Katrina crosses the border, never even paid duties at the line... Just so everyone can get a complete grip on the distance travelled by this same hurricane that wallopped the gulf coast, tonight, it's raining hard in kingston ontario, we're expecting a huge rainfall and high winds over the next 12 hours or more. Nothing to worry about for me, but amazing to see how quick this thing travels.... God Bless those in the south that have lost anything, let alone everything they owned... Katrina is a slimy %@#$%
EH, we didnt get hardly enything from her, she passed right over, i'm not sure how much damage the cost got though
I was watching some newscasts, some people look like they lost pretty much everything....pretty scary to see
I have just been looking at the pictures, and I'm speechless. The vast majority of New Orleans is a lake. In a lot of places all that is visible is the roofs of houses. And Biloxi and Gulfport also got pummeled, I heard the storm surge there was 25 feet. I remember some of these places they are showing, and they are no longer recognizable. Very sad . Time to get out my budget and see just how much I can afford to give to Northwest Medical Teams... Dave
Good idea! They may end up sending me down there for a relief effort....I've got all the courses and our military unit has a quick reaction disaster assistance response team, which i'm a part of... if any of you are in the area....maybe I'll see you there
We got hit bad last night high winds for 12 hours or so. It was still raining most of the day today with winds up to 30 or so as to where last night they were gusts over 75+. I think that this area made out pretty well. I know south of me got it much worse. Most of the news channels around here have just some crazy pics. of what has happened. Not to mention that fact that over 50+ people died in mississippi alone. May god be with the families of everyone effected by this storm.
I'm Active Guard in NC. (not supposed to be called up for state active duty in disaster relief). My unit IS on alert. Must be REALLY bad. I want to go help. If so, this will be my 7th hurricane duty. I love to see the faces of those who are helped. Things like this completely change some people. Sometimes I wonder why I do this (i.e. pay), but it's worth it when you see those things.....
Last I saw, the death toll in Mississippi was over 100. I think that was just one county. The Mayor of New Orleans said that before they started counting, he wanted to make sure all efforts were made to save anyone that has survived. They did later say that they are worried about the water supply system because dead animals and PEOPLE are floating in the flood waters. I saw one of the pictures that was pointing toward downtown from maybe 25 miles away. Everything in between was under water. Oh, and last I saw the water was still going up because their dikes have up to 500ft holes in them in some places. It is being compared to the Tsunami. They are evacuating all of the shelters, and making EVERYONE leave the city. It's going to be an underwater ghost town. Who wants to make a bet with me that those people (from the Tsunami) don't send money over here to help the relief effort? Brandon edit: Here's a few headlines Katrina death toll so far estimated at least 120 New Orleans mayor says toll in his city will be hundreds, maybe thousands Superdome refugees moving to Astrodome Mississippi governor: More damage than Camille
This is from CNN.COM If you go there you can see pictures of the flooding. I heard on the news that most the bridges for I-10 are gone. You can't even picture what is going on right now. It's pretty crazy. "There is way too many fricking ... cooks in the kitchen," Nagin said in a phone interview with WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, fuming over what he said were scuttled plans to plug a 200-yard breach near the 17th Street Canal, allowing Lake Pontchartrain to spill into the central business district. An earlier breach occurred along the Industrial Canal in the city's Lower 9th Ward. ( Watch the video featuring Nagin's complaints about delayed sandbagging -- 0:56 ) The rising flood waters overwhelmed pumping stations that would normally keep the city dry. About 80 percent of the city was flooded with water up to 20 feet deep after the two levees collapsed. The Army Corps of Engineers is working to repair the levee breaches, the agency said Tuesday, but it gave no timetable for repairs. (See the video of water surging into the saturated city -- 1:53 ) The Corps has workers assessing damage at the two locations. The National Guard, Coast Guard and state and federal agencies are working with the agency to speed the process, it reported. "These closures are essential so that water can be removed from the city," a statement from the Corps of Engineers' headquarters in Washington said. Walter Baumy, the agency's engineering division chief, said the Corps is trying to line up rock, sandbags, barges, helicopters and cranes to patch the damaged levees. Col. Kevin Wagner, a Corps official in Baton Rouge, said that engineers also were eyeing the prospect of filling shipping containers with sand and lowering them into the breaches to stanch the flooding. The National Weather Service reported a breach along the Industrial Canal levee at Tennessee Street, in southeast New Orleans, on Monday. Local reports later said the levee was overtopped, not breached, but the Corps of Engineers reported it Tuesday afternoon as having been breached. But Nagin said a repair attempt was supposed to have been made Tuesday. According to the mayor, Black Hawk helicopters were scheduled to pick up and drop massive 3,000-pound sandbags in the 17th Street Canal breach, but were diverted on rescue missions. Nagin said neglecting to fix the problem has set the city behind by at least a month. "I had laid out like an eight-week to ten-week timeline where we could get the city back in semblance of order. It's probably been pushed back another four weeks as a result of this," Nagin said. "That four weeks is going to stop all commerce in the city of New Orleans. It also impacts the nation, because no domestic oil production will happen in southeast Louisiana." Nagin said he expects relief efforts in the city to improve as New Orleans, the National Guard and FEMA combine their command centers for better communication, followup and accountability.
