sam_portera Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 My family and I are safe, we were evacuated Sunday just before the storm hit. I am told that my area has 10 feet of water and only roof tops are visible. Water still rising because of levee breaches. Most of New Orleans and surrounding areas are under water, Twin span reported to be "gone" as is the causeway but these are unconfirmed. I am in Alexandria with family and comfortable, I hope everyone else got out ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronald_moravec1 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Heard at noon today,Tuesday, the city is still taking on water due to a leavy breach. Mobile, Biloxi, and Gulf Port were hit as badly if not worse. We have drout conditions here in Chicago. There has been one decent rain all summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_farmer2 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Glad you got out Sam. The Mississippi gulf coast is destroyed (over $26 Billion in insured losses is what the current estimates say). Something like 80 peopele are dead in Harrison County alone. The storm continued to cut a very wide path throughout the state. When it got here (Jackson, Miss.) it was a category one storm with gusts to about 80mph. 80% of the state is now without power (my office happens to be in the 20%, though my house is not). There has been a great deal of devastation on the gulf coast and elsewhere in Katrina's path. I wish everyone the best. Frank Farmer Jackson, Miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric friedemann Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I'm sorry for your loss, Sam. Drudge seems to be collecting a lot of the essential news; particularly about N.O.: http://www.drudgereport.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 OK, so here we go. Start the flaming, guys. George W. ist the guilty one here. He just won't do <i>anything</i> about the carbon dioxide issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johns1 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Sam, Those of us happy LHSA-ers who attended the 2005 Spring Shoot in your city fell in love with the people and amazing history of the Big Easy all over again. We collectively fret with you about this major disaster and hope y'all experience the fastest possible recovery. Best wishes, -jb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_white2 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I know this is a bit late. And please don't take it the wrong way but,,, MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND!!!!!! ;-) Please? I've never understood why people would want to live below sea level. It's one thing if it's Death Valley, and you're a few hundred miles from the sea. But right next door? Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_bedell Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 "I've never understood why people would want to live below sea level. It's one thing if it's Death Valley, and you're a few hundred miles from the sea. But right next door? Why?" Personality goes a long way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eliot_rosen1 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 You're talking about a whole city. People have roots and don't want to just pick up and leave. One reason NO developed into a big city in the first place is its proximity to bodies of water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prince_alfie Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I always have good memories of being in New Orleans (visiting) when I used to live in the South. Except the humidity was bad for my allergies. Reminds of the Harry Connick Jr. songs. The pictures of the disaster look rather drastic, very much like scenes from India. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pensacolaphoto Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I wish all of you a the luck in the world to rebuild your lives and to be happy again after these terrible losses. "Why live in New Orleans" ... and so on .. why live in Baghdad? It is their choice and as long as it is a place that millions enjoy and/or tolerate, that's the way it is. I am so happy that my family escaped the direct blow of Katrina, and I keep thanking God for sparing us the pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david_bedell Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Don't forget to call the Dutch stupid, as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eric friedemann Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 "Don't forget to call the Dutch stupid, as well." "There are two things in the world I can't stand: people who are intolerant of other people's cultures ... and the Dutch." Michael Caine as Nigel Powers, "Austin Powers in Goldmember," 2002. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Ahh, I just love such sayings... was it Mark Twain?... "If there's one thing I can't stand, it is intolerance!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ted_kozak Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Jed! Move away from there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill_e_gote Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Ah, the foreign aid should come gushing in soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_houser Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I've always thought it interesting when people comment on the location of others in such a way. I live in Seattle, right on a fault that?s 40 miles from a HUGE volcano. Some would say that's silly. However, my house appreciated by $65000 last year. That must be saying something about the area. I think this hurricane will permanently displace many people from the New Orleans area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank_meeker Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I wish some of the restaurants would re-locate to Denver... We can learn to say "...all y'all..", and we REALLY need you here. Give it some thought...? Good luck to all on the Gulf Coast. Best Regards, Frank M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_white2 Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 You'd have to be quite the moron yourself to think that I called anyone stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markci Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 <i>OK, so here we go. Start the flaming, guys. George W. ist the guilty one here. He just won't do anything about the carbon dioxide issue.</i> <p> Actually you seem to be the only one here trying to make political points out of this tragedy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socke Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Just got home and read the news updates. Man, that's realy bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry_rory Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 My house is at sea level and the highest point of the city is only 25 feet above. Our house was built in 1908 and the worst it had to survive was intensive aerial bombing from the Nazis in WW2 (Portsmouth was and is a major naval port.) Should I move because of the possibility of some freak tidal surge (or other weather phenomena) ? No. People in Naples have not uprooted because of Mount Vesuvius. I mean come on, Yellowstone erupts every 650,000 years (approximately) wiping out most life in the USA and a lot more besides. It is, roughly speaking, time for it to blow again, plus or minus the odd ten thousand years. Should people move out of the USA just in case? For the whole of recorded human history we have been fortunate enough to be living during a temperate spell in the middle of a colossal ice age. The ice age is due to resume again anytime soon. (In fact global warming may be forestalling it for all we know!) Should we all move south? It is getting tiresome to hear people chanting 'global warming' every time some destructive weather event happens. What about the past? They had plenty of catastrophic weather events. For example, 1816 'the year with no summer' killed hundreds of thousands through loss of crops and famine. Cause? The explosion of Tambora and the billions of tons of fine ash it shot into the upper atmosphere in 1815 causing what we now dub a 'nuclear winter'. What lesson should we have learnt from that? "Dont live anywhere the jet streams can circulate volcanic ash?" Silly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
socke Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Trevor, pretty much the same here. I live at 0 feet elevation in a house built in 1907 which survived the british bombings in WWII. The highest point here ist the rubbish dump :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grinder Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 God, Ali, Buddah, Great Arhcitect of the Universe, or supreme being be with you all in the gulf coast. You are in our prayers in north Louisiana. Be safe and help is on the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pensacolaphoto Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Ali? Hm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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