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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
Have we heard from blam today?
You're all heart.
My understanding is that they are earthern which makes a breech even worse as they will start getting larger. Cannot imagine a 200 foot breech.
I hope they're criminally charged.
Thank you so much for your reporting, LibWranger. You are doing a fantastic job and I pray it's keeping your mind off your worry about your family. We appreciate your efforts very much.
I recall seeing two NSA "RO-ROs" across the river, back when I was a hatch-clerk in the PoNO
I dunno if they are still there. been 12-13 years.
I hope some operation is being planned or underway to get those people out.
Local reporter on who is in New Orleans,,she sounds terrible. Says water is rising fast, rapidly. Three breaches in levees. She says devastation is terrible.
This is incomprehensible.
I was in an evac where our facility had approximately 240 highly skilled (translation, can't walk) patients to evacuate. On school buses. In 90 plus degree heat. They were duct taped to the seats because it was the only way to keep them from hitting the floor.
Our staff attended Fema planning meetings for a year, with all the other LTC facilities in the area. And in the facility, we met, planned and planned and planned. And planned. And then prayed real hard.
NOTHING went as projected. Not one damn thing. We evaced (for a hurricane that didn't even come near) and lost 8 patients in transit...I MEAN IN THE FIRST 4 hours! (not yelling, sorry).
Gee, considering they were on those buses for almost 8 hours, prrior to even leaving, no surprise.
Just about every facility that evaced lost anywhere from one to 3 patients. Then you heard horror stories of people dying on the highway and family sitting with the bodies for hours until someone could come. It was pure 'effin' hell.
I've never been so scared or hopeless or near the end of my sanity as I was then.
Granted, my story is just a tiny snapshot in what goes on. And what is even more ironic, when it was all over, we had these folks from the outside acting outraged about 'why didn't you do this or that!' I had one woman at church rage at me that we used duct tape on them! She said "Couldn't you have gone to the store and bought velcro?" ARGH!
Well duh, we didn't know at the time we needed to do this or that. It's one of the many reasons I now work in a different field of my profession. And why I will never evacuate again.
In the end, we had a lot of CYA from the embarrasseed local FEMA folks trying to act like no one attended meetings etc. Boy did we clean their clocks on that one!
Ack!
Rant over.
Looks like there was a time delay on that bullet.
Why were media helos allowed to fly yesterday but not today?
Noted. 12 to 14' is the normal depth of the lake, Katrina put it higher. How much depends on how deep the surge was, hence my interest in those figures.
I've been bopping in and out of these threads for the last few days.
You said there was rioting? Where? At the Superdome? What caused it?
I'd appreciate any info you can provide.
I saw somewhere that if you sprinkle detergent on the fire ant raft, the surface tension will be disrupted, and they will drown. Time to act!
Are these folks Democrats or Republicans?
The runoff into the lake and down the Mississippi will continue for days. They should be dropping rafts and paddles, dropping three thousand pound sandbags ain't gonna get the job done with a breech two city blocks wide and water seeking the bowl. The dearth of evac planning and foresight is damn near criminal here.
Do they know why?
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