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Parish is a french county
I was going to ask, too....I don't think they mean members of a Catholic church.
This is some scary .
Parish is a french county
Parish ~ County
I stand corrected...thanks.
Same thing as a county. I believe the Catholic Church divided LA into parishes and they kept the names & divisions for their gov't.
I was in McElroy's restaurant 2 weeks ago. It is just down the street from the Beaux Rivage. I'm sure the water level is over the roof by now (if it wasn't already blown away).
Anderson Cooper is on live on CNN right now in the middle of the storm.
That's a much more likely explanation.
Buoy off the shore just east of NO logged 55 ft. wave.
http://www.buoyweather.com/wxnav.jsp...one=-5&units=e
Buoys at the mouth of the Mississippi logging 60 footers.
http://www.buoyweather.com/wxnav.jsp...one=-5&units=e
Bexar, Comal, etc - Counties
Jefferson, Orleans, etc - parishes
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WWL-TV reporter inside the Superdome: outer layer of the roof is completely gone, National Guard desperately moving people up into the concourse/under the concrete overhang.
A New Orleans city police car with its rear window broken is abandoned in flood waters on Canal Street in downtown New Orleans August 29, 2005, in advance of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast on Monday with 140 mile per hour (224 kph) winds as the powerful storm came ashore from the Gulf of Mexico and took aim at low-lying new Orleans. REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Waves crash against a boat washed onto Highway 90 as Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 in Gulfport, Miss. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
Winds from Hurricane Katrina damage a building in Gulfport, Miss., Monday, Aug. 29, 2005 in Gulfport, Miss.. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)
"If the Superdome roof was a pie, a slice the size of 1/12 has been taken out"
Buoys south of Gulfport, MS logging over 60 foot waves. Crazy.
This CNN reporter in Biloxi, MS is angling for a bigger job.
a parish is a county.
they just call they're county's parish's cause they are special.
7 Feet of water in East Jefferson Hospital
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=east+j...&start=0&hl=en
Thanks for the parish explanations!
Geez, winds have shifted out of the east (blowing west), water from Pontchartrain lapping at the top of the levees.
Things going from bad to worse.
on CNN... Gary Tuchman has a death wish. no job is worht that.
Who's the dude on Fox? Every 5 seconds he's all, "Woah!"
I'd be all "Holy ! I'm getting the out of here!"
Kickin' link... 4 vid feeds (just use the mute to select which one you want to hear)
http://www.weatherserver.net/livevideo.htm
Shep Smith and Dan Rather both got famous by braving a hurricane.
parish is from "paroisse", from the French colonial period.
Just like a county, a parish is a local administrative unit, separate from municipal units.
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