http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slu...v=ap&type=lgns
Saints will pratice in San Antonio.
That has to suck.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/0....43bb0409.html
With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, needs to be evacuated.
"The situation is untenable," Blanco said, pausing to choke back tears at a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking."
The breach of two levees Tuesday meant the city was rapidly filling with water and the prospect of having power was a long time off, the governor said. She said the storm also severed a major water main, leaving the city without drinkable water.
"The goal is to bring enough supplies to sustain the people until we can establish a network to get them out," Blanco said.
FEMA is considering putting people on cruise ships, in tent cities, mobile home parks, or so-called floating dormitories, boats FEMA normally uses to house its own employees, said Coordinating Director Bill Lokey.
Lokey said he anticipated FEMA will set up a permanent office in the area.
Recovery will take so long, he said, that some workers could spend their entire career working on Katrina.
"This is the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States," Lokey said.
The devastation was enormous. One of the twin spans of Interstate 10 was broken into dozens of pieces between the pylons, stretched out across rising water like puzzle pieces. Only rooftops were visible in several neighborhoods and the occasional building was on fire. In relatively lucky neighborhoods, residents waded in the empty streets in knee-deep water.
Blanco, Lokey and others spoke to reporters after officials flew to New Orleans with FEMA director Mike Brown and other officials. They stopped at the Superdome, where Mayor Ray Nagin outlined the dire situation: hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still need rescuing from rooftops and attics, he said.
Blanco described the dedication of rescue workers who at midnight were told to take a break.
"They refused. They couldn't do it," Blanco said.
Blanco said rescuers were unable to get to people stranded, but safe, in one tall building because so many other people were "calling to them and jumping from rooftops" into the water to be rescued first.
Things were so bad, Nagin said, that rescue boats are bypassing the dead.
"We're not even dealing with dead bodies," Nagin said. "They're just pushing them on the side."
Maj. Gen. Bennett C. Landreneau, adjutant general for the Louisiana National Guard, said search and rescue teams were still picking up people throughout the city, leaving them on highway overpasses-turned-islands and on the Mississippi River levee to wait until they could be moved again.
They will eventually end up in the Superdome, where he estimated 15,000 to 20,000 people already have taken refuge and where rising water is threatening the generators.
Among the evacuees are 5,000 inmates from New Orleans and suburbs that need to be moved. Officials were trying to figure out how.
As the FEMA helicopter left, with Sen. Mary Landrieu looking out the window, a group of looters smashed a window at a convenience store off the interstate in Metairie and jumped inside.
Nagin described the looters as drug addicts ransacking drug stores and people looking for food.
Police chief Eddie Compass said police are mainly focused on search and rescue.
"We'll deal with looting afterward," Compass said. "Human life is our top priority."
Nagin confirmed one person died at the Superdome attempting to jump from one level to a lower one.
Nagin said 75 to 80 percent of the New Orleans area is flooded.
Nagin said there are two major breaks in levees -- one at Florida Avenue in New Orleans East and another on the 17th Street Canal, where two or three blocks of concrete floodwall blew out.
Engineers believe water which poured over the floodwall then curved back under it, scouring out the dirt behind the wall until it collapsed, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said.
Because of the 17th Street Canal break, Lake Pontchartrain water is pouring into the city. Nagin said the pumps that normally protect the city are working, but since they send water into the lake it does no good.
The Corps of Engineers is trying to sandbag the break but he had no timeline for their efforts.
Levees seem to be holding everywhere else, he said.
Blanco asked residents to spend Wednesday in prayer.
"That would be the best thing to calm our spirits and thank our Lord that we are survivors," she said. "Slowly, gradually, we will recover; we will survive; we will rebuild."
You were right about the causeway, AHF. KCAL was full of as the video they showed and claimed was of the bridge over Ponchatrain was shown by yahoo.com and KABC to be I-10.
Last edited by baseline bum; 08-31-2005 at 01:33 AM.
Someone asked about people without jobs down there in the aftermath. I know it's going to be difficult but I'd say go vintage WPA and give anyone who wants one a job helping clean up.
Just a thought..That's what the company that I work for did for the employees in Florida when those tornados hit, to the best of my knowledge they're doing the same for the employees affected by Katrina.
That's a great idea. I hope someone in power is thinking around the same lines.
David Prestback of Gulfport, Mississippi splashes water on a sea-lion washed ashore by Hurricane Katrina August 30, 2005. Hurricane Katrina damaged casinos in New Orleans and along Mississippi's Gulf Coast on Monday, possibly destroying some riverboats and leaving others closed for at least several more weeks, industry officials said on Tuesday.
they couldnt move the sea lion, and supposedly the Sea Lion was in a lot of pain and was suffering, so they put it down.
Sad...
IDEA - kill two birds with one stone:
Round up all these displaced animals - cats, dogs, sea lions, looters - you name it.
Tie them from a helicopter and try to stop the levee from flowing with it.
It wasn't just 1, I heard there were sixthey couldnt move the sea lion, and supposedly the Sea Lion was in a lot of pain and was suffering, so they put it down.
Sad...
AHF - whats the deal with the AK-47s a while back?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8999837/
NEW ORLEANS - Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
I saw several on MSNBC, FWIW.
We saw it.....
"WTF...the cops are looting?!?! Are they going to shoot each other??"
No one is taking in-kind donations at this time. They don't have the man-power or resources to collect, sort & distribute it.
I've already checked everywhere I could think of.
Rumor has it even cops like cool sneakers.
I'm a little behind in this thread, but I realize that the racial disparity of the news coverage has been blatant...but of all the *black* people they had filmed looting, I didn't see A SINGLE ONE with a cart full of food or drinks or essentials...they were full of fishing poles and TV's purses & shoes.
I still think if they aren't hurting anyone WGAF, but some of ya'll are making it sound like those poor, persecuted black folks are getting busted for trying to feed their kids. Unless their kids have stomachs like a cow, I don't think they are eating Sony TV's.
if it was just the looters....im all for it.Round up all these displaced animals - cats, dogs, sea lions, looters - you name it.
Has anyone seen/heard/read whether or not the Mississippi is open to traffic?
I think I heard last night that I-10 through southern MS is closed border to border...
In fact, I think I-10/I-12 is closed from Baton Rouge (or thereabouts) all the way to the FL border...
I think...
Travis, what I getting at was the river traffic (barges and the like).
http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.....photo00.photo
hwy I90 in Miss.
Will do. Thanks for the info.
ummmmm....duuuuuuuhhhhhh......???
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