Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

[Velveeta]

ping to #6297

[Arizona Carolyn]

Won't a lot of what was destroyed in warehouses affect Europe and even Africa -- since we ship to those areas out of the NOLA port?

[76834]

Thanks for the response.

Good an answer as any, I guess.

[GaltMeister]

Mad Dawgg, from what I have heard, the Port of New Orleans is a critical shipping point for cotton, soybeans, and other ag products, and we are coming up on harvest season.

Another note, I am on a railroad run by Canadian Northern - they run trains from Canada down to Port of NO. I don't think I have heard a train all day. I believe they run a lot of ag products south, and coal & chemicals north, just from loose observation. All that movement stopping has to leave a dent. (ripple effects....)

[Revel]

Your link works in real alternative also. No XP required.

[markman46]

geez I go away for a while to do WORK and come back to a ZOT!!, i miss all the good stuff

[Michael Goldsberry]

"Have we had any reports or pics from the southernmost part of LA"

It seems to be overwhelmed right now, but here you go.

http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

Source.

[sinkspur]

New Orleans will be shut down for 3 or 4 months. This means NO is dead. People who worked in the city are going to need to get jobs elsewhere, and they most likely won't come back when the city is re-opened. Businesses that were based in NO are going to have to try to relocate. Those that don't go bust won't have the $$$ to relocate back in NO

Unfortunately, you're right. I think NO will be shut down longer than 4 months. But nobody can be without any income for that period of time, especially when whatever savings one has will have to go to some incidentals in rebuilding your own life and home.

Baton Rouge will become the major city in Louisiana. No owner in his right mind would rebuild in Louisiana unless he had an iron-clad guarantee that something like this would never happen again. And that can't be done, given where NO is located.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Soy and corn prices have plunged, because they cant get to overseas markets."

Interesting. I wonder if this may help! Maybe keeping much needed food in country? Or does it rot because we do not have the infrastructure to use it before it goes bad?

[don-o]

I'll throw this out, in hopes that some good can come out of this.

Why can't we get ALL our LE and first responders on the same com system. Satellite?

[Types_with_Fist]

Why is she wearing the yellow slicker suit inside?

The question is: why would she wear it at call? It's kind of funny for Louisianans to see anyone wearing raincoats. They do NO good in southeast Louisiana because of the humidity. You won't see any natives wearing them.

I suspect that she wears it at all because it lends an image of being prepared and in command or something. Either that or she's been in DC too long (which is redundant because a day is too long for her to be there).

[Txsleuth]

I think we all need to remember that President Bush said that is was going to take a long time...and that the whole nation needs to be aware...

The reason I say this is, the dems will come out in a few months...when things aren't already fixed, and accuse Bush of putting a "rosy" picture on the hurricane damage...blech!

And I agree with you...I don't think it is known, or will be known for a while---how this impacts all of us.

[mware]

Get ready for it, The grapevine's preview was, wait to you hear what Cindy Sheehand has to say about this storm.

[aft_lizard]

Well shrimp might increase in price.

[76834]

I live on the BNSF Lampassass sub.

Lots of traffic thru here is NOLAC LACNOL
New Orleans to Los Angeles and vice versa.

Rail traffic thru here has dropped dramatically.
Seems like nothing is moving at all.

[Coldwater Creek]

It won't be anytime until people will have forgotten that the President said that it was going to take a long time, just like Iraq.

[bwteim]

Not on any topic, but just had to rant:

Just now around 5:25 cst I saw Lisa? on MSNBC Abrams? right now interviewing via phone two officials from LA. I have never heard such a bubblehead before.

She was grilling the first man about stopping the looting, then when he said lives were first, she kept saying, "yeah but but", it was awful.

Then, when another official was on the line, he said it was Armageddon, she prodded him, put it into words what you see. So he tried, etc.
Then, as she was concluding this brilliant interview, she says:
"words can't describe this disaster...."

Gosh, she ought to be sacked or put to work in the rescue effort. Of course, it reminds me why I don't normally watch MSNBC.

[proud American in Canada]

Okay, I'm in tears now. CNN had a videophone report minutes ago about a fire in the French Quarter--Canal & Bourbon street.

The firefighters are pumping water from the street, but the debris is making it difficult to fight the fire.

They're worried that it will jump to the other old structures.

This is exactly what happened in the town where I live-a fire flattened a 25-year old shopping center, the oldest mall in this town. The buildings were all connected and had a lot of wood inside, just like the buildings in the FQ.

Also, the mall had no sprinkler system--and even if the old buildings in the Quarter were retrofitted with sprinklers (were they?), there's no water...

It is so incredibly sad. I was going to call the local talk radio host this a.m. when he was talking about it, but I thought I'd start to cry on the air.