Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans

[Jonny]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Nah, it was definately a Gulf Coast parish.

Probably Plaquemines parish - that's the one in the far southeast of the state, the very end of the delta.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Yeah, it doesn't look like that any more...

[SlowwHand]

BTW Chey, it was my question, not anyone else's.
Go ahead and pop off about 9/11 more.
Really odd place for it, but typical.
Venezuela? Alrighty then. France? Day late and a dollar short, and yet to be seen.
But this is the wrong thread.

Ditto "the other guy" who says thanks to good luck it wasn't bad.
I guess it depends on where you're standing.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
So, what happens to the Saints this season?

They lose. No change there.

[atawa]

Why didnt the gouverment build good ****s around New Orleans?

They know after all its below sea level and this is not the first storm raging north through the caribean............

[Colon™]

"What's a bar's best defense? To stay open

August 31, 2005
By Dante Ramos
Staff writer
Ms. Mae's Bar has been open around the clock at Napoleon and Magazine streets for 11 years. The bar stayed open during Hurricane Katrina, but owner Mae Brigham decided to shut down Tuesday at 1 a.m.

"Everybody was just worn out," she said.

But Brigham reopened about 9 a.m. later that morning, partly as a defense against looters. The bar is located across from a police station, and Brigham figured looters would be unlikely to attack a busy bar, especially since some of the patrons might be police officers.

By early Tuesday evening, the bar had become the meeting place for residents of surrounding neighborhoods. Patrons sitting outside on the sidewalk watched a National Guard truck pass by with a load of rescuees."

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/t-p/katrina.ssf?/hurricane/katrina/stories/html/missmaes.html

[DanS]

Why didnt the gouverment build good ****s around New Orleans?

They did. But they didn't build better levees for a number of reasons. Further, the levees were only part of the solution.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I just saw CBS News! There are tons of people camped out on bridges in New Orleans with hardly any water or any food. There are no rescue vehicles, no helicopters dropping supplys, they have basically been left alone, and they aren't very happy about it. And this isn't some small sheltered community, this is on one of the major highways right across from the SuperDome (but they can't get to the Dome because of the water in between).

Why aren't these people being helped?! This is horrible! Where are the feds?

[chequita guevara]

Because they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps instead of waiting for government handouts!

Seriously, I'm as outraged as you are. This is BS. Like I said elsewhere, this is Andrew all over again.

[atawa]

Originally posted by DanS


They did. But they didn't build better levees for a number of reasons. Further, the levees were only part of the solution.

Still a shame though, I saw the **** witch broke on tv and to be honest it didnt look like much to begin with.

I also heared about the emergency engineers dropping sandbags into the hole witch only makes clear they have absolutely no idea how to handle things. Maybe they see the light soon and just sail a freighter into the hole, looks like the only quick fix.

[atawa]

What is wrong with the word d.yke?????

[chequita guevara]

There isn't going to be a qcuik fix. At this point, it's better to let the breaches stay open, so the water can flow back out once the level of Lake Ponchetrain drops.

[alva]

'Thousands dead' in New Orleans

Elderly woman being helped onto truck

City under siege
Hurricane Katrina is thought to have killed hundreds, probably thousands of people in New Orleans, the city's mayor, Ray Nagin, has said.

Mr Nagin said there were significant numbers of corpses in the waters of the flood-stricken city, while many more people may be dead in their homes.

There would be a total evacuation of the city, he said, warning it could be months before residents could return.

President George W Bush said the area could take years to recover.

Map of central New Orleans

Cutting short a holiday in Texas to take charge of the federal recovery effort, Mr Bush said the government was dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in US history.

"This is going to be a difficult road, the challenges we face on the ground are unprecedented, but there's no doubt in my mind that we'll succeed," he said.

Mr Bush, whose Air Force One plane flew low over the affected area, was taken aback by the scale of the disaster.


Before the phones went, I was told [my family in Biloxi] had lost their roof, barn, 2 oak trees and many pines and they were letting in water
Natalie McVeigh
Oakley, England

Your Katrina experiences
Blogging Katrina

"I can't tell you how devastating the sites were," he said.

With conditions still deteriorating, the government has declared a public health emergency along the whole of the Gulf coast, to speed up the delivery of food, water and fuel to the region.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said 1,700 truckloads of essential supplies were on their way there.

Medical shelters are being set up offering 10,000 beds, while the US military is providing dozens of rescue helicopters and boats.

The Pentagon has ordered 10,000 extra national guardsmen to Louisiana and Mississippi.

Disease problem

Mayor Nagin said he had no choice but to remove the 50,000 to 100,000 people left in the city when the hurricane struck.



Follow Katrina's path

"We have to. The city will not be functional for two to three months," he said.

He said dead bodies in the water would soon create a serious disease problem.

Survivors could be taken out at a rate of up to 15,000 a day.

Counting the dead remains a secondary priority until they are rescued, officials say.

In Mississippi, officials have warned the death toll is likely to climb above the current 110.

Harrison County bore the brunt of Hurricane Katrina as it slammed into Biloxi and Gulfport before heading inland.

Rising water

New Orleans has been plagued by looting, floods and increasingly desperate people, two days after the hurricane.


American Red Cross donations

https://www.redcross.org

tel (in the US): 1 800 HELP NOW

About a million people evacuated from the area before the hurricane struck, but tens of thousands of others are trapped in the city.

The authorities are planning to evacuate up to 20,000 people from the city's Superdome stadium where sanitary conditions are said to be appalling.

Four people believed to be elderly or infirm died there overnight, according to reports.

Surges of flood water submerged more areas of the city after failed attempts to plug breaches in the barriers which are supposed to protect it.


The search for survivors continues in New Orleans as waters continue to rise

In pictures

The pumps which usually assist are no longer working because of the rising levels.

The BBC's Alastair Leithead in New Orleans says there is panic as vital supplies run out. Heavily armed police have been trying to impose a form of martial law to stem looting.

While some looters are stealing non-essential goods, others are simply trying to find food and water.

Survivors are being found all the time.

In Mississippi, two children who lost their parents were taken to safety. In New Orleans, people are still being winched from roofs.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4201480.stm

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by atawa
What is wrong with the word d.yke?????

It's a term for lesbian in English.

[chequita guevara]

Mr Bush said the government was dealing with one of the worst natural disasters in US history.

LIES! They are barely dealing with it at all!