Katrina

[JB1]

My thoughts are with anyone over there caught up in that mess.

JB

 

[Rod Trussbroken]

Myself included.

Terrible

 

[Aussie Mark]

Ditto. And those looters need a real arse kicking. As does the French surveyor who decided that a crater below sea level surrounded by the ocean, a lake and a river would be a good place to build New Orleans.

 

[mike not fat]

Thoughts and hope for everyone there.

You now Mark, LA (and the whole califonia) seems to be in a strange place too.

MNF

 

[Psycho Ward]

I've been praying for days now, I've always had a special place in my heart for that part of the world. I’ve had many, many good times there.

I hope to see Gard tonight, his family is from that part of the woods and I believe his Dad is supposed to be here in GSO this week, I hope so.


And it just fry’s my a$$ to see the smiling looters on TV.

 

[WillPlay4Food]

Ditto. And those looters need a real arse kicking. As does the French surveyor who decided that a crater below sea level surrounded by the ocean, a lake and a river would be a good place to build New Orleans.

New Orleans wasn't originally below sea level. It sank as development expanded.

Take a look at the following pics and maybe wait until the crisis is over before castigating the city planner.

Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

This photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard shows flooded roadways as the Coast Guard conducted initial Hurricane Katrina damage assessment overflights of New Orleans, Monday Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi)

Rooftops and bare foundations sit surrounded by the debris of damaged and destroyed homes and businesses, in Biloxi, Miss., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, following Hurricane Katrina's landfall along the Gulf Coast on Monday. Across Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, more than 1 million residents remained without electricity, some without clean drinking water, Tuesday. In devastated Biloxi, Miss., areas that were not underwater were littered with tree trunks, downed power lines and chunks of broken concrete.Some buildings were flattened. (AP Photo/John David Mercer, Pool)

The magnitude of destruction from this hurricane is heartwrenching. I just don't know what to say. I hope FEMA and the Red Cross and other relief agencies can save the rest of the survivors before this area of Southeast US is completely wiped from the map.

 

[Bubba Love]

It's horrific. I just heard BBC News say that in some areas of the city, 90% of buildings have been totally destroyed. My thoughts are with the survivors.

 

[kbaim]

Words can barely describe it. Pictures are even hard to look at.

I watched CNN for 2 straight hours last night.

Asked myself if I lost everything and had no food, no water, no clothing, no shelter, no transportation, no money, nowhere to even go to the bathroom...where would I go and what would I do?

Where - not sure.
What - probably loot to survive.

Sobering thoughts.

 

[Father Gino]

It's really horrific. I've got a bunch of cousins down there. The only ones I really know are safe in sound with their momma in Baton Rouge.

Frankly, I think the least of N'Orlan's problems is looting.

 

[GWDavis28]

Yah Keith they said that looting was happening big time.

I have a cousin down that way, hope she's ok.

Worse damage than hurricane Andrew in Florida.

I feel for all those affected. My hopes and prayers go out to all.

Glenn |B)

 

[tommyindelaware]

Words can barely describe it. Pictures are even hard to look at.

I watched CNN for 2 straight hours last night.

Asked myself if I lost everything and had no food, no water, no clothing, no shelter, no transportation, no money, nowhere to even go to the bathroom...where would I go and what would I do?

Where - not sure.
What - probably loot to survive.

Sobering thoughts.

+1.... ( but it is true some of the looting is just pathetic greed)
the scale of this disaster is is yet to be actually concieved.....
send money to the red cross !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mobay45]

It's just terrible what's happened to Nawlins.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that all of the cemetaries in the area bury the bodies above ground.

 

[sandaas]

+1 from norway.

How awful a disaster

Best of wishes to everyone affected.

 

[adouglas]

some of the looting is just pathetic greed

Pathetic indeed. Everything is water-damaged to begin with, and where are these people going to put the loot, anyway? Everything's still under water, and nobody can get out of the city.

Food I can understand. One radio interview I heard last night was with a woman who was going through a grocery store foraging for food. She was practically in tears, not from the devastation of the hurricane, but from the shame of having to do what she was doing to feed her family. She never thought she'd sink to that level. I think that in her shoes, we'd all do the same.

I heard an hour ago that they're going to try to move all of the people sheltering in the Superdome to the Astrodome in Texas. They're talking about a convoy of something like 475 buses...but AFAIK nobody's figured out how that's going to work, since the Superdome is surrounded by water and the interstate is impassable.

 

[scottbass71]

I was there in 2000 had the greatest time I hope the people rebuild the place so it is even better than before ( It would be hard to top though)

 

[Urwordsbreakmed]

thats ridiculous there are people sleeping in the streets... Im looking at that and just thinking this is America and we cant do anything to help them the greatest nation.

 

[phatduckk]

this whole thing just blows my mind. its just crazy!

prayers out for all who have family and friends over there

 

[Aussie Mark]

Take a look at the following pics and maybe wait until the crisis is over before castigating the city planner.

Thanks for the pics, which I'd already seen. Contrary to popular belief in the US, the rest of the world does have access to electronic media.

 

[Dr Stankface]

This hurricane is also affecting us after it has passed. Of course the flooding and destruction is still there and everyone involved in it is in my prayers, but it's also caused the rationing of gas. Since New Orleans is where the places around here get gas (don't know if it's the same everywhere else) and now we have to get it from Texas. It's caused it to go up to about $3.29 over here and near $6 in Atlanta. There's no guarantee that they'll come back down either. It makes it hard on a brotha to buy a new GK rig with these gas prices. Oh well. If someone will actually buy my Fernandes, then i'll be in business.

Andrew

 

[AnthonyD]

Horriffic...

It'll be weeks before we truly understand the situation and years before we recover...