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But is evacuating the ENTIRE city even possible? Where are they going to take these people, now that the shelters are being endangered...the whole situation is a HUGE mess.
new blog info from WWL:
4:42 P.M. - (AP) Electric companies from around the country are rushing crews to the hurricane-ravaged South. They will help restore power to an area so devastated that it could be weeks or even months before the lights come back on in many places. David Botkins, a spokesman for Dominion Virginia Power, says 200 workers are headed to Louisiana and Mississippi.
4:40 P.M. - (AP) State officials say they are working on plans to evaucate inmates from the Orleans Parish prison and the Jefferson Parish jail. Both facilities face a threat of flooding.
The state Corrections Department is trying to figure out how to transfer 4,000 inmates from the New Orleans jail and another 1,000 from the Jefferson Parish jail in Gretna.
The inmates would be moved to state prisons including the highest-security at Angola. Corrections spokesman Pam LaBorde says it's quite a logistical situation to accomplish.
4:23 P.M. - Jefferson Parish officials say schools could reopen two months after Labor Day.
But is evacuating the ENTIRE city even possible? Where are they going to take these people, now that the shelters are being endangered...the whole situation is a HUGE mess.
I agree. Start filling those choppers up with people and get them the out of there.
Take a look at the pictures from Mississippi. Ok.Sounds familiar. Slower, but just as devastating.
Now combine that with what you are seeing in NO.
That would have been the worse case scenario.
Take them to the closest dry land outside of the bowl, right now. Concentrate on saving lives rather than structures. everything else.
I think they are about to find out.
I'm pretty sure there is no focus on saving structures right now with the exception of trying to repair the levees.
Realistically, how long will it take to empty 60,000 people out of the Superdome? They're still finding people on top of roofs and trees in NO.
I can't believe how fast this situation is deteriorating.
Yes, Mr. God-I- ing-Know-It-All. This isn't devastating because not EVERYONE was wiped out all at one time.
Worst case scenario is that NO is wiped out and hundreds to thousands of lives lost. And that's exactly what's happening.
That would be the only reason they're even attempting to repair the levee's, right? Otherwise all focus would be on rescue and evacuation, where it belongs.
OK, I'm as guilty of this as anyone, but let's calm the down. Sorry to be short with you, Manny.
Don't get y with me. I never said it wasn't devestating. I dropped this way earlier today and you had to bust out with an "I told you so", so don't get y.
It could have been MUCH worse. I don't know why you can't understand that. Yes, it is devistating, but everyone of those people they rescued was very close to being dead instead of being rescued.
Levees need to be repaird so the water will stop rising...endangering more people. I don't think they are focusing on the levees with the intent of saving buildings, I would hope that the intent would be preventing more deaths.
Oh, and because I forgot to add it to the last post...
But they are not evacuating the Superdome are they? I understand they are just evacuating the hundreds of smaller shelters around the city.
They are trying to stop the flooding. You really can't save anything, but if they can stop the flooding at least the people in the shelters aren't in as much danger.
I think the governor said they wanted to get everyone out of the SD as well, but I'm not sure.
Once they get the levees stopped up, they can start pumping out again. Right now any water they pump out into Pontch is coming right back in through the gap..it's not like they're going to be able to do anything as far as getting the water out immediately, if at all.
I think they've made the call that either they stop the levee leaks or they're going to have a of a lot more dead people.
Oh, and because I forgot to add it to the last post...
What are they going to pump with....I thought none of them were functional?
God bless the U.S. Coast Guard. True American heroes.
Yeah, exactly.
I don't know what crawled up your ass, but I'm not making it a point to prove you wrong or anything like that.
Guv Blanco wants the Superdome emptied out as quickly as possible Unsanitary, sauna-like,very little drinking water, and mounting tensions. There's 60K people in there when it was holding 12K the night before. I'm sure they'd like to consolidate the shelters a bit for evacuation purposes.
Those rescue crews are kicking ass. Here's to them doing more of it.
Official death toll at 59, by the way.
There are still pumping stations that aren't submerged.
Spurswoman,
On WWL-TV the mayor said that two of the pumps are operational, including the big one (#3), but that they shut them down with the levee breaks because the water they were pumping out of the city was coming right back in through the Pontchartraine levee break.
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