Posted on 08/30/2005 8:50:20 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
[...]
Weber sat among hundreds of refugees rescued Tuesday from rooftops, attics and floating debris in the 9th Ward and St. Bernard Parish by an armada of more than 100 boats. Officials from the Coast Guard estimated they pulled thousands of people off of rooftops and attics, many with stories as grim as Weber’s. Officials believed hundreds and maybe thousands more remained in peril. They declined to estimate the number of dead. That will come later.
[...]
Then, in an evening press conference, Mayor Ray Nagin announced that the already crippled city would take yet another blow: Another surge of water from the failed 17th Street Canal levee that could push an additional 10 feet of water into already waterlogged neighborhoods – and possibly flood the remaining dry sections of Uptown.
[...]
Uptown resident Keith Williams started his own security patrol, driving around in his Ford pickup with his newly purchased handgun. Earlier in the day, Williams said he had seen the body of a gunshot victim near the corner of Leonidas and Hickory streets.
"What I want to know is why we don’t have paratroopers with machine guns on every street," Williams said.
Like-minded Art Depodesta sat on the edge of a picnic table outside Cooter Brown’s Bar, a chrome shotgun at his side loaded with red shells.
"They broke into the Shell station across the street," he said. "I walked over with my 12-gauge and shot a couple into the air."
The looters scattered, but soon after, another man appeared outside the bar in a pickup truck armed with a pistol and threatened Depodesta.
"I told him, ‘Listen, I was in the Army and I will blow your ass off,’" Depodesta said. "We’ve got enough trouble with the flood."
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I heard my Mother use the phrase "drunker than Cooter Brown" many times while growing up and since her maiden name was Brown, I just assumed he was a relative.
I asked her about it after I was an adult and she told me that it was just a phrase she heard while growing up too and she didn't know anyone with that name.
Another childhood illusion smashed!
They were 90 foot, steel hulled and safer than their wooden homes. They hoped.
They should have sailed them to Corpus Christi.
Last I heard he was on Blueberry Hill.
On a lighter note, it's good to see that there's a guy named DePodesta who'll actually pull the trigger once in a while.
I heard the shrimpers were fine....
That's right. I was in NO late May, early June and was driven to Fats house by a NO former native to see it. It was pouring rain that day, but I was glad that I got to see it. I think he lived not too far from one of the levee's. His house is probably gone.
Where did you get that?
Mr. Remington
A friend of mine from high school lives Uptown and works at the Maple Leaf 6 months out of the year. Fortunately, he was traveling when this hit, but it's nice he has a home to go back to.
To be fair, tho', it wasn't so bad at first -- but then the water starteed coming over/through the levees.
I couldn't have put it better. Some Darwin Awards are probably going to come from this.
man, some of you guys really jump the ball and you dont knwo any facts. You just want to attack someone as if this is someones fault that a hurricane hit New orleans.
No, the head of the core of engineers was on MSNBC tonight and said they tried sandbags but that the break was too wide, then they tried placing cars into the hole but the water was washing them away. He said they will try to create a new dam further up the canal but he was close to saying that it wasnt going to be stopped and that the water would stop when the canal ran out of water....after filling the city
Kewl, Thanks!
If it were my lively hood and life, I'd probably have done the same.
But I'm a landlubber, so I'm ascared of the deep sea anyway. I'd trust a bulldozer in a twister before I would a house.
I was wondering too..
True! The governor said that they were dropping the sandbags in, but "they just disappeared". (!)
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