nobody can say what they would do in such a situation. God help them all.
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I agree with you. Saw a story about rescue workers who had to stop at a damaged and unattended hardware store and gather tools that they might need in their work. They made a point of saying they were not looting, that they would pay for it later. I can't imagine that the store owner would object, under the circumstances.


822 posted on 08/30/2005 9:28:21 AM PDT by LucyJo ("I have overcome the world." "Abide in Me." (John 16:33; 15:4)
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To: BlueNgold

Any idea how long that could take? Weeks? Months?


823 posted on 08/30/2005 9:28:26 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: najida

That one wins hands down.


824 posted on 08/30/2005 9:28:39 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: King Prout

Morning, King.

I lived there for two years, aboard the Naval Support Activity. Unless I'm mistaken, the NSA is in the flood area. I dont remember, it's been nearly 30 years.


825 posted on 08/30/2005 9:28:51 AM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: sinkspur
Sink - I know it is hard to get info on the western part of the MS coast, but I got a second-hand report from a fellow from Waveland. Pretty much everything on or near the coast has suffered severe damage, at best. Hope your clients in Long Beach got out. As for their physical property, it can be replaced.

While I've been kind of focused on getting Slidell info, I have taken note of the fact that Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Long Beach etc. have been completely silent.

NOLA will survive. She may be changed quite a bit, but she will be back. I have some other thoughts on that topic, but I'll save them for a time when they are more appropriate. Suffice it to say that what makes that city a special place is not limited to the physical environment.

826 posted on 08/30/2005 9:29:06 AM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)
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To: CajunConservative
They could have coordinated with other cities like Alexandria, Shreveport, Lafayette, etc to use their school and city buses

There were probably enough school buses in the metropolitan area itself to do the job - buses that are now probably mostly totaled by wind damage or flooding.

827 posted on 08/30/2005 9:29:09 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drool overflowed my buffer...)
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To: All
Anyone have any information on Stennis Space Center in MS?
828 posted on 08/30/2005 9:29:32 AM PDT by cwiz24 (I worked very hard on this tagline.)
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To: All

Listening on the radio....as the pumping stations come on line and pump out the water it is putting MORE water in other parts of the city and making things worse.


829 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:07 AM PDT by texan75010
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To: jayef

"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."

I respectfully, but strongly, disagree.

The loss is catastrophic, well beyond what the MSM realizes, but the structures and the foundations are largely intact. They will remain so no matter how deep the city floods, provided the water rises at a slow or moderate rate.

Draining the city will take however long it takes, but so far the steel and concrete backbone of New Orleans is mostly intact.


830 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:07 AM PDT by jeffers
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To: Strategerist

Well then where is Sheets Byrd? King of pork.


831 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:11 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: BurbankKarl

Have you heard where the 2nd breech is in the levee?


832 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:11 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: dirtboy

WDSU says they're going to have helicopters lift 3000-lb sandbags and drop them where the breach is in the levee to fix the leak.

They also said there's been a report of a couple of people dead in the dome. I guess that wouldn't surprise me if there are elderly and sick people there.

They also said people have driven up to the dome and gotten out and tried to enter the dome for safety. And how ironic it is that these people had a car, so they could have gotten themselves out of town.


833 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:12 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: King Prout

need to get some of those shallow draft fishing boats or airboats in there.


834 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:31 AM PDT by Americanwolf (I cannot believe a parent would prostitute her child's memory for her own political agenda. -AW)
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To: dirtboy

And while we are thinking of ways to improve disaster planning, how about our cell phone companies being required to invest in satellites for cell service during emergencies? It is ridiculous to be back in the 1800's in our disaster communication this morning. The lucky few who can find a CNN or Fox reporter with a satellite phone can call their relatives and tell them they are alive.


835 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:41 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: NittanyLion
And it now appears we have to devote resources to evacuating people from the Dome

Really?

Now, where are all those people who were holding forth on the threads in the days before the storm that the government should just leave people alone and people were responsible from themselves?

836 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:41 AM PDT by Howlin
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To: cwiz24
Stennis Space Center is fine.
837 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:43 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: cwiz24

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7920

"Hurricane rattles shuttle’s fuel tank factory"


838 posted on 08/30/2005 9:30:46 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: Types_with_Fist

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

Can't tell you much about the stretch from Slidell to Biloxi, but can tell you that, as far as I know, not a word has come from Slidell. They're calling it a black hole right now. Glad you checked in.


839 posted on 08/30/2005 9:31:10 AM PDT by LibSnubber (Lafayette, LA........PRAYER AGAINST STORMS on my homepage)
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To: flowergirl; All
What about in north La. coming in from I 20? My kids are still w/out power in Jackson and were going to try to come here (eastTx) this week...thanks

I don't know, another poster reported that the govenor closed all roads/hifhways INTO the state, can anyone else confirm this report?

840 posted on 08/30/2005 9:31:22 AM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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