From WWL-TV:
12:15 P.M. - Army Corps: 1,200 sandbags that are 20,000 pounds each are being brought in to bridge gap…water level is no longer rising.
12:11 P.M. - Army Corps: Water has become level with the Lake in the city so no more water should flow into the city, except at high tide.
12:10 P.M. - Engineers and construction experts are at the 17th Street Canal. They’ve filled 100, 3,000 pound sandbags and are trying to drop the bags and concrete barriers into the area.
Now, a quick note. I have noticed a distinct lack of ability to restrain one’s political beliefs, even in a thread that is distinctly non-political. I’m going to ask politely one time: please keep the politics out of these threads. If you want to spout your political ideology in a thread about Hurricane Katrina and the rescue of tens of thousands of people, do it in another blog. If this continues to be a problem, I will have to start banning IP’s and/or disabling comments, and I don’t really want to do that.
And yes, this goes for people on BOTH sides of the aisle.
Sorry Cam,
Just reponding to the chatter.
I’m sorry too. I should have known better and exercised better judgement.
Still to this day we havent heard from my dad’s cousin. He lives in Morgan City.
I have been trying to at least locate him and his family on several websites.
If you have any other sites that I can visit, please post them for me.
Thanks.
Spoil sport, what fun is that…..;-)
According to the German’s (a German to be more accurate) the hurricane happened because we didn’t sign the KEOTO (sp) treaty. What a moron.
I remember Hurricane Carol in 1954(my first hurricane) and the devastation it did to the City of New Bedford in Massachusetts. It looked a lot like New Orleans does now. In 1938 a hurricane hit the southern coast of New England with even more force.
This has nothing to do with global warming. It is random convergences of the natural forces that spawn hurricanes. Some times things line up just right, sometimes things only come close enough to cause a hurricane and sustain it at only a low level. We’ve probably never seen the maximum possible hurricane.
The likelyhood of a perfect convergence of all the forces that cause and sustain a hurricane, and all at the same time be at their maximum contributory state is nil. But, those forces will rise and fall and generate a wide range of power in hurricanes. It’s the same for tornadoes. The more powerful the forces and the closer they converge, the more powerful the storm will be.
Take heart. God ain’t out to get us for burning fossile fuels. It’s just nature showing us we ain’t the most powerful force on the Earth.
Woody
Cam,
How about a post about this article from Drudge: “No on can say they didn’t see it coming” by Sidney Blumenthal - former clinton aide. Talk about a load of crap! For instance in the third paragraph she basically blames N.O. destruction on a Bush administration cut of a study that the US Army Corps of Eng. wanted to do a year ago. Tell me, how would a study, which probably wouldn’t even have been completed by now, prevented the hurricane or the resulting destruction? There is more crap in the article but I don’t want you to ban me.
Weather patterns are cyclical. The Earth warms and cools. There are periods of severe huricanes and periods of not so severe hurricanes. We seem to have entered a period of severe hurricanes. It has nothing to do with global warming and there is nothing that we, as humans, can do about it.
My prayers go out for the people who lost family and friends in the wake of this disaster.
The looters, however, have got to be kidding me. Why on Earth would you steal electronic equipment when there is no electricity for many miles and no prospect of electricity for quite a while? I can understand the jewelry. I don’t think they should have stolen it either, but it is understtandable. Small enough to carry in your pocket and doesn’t need electricity. The only ones I can sympathize with are the ones who took food and water. Something they actually need to live.
God Bless you all,
John
I wonder if or when Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton is going to jump in and say there isn’t enough help because most of those affected were black? Sorry Cam, just had to get that out there and “call” it first.