Katrina Live Thread, Part X

Various ^ | 30 August 2005

[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

[BurbankKarl]

TX troopers sealed off the border yesterday....La. doesnt have the personnel

[Peach]

President Bush returning to Washington, D.C. because of the hurricane.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473466/posts

[Coldwater Creek]

You are exactly right!!!!!

[King Prout]

flat-out guarantee: the ants are fire-ants, and they are pissed.

the flood of 18May95 in NOLA taught me about messing with floating clots of irked fireants.

[fairtrader]

Milllions of C.Y.!

[NautiNurse]

Contributions to the Red Cross's Disaster Relief Fund can be made online at www.redcross.org or by calling 1-800-HELP-NOW.

[the Deejay]

Wow! They're sending the USS Iwo Jima?
What a great idea indeed. [I reckon it
will take a ship to get in there, at this
point.]

[dawn53]

I always wonder what we'd do and if our EOC would flood in the event of a major storm...our city EOC is downtown near 8th street and 4 ave south.

[r9etb]

They are saying media helos arent allowed over the city....WTH is going on? This is ridiculous. Thats bugging me to...most of the footage they are showing is from yesterday...just gives me an ominous feeling.

It's easy: media helos would be getting in the way of essential flights. OTOH, I'd be surprised if the media helos weren't being requisitioned for essential tasks.

[BurbankKarl]

dood....

[Abigail Adams]

So is Brian Williams still staying in the Superdome? If I were him, I would pull strings to get myself out!

[jpsb]

"Like I said, school gyms upstate"

Anywhere is better then trap on a roof in rising waters. Texas is close by and we are generious folk here. Finding temporary housing for 80,000 or 500,000 is doable.

[BlueNgold]

It is a survival there right now until the water recede.

I have seen many similar comments and people need to understand very clearly:
The water CANNOT RECEDE from the City of New Orleans.

The water must be pumped out. The vast majority of these people will need to be rescued/evacuated long before any sort of reasonable life sustaining services are available.

This is not a 'wait it out and hope for the best' situtation - it is a 'get out as soon as you can anyway you can' situation.

[kenth]

It may be because they are flying rescue in the area, which would have them back and forth all over the relatively small area (compared to numbers of flights). Too, the ones under duress most likely don't have television to panic them. There is no video feed in the Superdome is there? That would be the main place that panic could ensue and really cause problems.

[bwteim]

Reference to utter lawlessness in movie and attempts of a few to try to deal with it and restore order.

[NautiNurse]

WSDU - Report of two deaths in the SuperDome

[LibWrangler]

"Leave the city immediately if you can. Take Crescent City exit."

Evacuees calling Superdome conditions "miserable". No a/c, bathrooms are filthy with overflowing trash. Natl. Guard keeping people from leaving. Two have died inside the dome.

"Bodies floating by, according to survivors."

[Torie]

They are broadcasting from Jackson, MS.

[CajunConservative]

""The plan was to get everyone out by telling them to evacuate. But people don't often respond, either because they have no vehicle, no money, etc. Tragic beyond belief.""

Knowing that was a mitigating factor, it should have been part of the plan. The truth is those in charge of New Orleans and this state have enriched themselves and neglected their duty. Even my liberal sister is starting to get it. The light is being shown on the corruption finally. I hope every last one of the crooks pays for their criminal negligence.

[cmurphy]

I think they should fine the people that had to be rescued, and HAD the ability to evacuate on Saturday and Sunday. So far more than 700 people have been rescued. It may be several thousand when it's all said and done. I feel bad about those that have died, although it seems they have died in vain. Maybe people will start taking evacuation notices a little more serious next time around.