A convoy of buses needs escort to Kender Hospital (spelling?).
Police needed to escort Murphy Oil people to fire area.
Scanner Update
Police escort needed to for oversize load truck to repair levee.
Apparently, NG and police need armed escorts for any type of convoy traffic in NO now.
Also, wont quote all but a descriptive piece on Hattiesburg
Katrina creates a Hattiesburg I never knew
By Rick Cleveland
rcleveland@clarionledger.com
HATTIESBURG — My assignment: Paint a word picture of my old hometown — or what's left of it after Hurricane Katrina. This will not be a happy piece.
includes:
"Campus in tatters
The Southern Miss campus, where students began classes two weeks ago, is ghostly quiet. Classes are out indefinitely. Some of the oldest oaks on campus are down, ripped from their roots and leaving huge craters in ground. Those wonderful, old trees would have provided shade for tailgaters this Sunday when USM was supposed to open the football season against Tulane. That game has been postponed, and the Golden Eagles have escaped to Memphis. I passed their buses on the way down.
"Zoo survives
Not far from there are Kamper Park and the Hattiesburg Zoo, where Miss Hattie, the elephant once lived.
If you grew up in Hattiesburg in the '50s and '60s, you knew Miss Hattie, whose best friend was a goat. The zoo flooded one time and the goat died. Not long after, Miss Hattie died, the story goes, of heartache. Yes, animals are affected by calamities, too.
Good news here: All 120 animals have survived Katrina, curator John Wright says. "It sounds strange when you look around, but it could have been so much worse," he says. "We've got some animals who are stressed. We've got fences and cages that must be repaired, but the animals are all alive.""
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS0110/509020351/1260