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Thanks for the effort, but that doesn't help a whole lot...the graph is a difference plot, not an absolute one. No baseline to compare it to.
they just showed a huge 260 foot floating hotel usedto house workers offshore up against a bridge. pretty crazy. they need to bring in some specialists from europe to move it out they say...
it is on fox now
Thanks for the effort, but that doesn't help a whole lot...the graph is a difference plot, not an absolute one. No baseline to compare it to.
Oh-bee-kay-bee...thanks.
Lake Ponchatrain is brackish - kinda salty, kinda fresh
They might as well put the groceries to use -- it's not like the stores will be able to sell that stuff anyway. It's all about survival now.
"there are no hurricanes in the Netherlands."
But there are very nasty, hurricane-intensity storms and storm-driven tides coming off the N. Sea, for which there is fantastic civil engineering to handle them, not the cheapo, badly maintained earthen levees around NO.
And, horrors, the Dutch are ing socialists!!
London also has storm-gates across the tidal Thames River to fight those same storms and tides.
I included the Grand Isle news because 7 idiots decided to say. Looks like Darwin only did half the job.(AP) Downtown streets that were relatively clear in the hours after the storm were filled with 1 to 1 1/2 feet of water Tuesday morning. Water was knee-deep around the Superdome. Canal Street was literally a canal. Water lapped at the edge of the French Quarter. Clumps of red ants floated in the gasoline-fouled waters downtown.
11:28 A.M. - JP Councilman Chris Roberts: Three rescued from Grand Isle, according to Grand Isle Mayor.
Yeah I read that couldn't imagine anyone staying on their own volition on Grand Isle. wtf man?
I almost posted the exact same thing, then saw your post. It's sunk cost for the grocery stores now anyway - they won't be able to sell it. I understand that people shouldn't loot people's home or loot places like electronics stores. But groceries? Let them have it.
This situation is bad enough that people will start killing other people for food. Raiding grocers is just the beginning.
edit- killing people for their food, not in some cannibalistic sense. Sorry.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101+Ve...LA+70005&hl=en
This is the 17th Street Canal - no clue where it broke.
did anyone not expect a city of con men and such to loot, steal, etc... i know, it happens everywhere, but i'm sure that no one expected it not to happen in new orleans of all places.
WWL's blog is making this situation look worse and worse. From the last twenty minutes,
11:50 A.M. JP Sheriff asking anyone with a boat to bring it to Sam's Parking lot on Airline to help with evacuations.
11:46 A.M. - (AP) The president asked individual Americans to get involved with the relief effort, suggesting anyone who wishes to help could call 1-800-HELPNOW, log on to the Red Cross Web site or get in touch with the Salvation Army.
11:44 A.M. - LSU becoming a major staging area for injured and evacuees. Campus allowing families of students to house with them. Making facilities available as "community responsibility" according to Chancellor Sean O'Keefe.
11:43 A.M. - Councilman Byron Lee of Jefferson Parish, "This is not life as it used to be. It's like a war zone."
11:39 A.M. (AP) - National Guardsmen brought in people from outlying areas to the Superdome in the backs of big 2 1/2-ton Army trucks. Louisiana's wildlife enforcement department also brought people in on the backs of their pickups. Some were wet, some were in wheelchairs, some were holding babies and nothing else.
This is on the scale of the tsunami disaster now.
DUMBASSES.Two dead in Slidell in rising waters after attempting to get back to their homes. The victims had initially evacuated.
agreed. Were the looters taking food or stealing stuff from peoples houses? I have no problem with the food from a store.They might as well put the groceries to use -- it's not like the stores will be able to sell that stuff anyway. It's all about survival now.
did ya'll see the new video coverage of GulfPort ??? On MSNNBC
total disaster.. the neighborhoods behind the casinos are just wiped out completely.... the front of the Hotels are ripped off and I saw a hotel that looked liek cookie monster took a chomp out of one side.
No sign of barges....
I'd rather them use the manpower this would involve to help locate survivors at this point.11:58 A.M. - Homeland security chief optimistic that 3,000 pound sandbags can plug 200 foot levee break at 17th Street Canal.
I have an off the topic question, where the is 1P1 at?
my thoughts too!
andto the lady who was smart enough to fill a grocery cart and NOT look at the camera!
i think it is a different scale than the tsunami... we didn't have 100,000 people dead. but there was a lot more material damage than in the tsunami disaster
the WWL blog has been pretty informative on the situation, I , like Manny have been stuck at work, and have had no access to media coverage, except for internet.
Thnaks for the updates guys!
me too.... wasn't she going back to school this week tho?
she's only online at work (which is actually an internship i think)
I don't know...but based on what I'm reading, might it be broken where it hits the lakefront?
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