Looks like New Orleans for all intents and purposes is going to be completely destroyed by flooding. It is horribly heartbreaking, and leaves me with a sick feeling in my stomach.
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LoKyBuckeye
I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
They had some guy on the Today Show this morning that had to cut a hole in his roof to get out... he then grabbed a tree branch and stayed in the tree for 6 hours until he was rescued. While he was in the tree he whatched as his house was destroyed.
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methomps
an imbecility, a stupidity without name
Getting worse from Katrina
WWLT
Mississippi is really bad, too:
Check the video link in the main story
A sad day, and a long journey ahead for the many people who won't be able to return to New Orleans for weeks or months maybe.
WWLT
I have also read rumors that a police officer was shot in the back of the head by a looter.
Mississippi is really bad, too:
Check the video link in the main story
A sad day, and a long journey ahead for the many people who won't be able to return to New Orleans for weeks or months maybe.
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Bucktastic
Troy Smith for HEISMAN
Just saw on Fox News, Louisiana's governor ordered storm refugees out of the city.
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fellas.. I can't verify... but I suspect NOLAs place is in bad shape.. his town was in the heart of this mess.. both wind and water... and the water's worse in that town today
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
I just accessed Tulane's website, and it looks like they evacuated the students to Jackson State in Mississippi.
Here's an update from the site (so sad to read -- I cannot imagine what these folks are going through):
August 30, 7:30 p.m.
Dear Friends of Tulane:
I know you are all concerned about conditions in New Orleans and at Tulane University, and have many questions about what is going to happen in the next few days, weeks and months.
Our first priority during this time is the safety of our faculty, staff and students. Thankfully, everyone associated with the university is safe, including those of us who remain at Tulane.
Our second priority is to secure our facilities. As expected, our facilities have been damaged; however, based on our preliminary assessments, the majority of the damage can be remediated in a reasonable period of time. The uptown campus is covered with debris from fallen trees and shrubs, making it almost impossible to drive or even walk on campus. We have no power in any of the buildings other than a few where we control the power source.
Our third priority is to develop a recovery plan. This task is impaired right now by the devastation of the city and its infrastructure, and deteriorating further due to the flooding we are now facing. In addition, we don’t know when our employees will be able to return to the city, much less to the university. Therefore, until conditions stabilize, it is impossible to do any longer term recovery planning. However, part of the responsibility of the senior leadership team in Jackson, MS is to begin the planning and they have done so.
As I suspect you all know, there is no contingency plan that could ever be developed to respond to what the area and the university are experiencing. However, all of us at the university are totally committed to doing whatever it takes to get the university operational as soon as possible. I hope you will be patient and understanding of our situation as we work our way through the complexities.
It is difficult to describe what this situation feels like for those involved. It is surreal and unfathomable; yet, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Our focus is on the light and not the darkness.
Scott Cowen
Here's an update from the site (so sad to read -- I cannot imagine what these folks are going through):
August 30, 7:30 p.m.
Dear Friends of Tulane:
I know you are all concerned about conditions in New Orleans and at Tulane University, and have many questions about what is going to happen in the next few days, weeks and months.
Our first priority during this time is the safety of our faculty, staff and students. Thankfully, everyone associated with the university is safe, including those of us who remain at Tulane.
Our second priority is to secure our facilities. As expected, our facilities have been damaged; however, based on our preliminary assessments, the majority of the damage can be remediated in a reasonable period of time. The uptown campus is covered with debris from fallen trees and shrubs, making it almost impossible to drive or even walk on campus. We have no power in any of the buildings other than a few where we control the power source.
Our third priority is to develop a recovery plan. This task is impaired right now by the devastation of the city and its infrastructure, and deteriorating further due to the flooding we are now facing. In addition, we don’t know when our employees will be able to return to the city, much less to the university. Therefore, until conditions stabilize, it is impossible to do any longer term recovery planning. However, part of the responsibility of the senior leadership team in Jackson, MS is to begin the planning and they have done so.
As I suspect you all know, there is no contingency plan that could ever be developed to respond to what the area and the university are experiencing. However, all of us at the university are totally committed to doing whatever it takes to get the university operational as soon as possible. I hope you will be patient and understanding of our situation as we work our way through the complexities.
It is difficult to describe what this situation feels like for those involved. It is surreal and unfathomable; yet, there is light at the end of the tunnel. Our focus is on the light and not the darkness.
Scott Cowen
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LoKyBuckeye
I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
They said on CNN that they may bring in Cruise ships for people to live on in the Gulf... not sure if that will happen though, I think people are just throwing out random ideas because they don't know what to do. Conditions in the SuperDome are getting worse by the minute.. apparently two people died in there but they aren't saying how or why.
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wwl.com
Governor says entire city needs to be evacuated
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Associated Press
With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that people now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers need to be evacuated.
"The situation is untenable," Blanco said during a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking." Because two levees broke Tuesday, the city was rapidly filling with water and the prospect of having power was a long time off, the governor said. She said the storm also severed a major water main, leaving the city without drinkable water.
"The goal is to bring enough supplies to sustain the people until we can establish a network to get them out," Blanco said.
Blanco's comments came after she flew to New Orleans with FEMA director Mike Brown and other officials. They stopped at the Superdome, where Mayor Ray Nagin outlined the dire situation: hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still need rescuing from rooftops and attics, he said.
The governor said that at midnight, all of the boat operators trying to rescue people from rooftops were told to take a break.
"They refused. They couldn't do it," Blanco said.
Blanco said rescuers were unable to get to people stranded in one tall building because so many other people were "calling to them and jumping from rooftops" into the water to be rescued first.
Things are so bad, Nagin said, that rescue boats are bypassing the dead.
"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."
Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau, adjutant general for the Louisiana National Guard, said search and rescue teams are still picking up people throughout the city, leaving them on island-like highway overpasses and on the Mississippi River levee to wait until they can be moved again.
They will eventually end up in the Superdome, where he estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people already have taken refuge and rising water is threatening the generators.
As the FEMA helicopter left, with Sen. Mary Landrieu looking out the window, a group of people smashed a window at a convenience store off the interstate in Metairie, and jumped in _ an apparent looter.
Nagin said some of the looting is by drug addicts, who hit drug stores, and by people looking for food.
Police chief Eddie Compass said police are mainly focused on search and rescue.
"We'll deal with looting afterward," Compass said. "Human life is our top priority."
Nagin confirmed a death at the Superdome. He said someone attempted to jump from one level to the lower and died.
Nagin said 75 to 80 percent of the New Orleans area is flooded.
Nagin said there are two major breaks in levees -- one at Florida Ave. in New Orleans East and another on the 17th Street Canal, where two or three blocks of concrete levee blew out.
Because of the 17th Street Canal break, Lake Pontchartrain water is pouring down into the city. Nagin said the pumps which normally protect the city are working, but since they send water into the lake it does not good.
He said the Corps of Engineers is trying to sandbag the break but he had no timeline for their efforts.
Levees seem to be holding everywhere else, he said.
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wwl.com
Governor says entire city needs to be evacuated
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Associated Press
With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that people now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers need to be evacuated.
"The situation is untenable," Blanco said during a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking." Because two levees broke Tuesday, the city was rapidly filling with water and the prospect of having power was a long time off, the governor said. She said the storm also severed a major water main, leaving the city without drinkable water.
"The goal is to bring enough supplies to sustain the people until we can establish a network to get them out," Blanco said.
Blanco's comments came after she flew to New Orleans with FEMA director Mike Brown and other officials. They stopped at the Superdome, where Mayor Ray Nagin outlined the dire situation: hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still need rescuing from rooftops and attics, he said.
The governor said that at midnight, all of the boat operators trying to rescue people from rooftops were told to take a break.
"They refused. They couldn't do it," Blanco said.
Blanco said rescuers were unable to get to people stranded in one tall building because so many other people were "calling to them and jumping from rooftops" into the water to be rescued first.
Things are so bad, Nagin said, that rescue boats are bypassing the dead.
"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."
Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau, adjutant general for the Louisiana National Guard, said search and rescue teams are still picking up people throughout the city, leaving them on island-like highway overpasses and on the Mississippi River levee to wait until they can be moved again.
They will eventually end up in the Superdome, where he estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people already have taken refuge and rising water is threatening the generators.
As the FEMA helicopter left, with Sen. Mary Landrieu looking out the window, a group of people smashed a window at a convenience store off the interstate in Metairie, and jumped in _ an apparent looter.
Nagin said some of the looting is by drug addicts, who hit drug stores, and by people looking for food.
Police chief Eddie Compass said police are mainly focused on search and rescue.
"We'll deal with looting afterward," Compass said. "Human life is our top priority."
Nagin confirmed a death at the Superdome. He said someone attempted to jump from one level to the lower and died.
Nagin said 75 to 80 percent of the New Orleans area is flooded.
Nagin said there are two major breaks in levees -- one at Florida Ave. in New Orleans East and another on the 17th Street Canal, where two or three blocks of concrete levee blew out.
Because of the 17th Street Canal break, Lake Pontchartrain water is pouring down into the city. Nagin said the pumps which normally protect the city are working, but since they send water into the lake it does not good.
He said the Corps of Engineers is trying to sandbag the break but he had no timeline for their efforts.
Levees seem to be holding everywhere else, he said.
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LoKyBuckeye
I give up. This board is too hard to understand.
methomps said:
OMG! What else is going to happen down there?!?!?!
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Golferdow01
East-Coast Living
That's just aweful, my prayers go out to those families tonight who are being held hostage...:(
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OSUsushichic
Fired up! Ready to go!
Some of the images on Flickr.com are unbelievable. Here's a McDonalds in Biloxi that is completely gutted.
<img src="http://photos21.flickr.com/38751717_7053375fde.jpg?v=0">
More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrina/
<img src="http://photos21.flickr.com/38751717_7053375fde.jpg?v=0">
More here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/katrina/
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