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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
How long will that be? A few days, I'd guess. With no AC, it's going to be hot and sweaty out there and it doesn't look like getting water tanker trucks in there will be an option.
It seems to me like these people have only a couple of options. Hope to flag down a chopper or walk and swim their way out of town.
Am I looking at this too pessimistically?
here are the projected levels for the Mississippi river for the next 5 days
http://www.riverwatch.noaa.gov/forecasts/ORNRVAORN.shtml
Amen to that. In fact, that is when it really shines. It showed its usefulness during Op Desert Storm when troops went barreling through the desert with only GPS to guide them.
I can't imagine that it won't be there.
"Mom, the water coming into NO is from Lake Ponchatrain to the north via a 200 and now 300 ft breach in the levee coning down the 17th street canal. That has been the case for at least the last 6 hours."
That F'in canal is 75' wide - That can be plugged in hours!!What the F is going on?
The river levees are built much better and to withstand a 600 year storm while the lake levees are built to withstand a 100 or 200 year storm..
"The city is exposed to as much as four times the risk of hurricane flooding as it is to river flooding . . . that's always been an odd issue to me. Why would the government think that water from the lake is less dangerous than water from the river?"
JOSEPH SUHAYDA
LSU engineering professor
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/risk_1.html
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/nolalevees_jpg.html
Don't be sorry - we all owe you for telling the pig story that will surely scare AlQeida from FR. Many thanks. :)
Doesn't it stand to reason if levees are having trouble downriver that the ones in NO are having just as much trouble? Not to mention all that water coming down from rainfall north of NO.
How long can the earthen levees stand? I don't think we are getting the whole story on the Mississippi River levees but that is just my opinion.
Was that her that was on earlier this afternoon almost crying? If it was, real leadership there.
They have to get them there first. Lets not forget the information needed is moving from the ground up, not the ground down.
Thanks
Understatement. I guess people are litterally gropping in the dark. Fog of war.
6 hours? try atleast 17 hours!
Heroic efforts made at Charity hospital to save patients
07:14 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL083005charity.d037f7f.html
As floodwaters rose around Charity Hospital, nurses hand-pumped ventilators for patients who couldn't breathe. Helicopters landed on the garage to airlift critically ill babies. Doctors canoed supplies to and from Charity and three nearby hospitals.
"It's like being in a Third World country. We're trying to work without power. Everyone knows we're all in this together. We're just trying to stay alive," said Mitch Handrich, a registered nurse manager at the state's biggest public hospital. (excerpt)
right - that's what we were saying - especially if the prisoners get loose - 'Escape from NY'
It sounds reasonable. But IT'S NOT WHAT THEY SAID on WWL.
well sure, optimisitic is the word. if all the levees were sealed, and all the pumps were working, and all the people were gone and being taken care of - we could pump out the city in 10 days.
now how exactly is that going to happen?
Are you serious? Where are prices under these conditions?
They tried and failed. I suppose if the flow is strong enough what gets dropped in flushes out before the next batch can be put in. Maybe that's why they were looking for 3,000 lb sand bags,
Superdome.
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