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ABC NewsBreaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR ORDERS COMPLETE EVACUATION OF NEW ORLEANS AS WATER CONTINUES TO RISE
anyone want to blame it on bush!! gas went up 10 cents !! blame it on bush!!!
ABC NewsBreaking News from ABCNEWS.com:
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR ORDERS COMPLETE EVACUATION OF NEW ORLEANS AS WATER CONTINUES TO RISE
The Associated PressThe Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. Aug 30, 2005 — With water rising in the streets of New Orleans and conditions rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that the tens of thousands of people now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers would have to be evacuated.
"The situation is untenable," Blanco said at a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking."
Because of two levees that broke Tuesday, the city was rapidly filling with water, the governor said. She also said the power could be out for a long time, and the storm broke a major water main, leaving the city without drinkable water.
Bloomberg(...)
The streets of New Orleans are flooding after breaches of a levee in the city, possibly due to sandbags piles collapsing, Trooper Doug Pierrelee, a spokesman for Louisiana state police, said in a telephone interview today. The city's French quarter is underwater, he said.
Water is rising 1 inch (25 centimeters (sic)) every 5 minutes and has risen 6 feet (1.82 meters) at the Tulane University Hospital, which is planning to evacuate, CNN reported earlier, citing Karen Troyer-Caraway, the hospital's vice-president.
The police are receiving calls by hundreds of people who are stranded in the attics of their houses, waiting to be rescued, Pierrelee said.
About 200 rescue boats were working to get them out, he said. Some of the callers or their families were injured and some were pregnant or had their children with them, he said.
(...)
CNNKaren Troyer Caraway, vice president of Tulane University Hospital, told CNN that Louisiana State Police had confirmed the New Orleans breach to her.
Water at the hospital, located in New Orleans' central business district, was rising at the rate of a foot an hour, she told CNN, and had already reached the top of the first floor.
"It's dumping all the lake water in Orleans Parish," she said. "It's essentially running down Canal Street. We have whitecaps on Canal Street."
"We now are completely surrounded by 6 feet of water, and are about to get on the phone with Federal Emergency Management Agency to start talking about evacuation plans," Caraway said. "The water is rising so fast, I can't even begin to describe how fast it is rising."
She did not know whether any pumps had been turned on to pump the water, but said, "they're not going to be able to compete with Lake Pontchartrain."
Photo of levee breach - 17th St Canal near Lakeshore Park in Metarie
Impressive video of the devastation at BBC
no. the roof over the field is not made of the same material and is much more susceptible to collapse. That's how they explained it and it makes sense to me. It's not because they just want to be s, Bishop.
Wow, I hear Kevin Costner is scouting NO as shooting location for "Waterworld II".
NO looks so irretrieveably ed.
I didn't want to post this in the other thread, so I'll ask in here. Is Bush going to catch for just now going back to DC when he could have been there monitoring the situation since the weekend? And how much difference would the Armed Forces at full strength domestically would ahve made?
Probably.Is Bush going to catch for just now going back to DC when he could have been there monitoring the situation since the weekend?
It's after the act of nature has spent its wrath that shrub has his chance to do some good. The only action attributed to him is "monitoring". BFD
There are 135,000 guardsmen available in the USA for disaster relief....the 4 states affected by the Hurricane all have above 65% of their guard force available.
And yes Bush will get blamed for it...
You guys must have missed the post by Nbadan last year when he said all the hurricane problems were god's punishment for electing Bush...sound like any other news stories you have heard lately?
And did anyone see that Hugo Chavez is offering to help us out though? Send that gas mother er!
It didn't hit New Orleans as bad as people were expecting, either in terms of damage or the estimated 45,000 dead they were predicting....the late consensus was always that Mississippi was kinda ed...It does matter...if that bad boy had hit New Orleans dead on it would have been a calamitous loss of life, due to how big it is.
What's killing New Orleans right now, and making it an epic disaster, is the post storm breaking of the levys...not the storm iteself. The French Quarter is still above water last I heard...I guess it's built on the best land, which is why it is 300 years old...
Does anyone know where anyone can get word on surviors in Gulfport? A woman
is trying to get word on her son and his family. Even the Radio Amateurs are off
the air in that area. Just punting, hoping someone knows someone with a working
computer or something in the gulfport area. Thanks for any help
Ray,
The ABC affiliate for Gulfport has a locating message board.
http://www.wlox.com/
Here's a list of all the TV stations in Mississippi, maybe this will help.
http://msucares.com/news/media/tvstations.html
Believe me, KKKArl Rove is HARD at work crafting the perfect photo-op, big production for a W re-appearance a few days from now.
Sad thing is the media will EAT UP the photo-op showing how "caring" Bush is.
Photos of:
Bush hugging people just 'saved' from Superdome
Bush handing out a bag of diapers to a family
Bush looking at stuff from his helicopter
Bush handing out fake Turkeys on Thanksgiving
Newspapers will be filled with these images by next Tuesday.
LOL
dan came correct on that one
A big problem with relief efforts will be the degradation of the roadways and major highways in the area
I-H 10 between New Orleans and Slidell
In this satellite photo everything light-blue is the city underwater...
Anyone seeking information on a loved one or friend in the New Orleans area who they may not be able to get in contact with can fill out a Salvation Army Health and Welfare Information Request Form
At this link: Salvation Army
Senator Mary Landrieu also has a lot of contact information for the different Parishes on her site:
State Emergency Operations Emergency Calls
1-800-469-4828
1-225-925-7514, ext. 7500
Assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina:
The American Red Cross
1-800-GET-INFO
www.redcross.org
Operation Blessing
1-800-469-4828
www.ob.org
America's Second Harvest
1-800-344-8070
www.secondharvest.org
Contact Information for your Parish:
Local Parish Governments
Jefferson: (504) 364-2600
St. Tammany: (985) 898-2591
Lafourche: (985) 446-8427
Terrebonne: (985) 873-6519 or (985) 873-6401
St. Mary: (337) 828-4100 or (337) 828-4500
Plaquemines: (985) 333-4287 Pointe a la Hache, or (504) 299-5322 Belle Chase
St. Bernard: (504) 278-4200 or (504) 278-4228
St. Charles: (985) 783-5000
Tangipahoa: (985) 748-3211
If your parish is not on this list, please visit http://www.lpgov.org.
Information from The National Weather Service:
ANYONE NEEDING INFORMATION ON EVACUATIONS, RESCUES, OR CRITICAL
NEEDS IN LOUISIANA, MISSISSIPPI, OR ALABAMA CAN CALL 225-925-
7708 OR 225-925-7709 OR 225-925-3511 OR 225-925-7428. ALL CALLS FOR
CHECKS ON FAMILY MEMBERS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO THE RED CROSS HOTLINE AT 1-866-GET INFO WHICH IS 1-866-438-4636.
ABC NewsAug. 30, 2005 — Inmates at a prison in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have rioted, attempted to escape and are now holding hostages, a prison commissioner told ABC News affiliate WBRZ in Baton Rouge, La.
A deputy at Orleans Parish Prison, his wife and their four children have been taken hostage by rioting prisoners after riding out Hurricane Katrina inside the jail building, according to WBRZ.
Officials are expected to hold a press conference regarding the riots at 9 p.m. ET.
A woman interviewed by WBRZ said her son, a deputy at the prison whose family is among the hostages, told her that many of the prisoners have fashioned homemade weapons. Her son had brought his family there hoping they would be safe during the storm.
NOLAThe New Orleans police officer shot in the head by a looter Tuesday was expected to survive, officials said.
The officer, who has not been identified, was in surgery at West Jefferson Medical Center after being shot in the forehead, police said.
The officer was shot by a looter after he and another officer confronted a number of looters at a Chevron store at Shirley and Gen. DeGaulle.
Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies on the scene arrested four people in connection with the shooting. One of the looters reportedly was shot in the arm by an officer during a shootout.
NOLAIn Uptown, one the few areas that remained dry, a bearded man patrolled Oak Street near the boarded-up Maple Leaf Bar, a sawed-off shotgun slung over his shoulder. The owners of a hardware store sat in folding chairs, pistols at the ready.
Uptown resident Keith Williams started his own security patrol, driving around in his Ford pickup with his newly purchased handgun. Earlier in the day, Williams said he had seen the body of a gunshot victim near the corner of Leonidas and Hickory streets.
"What I want to know is why we don't have paratroopers with machine guns on every street," Williams said. (ummm they're in Iraq)
Like-minded Art Depodesta sat on the edge of a picnic table outside Cooter Brown's Bar, a chrome shotgun at his side loaded with red s s.
"They broke into the S station across the street," he said. "I walked over with my 12-gauge and shot a couple into the air."
The looters scattered, but soon after, another man appeared outside the bar in a pickup truck armed with a pistol and threatened Depodesta.
"I told him, ‘Listen, I was in the Army and I will blow your ass off," Depodesta said. "We've got enough trouble with the flood."
The man sped away.
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