Official Hurricane Katrina Thread

[timvp]

Kori, you're right. I hate Wal Mart a little less now. That was awesome of them

Wal-Mart GTG.

[Spurminator]

I'm sure a lot of stores in the area are fine with people "looting" their stores for food, they just don't have the PR machine of a Wal-Mart.

Not trying to detract, just saying...

[MannyIsGod]

I think that allowing "looting" by the stores might jeporadize some insurance payments. So Wal-Mart gets credit.

[ChumpDumper]

The video of the Biloxi coast is unreal -- shipping containers spread everywhere like discarded toys -- about 1/4 of a massive casino barge ripped off and deposited in the middle of a road hundreds of feet away. Incredible.

[timvp]

Disease is expected to take a heavy toll within days. This could claim thousands of lives. The key seemingly
is to somehow to evacuate everyone from the city. Whether this can be done I have no clue.

This is so key. They need to get everyone out of New Orleans. Especially people in the Superdome. With the plumbing no longer worker, major diseases will start spreading. If they keep them in there much longer, they're going to lose a large percentage of them to disease.

The only way to keep disease from killing thousands is to get everyone out no matter what. The only people there should be the rescue workers.

[Ginofan]

Damn, a guy jumped and commited suicide in the Superdome...that's insane! They need to get a plan together to get those people out sometime soon...the restlessness, the disease...I'd hate to see how much worse it gets.

[TheWriter]

By Steve Gregory

AUGUST 30 - 3:00PM


MSY -

40,000-50,000 people in the superdome, including seriously injured people, and evacuees from the Hospitals.

There are no running water or sewage facilities -- and no power. Temperatures are in he 90's within the building

One man just committed suicide by jumping. 'Unrest' is growing within the superdome - and their are there are now military as well civilian police on the scene.

Jumped off what? The Superdome?!

[Trainwreck2100]

Jumped off what? The Superdome?!

Did you ever wonder what would happen if you jumped from the cheap seats to the really really expensive ones

[SpursWoman]

Did you ever wonder what would happen if you jumped from the cheap seats to the really really expensive ones

Someone just found out.

[2Blonde]

Someone just found out.

I heard someone died. Is that what happened? Did they fall?

...2Blonde

[SpursWoman]

I heard someone died. Is that what happened? Did they fall?

...2Blonde

Reports were that he jumped on his own..but who knows?

[Kori Ellis]

I heard someone died. Is that what happened? Did they fall?

...2Blonde

I heard earlier today that the person had apparently jumped.

[timvp]

Damn, hotels in Baton Rouge are evicting people who have run out of money.

Weak.

[MannyIsGod]

I haven't seen that across an AP wire though. It might just be a rumor.

[SpursWoman]

Damn, hotels in Baton Rouge are evicting people who have run out of money.

Weak.

They ing suck.

[tw05baller]

that is wrong

[MannyIsGod]

The fabric of civil order was frayed. The Superdome changed from an arena of sports heroics into a grim experience for about 10,000 refugees. Three hospital patients died in the dome and another death was reported by officials. One suicide was also reported, but could not be independently confirmed.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...home-headlines

Yeah, I'm not sure how accurate that suicide report is.

[MannyIsGod]

Hotels evicting people is super ing weak.

[ObiwanGinobili]

Damn, hotels in Baton Rouge are evicting people who have run out of money.

Weak.

now that is some ed up . and you know they were chargein RACK rates to start with.

[ObiwanGinobili]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...home-headlines

Yeah, I'm not sure how accurate that suicide report is.

earlier today I was wathcing CNN and they were talking with one of thier reporters who is insidethe dome and she siad she watched this guy jump with her own eyes.

[Manu20]

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

Reports of shootings, carjackings and looting in the area near the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans, a policeman tells CNN. More soon.

That is just wrong

[Trainwreck2100]

How high is the water in the SD?

[ObiwanGinobili]

Hurricane Katrina has inflicted more damage to Mississippi beach towns than did Hurricane Camille, and its death toll is likely to be higher, the state's governor said Tuesday.

Camille killed 143 people when it struck the state's coastal counties in 1969 and a total of 256 after it swept inland.

"There are structures after structures that survived Camille with minor damage that are not there any more," Gov. Haley Barbour told reporters in Jackson.

Katrina destroyed "every one" of the casinos that raked in a half-million dollars per day to state coffers, Barbour said after a helicopter tour of the affected areas.

"There were 10- and 20-block areas where there was nothing -- not one home standing," he said.

Barbour would not give a confirmed death toll, but said it was likely to be higher than previous reports of 50 to 80 dead. (Full story)

Jason Green, of the Harrison County Coroner's Office, said funeral homes in Gulfport had received 26 bodies since the storm passed Monday.

In the small town of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, search-and-rescue crews put paint marks on homes known to contain bodies, because there weren't enough refrigerated trucks to remove the corpses.

In Biloxi, an employee of the city's Grand Casino was awed by the extent of the damage.

"I was a senior in high school when Hurricane Camille hit, in 1969, and I have never seen destruction of this magnitude," said Scott Richmond.

Part of the city's sea wall was washed away, and nearly every downtown building had extensive damage to its first level.

State emergency management officials said 80 percent of the state's residents had no power.

In Biloxi, a 25-foot swell of water crashed in from the Gulf of Mexico Monday and inundated structures there.

Up to 30 people are believed to have been killed when an apartment complex on the beach collapsed in the storm

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[boutons]

Lake Ponchartrain (our POV) annexes New Orleans (in the trees):

[TheWriter]

Hannity and Combs was showing video of the lotters. Mostly children, some adults in a store.

Hannity:
"Do you think the video footage should be used to identify the people in these videos?"

Law Enforcement Official on Phone:
"Absolutely."