Official Hurricane Katrina Thread

[Ginofan]

I keep avoiding the link, I know I'll cry.

I just finished watching it, I'm hardly a crier and even I had tears. The chick interviewing that man was crying while trying to ask him more questions. Pretty damn heartbreaking.

[CosmicCowboy]

FEMA just needs to pay everyone off and abandon New Orleans.

Want to know what your visual will be tomorrow night on the news?

Bodies floating out the breaches to sea as the tide goes out.

[CosmicCowboy]

So the tide will affect the levees correct? Anyone know what time high tide is?

Approximately 7am. It will be at least 1.6 feet higher than what they are showing on the news now. Low tide is in about an hour.

[boutons]

"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said.
"They're just pushing them on the side."

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damn, scenes from .

And shrub, 36 hours after the hurricane, a REAL Weapon of Mass Destruction, passed, is .. uh .. "monitoring" the situation. perfect, just ing perfect leadership.

Hyped as the (bogus) "war president", he, in fact, can't preside over a real disaster in his own backyard.

It's the playoffs, shrub, thanks for not showing up.

What angles, what photo-ops, is Rove calculating for his puppet shrub? Another flight suit landing, a hard-hat, with a banana stuffed in his crotch?

[SpursWoman]

Could you please take your hate to the appropriate forum?

[j-6]

"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said.
"They're just pushing them on the side."

=======================

damn, scenes from .

And shrub, 36 hours after the hurricane, a REAL Weapon of Mass Destruction, passed, is .. uh .. "monitoring" the situation. perfect, just ing perfect leadership.

Hyped as the (bogus) "war president", he, in fact, can't preside over a real disaster in his own backyard.

It's the playoffs, shrub, thanks for not showing up.

What angles, what photo-ops, is Rove calculating for his puppet shrub? Another flight suit landing, a hard-hat, with a banana stuffed in his crotch?

Dude, take that elsewhere.

[timvp]

Dubya couldn't please everyone even if he was swimming in New Orleans plucking small children out of houses.

[CosmicCowboy]

Oh you Boutons. Pissant.

This disaster has been in the making for a hundred years.

It's a stupid ass place to have a city. It's history. It's done.

damn...sure had some good times there but hopefully he will have the balls to keep them from rebuilding there.

Gore sure wouldn't...

[j-6]

WWL blog update:

6:05 P.M. - Thomas: Saw at least three dead bodies during his rescues. Whole families were among those rescued.

6:04 P.M. - Thomas: Most sobering moment - being told to leave the dead bodies, because there are people to rescue.

6:03 P.M. - N.O. Councilman Oliver Thomas: "What you see on TV, you have no idea what the level of devastation and frustration is on the street."

5:57 P.M. - Jeff Parish schools chief Dianne Roussel says two months is probably "optimistic" to get schools back and functioning.

[ObiwanGinobili]

6:05 P.M. - Thomas: Saw at least three dead bodies during his rescues. Whole families were among those rescued.


6:04 P.M. - Thomas: Most sobering moment - being told to leave the dead bodies, because there are people to rescue.


6:03 P.M. - N.O. Councilman Oliver Thomas: "What you see on TV, you have no idea what the level of devastation and frustration is on the street."

[ObiwanGinobili]

j-6 you are like lightning

[Horry For 3!]

My friend who lives in New Orleans, lost everything she said. The thing that she cared about the most was the pictures of her and her sister.

[xrayzebra]

Does anyone know of anyone in the Gulfport area with a working computer. A
woman I know is trying to find out about her son and his family in the
Gulfport area. I know most communications are down, but just punting, hoping
for something.....thanks

[Jelly]

"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said.
"They're just pushing them on the side."

=======================

damn, scenes from .

And shrub, 36 hours after the hurricane, a REAL Weapon of Mass Destruction, passed, is .. uh .. "monitoring" the situation. perfect, just ing perfect leadership.

Hyped as the (bogus) "war president", he, in fact, can't preside over a real disaster in his own backyard.

It's the playoffs, shrub, thanks for not showing up.

What angles, what photo-ops, is Rove calculating for his puppet shrub? Another flight suit landing, a hard-hat, with a banana stuffed in his crotch?

Boutouns, seriously, what the would a presidential visit help at this time. Nothing. In fact, it would REALLY get in the way. The local and state authorities have their plates full, they are rolling their sleeves up...they do NOT need the biggest bigwig in the world in their midst right now.
Come on, Boutons, drop the vitriolic Bush hate for just one thread.

[ObiwanGinobili]

"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said.
"They're just pushing them on the side."

=======================

damn, scenes from .

And shrub, 36 hours after the hurricane, a REAL Weapon of Mass Destruction, passed, is .. uh .. "monitoring" the situation. perfect, just ing perfect leadership.

Hyped as the (bogus) "war president", he, in fact, can't preside over a real disaster in his own backyard.

It's the playoffs, shrub, thanks for not showing up.

What angles, what photo-ops, is Rove calculating for his puppet shrub? Another flight suit landing, a hard-hat, with a banana stuffed in his crotch?

theres a political forum for that . incase you got lost, this ain't it.

[j-6]

damn...sure had some good times there but hopefully he will have the balls to keep them from rebuilding there.

Gore sure wouldn't...

I sure as hope Bush can convince the leadership of Louisiana (Nagin and Blanco are both Democrats) not to rebuild there. Who's decision is this, anyway?

[Ginofan]

If they do decide to rebuild, they need to wait until they can rebuild the coastline...somehow get the sediments to be deposited there again to keep building new land.

[Horry For 3!]

"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said.
"They're just pushing them on the side."

=======================

damn, scenes from .

And shrub, 36 hours after the hurricane, a REAL Weapon of Mass Destruction, passed, is .. uh .. "monitoring" the situation. perfect, just ing perfect leadership.

Hyped as the (bogus) "war president", he, in fact, can't preside over a real disaster in his own backyard.

It's the playoffs, shrub, thanks for not showing up.

What angles, what photo-ops, is Rove calculating for his puppet shrub? Another flight suit landing, a hard-hat, with a banana stuffed in his crotch?

[ObiwanGinobili]

If they do decide to rebuild, they need to wait until they can rebuild the coastline...somehow get the sediments to be deposited there again to keep building new land.

apparently there has been a proposal up to rebuild the louisianna coast line for years now.. but people have ignored it and it hasn't gotton anywhere....
may be they will now.
I'll try to find the link.

edit to add: if they had done it, they wouldn't be facing this current situation.

[j-6]

I take back all the negative I said about Joe Horn and his Sharpie fetish. Plenty of other remarkable stories at the link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/3...ils/index.html

There was a Saint in New Orleans during the wrath of Hurricane Katrina and his name is Joe Horn, pro-football player for the New Orleans Saints. As I sat in my room at the Hilton Riverside, New Orleans, on Saturday two days before Katrina was scheduled to directly hit New Orleans, I weeped while I phoned home to North Carolina, to speak with my mother and my children.

It had been confirmed that my flight was canceled along with that of my husband and 50 others. We all were frantically trying to evacuate. I sobbed as I was told by each rental car company that there were no cars available. I thought I was trapped.

But, unbeknownst to me my mother had placed a call to Joe Horn to see if he could help. I hadn't spoken to him in over 20 years. Joe was a friend of my sister's in high school and had always kept in touch with my mother. This wonderful man personally came to pick up my husband and I and arranged for his driver to drive us from New Orleans to Atlanta, Georgia, at his expense, at which point we could fly on to Fayetteville, North Carolina. I'm still amazed at his generosity and I will always be grateful to him. There is truly a saint in New Orleans!! Thank you, Joe Horn. You're my hero!!

Aleta Quinones
Fayetteville, North Carolina

[Ginofan]

apparently there has been a proposal up to rebuild the louisianna coast line for years now.. but people have ignored it and it hasn't gotton anywhere....
may be they will now.
I'll try to find the link.

edit to add: if they had done it, they wouldn't be facing this current situation.

Yeah, it sounds pretty ty to say this, but maybe who ever is in charge of that type of thing needed something like this disaster to happen...to finally realize that rebuilding the coastline and such is long overdue.

[Horry For 3!]

I take back all the negative I said about Joe Horn and his Sharpie fetish. Plenty of other remarkable stories at the link below.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/3...ils/index.html

There was a Saint in New Orleans during the wrath of Hurricane Katrina and his name is Joe Horn, pro-football player for the New Orleans Saints. As I sat in my room at the Hilton Riverside, New Orleans, on Saturday two days before Katrina was scheduled to directly hit New Orleans, I weeped while I phoned home to North Carolina, to speak with my mother and my children.

It had been confirmed that my flight was canceled along with that of my husband and 50 others. We all were frantically trying to evacuate. I sobbed as I was told by each rental car company that there were no cars available. I thought I was trapped.

But, unbeknownst to me my mother had placed a call to Joe Horn to see if he could help. I hadn't spoken to him in over 20 years. Joe was a friend of my sister's in high school and had always kept in touch with my mother. This wonderful man personally came to pick up my husband and I and arranged for his driver to drive us from New Orleans to Atlanta, Georgia, at his expense, at which point we could fly on to Fayetteville, North Carolina. I'm still amazed at his generosity and I will always be grateful to him. There is truly a saint in New Orleans!! Thank you, Joe Horn. You're my hero!!

Aleta Quinones
Fayetteville, North Carolina

That is how it should be.

[j-6]

Riot and hostage taking at the Orleans Parish jail according to WWL's feed.

[j-6]

Effot to sandbag at the breach failed, about to overload the pumping house at 17th st canal. East bank will rise 3 feet, 12-15 feet of flood water incoming.

[ObiwanGinobili]

see below .