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KATRINA PACKS A DEADLY PUNCH: LEAVING 7 DEAD (SO FAR) |
from the NY Times website: www.nytimes.com/
August 27, 2005
Hurricane Drenches Florida and Leaves Seven Dead
By JOSEPH B. TREASTER
MIAMI, Aug. 26 - Hurricane Katrina churned through the Gulf of Mexico
on Friday, increasing its strength and threatening the Florida
Panhandle and neighboring states, after cutting a drenching swath
through southern Florida and leaving seven dead.
But just scattered patches of serious property damage were reported.
The howling winds of the hurricane rose to more than 100 miles an hour
in the gulf in the afternoon, and officials at the National Hurricane
Center here said they could further intensify to as much as 150 miles
an hour, making the storm a major juggernaut.
"It could be an extremely dangerous system," said Christopher Sisko, a
meteorologist at the hurricane center, where other weather experts said
it would most likely become a stronger, Category 4, storm.
Hurricane Katrina crossed the beach near Hallandale in Broward County,
north of here, early Thursday night as a relatively mild, wet and
somewhat underestimated storm that just barely qualified for hurricane
status, Category 1, with winds about 80 miles an hour.
As anticipated, the storm did not deliver a knockout blow to Fort
Lauderdale, Miami and other southern Florida cities. But many
Floridians said that after a night of thrashing wind and driving rain,
even a mild hurricane could be terrifying, hugely disruptive and
surprisingly costly.
Television coverage shot from helicopters showed acres and acres of
virtually unscathed houses and businesses and mostly unharmed trees and
shrubs. But south of downtown Miami, there was heavy flooding in Key
Biscayne, Cutler Ridge, Goulds and Homestead, along with a few other
residential areas west of Miami.
About 1.2 million people in southern Florida lost electricity.
Water covered the streets in parts of Homestead and elsewhere, washed
around cars and flowed knee deep through houses. But the houses seemed
to be otherwise in good shape.
Gov. Jeb Bush flew low over Homestead and said later, "It didn't look
like as much damage to property other than flooding."
Throughout the region, trees were knocked down here and there. Power
lines dangled into streets. Some roofs lost tiles. A houseboat sank at
a dock in North Bay Village, a town on a cluster of islands in Biscayne
Bay between Miami and Miami Beach, and a few sloops broke loose from
moorings and were thrown up on the shore of the bay.
Government officials literally sighed with relief.
"We're very, very fortunate to have been spared as much as we were,"
George Burgess, the Miami-Dade County manager, said. "While there has
been flooding, it's isolated, and the damage is very minimal."
Nonetheless, the storm brought Miami and other cities along 70 miles of
the coast to a near standstill for much of Thursday and Friday.
Insurance experts estimated that the cost of the scattered damage could
run to $600 million. That does not count the millions of dollars lost
by hotels, restaurants, airlines and rental car agencies whose
customers were scared off. Many other businesses also suffered.
By Friday morning, operations resumed at Miami International and Fort
Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airports. A few cars made their way
along main streets, some with lanes partly blocked by fallen trees and
pools of water.
But downtown Miami was all but deserted. By late afternoon, the huge
cargo and cruise port remained closed.
For many people like Mayor Carlos Alvarez of Miami-Dade County and
ordinary residents, the story of Hurricane Katrina was a story of
exceeded expectations.
After an assessment by helicopter, Mr. Alvarez said although some
sections looked "like there wasn't a storm," the flooded areas to the
south and west "were hit harder than we expected."
In Fort Lauderdale, just north of where the center of the storm came
ashore, Amanda Sullivan, 21, said that the wind ripped her front door
off its hinges and that she spent the night of the hurricane wondering
whether she would survive.
"It was like something out of a movie," Ms. Sullivan said. "There were
metal pipes flying off the building, and a 20-foot trailer came flying
through here. It was rocking and rolling, definitely a lot worse than
we thought it would be."
For Lannettee Stout, 43, a court reporter who lives in Hollywood, not
far from where the hurricane made landfall, it was the unimagined
noise.
"It was loud, extremely loud," Ms. Stout said.
Three people who died in the hurricane were crushed by falling trees.
One man lost control of his car and rammed into a tree. Three others
drowned, including two who tried to ride out the storm in a houseboat.
Forecasters said the hurricane could hit the Panhandle and nearby
states late Sunday or early Monday.
In southern Florida, the hurricane confounded forecasters who had
expected it to move westerly in an almost straight line across the
state at a snail's pace, 6 miles an hour. Instead, it sped up to 10 to
12 miles an hour and swung sharply on a diagonal to the southwest,
reaching the gulf shortly after midnight.
Had Hurricane Katrina, with its heavy rain, moved more slowly, weather
officials said, the flooding could have been more severe.
As the storm moved into the gulf, it initially headed west. State and
federal weather officials said they expected a low pressure area over
the Midwest to influence the direction of the storm, turning it north
toward the Panhandle.
Hurricane Dennis, the first storm of the year for Florida, hammered the
Panhandle and sections of Alabama and Georgia in July, bringing less
wind damage than expected, but widespread flooding.
Forecasters said Hurricane Katrina might well hit the northern coast
with more force than Hurricane Dennis. The state meteorologist, Ben
Nelson, said Hurricane Katrina could push 20-foot walls of water over
the beaches in surges almost twice as big as those of Hurricane Dennis.
The Panhandle was hit hard last year by Hurricane Ivan. On Friday
afternoon in southern Florida, Mr. Bush said he was concerned about the
psychological effects from yet another hurricane.
"This wears you down," he said.
Reporting for this article was contributed by Terry Aguayo from
Miami;Kelli Kennedy from Boca Raton, Fla.; Neil Reisner from Hollywood,
Fla.; and Christine Jordan Sexton from Tallahassee, Fla.
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06 Sep 2005 03:39:44 AM |
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From Monsters and Critics.com
US News
Clinton: Government failed Katrina victims
By UPI
Sep 6, 2005, 19:00 GMT
HOUSTON, TX, United States (UPI) -- Former presidents Bill Clinton and
George H.W. Bush announced Monday in Houston they are forming a fund to
help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Money raised through the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund will be turned over
to the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, CNN reported.
Wal-Mart has already pledged $20 million, and a number of other major
corporations, including Nike and Microsoft, have promised donations.
In an interview with CNN, Clinton was critical of government response
to the disaster.
\'Our government failed those people in the beginning, and I take it
now there is no dispute about it,\' Clinton said. \'One hundred percent
of the people recognize that -- that it was a failure.\'
Clinton suggested that once the emergency is over a commission should
be formed to examine what happened.
Bush also said the response was unsatisfactory. But he defended his
son, saying that President Bush is doing what he is supposed to be --
\'showing that the federal government`s involved.
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On 6 Sep 2005 01:39:44 -0700, "Uncle Wally Da HOOROO Big Kahuna ;-)â„¢"
<stargatedecember2012@yahoo.ca> wrote:
From Monsters and Critics.com
US News
Clinton: Government failed Katrina victims
By UPI
Sep 6, 2005, 19:00 GMT
HOUSTON, TX, United States (UPI) -- Former presidents Bill Clinton and
George H.W. Bush announced Monday in Houston they are forming a fund to
help victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Money raised through the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund will be turned over
to the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, CNN reported.
Wal-Mart has already pledged $20 million, and a number of other major
corporations, including Nike and Microsoft, have promised donations.
In an interview with CNN, Clinton was critical of government response
to the disaster.
\'Our government failed those people in the beginning, and I take it
now there is no dispute about it,\' Clinton said. \'One hundred percent
of the people recognize that -- that it was a failure.\'
Clinton suggested that once the emergency is over a commission should
be formed to examine what happened.
Bush also said the response was unsatisfactory. But he defended his
son, saying that President Bush is doing what he is supposed to be --
\'showing that the federal government`s involved.
Hahaha,Clinton says Government failed? Good one, talk about pot and
kettle. Both Bilderbergers,both Carlysle, both NWO. This is getting
interesting
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01 Sep 2005 11:35:48 PM |
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Absolute frickin' devastation:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2495.htm
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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30 Aug 2005 03:13:00 AM |
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August 30, 2005 latimes.com : National News Single page Print
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KATRINA HITS THE GULF COAST
Dozens Killed, Damage Heavy as Katrina Roars In
New Orleans Is Hit Hard, but Mississippi Feels Category 4 Hurricane's
Full Force
By Scott Gold and Ellen Barry, Times Staff Writers
NEW ORLEANS - Whirling ashore like a destructive pinwheel, Hurricane
Katrina delivered a hard but glancing blow Monday to New Orleans, then
spent its full fury on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, swamping beach
resorts and inland towns. At least 58 deaths were reported, most in
Mississippi.
Public officials feared that deaths from Katrina would rise.
ADVERTISEMENT
After hours of punishing rain and winds, emergency and rescue officials
began maneuvering by boat and helicopter into remote stretches, looking
for scores of residents reportedly stranded by floodwaters.
Katrina's last-minute wobble to the north spared New Orleans a direct
hit, but the nearly deserted city still suffered through a long morning
of terror as rising groundwater seeped through the ghostly French
Quarter and shrieking headwinds shredded part of the roof of the
Louisiana Superdome, where 10,000 refugees had sought shelter.
"It sounded like this place was under attack," said Tyrone Brinson, 47,
a native New Orleans resident who listened, unnerved, inside the
Superdome as the wind tore at the football stadium's arched sheet-metal
roof. "It sounded like somebody was coming through the wall. I thought
the roof might go, the building, the whole thing."
The roof held, as did the city's waterlogged levee system along the
Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, although there was widespread
flooding in and around New Orleans, much of which is below sea level.
Although Katrina weakened from the ominous Category 5 hurricane it had
been hours earlier, it bulled ashore as a Category 4 storm with 140-mph
winds. Katrina was the strongest hurricane to hit the Gulf Coast since
1969, when Hurricane Camille, a Category 5 storm, killed 259 people.
Overnight Sunday, the hurricane's course shifted from west-northwest to
a more northerly direction, said Eric Blake, a meteorologist at the
National Hurricane Center in Miami. That was enough to steer the worst
of the storm east of New Orleans, preventing its heaviest gusts from
blowing from the east or southeast, which would have strained New
Orleans' levees to flood stages.
"I can't say that I have a sense we escaped the worst," said Louisiana
Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, acknowledging the devastation of the
state's eastern portion. "We have a tough, tough people."
Across Louisiana and into Mississippi, Katrina's whipping gusts scoured
away roofs in sprays of shingles, wood and concrete. Wind-weakened
apartment houses and other large structures buckled - at least 20 in
New Orleans, authorities said. Shards of glass blew out of hotel and
office buildings in the city's downtown.
Some hard-hit Gulf Coast towns were completely cut off, making it
impossible for emergency officials to even speculate on injuries or
deaths.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he feared the worst. "We know some
people got trapped and we pray they are OK," he said. But he grimly
added his expectation: "There are a lot of dead people out there."
Fifty people were killed in Harrison County, Miss., most of them at an
apartment complex in Biloxi, Jim Pollard, spokesman for the county's
emergency operations center told Associated Press.
At least three others in Mississippi were killed by falling trees,
officials said. In Alabama, two people died in a storm-related wreck.
Three residents of a New Orleans nursing home fleeing Katrina aboard a
school bus died Sunday during an evacuation to Baton Rouge, coroner's
officials reported. Several dozen other seniors on the bus were treated
for dehydration after the long ride to safety.
Along the battered Gulf Coast, loose boats, garbage cans, sewage and
oil slicks rode the choppy gulf waters. Torrents poured in over
shattered docks.
Dirt-brown crests swelled to 20 feet along Mississippi's coastal towns
of Biloxi and Gulfport. By late morning, floodwaters lapped toward the
second floor of the shuttered Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, emergency
officials reported.
"It came in on Mississippi like a ton of bricks," Barbour said. "It's a
terrible storm."
In Wiggins, Miss., a hill community 20 miles north of Gulfport, Olene
Walters, 56, one of the town's holdouts, ventured out into the winds
and returned in shock.
The storm had stripped the roof off her beauty parlor and pulverized
the Lake-A-Way RV Campgrounds she owns five miles outside of town.
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01 Sep 2005 12:13:35 AM |
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Bush: Recovery from Katrina 'will take years'
Cabinet-level task force will coordinate relief efforts
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After surveying Hurricane Katrina's destruction
from Air Force One earlier in the day, President Bush on Wednesday
announced a massive federal mobilization to help victims of the storm,
but said recovery "will take years."
"We're dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's
history," Bush said in a nationwide address from the White House Rose
Garden, surrounded by members of his Cabinet. "I can't tell you how
devastating the sights were."
"The folks on the Gulf Coast are going to need the help of this country
for a long time. This is going to be a difficult road. The challenges
that we face on the ground are unprecedented, but there's no doubt in
my mind that we're going to succeed." (Transcript)
He told communities affected by the storm, "The country stands with
you" and pledged, "We'll do all in our power to help you."
Bush announced that he has created a Cabinet-level task force to
coordinate hurricane relief efforts across federal agencies, headed by
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown,
will be in charge of the federal response on the ground in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama.
The White House also announced Wednesday that Bush has asked his
father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill
Clinton to spearhead an international relief effort for hurricane
victims, similar to the effort they undertook for victims of last
year's tsunami in South Asia.
Bush said the federal government's first priority is to rescue those
still trapped and provide medical assistance. FEMA, the Coast Guard and
the Department of Defense have sent resources to help with the
search-and-rescue effort, he said.
The federal government also will use more than 400 trucks from the
Department of Transportation to bring food, water and supplies to those
whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, and plans are being made to
provide housing, education and health care for the displaced, he said.
The president said the federal government would also undertake a
"comprehensive recovery effort" to rebuild devastated communities and
restore infrastructure, including roads and bridges wiped out by
Katrina, an effort he said would take years.
"Right now, the days seem awfully dark for those affected. I understand
that," he said. "But I'm confident that, with time, you'll get your
life back in order. New communities will flourish. The great city of
New Orleans will be back on its feet. And America will be a stronger
place for it."
Bush also braced the country for a coming surge in energy prices in the
wake of the destruction Katrina wrought on oil production in the Gulf
of Mexico.
The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil
refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices," and
the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring
low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of
gas and diesel, he said.
"But our citizens must understand this storm has disrupted the capacity
to make gasoline and distribute gasoline," the president said.
Bush viewed the disaster area Wednesday from Air Force One as he
traveled to Washington from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, White House
spokesman Scott McClellan said.
As the president passed over one Mississippi town, he remarked, "It's
totally wiped out."
The president spent 35 minutes looking out the window as the aircraft
passed over Louisiana and Mississippi and clearly saw the damaged roof
of the New Orleans Superdome and the city's flooded neighborhoods.
Air Force One flew about 2,500 feet over New Orleans and about 1,700
feet over Mississippi.
"It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground,"
Bush said.
Besides New Orleans, Air Force One flew over Slidell, Louisiana and
Pascagoula and Biloxi, Mississippi.
CNN congressional correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/31/bush.katrina
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It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
mondo
"Uncle Wally Da HOOROO Big Kahuna ;-)T" <stargatedecember2012@yahoo.ca>
wrote in message
news:1125551615.219278.240310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Bush: Recovery from Katrina 'will take years'
Cabinet-level task force will coordinate relief efforts
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After surveying Hurricane Katrina's destruction
from Air Force One earlier in the day, President Bush on Wednesday
announced a massive federal mobilization to help victims of the storm,
but said recovery "will take years."
"We're dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's
history," Bush said in a nationwide address from the White House Rose
Garden, surrounded by members of his Cabinet. "I can't tell you how
devastating the sights were."
"The folks on the Gulf Coast are going to need the help of this country
for a long time. This is going to be a difficult road. The challenges
that we face on the ground are unprecedented, but there's no doubt in
my mind that we're going to succeed." (Transcript)
He told communities affected by the storm, "The country stands with
you" and pledged, "We'll do all in our power to help you."
Bush announced that he has created a Cabinet-level task force to
coordinate hurricane relief efforts across federal agencies, headed by
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown,
will be in charge of the federal response on the ground in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama.
The White House also announced Wednesday that Bush has asked his
father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill
Clinton to spearhead an international relief effort for hurricane
victims, similar to the effort they undertook for victims of last
year's tsunami in South Asia.
Bush said the federal government's first priority is to rescue those
still trapped and provide medical assistance. FEMA, the Coast Guard and
the Department of Defense have sent resources to help with the
search-and-rescue effort, he said.
The federal government also will use more than 400 trucks from the
Department of Transportation to bring food, water and supplies to those
whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, and plans are being made to
provide housing, education and health care for the displaced, he said.
The president said the federal government would also undertake a
"comprehensive recovery effort" to rebuild devastated communities and
restore infrastructure, including roads and bridges wiped out by
Katrina, an effort he said would take years.
"Right now, the days seem awfully dark for those affected. I understand
that," he said. "But I'm confident that, with time, you'll get your
life back in order. New communities will flourish. The great city of
New Orleans will be back on its feet. And America will be a stronger
place for it."
Bush also braced the country for a coming surge in energy prices in the
wake of the destruction Katrina wrought on oil production in the Gulf
of Mexico.
The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil
refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices," and
the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring
low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of
gas and diesel, he said.
"But our citizens must understand this storm has disrupted the capacity
to make gasoline and distribute gasoline," the president said.
Bush viewed the disaster area Wednesday from Air Force One as he
traveled to Washington from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, White House
spokesman Scott McClellan said.
As the president passed over one Mississippi town, he remarked, "It's
totally wiped out."
The president spent 35 minutes looking out the window as the aircraft
passed over Louisiana and Mississippi and clearly saw the damaged roof
of the New Orleans Superdome and the city's flooded neighborhoods.
Air Force One flew about 2,500 feet over New Orleans and about 1,700
feet over Mississippi.
"It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground,"
Bush said.
Besides New Orleans, Air Force One flew over Slidell, Louisiana and
Pascagoula and Biloxi, Mississippi.
CNN congressional correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/31/bush.katrina
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01 Sep 2005 05:42:06 PM |
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mondo wrote:
It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
Bush's handlers must cringe every time he opens his mouth without a
prewritten script.
Woods
mondo
"Uncle Wally Da HOOROO Big Kahuna ;-)T" <stargatedecember2012@yahoo.ca>
wrote in message
news:1125551615.219278.240310@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
Bush: Recovery from Katrina 'will take years'
Cabinet-level task force will coordinate relief efforts
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After surveying Hurricane Katrina's destruction
from Air Force One earlier in the day, President Bush on Wednesday
announced a massive federal mobilization to help victims of the storm,
but said recovery "will take years."
"We're dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in our nation's
history," Bush said in a nationwide address from the White House Rose
Garden, surrounded by members of his Cabinet. "I can't tell you how
devastating the sights were."
"The folks on the Gulf Coast are going to need the help of this country
for a long time. This is going to be a difficult road. The challenges
that we face on the ground are unprecedented, but there's no doubt in
my mind that we're going to succeed." (Transcript)
He told communities affected by the storm, "The country stands with
you" and pledged, "We'll do all in our power to help you."
Bush announced that he has created a Cabinet-level task force to
coordinate hurricane relief efforts across federal agencies, headed by
Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff.
The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael Brown,
will be in charge of the federal response on the ground in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama.
The White House also announced Wednesday that Bush has asked his
father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Bill
Clinton to spearhead an international relief effort for hurricane
victims, similar to the effort they undertook for victims of last
year's tsunami in South Asia.
Bush said the federal government's first priority is to rescue those
still trapped and provide medical assistance. FEMA, the Coast Guard and
the Department of Defense have sent resources to help with the
search-and-rescue effort, he said.
The federal government also will use more than 400 trucks from the
Department of Transportation to bring food, water and supplies to those
whose homes have been damaged or destroyed, and plans are being made to
provide housing, education and health care for the displaced, he said.
The president said the federal government would also undertake a
"comprehensive recovery effort" to rebuild devastated communities and
restore infrastructure, including roads and bridges wiped out by
Katrina, an effort he said would take years.
"Right now, the days seem awfully dark for those affected. I understand
that," he said. "But I'm confident that, with time, you'll get your
life back in order. New communities will flourish. The great city of
New Orleans will be back on its feet. And America will be a stronger
place for it."
Bush also braced the country for a coming surge in energy prices in the
wake of the destruction Katrina wrought on oil production in the Gulf
of Mexico.
The Department of Energy is releasing supplies from the nation's
Strategic Petroleum Reserve to limit disruptions of supplies to oil
refineries, which "will help take some pressure off of gas prices," and
the Environmental Protection Agency has waived rules requiring
low-pollution blends in some areas in order to increase availability of
gas and diesel, he said.
"But our citizens must understand this storm has disrupted the capacity
to make gasoline and distribute gasoline," the president said.
Bush viewed the disaster area Wednesday from Air Force One as he
traveled to Washington from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, White House
spokesman Scott McClellan said.
As the president passed over one Mississippi town, he remarked, "It's
totally wiped out."
The president spent 35 minutes looking out the window as the aircraft
passed over Louisiana and Mississippi and clearly saw the damaged roof
of the New Orleans Superdome and the city's flooded neighborhoods.
Air Force One flew about 2,500 feet over New Orleans and about 1,700
feet over Mississippi.
"It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground,"
Bush said.
Besides New Orleans, Air Force One flew over Slidell, Louisiana and
Pascagoula and Biloxi, Mississippi.
CNN congressional correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report.
Find this article at:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/08/31/bush.katrina
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Woodswun wrote:
mondo wrote:
It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
Bush's handlers must cringe every time he opens his mouth without a
prewritten script.
Woods
Apparently his Texas Drawl is also a put on, a gross exageration of a
"supposed"
speech impediment......
People who knew him b4 he became Prez have consistently stated that he
spoke normally
when he was Governor of Texas.....
It's all a frickin' con act !!!!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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04 Sep 2005 09:32:55 AM |
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On 3 Sep 2005 21:50:46 -0700, "Uncle Wally Da HOOROO Big Kahuna ;-)â„¢"
<stargatedecember2012@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Woodswun wrote:
mondo wrote:
It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
Bush's handlers must cringe every time he opens his mouth without a
prewritten script.
Woods
Apparently his Texas Drawl is also a put on, a gross exageration of a
"supposed"
speech impediment......
People who knew him b4 he became Prez have consistently stated that he
spoke normally
when he was Governor of Texas.....
It's all a frickin' con act !!!!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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Just like everything since the fucking Chimp stole the first election.
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04 Sep 2005 09:14:04 AM |
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Uncle Wally Da HOOROO Big Kahuna ;-)™ wrote:
Woodswun wrote:
mondo wrote:
It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
Bush's handlers must cringe every time he opens his mouth without a
prewritten script.
Woods
Apparently his Texas Drawl is also a put on, a gross exageration of a
"supposed"
speech impediment......
Well, yes it would be, since he is originally from the Northeast.
People who knew him b4 he became Prez have consistently stated that he
spoke normally
when he was Governor of Texas.....
It's all a frickin' con act !!!!
Yeppers.
Woods
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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01 Sep 2005 12:56:34 PM |
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mondo wrote:
It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
mondo
<snipped>
Poetry of Bushisms
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the internet
become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being
and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize Society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
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03 Sep 2005 08:08:50 PM |
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On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:56:34 -0400, Marvin The Paranoid Android
<marvinparanoidandroid@hotmail.com> wrote:
mondo wrote:
It's devastating. It's got to be doubly devastating on the ground," Bush
said.
That's an understatement ....
mondo
<snipped>
Poetry of Bushisms
MAKE THE PIE HIGHER
by George W. Bush
I think we all agree, the past is over.
This is still a dangerous world.
It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental losses.
Rarely is the question asked
Is our children learning?
Will the highways of the internet
become more few?
How many hands have I shaked?
They misunderestimate me.
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.
I know that the human being
and the fish can coexist.
Families is where our nation finds hope,
where our wings take dream.
Put food on your family!
Knock down the tollbooth!
Vulcanize Society!
Make the pie higher! Make the pie higher!
LOL! Thanks, Marvin.
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HHS CHIEF: KATRINA DEATH TOLL IN THOUSANDS Sep 4, 2005
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY MICHAEL LEAVITT SAID SUNDAY THE
DEATH TOLL FROM HURRICANE KATRINA AND ITS AFTERMATH IS IN THE
THOUSANDS, THE FIRST TIME A FEDERAL OFFICIAL HAS ACKNOWLEDGED WHAT MANY
HAD FEARED.
LEAVITT SAID HE COULDN'T PROVIDE A PRECISE NUMBER ON THE IMPACT OF THE
DEVASTATION, BUT WHEN ASKED IF IT WAS IN THE THOUSANDS, HE TOLD CNN'S
"LATE EDITION," "I THINK IT'S EVIDENT IT'S IN THE THOUSANDS."
"IT'S CLEAR TO ME THAT THIS HAS BEEN SICKENINGLY DIFFICULT AND
PROFOUNDLY TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCE," LEAVITT SAID.
EARLIER IN THE DAY, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF HAD
DECLINED TO ESTIMATE THE DEATH TOLL, BUT CONCEDED THAT AN UNTOLD NUMBER
OF PEOPLE COULD HAVE PERISHED IN SWAMPED HOMES AND TEMPORARY SHELTERS
WHERE MANY WENT FOR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER.
"I THINK WE NEED TO PREPARE THE COUNTRY FOR WHAT'S COMING," CHERTOFF
SAID. "WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE DE-WATER AND REMOVE THE WATER
FROM NEW ORLEANS IS WE'RE GOING TO UNCOVER PEOPLE WHO DIED, MAYBE
HIDING IN HOUSES, GOT CAUGHT BY THE FLOOD, PEOPLE WHOSE REMAINS ARE
GOING TO BE FOUND IN THE STREETS. , IT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT AS UGLY OF
A SCENE AS I THINK YOU CAN IMAGINE."
LEAVITT SAID HE HAD RECEIVED A REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF DYSENTERY IN
BILOXI, MISS., WITH DISEASE AMONG THE CONCERNS OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN
THE HURRICANE'S AFTERMATH. DYSENTERY IS A PAINFUL INTESTINAL DISEASE
THAT CAN CAUSE DEHYDRATION AND CAN SOMETIMES BE FATAL.
THE LACK OF CLEAN DRINKING WATER IN PARTS OF THE GULF COAST REGION AND
STANDING FLOOD WATERS WITH DECOMPOSING BODIES AND HUMAN WASTE IN THE
STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS COULD CAUSE A RASH OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES,
INCLUDING WEST NILE VIRUS AND THE OFTEN FATAL E. COLI BACTERIA.
"ALL OF THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES THAT OCCUR WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN LARGE
CONGREGATIONS OF PEOPLE CAN SPREAD," LEAVITT SAID.
HOLLY REPORTS MANY OF THE EVACUATED CHILDREN COULD RETURN TO SCHOOL
THIS WEEK.
AMID WIDESPREAD CRITICISM ABOUT A SLOW AND INEFFECTUAL RESPONSE TO THE
CRISIS, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DISPATCHED SEVERAL TOP OFFICIALS TO THE
REGION: CHERTOFF, DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD H. RUMSFELD, JOINT CHIEFS OF
STAFF CHAIRMAN GEN. RICHARD MYERS AND SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA
RICE.
PRESIDENT BUSH AND FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH VISITED THE RED CROSS'
DISASTER OPERATION CENTER, WHERE THEY THANKED EMPLOYEES. THE PRESIDENT
ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD HOLD A BLOOD DRIVE ON FRIDAY.
"THE WORLD SAW THIS TIDAL WAVE OF DISASTER COME UPON THE GULF COAST,"
SAID BUSH, WHO PLANS TO RETURN TO THE REGION MONDAY. "NOW THEY CAN SEE
A TIDAL WAVE OF COMPASSION."
IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS, CHERTOFF SAID THE EVACUATION AND RELIEF
OPERATIONS ARE UNDER WAY - WITH FEDERAL ASSISTANCE IN PLACE.
"THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT WITH THE ADDITION OF NATIONAL GUARD AND
REGULAR TROOPS WE'VE SECURED THE CITY," CHERTOFF SAID ON "FOX NEWS
SUNDAY." "WE'VE GOT THE ADEQUATE PERSONNEL NOW WHO ARE ABLE TO MAKE
SURE THAT WE HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE EVACUATION EFFORT."
THE CRITICISM HAS CONTINUED UNABATED AS IT HAS TAKEN DAYS FOR FOOD AND
WATER TO REACH THOUSANDS WHO TOOK SHELTER IN THE SUPERDOME, THE NEW
ORLEANS CONVENTION CENTER AND EVEN THE HARD CONCRETE OF THE HIGHWAYS
TRAVERSING THE CITY.
NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN TOLD NBC NEWS ON SUNDAY THAT THE SITUATION
HAS BEEN "A TRAGEDY, A DISGRACE."
CHERTOFF SAID AUTHORITIES ARE IN PLACE TO HANDLE THE CRISIS, WHILE
CAUTIONING THAT MAJOR CHALLENGES LAY AHEAD.
"WE ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF AN EMERGENCY," HE SAID ON CNN'S "LATE
EDITION." "THIS IS NOT THE TIME WHEN WE CAN DRAW A SIGH OF RELIEF."
CHERTOFF DEFENDED THE JOB OF FEMA DIRECTOR MICHAEL BROWN AND DECLINED
TO GET INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT MOVED QUICKLY AND
FORCEFULLY ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THE CATASTROPHE, SAYING THERE WOULD BE
PLENTY OF TIME FOR A REVIEW.
HE DID COMPLAIN ABOUT PROBLEMS GETTING INFORMATION FROM LOCAL
OFFICIALS.
"ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL LOOK AT IS WHY IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS EMERGING
CRISIS THERE WAS KIND OF A CONFLICT ON THE INFORMATION," CHERTOFF SAID
ON THE FOX PROGRAM.
CHERTOFF SHRUGGED OFF SUGGESTIONS THAT THE DEMAND FOR NATIONAL GUARD
TROOPS IN IRAQ HAD DEPLETED THE NUMBERS AVAILABLE TO RESPOND TO THE
CRISIS.
ON SATURDAY, BUSH ORDERED MORE THAN 7, 000 ACTIVE DUTY FORCES TO THE
REGION AND 10, 000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS WERE BEING SENT TO THE GULF
COAST. ALL TOTAL, THE NUMBER OF GUARD PERSONNEL IN THE STRICKEN STATES
IS ABOUT 40, 000.
CHERTOFF SAID SATURDAY THAT MORE THAN 100, 000 PEOPLE HAD RECEIVED
HUMANITARIAN AID AND THE COAST GUARD HAD RESCUED 9, 500 PEOPLE.
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On 4 Sep 2005 20:25:23 -0700, "Uncle Wally Da HOOROO Big Kahuna ;-)â„¢"
<stargatedecember2012@yahoo.ca> wrote:
HHS CHIEF: KATRINA DEATH TOLL IN THOUSANDS Sep 4, 2005
HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SECRETARY MICHAEL LEAVITT SAID SUNDAY THE
DEATH TOLL FROM HURRICANE KATRINA AND ITS AFTERMATH IS IN THE
THOUSANDS, THE FIRST TIME A FEDERAL OFFICIAL HAS ACKNOWLEDGED WHAT MANY
HAD FEARED.
LEAVITT SAID HE COULDN'T PROVIDE A PRECISE NUMBER ON THE IMPACT OF THE
DEVASTATION, BUT WHEN ASKED IF IT WAS IN THE THOUSANDS, HE TOLD CNN'S
"LATE EDITION," "I THINK IT'S EVIDENT IT'S IN THE THOUSANDS."
"IT'S CLEAR TO ME THAT THIS HAS BEEN SICKENINGLY DIFFICULT AND
PROFOUNDLY TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCE," LEAVITT SAID.
EARLIER IN THE DAY, HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF HAD
DECLINED TO ESTIMATE THE DEATH TOLL, BUT CONCEDED THAT AN UNTOLD NUMBER
OF PEOPLE COULD HAVE PERISHED IN SWAMPED HOMES AND TEMPORARY SHELTERS
WHERE MANY WENT FOR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER.
"I THINK WE NEED TO PREPARE THE COUNTRY FOR WHAT'S COMING," CHERTOFF
SAID. "WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN WE DE-WATER AND REMOVE THE WATER
FROM NEW ORLEANS IS WE'RE GOING TO UNCOVER PEOPLE WHO DIED, MAYBE
HIDING IN HOUSES, GOT CAUGHT BY THE FLOOD, PEOPLE WHOSE REMAINS ARE
GOING TO BE FOUND IN THE STREETS. , IT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT AS UGLY OF
A SCENE AS I THINK YOU CAN IMAGINE."
LEAVITT SAID HE HAD RECEIVED A REPORT OF AN OUTBREAK OF DYSENTERY IN
BILOXI, MISS., WITH DISEASE AMONG THE CONCERNS OF FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN
THE HURRICANE'S AFTERMATH. DYSENTERY IS A PAINFUL INTESTINAL DISEASE
THAT CAN CAUSE DEHYDRATION AND CAN SOMETIMES BE FATAL.
THE LACK OF CLEAN DRINKING WATER IN PARTS OF THE GULF COAST REGION AND
STANDING FLOOD WATERS WITH DECOMPOSING BODIES AND HUMAN WASTE IN THE
STREETS OF NEW ORLEANS COULD CAUSE A RASH OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES,
INCLUDING WEST NILE VIRUS AND THE OFTEN FATAL E. COLI BACTERIA.
"ALL OF THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES THAT OCCUR WHEN PEOPLE ARE IN LARGE
CONGREGATIONS OF PEOPLE CAN SPREAD," LEAVITT SAID.
HOLLY REPORTS MANY OF THE EVACUATED CHILDREN COULD RETURN TO SCHOOL
THIS WEEK.
AMID WIDESPREAD CRITICISM ABOUT A SLOW AND INEFFECTUAL RESPONSE TO THE
CRISIS, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DISPATCHED SEVERAL TOP OFFICIALS TO THE
REGION: CHERTOFF, DEFENSE SECRETARY DONALD H. RUMSFELD, JOINT CHIEFS OF
STAFF CHAIRMAN GEN. RICHARD MYERS AND SECRETARY OF STATE CONDOLEEZZA
RICE.
PRESIDENT BUSH AND FIRST LADY LAURA BUSH VISITED THE RED CROSS'
DISASTER OPERATION CENTER, WHERE THEY THANKED EMPLOYEES. THE PRESIDENT
ALSO ANNOUNCED THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD HOLD A BLOOD DRIVE ON FRIDAY.
"THE WORLD SAW THIS TIDAL WAVE OF DISASTER COME UPON THE GULF COAST,"
SAID BUSH, WHO PLANS TO RETURN TO THE REGION MONDAY. "NOW THEY CAN SEE
A TIDAL WAVE OF COMPASSION."
IN A SERIES OF INTERVIEWS, CHERTOFF SAID THE EVACUATION AND RELIEF
OPERATIONS ARE UNDER WAY - WITH FEDERAL ASSISTANCE IN PLACE.
"THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT WITH THE ADDITION OF NATIONAL GUARD AND
REGULAR TROOPS WE'VE SECURED THE CITY," CHERTOFF SAID ON "FOX NEWS
SUNDAY." "WE'VE GOT THE ADEQUATE PERSONNEL NOW WHO ARE ABLE TO MAKE
SURE THAT WE HAVE A COMPREHENSIVE EVACUATION EFFORT."
THE CRITICISM HAS CONTINUED UNABATED AS IT HAS TAKEN DAYS FOR FOOD AND
WATER TO REACH THOUSANDS WHO TOOK SHELTER IN THE SUPERDOME, THE NEW
ORLEANS CONVENTION CENTER AND EVEN THE HARD CONCRETE OF THE HIGHWAYS
TRAVERSING THE CITY.
NEW ORLEANS MAYOR RAY NAGIN TOLD NBC NEWS ON SUNDAY THAT THE SITUATION
HAS BEEN "A TRAGEDY, A DISGRACE."
CHERTOFF SAID AUTHORITIES ARE IN PLACE TO HANDLE THE CRISIS, WHILE
CAUTIONING THAT MAJOR CHALLENGES LAY AHEAD.
"WE ARE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF AN EMERGENCY," HE SAID ON CNN'S "LATE
EDITION." "THIS IS NOT THE TIME WHEN WE CAN DRAW A SIGH OF RELIEF."
CHERTOFF DEFENDED THE JOB OF FEMA DIRECTOR MICHAEL BROWN AND DECLINED
TO GET INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT MOVED QUICKLY AND
FORCEFULLY ENOUGH TO DEAL WITH THE CATASTROPHE, SAYING THERE WOULD BE
PLENTY OF TIME FOR A REVIEW.
HE DID COMPLAIN ABOUT PROBLEMS GETTING INFORMATION FROM LOCAL
OFFICIALS.
"ONE OF THE THINGS WE'LL LOOK AT IS WHY IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS EMERGING
CRISIS THERE WAS KIND OF A CONFLICT ON THE INFORMATION," CHERTOFF SAID
ON THE FOX PROGRAM.
CHERTOFF SHRUGGED OFF SUGGESTIONS THAT THE DEMAND FOR NATIONAL GUARD
TROOPS IN IRAQ HAD DEPLETED THE NUMBERS AVAILABLE TO RESPOND TO THE
CRISIS.
ON SATURDAY, BUSH ORDERED MORE THAN 7, 000 ACTIVE DUTY FORCES TO THE
REGION AND 10, 000 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS WERE BEING SENT TO THE GULF
COAST. ALL TOTAL, THE NUMBER OF GUARD PERSONNEL IN THE STRICKEN STATES
IS ABOUT 40, 000.
CHERTOFF SAID SATURDAY THAT MORE THAN 100, 000 PEOPLE HAD RECEIVED
HUMANITARIAN AID AND THE COAST GUARD HAD RESCUED 9, 500 PEOPLE.
This all should have been done much sooner, but since they are poor
and black, well do the math.
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31 Aug 2005 12:11:20 AM |
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Hundreds now feared dead
From: Reuters From correspondents in Biloxi, Mississippi
August 31, 2005
High tide ... a New Orleans resident uses a board to paddle through
floodwaters / AFP FLOODING in New Orleans, most of which is already
under water following Hurricane Katrina, is expected to worsen in some
areas after an effort to plug a breach in a levee failed.
With the death toll in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi rising
towards the hundreds, flooding in New Orleans is now expected to rise
again and residents have been advised to evacuate neighbourhoods where
water could rise to an expected height of as high as 5m.
WWL-TV said an attempt to plug a levee break at the 17th Street Canal
with sandbags had ended unsuccessfully and pumps in the area were
overwhelmed.
Widespread looting is taking place and there are reports of inmates
rioting and taking hostages at a city prison.
Mayor Ray Nagin said 80 per cent of the city was flooded and water
levels began to rise around the city, a day after Hurricane Katrina
struck, because of breaches in two levees.
Louisiana state Governor Kathleen Blanco said on CNN the US Army Corps
of Engineers was working on trying to repair the levees but it was a
difficult situation.
"We have canals that usually pull water out of the city and two of
those canals have breaches. Water is pouring into those canals," she
said. "The Corps of Engineers is trying to figure out that situation."
New Orleans, most of which is below sea level, is surrounded on three
sides by bodies of water, with Lake Pontchartrain in the north, Lake
Borgne in the east and the Mississippi River in the south.
Most of the flooding has been caused by a 60m breach in the 17th Street
Canal levee holding back Lake Pontchartrain, according to officials.
Among the efforts being studied by US military engineers to plug the
hole are dropping 1350kg sandbags from helicopters or shipping
containers filled with sand.
The economic cost of the hurricane's rampage could be the highest in US
history, according to damage estimates.
In the Mississippi coastal city of Biloxi, hundreds may have been
killed after being trapped in their homes when a 9m storm surge came
ashore, a city spokesman said. Cadaver dogs were being brought in to
help find the dead.
"It's going to be in the hundreds," spokesman Vincent Creel said.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin reported bodies floating in the city's
floodwaters.
Rescuers struggled through high water and mountains of debris to reach
areas devastated by Katrina when it struck the Gulf Coast region on
Monday. The storm inflicted catastrophic damage all along the coast as
it slammed into Louisiana with 224 km/h winds, then swept across
Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
It shattered buildings, broke boats, smashed cars, toppled trees and
submerged whole neighbourhoods. Risk analysts estimated the storm would
cost insurers $US26 billion ($34.6 billion), making Katrina potentially
the costliest natural disaster.
Most of the deaths appear to have been caused by the storm surge, which
swept as far as 1.5 km inland in parts of Mississippi.
Hundreds of people climbed onto rooftops to escape the rising water
that lapped at the eaves. They used axes, and in at least one case a
shotgun, to blast holes in roofs so they could escape through the
attics.
Police took boats into flood-stricken areas to rescue some of the
stranded and others were plucked off rooftops by helicopter. The Coast
Guard has helped rescue 1200 in New Orleans night and thousands more
all along the Gulf Coast.
"We've been pulling them off sometimes four at a time, sometimes as
many as 12," said Coast Guard Petty Officer Larry Chambers. "People are
being taken to the nearest dry spot then the helicopter's going back
and picking up more people."
In New Orleans, "We probably have 80 per cent of our city under water;
with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 6m," Mr Nagin
said. "Both airports are under water."
The US military planned to use helicopters to drop giant sandbags
filled with gravel into the breach in an attempt to fill it.
"This is a horror story. I'd rather be reading it somewhere else than
living it," said Aaron Broussard, president of New Orleans' Jefferson
Parish.
In Biloxi, the storm surge destroyed some of the casinos that lined the
shore and ripped houses off their foundations. Dazed residents foraged
for food and water and looting was widespread, the city spokesman said.
"It was like our tsunami," Mr Creel said.
Katrina knocked out electricity to about 2.3 million customers, or
nearly 5 million people, in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and
Florida. Restoring power could take weeks.
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31 Aug 2005 05:49:09 PM |
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Uncle Wally Ze Truly Wondrous HOOROO Wizard Of Oz™ wrote:
Hundreds now feared dead
From: Reuters From correspondents in Biloxi, Mississippi
August 31, 2005
Uncle Wally, I'm not sure that this is being communicated to where you
are, but everyone (I know) here is assuming that the death toll will end
up in the thousands. They are *ignoring* bodies right now, and are not
trying to count them.
Woods
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28 Aug 2005 10:48:15 PM |
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HURRICANE KATRINA ADVISORY NUMBER 25
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
10 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005
....POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH
THE NORTHERN GULF COAST...
A HURRICANE WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF COAST
FROM MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA EASTWARD TO THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA
BORDER...INCLUDING THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN.
PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD BE RUSHED TO
COMPLETION.
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING AND A HURRICANE WATCH ARE IN EFFECT FROM
EAST OF THE ALABAMA/FLORIDA BORDER TO DESTIN FLORIDA...AND FROM
WEST OF MORGAN CITY TO INTRACOASTAL CITY LOUISIANA.
A TROPICAL STORM WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FROM DESTIN FLORIDA
EASTWARD TO INDIAN PASS FLORIDA...AND FROM INTRACOASTAL CITY
LOUISIANA WESTWARD TO CAMERON LOUISIANA.
FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE
INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED
BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE.
AT 10 PM CDT...0300Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE KATRINA WAS LOCATED
NEAR LATITUDE 27.6 NORTH...LONGITUDE 89.4 WEST OR ABOUT 105 MILES
SOUTH OF THE MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ABOUT 170 MILES
SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA.
KATRINA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH...AND A
TURN TO THE NORTH IS EXPECTED OVER THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS. ON THE
FORECAST TRACK THE CENTER OF THE HURRICANE WILL BE VERY NEAR THE
NORTHERN GULF COAST MONDAY MORNING. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS ARE
ALREADY DETERIORATING ALONG PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND
NORTHEASTERN GULF COAST...AND WILL CONTINUE TO WORSEN THROUGH THE
NIGHT.
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 160 MPH WITH HIGHER GUSTS. KATRINA
IS A CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME
FLUCTUATIONS IN STRENGTH ARE LIKELY PRIOR TO LANDFALL...AND KATRINA
IS EXPECTED TO MAKE LANDFALL AT EITHER CATEGORY FOUR OR FIVE
INTENSITY. WINDS AFFECTING THE UPPER FLOORS OF HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS
WILL BE SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER THAN THOSE NEAR GROUND LEVEL.
KATRINA REMAINS A VERY LARGE HURRICANE. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND
OUTWARD UP TO 105 MILES FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE
WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 230 MILES. A WIND GUST TO 90 MPH WAS
RECENTLY REPORTED FROM SOUTHWEST PASS LOUISIANA.
ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 904 MB...26.70 INCHES. AN
AIR FORCE RESERVE UNIT RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT WILL BE REACHING THE
CENTER OF KATRINA VERY SHORTLY.
COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 18 TO 22 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS...LOCALLY AS HIGH AS 28 FEET...ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS
BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE
CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. SOME LEVEES IN THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA
COULD BE OVERTOPPED. SIGNIFICANT STORM SURGE FLOODING WILL OCCUR
ELSEWHERE ALONG THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST.
RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF
15 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE PATH OF KATRINA ACROSS THE GULF
COAST AND THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES
ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES
REGION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY.
ISOLATED TORNADOES WILL BE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING OVER SOUTHEASTERN
LOUISIANA...SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI...SOUTHERN ALABAMA...AND OVER THE
FLORIDA PANHANDLE TONIGHT.
REPEATING THE 10 PM CDT POSITION...27.6 N... 89.4 W. MOVEMENT
TOWARD...NORTH-NORTHWEST NEAR 10 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED
WINDS...160 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 904 MB.
INTERMEDIATE ADVISORIES WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL
HURRICANE CENTER AT MIDNIGHT CDT AND 2 AM CDT FOLLOWED
BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 4 AM CDT.
FORECASTER FRANKLIN
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01 Sep 2005 03:52:43 AM |
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Hurricane Katrina was a major tropical cyclone that was the cause of
catastrophic damage in the southeastern United States and will likely
become the worst natural disaster ever to hit the United States with
major global economic consequences caused by the severe disruption of
oil supplies, exports, and imports. Disaster relief plans are in
operation in the affected communities. Some experts predict one million
people could become homeless as a result of the storm [1]. Currently
five million people are without power in the Gulf Coast, and it may be
two months before all power is restored [2].
Katrina maybe the deadliest hurricane in the United States of America
since at least 1969, when Hurricane Camille killed at least 256 people,
left tens of thousands homeless and may become the deadliest named
hurricane in the U.S. on record (surpassing Hurricane Audrey in 1957,
which killed at least 390, with up to 160 never accounted for). The
deadliest hurricane in U.S. history (by far) is the Galveston Hurricane
of 1900, which killed around 8,000 (possibly up to 12,000) people. The
death estimates of Katrina so far are "in the thousands", stated by the
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin on August 31, but it will take weeks before
accurate numbers are known. Katrina is also expected to be the
costliest natural disaster in United States history.
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29 Aug 2005 05:14:37 AM |
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Hurricane gathers destructive force
Xavier La Canna
August 29, 2005 - 5:08PM
Hurricane Katrina could be the United States' worst-ever natural
disaster, causing tens of billions of dollars damage and leaving New
Orleans uninhabitable for weeks, possibly months.
With wind speeds of nearly 260km/h and gusts of more than 330km/h,
Katrina has forced an unprecedented mandatory evacuation of New
Orleans, a city of about 1.4 million people, and is expected to strike
landfall about 9pm tonight (AEST) .
As President George Bush declared a state of emergency, highways were
gridlocked as tens of thousands of people fled New Orleans and other
coastal areas.
At the city's Louis Armstrong airport, people anxiously awaited
outbound flights.
A line of people stretching four city blocks waited to be admitted to
the New Orleans Superdome sports arena, which authorities designated a
shelter of last resort for an estimated 35,000 unable to flee the city.
The Bush administration is keeping a close watch on Hurricane Katrina,
which has sharply reduced production of oil and gas in the Gulf, but it
is unclear whether the government will tap into the US emergency crude
stockpile.
Public affairs officer with the National Hurricane Centre in Miami,
Frank Lepore, told theage.com.au that Hurricane Katrina would likely
cause catastrophic damage to the city.
"Essentially most of the area would be uninhabitable for weeks, perhaps
longer," he said.
Mr Lepore said he expected half of well-constructed homes to have roof
and wall failure, and all gabled-roof homes to be severely damage or
destroyed.
"The majority of industrial buildings will become non-functional, with
partial to complete wall and roof failure, and all wood-frame lower
rising apartment buildings will be destroyed and concrete block
low-rise apartments will sustain major damage, including wall and roof
failure.
"High-rise office and apartment buildings will sway dangerously, a few
to the point of total collapse, and all windows will be blown out," he
said.
Uninhabitable
Mr Lepore said New Orleans was situated 12-20 feet below sea level, and
if the hurricane caused levees to fail, the city could be
uninhabitable for months.
"The Army Corps of Engineers has installed pumps that will pump out
this water from the city," he said.
"Those pumps can actually pump one inch of water per day, and we would
expect something in the order of say, 10 feet (three metres) of water
into the city.
"If you do the math, that is 120 inches (300 centimetres), that will
take 120 days to pump out. So you are talking about four months of not
being able to get back into an area like that, should those water
levels materialise."
Not enough notice
At Louis Armstrong Airport, Tracy Roberson, a 31-year-old postal worker
who sat with her cat. "I'm just happy to be getting out of here," she
said. "I think there's going to be casualties because they didn't give
enough notice."
Authorities also ordered evacuations in neighbouring Mississippi, which
expected to be slammed by the monster storm that gathered energy from
the warm Gulf of Mexico as it neared land.
"We are facing the storm that most of us have feared," said New Orleans
Mayor Ray Nagin as he issued the evacuation order for the city known as
The Big Easy.
"I do not want to create panic. But I do want the citizens to
understand that this is very serious and it's of the highest nature,"
Mr Nagin said.
US President George Bush declared a state of emergency, which clears
the way for federal aid, and urged people to get out of the hurricane's
path.
"We cannot stress enough the dangers this hurricane poses to Gulf Coast
communities. I ask citizens to put their safety and the safety of their
families first by moving to safe ground," Mr Bush said from his Texas
ranch.
Oil rigs
Katrina has forced energy companies to evacuate personnel and shut
offshore platforms in its path in the Gulf of Mexico, home to 25 per
cent of US domestic oil and gas output. Widespread damage to facilities
was possible.
A spokesman for the Energy Department was not immediately available to
say whether the administration would consider requests from refiners
for temporary loans of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
(SPR).
The emergency stockpile holds some 700 million barrels of crude in
underground salt caverns in Louisiana and Texas.
The White House has said repeatedly in recent years it would use the
SPR only in a national emergency or major supply disruption.
The administration delivered 5.4 million barrels of SPR oil to refiners
after last year's Hurricane Ivan disrupted production and imports.
In Asian trading, US crude futures had jumped about 5.8 per cent to
$69.93 a barrel after briefly touching a record high of $70.80 as
traders reacted to lost production and fear of damage.
Katrina will be only the third category-five storm to hit the United
States since 1851. Hurricane Andrew killed more than two dozen people
in 1992, while Camille caused more than 250 deaths in Mississippi in
1969, and the Labor Day Hurricane killed about 600 people in the
Florida Keys in 1935.
- with AFP
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27 Aug 2005 11:27:39 PM |
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I told U so, my sweetness !!! & there are two more BIGGIES to come
before November 2005 !!!
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10342816
Katrina may be strongest hurricane ever seen in Gulf
People drive through a flooded neighbourhood on four wheel vehicles in
South Miami, Florida today, after hurricane Katrina struck. Picture /
Reuters
28.08.05 1.00pm
By Elizabeth Nash
Hurricane Katrina gathered force in the warm turbulence of the Gulf of
Mexico yesterday after wreaking devastation across southern Florida,
and was expected to rebound on the battered state possibly as soon as
tomorrow.
The hurricane was upgraded to a category three "major hurricane"
yesterday, meaning it carried winds of more than 120mph. There are
fears it could bounce back tomorrow as a category four - a hurricane of
potentially catastrophic intensity with winds of 130mph, capable of
causing widespread damage, US authorities warned.
Alarmed residents who have had barely time to clear up damage inflicted
by Hurricane Dennis last month, or Hurricane Ivan last September, were
braced this weekend for further destructive tornados, deluges and
fierce winds.
At least seven people were killed when Katrina ripped across Florida's
southern tip on Friday, four of them struck by flying trees. Fifty
homes were flooded, and thousands of trees uprooted.
Ending a week of extreme weather worldwide, the storm was expected to
swing northwards on a course heading somewhere between the southern
Florida panhandle and the Louisiana coast. In the line of attack are
the city of New Orleans, and oil and gas installations. Some oil
drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico have already been evacuated.
Florida has been pummelled by six powerful hurricanes since last
August, in what forecasters describe as an "unusually active season".
Environmental campaigners say the turbulence is a product of global
warming disrupting world weather patterns. Katrina is the 11th storm of
the Atlantic hurricane season, which began on 1 June.
That is seven more than are usually whipped up by this stage of the
season in the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, the US's National
Hurricane Centre said. The season ends on 30 November.
Katrina's advance is being watched closely in Europe, where many people
have felt subjected to comparable celestial punishment this week. From
deluged south-eastern Europe, where 43 died in tumultuous rainstorms,
to tinder-dry Portugal, where 11 new fires flared yesterday despite
weeks of desperate firefighting, Europeans have been assaulted by
weather extremes unknown for generations.
Hardest hit was Romania, where 31 died, many of whom drowned when water
engulfed their homes. Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Switzerland
reported 12 dead, with vast areas under water. Fears remain that
floodwaters could cause the Danube to burst its banks and present
further hazard.
In the small Swiss town of Thun, the local football stadium was
destroyed, a loss given international prominence by the club's
qualification last week for the Champions League, in which it will take
on Arsenal.
Experts seeking an explanation point to the irregularity of the jet
stream, the wriggling ribbon of fast-moving wind that drives Europe's
weather from the Atlantic. A convulsive kink last week whipped
turbulence into Eastern Europe, and locked Iberia in its pocket of hot
tranquillity.
"But the jet stream is a permanent feature, it always wanders around,
that's nothing new," said Wayne Elliott, a weather forecaster from the
Meteorological Office in Exeter.
"The jet stream moves north in summer, south in winter, and the
important thing is that it didn't come as far south as was expected
last autumn. That's why the rains failed in Iberia, and why northern
Europe is unsettled.
"Such behaviour is consistent with predictions by scientists who argue
the climate is changing. Global warming could be the key."
The World Wildlife Fund goes further. "Global warming has started to
exacerbate the frequency and intensity of meteorological catastrophes,"
a WWF spokesman said on Friday.
"Politicians must curb [carbon dioxide] emissions now."
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28 Aug 2005 12:22:33 AM |
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I told U so, my sweetness !!!
U did?
Hey! I don't remember U telling me that!
U gotta link? :)
& there are two more BIGGIES to come
before November 2005 !!!
BIGGIES! Hmmf!
Probably will hit TEXAS then.
(Everything's BIGGER.........in Texas.)
SuZanne ;)
HOOROO
UNCLE WALLY
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28 Aug 2005 12:40:54 AM |
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wOWEE !!!!!
She's a comin' back for more, my sweet !
She's da 'Real Deal" !!!!
HOOROO
August 28, 2005 latimes.com : National News Print E-mail story Most
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Scores Evacuate as Katrina Plots Return
Gulf Coast and New Orleans residents heed warnings to head inland. This
hurricane 'is the real deal,' a mayor says.
By Scott Gold, Times Staff Writer
HOUSTON - Tens of thousands of people in New Orleans and along the
coast of the Gulf of Mexico began racing inland Saturday as the region
braced for the second strike of Hurricane Katrina, which was turning
into a commanding storm as it moved over warm water following its pass
over Florida.
Officials said they expected the storm to strengthen before landfall,
possibly becoming a Category 4 storm or even a rare Category 5 -- the
highest category of hurricane, carrying winds of more than 155 mph and
a storm surge of 18 feet.
ADVERTISEMENT
Landfall was expected Monday, according to the National Hurricane
Center.
As New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin urged an orderly evacuation of the
area Saturday, he told residents: "This is not a test. This is the real
deal."
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour declared states of emergency, and Blanco asked President Bush
to do the same to free up federal resources. By late afternoon, the
president had - and issued a statement urging residents to follow the
evacuation advice of local officials.
The center issued a hurricane watch from the Alabama-Florida line to
southern Louisiana - including the metropolitan region of New
Orleans, which is home to about 1.6 million people and could suffer
catastrophically if struck directly by a major storm.
New Orleans is essentially a giant bowl hemmed in by water on all sides
- Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River and the
Gulf of Mexico to the south. Some of New Orleans is as much as 9 feet
below sea level, and weather experts have said that a direct strike
could overwhelm protective levees, leaving significant portions of the
city under water.
"This could be the worst-case scenario," said Ivor Van Heerden,
director of the Louisiana State University Public Health Research
Center, which has sought to warn residents for years of the potential
damage that a major storm could bring.
"Computer models that we are running show that the surge levels in Lake
Pontchartrain are going to be almost equivalent to the levee heights.
Throw on top of that very violent wave action, and there is a high
probability that we are going to flood a large part of the city."
Compounding the city's vulnerable geography, its buffer against storms
- marshlands along the coast - has been eaten away in recent years.
The equivalent of a football field's worth of marsh is lost to open
water every 38 minutes, according to state officials, due to a host of
factors, including a maze of navigation canals that have been cut and
dug to make way for industry and ranchers.
Meanwhile, surveys have suggested that as many as 300,000 people would
decline to evacuate even faced with a major storm. Officials said they
feared the state had grown complacent because several storms had
threatened the region in recent years, only to miss - including Ivan
last year and Dennis last month.
But state officials said they were encouraged by early reports of
residents leaving the area.
Traffic on Interstate 10 west of New Orleans was crawling, and enough
people had fled New Orleans and low-lying coastal communities that
traffic was picking up in Baton Rouge, 80 miles to the northwest. Storm
refugees from Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana had begun
arriving at inland hotels.
"Everything that has happened in the last 12 hours is indicating that
it's heading this way," said Mark Lambert, communications director for
the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development.
"It is a credit to the citizens that they have put aside that
predisposition not to evacuate and that they realize that this is a
real threat."
Last week, the storm was not seen as a threat to the Gulf Coast because
it was headed toward the east coast of Florida.
But, although hurricanes typically feed off of water and lose steam
over land, this one emerged on the other side of Florida in formidable
condition - after killing seven people - and looked certain to
strike a second time.
To facilitate the evacuations away from the coast, the state was
preparing to take the unusual step of "contraflow," Lambert said -
reversing the flow of traffic on major highways.
At 8 a.m. today, the Louisiana Superdome - the 125-million-cubic-foot
stadium typically used for major sporting events and conventions -
was scheduled to be opened as a shelter. Tami Frazier, a spokeswoman
for the New Orleans mayor, said the Superdome should be seen as a
"refuge of last resort" and should be used only by people with special
needs, such as senior citizens or people with medical conditions.
New Orleans officials were roundly criticized last year, during Ivan's
near-miss, when they were slow to provide shelter for the city's many
homeless people and low-income families.
Several parishes to south and east of the city, as well as Grand Isle,
Louisiana's only inhabited barrier island, were also evacuating.
Several areas had issued mandatory evacuation orders.
The U.S. Coast Guard urged mariners to secure their vessels, remove
hazardous cargo, double mooring lines and head to safety.
The Coast Guard noted that many drawbridges along the coast could be
shut down in the wake of a storm, trapping boaters that had not
prepared in time.
"You can always replace a boat; you cannot replace a life," the Coast
Guard said in a public warning.
Energy companies were evacuating workers from some offshore platforms
and oil rigs.
Meanwhile, Florida continued to dig out from Katrina's initial strike.
Workers with shovels, brooms and bulldozers cleared the shorefront road
along Fort Lauderdale's beach, which had been covered with several
inches of sand deposited by Katrina's winds.
Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in South Florida remained
without power, and near the Miami Metrozoo in southern Miami-Dade
County, people waited in a two-mile-long line for free ice and bottled
water.
Staff writer John-Thor Dahlburg and staff researcher Lianne Hart
contributed to this report.
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28 Aug 2005 10:36:32 AM |
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Hey Unc!
What are you doing here?
You working overtime or something?
You usually are away from apn on the weekends.
-nosy
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28 Aug 2005 03:13:37 PM |
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:36:32 -0400, (Su Zanadu)
wrote:
Hey Unc!
What are you doing here?
You working overtime or something?
You usually are away from apn on the weekends.
-nosy
Say Good-Bye To New Orleans. As the Hip say," New Orleans is sinking
and I don't wanna swim". Hopefully the people are evacuated in time,
that is all but the politicians.
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28 Aug 2005 04:43:12 PM |
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<Zak@Bushsucks.ca> wrote in message
news:fk64h15sa6su459ieto2ce0rptugdd8n3e@4ax.com...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:36:32 -0400, (Su Zanadu)
wrote:
Hey Unc!
What are you doing here?
You working overtime or something?
You usually are away from apn on the weekends.
-nosy
Say Good-Bye To New Orleans.
I hope not!!! I have yet to go on my planned tour of all the
restaurants...i.e. I had planned to eat my way through
New Orleans one of these years...(love that Cajun/ Creole food!)
I hope everyone there gets out safely!
Jane
As the Hip say," New Orleans is sinking
and I don't wanna swim". Hopefully the people are evacuated in time,
that is all but the politicians.
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28 Aug 2005 06:07:18 PM |
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Jane wrote:
<Zak@Bushsucks.ca> wrote in message
news:fk64h15sa6su459ieto2ce0rptugdd8n3e@4ax.com...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:36:32 -0400, (Su Zanadu)
wrote:
Hey Unc!
What are you doing here?
You working overtime or something?
You usually are away from apn on the weekends.
-nosy
Say Good-Bye To New Orleans.
I hope not!!! I have yet to go on my planned tour of all the
restaurants...i.e. I had planned to eat my way through
New Orleans one of these years...(love that Cajun/ Creole food!)
I hope everyone there gets out safely!
Jane
It's not looking good, Jane. Last I heard, there were about 100,000
people stuck there. :-(
Woods
As the Hip say," New Orleans is sinking
and I don't wanna swim". Hopefully the people are evacuated in time,
that is all but the politicians.
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28 Aug 2005 07:06:00 PM |
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"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
news:GsrQe.40742$EX.21073@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
Jane wrote:
<Zak@Bushsucks.ca> wrote in message
news:fk64h15sa6su459ieto2ce0rptugdd8n3e@4ax.com...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:36:32 -0400, (Su Zanadu)
wrote:
Hey Unc!
What are you doing here?
You working overtime or something?
You usually are away from apn on the weekends.
-nosy
Say Good-Bye To New Orleans.
I hope not!!! I have yet to go on my planned tour of all the
restaurants...i.e. I had planned to eat my way through
New Orleans one of these years...(love that Cajun/ Creole food!)
I hope everyone there gets out safely!
Jane
It's not looking good, Jane. Last I heard, there were about 100,000
people stuck there. :-(
Yes, I heard the same. Some are getting to the Superdome, but they are not
even sure how that building will fare.
They say the French Quarter could be annihilated. Very sad...
Jane
Woods
As the Hip say," New Orleans is sinking
and I don't wanna swim". Hopefully the people are evacuated in time,
that is all but the politicians.
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28 Aug 2005 07:26:51 PM |
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Jane wrote:
"Woodswun" <woodswun@tepidmail.com> wrote in message
news:GsrQe.40742$EX.21073@twister.nyroc.rr.com...
Jane wrote:
<Zak@Bushsucks.ca> wrote in message
news:fk64h15sa6su459ieto2ce0rptugdd8n3e@4ax.com...
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:36:32 -0400, (Su Zanadu)
wrote:
Hey Unc!
What are you doing here?
You working overtime or something?
You usually are away from apn on the weekends.
-nosy
Say Good-Bye To New Orleans.
I hope not!!! I have yet to go on my planned tour of all the
restaurants...i.e. I had planned to eat my way through
New Orleans one of these years...(love that Cajun/ Creole food!)
I hope everyone there gets out safely!
Jane
It's not looking good, Jane. Last I heard, there were about 100,000
people stuck there. :-(
Yes, I heard the same. Some are getting to the Superdome, but they are not
even sure how that building will fare.
They say the French Quarter could be annihilated. Very sad...
Jane
There are entire parishes (counties) in Louisiana that are not having
*any* official shelters available, because authorities do not believe
there are any structures that will be left standing after Katrina goes
through. They are telling people to get.out.
Woods
Woods
As the Hip say," New Orleans is sinking
and I don't wanna swim". Hopefull | | | | | | | | | |
