Katrina

Janet · #1 08-30-2005, 08:33 AM

My God, I read everything that has happened with this hurricane and I can't believe it. They say 80 people may have died. Really scary stuff.

Today it's already up here in NJ area.

You should read my weather report. We could get up to 4 inches of rain. The way the wind is positioned, we could get tornados. Then tomorrow if it gets hot, the storms could get even worse because Katrina will clash with a cold front...

VERY dramatic. We don't get 4 inches or rain or tornados around here but this weather report was like 6 paragraphs of how we could have really dangerous weather. Kinda scary.....

estranged4life · #2 08-30-2005, 09:37 AM

30 people were killed in one apartment complex alone in Biloxi when 32 foot storm surge slammed into their apartments...The officials are saying it will take at least 1 month to have electric back on in N'Orleans and that the damage was more "exponentially worse than they expected".

The water is still rising in N'Orleans and they expect it to get even worse before it gets better.

DavidMn · #3 08-30-2005, 10:39 AM

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30 people were killed in one apartment complex alone in Biloxi when 32 foot storm surge slammed into their apartments...The officials are saying it will take at least 1 month to have electric back on in N'Orleans and that the damage was more "exponentially worse than they expected".

The water is still rising in N'Orleans and they expect it to get even worse before it gets better.

Yikes. No good

gldstwmn · #4 08-30-2005, 10:59 AM

I don't know if anyone saw Aaron Brown last night when he talked with Jeanne Meserve. She talked about nightfall and how they could hear people yelling for help and there was nothing they could do to help them. She was crying.
Then I saw the guy in Mississippi this morning whose house split in half and couldn't hold on to his wife. That interview was haunting.

DavidMn · #5 08-30-2005, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I don't know if anyone saw Aaron Brown last night when he talked with Jeanne Meserve. She talked about nightfall and how they could hear people yelling for help and there was nothing they could do to help them. She was crying.
Then I saw the guy in Mississippi this morning whose house split in half and couldn't hold on to his wife. That interview was haunting.

Lets make sure and be thankful for everyday we have.

wondergirl9847 · #6 08-30-2005, 11:11 AM

My prayers go out to the people over there. Chris, your post about the people yelling breaks my heart.

Lee · #7 08-30-2005, 11:25 AM

I feel so bad for the people down there. Everything is detroyed. They've lost everything & don't know what to do. I couldn't sleep the night/morning that the hurricane hit b/c I knew some people weren't going to make it. Some people just didn't take it seriously or they couldn't leave b/c they were too sick, old, too poor, etc. I hope to God that no hurricane ever hits us. I don't know where we'd go or what we'd do.

I'm going to write a check to the American Red Cross. It's the least I can do.

Lee

Nixxxed · #8 08-30-2005, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I don't know if anyone saw Aaron Brown last night when he talked with Jeanne Meserve. She talked about nightfall and how they could hear people yelling for help and there was nothing they could do to help them. She was crying.
Then I saw the guy in Mississippi this morning whose house split in half and couldn't hold on to his wife. That interview was haunting.

Oh yeah - I heard a replay of that. I cried all the way through it.

The other thing about it that really got me was all the dogs she said she heard yelping and crying for their owners.

sara1998 · #9 08-30-2005, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I don't know if anyone saw Aaron Brown last night when he talked with Jeanne Meserve. She talked about nightfall and how they could hear people yelling for help and there was nothing they could do to help them. She was crying.
Then I saw the guy in Mississippi this morning whose house split in half and couldn't hold on to his wife. That interview was haunting.

I was bawling over this one half the day.... I saw a article in the Indianapolis Star about a little boy, alone, in shock, on a rooftop when rescue workers found him. His grandparents were found dead, and they haven't found his mother and 8 year old brother yet. That one really got to me.

GypsySorcerer · #10 08-30-2005, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I don't know if anyone saw Aaron Brown last night when he talked with Jeanne Meserve. She talked about nightfall and how they could hear people yelling for help and there was nothing they could do to help them. She was crying.
Then I saw the guy in Mississippi this morning whose house split in half and couldn't hold on to his wife. That interview was haunting.

I saw both of those, Chris. You're right -- very haunting.

I hope that man's children and grandchildren give him strength. My heart goes out to all of them.

gldstwmn · #11 08-30-2005, 11:01 AM

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The water is still rising in N'Orleans and they expect it to get even worse before it gets better.

Apparently, the levee at Lake Ponchartrain has been breached.

gldstwmn · #12 08-30-2005, 11:02 AM

Take care out there Janet.

strandinthewind · #13 08-30-2005, 12:37 PM

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Apparently, the levee at Lake Ponchartrain has been breached.

They are dropping sandbags into it, I think as we speak and the local pumping station is back on line. That is a good thing, but time is not on the side of the human here as that water is now contaminated and highly dangerous.

Nixxxed · #14 08-30-2005, 12:39 PM

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They are dropping sandbags into it, I think as we speak and the local pumping station is back on line. That is a good thing, but time is not on the side of the human here as that water is now contaminated and highly dangerous.

Yup - they just showed video of NO, and you could see the swirls of gasoline floating on the water, probably leaking from flooded cars. People could also smell it.

I haven't heard about the people in the Superdome tho - are they still in there, or did they move them elsewhere? They're saying there's now 3 feet of water surrounding the stadium.

strandinthewind · #15 08-30-2005, 12:42 PM

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Yup - they just showed video of NO, and you could see the swirls of gasoline floating on the water, probably leaking from flooded cars. People could also smell it.

I haven't heard about the people in the Superdome tho - are they still in there, or did they move them elsewhere? They're saying there's now 3 feet of water surrounding the stadium.

Well, it is not just the gasoline, which interestingly may be a saving factor becuase it will kill bacteria and cholera. People and other animals are surely dead in that water and that water also contains human waste from the waterlogged waste treatment plants - that and the at least 91 degree weather will make that water a toxic dump. Sacry Sacry!!!!