ah, heck. nothing happened in ocean springs -- all the action is in new orleans.
Bump for later. A relative of mine has a home in Ocean Springs, and is trying to find out info on whether it is still intact (they now live in another state). I tried Google Earth, but it seems as though their pics of hurricane damage are of areas to the west of Ocean Springs.
No politics in the story? Hell must have frozen over.
Think again.
From what I can tell, this is a very bad idea. If the rope gets caught, everyone drowns. This happended in the Galveston hurricane where three nuns and 19 orphans drown when the water rose. In Katrina, 22 people were found dead - tied together with a rope.
Looters!
"Oil covered the top of the water and pieces of wood churning in the waves bruised their bodies."
They're very fortunate the things churning in the waves weren't larger debri like boats and cars bruising their bodies. Lucky lucky luky
"They swam to a large oak tree behind the house where they grabbed on to the large branches and held on while Katrina passed."
Explains why so many oak trees are large old and majestic.
"The wind was just blowing rain into us so hard it felt like little rocks hitting you in the face," Tyzack said.
With a 100 mph and more hurricane wind it's no wonder.
Rhetorical question of course, such stories would glorify our mission in Iraq and help increase recruiting, things the media actively try to subvert.
A fellow lawyer in the office spent the weekend in New Orleans checking on his apartment down there. He says half the city will have to be levelled in order to rebuild anything down there. He says what he saw down there is unprecedented - dead bodies everywhere; dead fish in the middle of the street, and a stench of death in the whole city. He is getting me some pictures he took, which I’ll post on the blog when I get them.
Wow. My boys went to Camp Stewart for 3 month long summer camps. The counselors there are from all over the world, but mostly South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Scotland. Good to hear they survived. The ole stuck in the oak tree all night scenario. Read about it in Isaac's Storm.
From what I understand, many structures will have to be burned, due to indelible infusion of contamination. Nearly the entire city is a haz/mat zone.
Comment by Aunt B — 9/7/2005 @ 12:14 pm