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Liberator TJ1984
09-01-2005, 05:07 AM
NEW ORLEANS — There was simply no time to count the dead as engineers scrambled to plug two broken New Orleans levees and rescuers searched for survivors clinging to rooftops as the Gulf Coast continued to grapple with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina (search).
The flooding in New Orleans grew worse by the minute Wednesday, prompting Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search) to say that everyone still in the city, now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers, needs to leave. She said she wanted the Superdome evacuated within two days as the broken levees continued to allow water to gush into the Big Easy, but it was still unclear where the people would go.

OMEGA_BUBBLE_JET
09-01-2005, 05:18 AM
Do you think this is why they urged people to get the f*ck out of there!!! I saw all kinds of nice signs saying things like......'we don't run from hurricanes we drink them' WTF???? MORON......
I don't give a damn if they had to walk out of there.......they should have left. I live in a city that is under a constant threat of hurricanes and I can honestly say if one was headed to Houston I would grab my wife, my dog some clothes and get the F*CK out of here.
I am very sorry for all those that have lost......the real tragedy is MOST of the loss of life could have been prevented.
Omega

OGShocker
09-01-2005, 05:33 AM
I was due to be in Nawlins next month. I have never been a big fan of the tourist areas. The out lying areas are awesome to play in. We hope the folks down there all the best.
I can only hope the people there are torn out of that place faster than an orange shirt wearer in GAZA.

058
09-01-2005, 05:34 AM
Relief aid will be pouring in from all over the world any minute now.

OGShocker
09-01-2005, 05:39 AM
Relief aid will be pouring in from all over the world any minute now.
Ya think? :idea:

Liberator TJ1984
09-01-2005, 06:57 AM
I do feel for the ones too poor, sick,homeless or just flat out unable to leave :frown:
The ones with the , Won't happen here or to me attitudes can eat Crow :angry2: they knew it was gonna happen sooner or later....
Just like all the people around our Ranch down here....You got these 20' deep Ravines and Creek Beds that are dry now, that people are putting up mobile homes in , or building on ....sooner or later when we get a hurricane here will be totally destroyed no doubt about it....water so high I could not leave our place for days.....BUT when it does happen they will all ask WHY ??? DUH :hammerhea if ya cant see the Sunrise or Sunset, MOVE ..Your in A F'n Hole !!!

Vada
09-01-2005, 07:13 AM
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Army engineers struggled without success to plug New Orleans' breached levees with giant sandbags, and the governor said Wednesday the situation was worsening, leaving no choice but to abandon the flooded city.
"The challenge is an engineering nightmare," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said in a television interview. "The National Guard has been dropping sandbags into it, but it's like dropping it into a black hole."
As the waters continued to rise in New Orleans, four U.S. navy ships raced toward the Gulf Coast with drinking water and other emergency supplies, and Red Cross workers from across the United States converged on the devastated region. The Red Cross reported it had about 40,000 people in 200 shelters across the area in one of the biggest urban disasters the United States has ever seen.
The death toll from hurricane Katrina reached at least 110 in Mississippi alone, while Louisiana put aside the counting of the dead to concentrate on rescuing the living, many of whom were still trapped on rooftops and in attics.
On Tuesday, a full day after New Orleans thought it had escaped Katrina's full fury, two levees broke and spilled water into the streets, swamping an estimated 80 per cent of the bowl-shaped, below-sea-level city and rendering much of it uninhabitable for weeks or months.
"We are looking at 12 to 16 weeks before people can come in," New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said on ABC's Good Morning America, "and the other issue that's concerning me is (we) have dead bodies in the water."
"At some point in time the dead bodies are going to start to create a serious disease issue."
Blanco acknowledged that looting was a severe problem but said that officials had to focus on survivors. "We don't like looters one bit, but first and foremost is search and rescue," she said.
Mike Brown, director of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency, added that structural damage to homes, diseases from animal carcasses and chemicals in floodwaters made it unsafe for residents to come home anytime soon.
Katrina, which now has been downgraded to a tropical depression, packed winds around 50 km/h as it moved up through the Ohio Valley early Wednesday and into Canada, where forecasters predicted heavy rain and potential flooding as storm clouds sweep into southern Ontario.
The remnants of Katrina spawned bands of storms and tornadoes across Georgia that caused at least two deaths, multiple injuries and levelled dozens of buildings. A tornado damaged 13 homes near Marshall, Va.
To repair one of the levees holding back Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, officials late Tuesday dropped 1,3600-kilogram sandbags from helicopters and hauled dozens of 4.5-metre concrete barriers into the breach. Maj.-Gen. Don Riley of the U.S. army Corps of Engineers said officials also had a more audacious plan: finding a barge to plug the 150-metre hole.
Riley said it could take close to a month to get the water out of the city. If the water rose much higher, it could also wipe out the water system for the whole city, said New Orleans' homeland security chief, Terry Ebbert.
Blanco said she wanted the Superdome - which had become a shelter of last resort for about 20,000 people - evacuated within two days, along with other gathering points for storm refugees. The situation inside the dank and sweltering Superdome was becoming desperate: The water was rising, the air conditioning was out, toilets were broken, and tempers were rising.
At the same time, sections of Interstate 10, the only major freeway leading into New Orleans from the east, lay shattered, dozens of huge slabs of concrete floating in the floodwaters. I-10 is the only route for commercial trucking across southern Louisiana.
The sweltering city of 480,000 people - an estimated 80 per cent of whom obeyed orders to evacuate as Katrina closed in over the weekend - also had no drinkable water, and the electricity could be out for weeks.
"The logistical problems are impossible and we have to evacuate people in shelters," the governor said. "It's becoming untenable. There's no power. It's getting more difficult to get food and water supplies in, just basic essentials."
She said arrangements were being made to shelter refugees across the state, and buses were being sent in to take them from New Orleans.
Federal officials were considering putting people on cruise ships, in tent cities, mobile home parks, and so-called floating dormitories - boats the agency uses to house its own employees.
A helicopter view of the devastation over Louisiana and Mississippi showed people standing on black rooftops, baking in the sunshine while waiting for rescue boats.
"I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago," said Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour after touring the destruction by air Tuesday.
All day long, rescuers in boats and helicopters plucked bedraggled flood refugees from rooftops and attics. Louisiana Lt.-Gov. Mitch Landrieu said 3,000 people have been rescued by boat and air, some placed shivering and wet into helicopter baskets. They were brought by the truckload into shelters, some in wheelchairs and some carrying babies, with stories of survival and of those who didn't make it.
"Oh my God, it was hell," said Kioka Williams, who had to hack through the ceiling of the beauty shop where she worked as floodwaters rose in New Orleans' low-lying Ninth Ward. "We were screaming, hollering, flashing lights. It was complete chaos."
Looting broke out in some New Orleans neighbourhoods, prompting authorities to send more than 70 additional officers and an armed personnel carrier into the city. One police officer was shot in the head by a looter but was expected to recover, authorities said.
On New Orleans' Canal Street, dozens of looters ripped open the steel gates on clothing and jewelry stores and grabbed merchandise. In Biloxi, Miss., people picked through casino slot machines for coins and ransacked other businesses. In some cases, the looting was in full view of police and National Guardsmen.
Officials said it was simply too early to estimate a death toll. One Mississippi county alone said it had suffered at least 100 deaths, and officials are "very, very worried that this is going to go a lot higher," said Joe Spraggins, civil defence director for Harrison County, home to Biloxi and Gulfport. In neighbouring Jackson County, officials said at least 10 deaths were blamed on the storm.
Several of the dead in Harrison County were from a beachfront apartment building that collapsed under a 7.6-metre wall of water as Katrina slammed the Gulf Coast with more than 230 kilometre-an-hour winds Monday. Louisiana officials said many were feared dead there, too, making Katrina one of the most punishing storms to hit the United States in decades.
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."
:frown:

AZKC
09-01-2005, 07:26 AM
The Navy's on the way :smile: But they need alot more help.

6 Dollar Boat
09-01-2005, 07:38 AM
My buddies family lives in New Orleans, his grandma decided to drive to Texas. Some of his aunts and uncles decided to stay. As of yesterday they were stranded in the upstairs of the grandmas house ( 30 of them). With bars on the windows they cant get out, and none of them can swim. The water is at the top of the stairs. The new Lexus is in the front yard under water...( I bet they wish they had gone for a little drive on Sunday).
I am trying not to laugh at their situation, but all they had to do was GET OUT.

pjones
09-01-2005, 08:18 AM
They are now going to move all the peple in the superdome
to the astrodome in Houston, all 25,000 of them via buses...
What an undertaking that will be....

Liberator TJ1984
09-01-2005, 08:20 AM
pjones , how you hangin'in there ???? :jawdrop:

Havasu_Dreamin
09-01-2005, 08:23 AM
They are now going to move all the peple in the superdome
to the astrodome in Houston, all 25,000 of them via buses...
What an undertaking that will be....
Radio station said it would take 475 busses to do the job.

pjones
09-01-2005, 08:28 AM
pjones , how you hangin'in there ???? :jawdrop:
I'm in the northwest part of La. which was not affected
at all. We're very fortunate because if it had gone due
north instead of northeast it could have been pretty bad.
We are receiving alot of the evacuees from down south
and is really heartwrenching.
Thanks for all of your concern...keep the prayers coming....
PJ