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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
Re: Shep. Here he is, right smack in the middle of the biggest American disaster since 9/11, and I don't think he's moved off the same street since he arrived. Meanwhile, CNN and PMSNBC are out-reporting him like crazy. He needs to be a lot more pro-active.
Arlen Specter may describe this one as a "magic bullet". Dodged the first time, but it turned in mid-air and came back around and got them.
I believe it happened during the LA riots in the 60's, and may have happened in other places in the 60s too. Also belief that it was declared during the Rodney King rioting as well.
amen brother
The immediate priority in the affected areas is search and rescue for the next couple of days.
For me this is almost harder to watch than 9/11 because it's happening in slow motion. 9/11 was like a kick to the gut for me and I just got angry when I could think at all. This is unfolding so slowing my feelings of helplessness are multiplied.
I don't know about developers now.
This is a natural disaster. I kind of wish we could focus of information about what is happening for all of us.
Freepers tend to start getting angry early in these things. We need a thread, a separate one, where these issues of who is to blame can be discussed.
It is too early to assess blame if you ask me. I am more worried about what we don't know yet. I fear this is going to be unimaginable, it already is.
Yes I saw it on ABC this morning. That did me in too. All of the reporters on scene are very short with their newsroom counterparts. The ones covering this disaster seem to be shaken to their souls.
I'm in the excavation business, and it looks to me like the levees would need to be restored for pumping to do any good. Don't know of any pumps faster than that lake, or the sea. Just MHO.
Yes sweetie- that's what did it for me too..
This is an "event" like 9/11 in many ways...watching horror unfold and being helpless to stop it..
God bless these souls.
Wrong they are in Business to make money
I think the need for tents is going to dwarf what FEMA has on hand.
By next week, we might need a national drive to get tents and tarps to build tent cities.
There are several reasons aid organizations prefer people to donate cash:
Obviously cost (not to mention) logistics) of shipping goods is one - it's often cheaper and quicker to buy the products in nearby areas.
Also with cash, they can buy what is needed rather than what donors think is needed.
Don't forget the impact on the local economy and that of nearby areas - it puts more $$$ into circulation locally when the buy the goods they need nearby.
And remember - they can get the money to work buying the needed items immediately, while shipping takes time, especially when the transportation infrastructure in the disaster area has been impacted.
Four levies? I thought only one, what does these mean, is the lake draining into N.O? Can N.O. survive that?
"Red Cross has the biggest presence, but I don't trust them too much since 9/11 business"
The local Red Cross agencies are excellent.
Yeap. She told him to take care of the children and grandchildren at the last moment.
It's possible.
I bet there's meetings being held across the fruited plains over this. If they don't evacuate, which is easier said than done I know, the next weeks will be filled with pics of floating bodies, tragic stories of death by snake bite and disease, maybe even hunger.
Concentrate on getting everyone out....OUT.
Then rebuild.
Politics is not going to help FReepers find info about their homes and families on this thread. Please take political comments to another thread. Thanks.
I witnessed firsthand the Hurricane Floyd disaster in Bound Brook, New Jersey a few years back and in that instance, the worst flooding came hours after the Hurricane had passed. As water from the Hurricane drained into the Raritan & Millstone watersheds and travelled downstream, it started to back up near Bound Brook. It took hours to slowly but surely get to the breaking point and finally coupled with a high tide a few miles downstream at New Brunswick, it overflowed the floodplains and inundated a good portion of the area.
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