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Causeway is OK, but open only to emergency vehicles.
It's the world's longest bridge, but it's a pontoon bridge, not a suspension.
It's a causeway, not a suspension bridge, and no, it is not intact.
Causeway is OK, but open only to emergency vehicles.
It's the world's longest bridge, but it's a pontoon bridge, not a suspension.
Is that an update, that it is OK? I'd heard that a barge hit it.
The barge hit the high rise bridge that spans from NO to Slidell. The Causeway is being used as a staging area for emergency personnel.
I read the same thing about the causeway as well.
Is that that incredibly long bridge they were showing on FOX news ?
If so it is completely gone.. just the pylons are still standing, each sectiuon of road top collapsed.
whoa.... someone jumped to their death inside the Superdome.??
I don't recall which on-line news I saw that on...but I saw it this morning.
Different one. The I-10 bridge between NO and Slidell is a long one...and it's toast. But it's not the Causeway.
where did you hear this?
about the jumping at the Superdome?
who you talking to and what bout?
hence the "or something" in my post.It's a causeway, not a suspension bridge, and no, it is not intact.
I am guessing there is a difference? I thought "causeway" was more along the lines of a description (like "highway" or "boulevard") whereas suspension bridge was more the type of structure. Any of you engineers want to tackle this?
Here's a map of Lake Pontchartrain...
The LONG north/south route between Metarie and Mandeville is the Causeway. I saw something in the news this morning that it was OK, but is closed to all but emergency traffic.
The shorter south-west/north-east is the "I-10 bridge". That is the one that is torn up.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/l...n/12514548.htm
Looting begins in New Orleans
ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS - With much of the city emptied by Hurricane Katrina, some opportunists took advantage of the situation by looting stores.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.
When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" - the radio code for police - and the crowd scattered.
Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."
Around the corner on Canal Street, the main thoroughfare in the central business district, people sloshed headlong through hip-deep water as looters ripped open the steel gates on the front of several clothing and jewelry stores.
One man, who had about 10 pairs of jeans draped over his left arm, was asked if he was salvaging things from his store.
"No," the man shouted, "that's EVERYBODY'S store."
Looters filled industrial-sized garbage cans with clothing and jewelry and floated them down the street on bits of plywood and insulation as National Guard lumbered by.
Mike Franklin stood on the trolley tracks and watched the spectacle unfold.
"To be honest with you, people who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society," he said.
"for God sakes! Save the jeans!!"
That er needs to just drown.
Another graphic of a disaster in the making, for 200 years.
Like I said, I can understand looting for food and other essentials, but the other stuff is ridiculous. But don't worry God has something to say about people like that in the end.
good find, Boutons.
At a Walgreen's drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers.
When police finally showed up, a young boy stood in the door screaming, "86! 86!" - the radio code for police - and the crowd scattered.
Denise Bollinger, a tourist from Philadelphia, stood outside and snapped pictures in amazement.
"It's downtown Baghdad," the housewife said. "It's insane. I've wanted to come here for 10 years. I thought this was a sophisticated city. I guess not."well denise.
chips and soda is the kinda food they have at walgreens... and diapers??? how the can you fault someone from taking diapers??
What are these people sopposed ot do? call the manager to come down and open the store and then pay him with thier debit cards??. what ever
the diapers and food I get....its the jeans I draw the line at.
thats guy with the jeans tho... he's just an asshole.
FWIT, I filled up Sunday at $2.59...it was $2.69 when I just drove by at lunch.
im hoping a gator will get him, personally.thats guy with the jeans tho... he's just an asshole.
A lot of this looting isn't about food as others have pointed out. There was this family on MSNBC that just got back to their house - more like a hovel...they were obviously low-income people. And people had stolen their refrigerator, oven range, TV, stereo, a computer and a bunch of personal items. The family had to go back to the shelter. I don't buy this "we're just getting back at society" BS.
St. John Parish hospital closed at this time. Water working but must be boiled. Parish president Nickie Monica asks residents who have evacuated to stay out. Good News, no major structural damage. Monica says schools and offices closed until further notice. He asks that St. John Parish be made a priority to be used as a staging area for other parishes that suffered worse fates. 911 not working...EMERGENCIES IN ST. JOHN PARISH...1-985-652-6338, 1-985-536-2112...west bank 1-985-497-3321.
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