Posted on 08/30/2005 9:40:48 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Chaos Reigns In New Orleans Amid Katrina's Wake
August 30, 2005 11:58 a.m. EST
Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter
New Orleans, LA (AHN) - While the exact wrath of Hurricane Katrina remains unknown, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warns of a "significant" death toll.
On Monday night, Nagin tells WWL TV the city is about 80 percent underwater, with some sections immersed as deep as twenty feet.
Many residents did not heed the mandatory evacuation that went up over the weekend, preferring to stay in their homes and shelters. Thousands were placed within the Superdome.
While officials have yet to release an exact death toll, Nagin predicts eastern New Orleans and the city's 9th Ward would be the areas hardest hit, adding the National Guard will set up temporary morgues.
Nagin says bodies have been seen floating in the flood waters. New Orleans' airports are underwater and no electricity is expected in the city until four to six weeks.
A two-block-long part of a levee has parted, giving way to Lake Pontchartrain at the city's 17th Street Canal - near the city's center.
The New Orleans Fire Department says the break is about 200-feet long.
The Associated Press reports a woman was leaning from the second-story window of her home, begging to be rescued, after the street below her turned into a river, filled with trash and garbage cans.
Karen Troyer Caraway, vice president of Tulane University Hospital, says water at the facility is steadily rising to about a foot an hour, and has already topped the first floor.
She says she's uncertain whether pumps have been powered to pump the water and she doubts they would be able to compete with Lake Pontchartrain, the source of much of the flood waters.
As a result, Tulane Hospital has moved its emergency room to the second floor and has been on generator power for the last 24 hours. If water continues to rise, however, the power source will be immersed leaving the hospital powerless.
We're doomed R2D2!
How is Pat O'Brien's place doing?
What they h*ll is the deal with the "We're all gonna die" bullsh*t? A whole bunch of people ARE going to die!
Looks like this is gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.
I've gotta think, being cooped up in a piping hot, Superdome (Oh, I can only imagine the smell) wondering if your home's been destroyed or looted, that's gotta be as close to hell as you can get in America.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Either you're besest by grief, or you're a dickhead. Either way knock it off!
Why are you mocking this...you can't possibly be that dumb.
How much do you want to bet that after we're done pledging billions of government funds towards "relief", we'll find the only people who died are the ones who refused to follow the evacuation instructions?
correction are already dead. disease will kill the next wave.
Unless the realy get an amphib operation going and get medical supplies in our the survivors out.
People have died, and they will find more. I don't find that funny.
This is no time for our usual jokes about exagerrated media coverage, such as "we're doomed, or we're all gonna die." This is a real disaster and many people have peished, so our usual humor is not appropriate in this case.
There are some people who do not have the means to evacuate.
I wonder how they will stop the flooding. Most floods occur because water rises above the sea or river level-but NOLA is below sea level which means it won't drain naturally. That's gonna take one hell of a water pump...
Well you know what? That's what we do, we're America. And you know what else? I'd rather have my money goint to that than some damn bridge in WV named after a former KKK member!!!!
Yeah it's a disaster but Americans will deal with it as we always do. There will be tragedies that make us cry and heros that we'll cheer. We'll go on and we'll rebuild as we always do. (the left will sit by and be Eyeore)
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