The world cares. There's just not much the rest of it can do for us that we can't do ourselves.
Anyone who isn't out of New Orleans in the next two or three days will probably die from dehydration, unless they drink the filth, in which case they'll die from cholera or dysentery.Don't be so sure about that buddy. If the tail end of the trough develops in the bahamas area, it could head into the gulf within a week.
I agree on the looters.
1. The city is filling up with water. Sucks to be them.
2. No water, no food for a month. Good luck eating that 27" tv you just stole.
death by cholera, dysentery, or dehydration.
well, I guess it's nice to have options.
True, good points.
, did y'all hear about Iraq? They had a bunch of people on their way to a religious service that got out of control when someone shouted suicide bomber and part of a bridge collapsed. 800 dead.
Crazy.
wow, so simple but so true. That brought tears to my eyes when thinking of everything. I didn't realize the extent of this catastrophe, not until I really started watching the news this morning. I feel so bad for all those people. Its completely horrific. My sister's boyfriend has family there in Lousiana and I called him to see how they were. He said thankfully they were all okay, they were farther away from the damage.
I never got to go to NO either and wanted to one day. I kept hearing how much fun it was, just like I wanted to see the twin towers but never got that chance. I know I've been complaining about gas prices and money and other things in life at the moment but compared to what those people are going through right now, and will go through, it makes me feel bad. Makes you kinda count your blessings.
Every single one of them is in my thoughts and prayers. May God Bless them.
Thought that graphic by CNN was good.
Damn, there's a drilling platform wedged in the sand at Dauphin Island that was 60 miles out to sea when Katrina came in.
For those asking about donations and helping, just got this from my sister...
http://www.fema.gov/press/2005/resources_katrina.shtm
Jesus, can someone tell CNN that the "new levee break" they are reporting about is the 17th street levee break that has flooded the city?
Again, the super-wide levee break that we've gotten to see since yesterday afternoon was the Industrial canal breach.
I know that they at least have Fox on somewhere in their newsroom, buy a freakin' clue.
Margaret Cho posted the following on her blog today in lieu of donations:
Red Cross Noah's Wish
Teamsters Louisiana SPCA Humane Society of Southern Mississippi
Ray Nagin has just ordered 1500 police officers off search and rescue and ordered them to control the looting problem. So for those of you who think the looting should be ignored, obviously the mayor disagrees.
The problem with the looting right now is that people are getting mugged, shot, etc. in the city by looters.
FNC had several reports of looters going into homes of people who survived and robbing them at gun point, etc.
Why couldn't the assholes doing this have drowned?
Another reason to pack heat...
Laser on the chest... the universal language...
Yeah, people getting robbed is not looting. Thats flat out armed robbery. What s man.
CNN says there are 10,000 National Gaurd Troops being sent to the area to help the police in the area control looting. 10,000 seems a bit much for looting...Wouldn't they be more useful in contributing to the rescue efforts?
I agree with Ginofan.
They need to concentrate more on the rescue efforts before It starts getting any worse then It already Is.
I just hope this situation helps others around the country understand that when they tell you to evacuate they mean for your ass to evacuate... I'm sure a lot more people would have survived this disaster If only they would of taken the warnings seriously.
Gulf oil rig/facilities update from a friend in the business...
Gulf Coast damage:
· VLO Saint Charles refinery (West of New Orleans) off-line for 2 weeks (power, clean-up)
· Supposed to be 4-5 feet of floodwater on grounds of COP 250kbopd Belle Chasse refinery (just East of New Orleans).
· Mississippi River closed for barge traffic below Baton Rouge, but potentially reopening today.
· Companies just getting out today to assess offshore damage (rigs, platforms, pipelines, etc). Hampered by fact that staging areas like Venice and Fourchon still basically underwater.
· Helicopters in short supply – one smaller E&P player thinks it will take until Sunday until they can get one to assess their properties
· S MARS platform damaged, no indication of how badly.
· LOOP structure physically standing (E&P flyover, but no word on whether any operational damage)
· Coast Guard reporting 7 rigs adrift. We think (but haven’t confirmed) the list is as follows:
o Jim Thompson (NE)
o Deepwater Nautilus (RIG)
o ESV 7500 (ESV)
o Other rigs in area of direct storm impact include Artic I (GSF), Celtic Sea (GSF), Ocean Quest (DO), Ocean Victory (DO)
· Several jackups thought to be sunk / lost – 1 Rowan Drilling Co’s (New Orleans), 1 unknown operator
Photo from the AF One flyover.
I think if I had a nickel for every person I've seen on tv being interviewed saying "I didn't think it was going to be this bad", I'd already have enough money to cover all the repairs in La, Miss., and Alabama.I just hope this situation helps others around the country understand that when they tell you to evacuate they mean for your ass to evacuate... I'm sure a lot more people would have survived this disaster If only they would of taken the warnings seriously.
I told you people didn't grasp the scope of things. Those pictures from the AFone flyover are incredible.
Anybody watching Larry King. The Mississippi governor's on. Man that guy's got one thick accent!
Reminds me of when I was living in Alabama. It took me a year just understand what people were saying.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration aerial image taken on August 30, 2005 shows a vessel pushed on shore in south Plaquemines Parish, Lousiana, near Empire, Buras and Boothville where Hurricane Katrina made landfall on August 29, at approximately 7:10 a.m. EDT (1110 GMT). Authorities began to evacuate about 23,000 refugees from the New Orleans Superdome arena on Wednesday, and U.S. President George W. Bush said it would take years to recover from the flooding and devastation sown by Hurricane Katrina.
An aerial view showing the flooding throughout New Orleans, Louisiana from Air Force One, August 31, 2005. Air Force One made an unprecedented low level flight over the Gulf Coast states so that U.S. President George W. Bush could survey the destruction caused by hurricane Katrina. REUTERS/Mannie Garcia
Also from AFOne
Interstate 10 at the U.S. 90 interchange in New Orleans is shown surrounded by flooded buildings in this aerial photo Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, after Hurricane Katrina moved through the area. (AP Photo/Bill Feig, Pool)
But civil unrest like this makes the rescue efforts more difficult. They showed about an hour ago, looters setting fire to some stores. So now instead of just trying to save people trapped on roofs, they've got to worry about putting out fires? that's bull .
That's scary when New Orleans starts looking like Venice.
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