New Orleans is sinking and I don't wanna swim!

I figured he meant he's in Concord now, instead of just keeping his permanent residency there while he finishes his sentence. Concord is right on the other side of the hill from Berkeley, so it doesn't get all that hot there.
 
Well.... the storm itself is over but the damage remains.

WASHINGTON - The nation's top disaster relief official said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina wrought "catastrophic" damage to low-lying portions of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama and that additional medical personnel were being moved in to treat evacuated hospital patients.

With at least one New Orleans hospital threatened by Katrina's floodwaters, patients were being transferred to the Superdome, said Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and medical personnel were being sent in to treat them.

The damage is "very, very sobering," Brown said. "And of course the flooding is just everywhere ... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama. This storm is really having a catastrophic effect," Brown said on CBS' "The Early Show."

FEMA sent medical teams, rescue squads and groups prepared to supply food and water into the disaster areas and Brown said it would be "quite a while" before those displaced by the hurricane can return to damaged areas, especially in those areas near downtown New Orleans.

"It's the parishes and wards south and east of New Orleans, it's Biloxi, Miss., and the region," Brown said on NBC's "Today" show. "All those low-lying areas are just devastated."
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Deaths estimated to run well into the hundreds as rescuers try to find and remove people who refused to evacuate low-lying areas. Approximatly 80% of new orleans is flooded with between 3' and 20' of water thanks to some collapsed dikes. What a mess!!

Bush's solution:
President Bush, meanwhile, was considering tapping U.S. emergency petroleum stockpiles to ease the storm's impact on affected refineries. Administration officials said Bush was expected to authorize a loan of at least some oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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:banghead: Gotta protect oil prices!!!
 
He's also mobilized and funded FEMA to help deal with the human side. What else, exactly, would you have him do? Real easy to take potshots when you're not the guy who has to come up with the impossible solutions.

I just read that the Grand casino washed across US 90. Holy shit. That whole strip must be just gone.
 
Judging from the pics this AM, it will be years before the New Orleans/Gulfport stretch of the coast has any any semblance of normalcy.

This is utter devastation. :(
 
HomeLAN said:
He's also mobilized and funded FEMA to help deal with the human side. What else, exactly, would you have him do?
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Put the oil on a back-burner for a bit. :shrug: Why bother even mentioning it?

Hell, I'm hearing more about the devastation to the oil processing plants than to people's homes.
 
That's because there are 275+ million of us outside the area devestated. Like it or not, direct effects in people get more attention from those people than effects on folks 500 miles away. It's called human nature.

We have lives to get on with, too, and this stuff affects those lives. We all regret the pain and loss down there, but that ain't all of what we have to do today.
 
New Orleans is kinda what we call a major shipping port. In addition to the private homes destroyed, this will have far reaching economical effects for every US citizen.

It's news. They're reporting it. That's their job.
 
HomeLAN said:
That'll get you shot. By that time, security WILL be back.
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What? You mean they won't just yell "Stop." And when I don't, they'll yell "Stop" again? What barbarians. Someone needs to take away their guns and give them a good stern lecture about the rights of thieves.


yes, I did have to correct the 'just' in that sentence.
 
Here's something a lot of people don't think about when it comes to oil: governmental agencies have to buy gas and diesel too. Any idea how much diesel a trash truck burns in a month? It's astounding, but trash pickup is essential for public health and safety. If prices jump 20 cents a gallon, and a truck burns several thousand gallons a month, we're talking an increase of hundreds of dollars per month per truck. Let's not forget about fire trucks and police cruisers. If you take 20 cents a gallon and multiply it by how many gallons a city of, say, 60,000 people uses, it's enough to pay the salary of one or two cops, at least. Times are tough enough as it is. Bush can take a reasonable step to prevent that budget cruncher and help keep the economy rolling. There's more to think about than just what's going on in one part of the nation, after all. I thought liberals were supposed to be the deep thinkers.
 
Christ! I just watched a 20 min video of the devastation from Bay St Louis (where the eye hit) all the way over through Biloxi. The devastation was almost total. Most places were stripped to the bare earth. Casino row has been wiped out.
 
Looting Begins...

I'm wondering where they plan on taking all of the stuff they're taking? Sure...I can see food, water and medication...even things like diapers being taken from a necessity standpoint...but TVs and jewlery?

Hell...even the National Guard are loot...er...appropriating necessary goods.


At a drug store on Canal Street just outside the French Quarter, two police officers with pump shotguns stood guard as workers from the Ritz-Carlton Hotel across the street loaded large laundry bins full of medications, snack foods and bottled water.

"This is for the sick," Officer Jeff Jacob said. "We can commandeer whatever we see fit, whatever is necessary to maintain law."
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unclehobart said:
Christ! I just watched a 20 min video of the devastation from Bay St Louis (where the eye hit) all the way over through Biloxi. The devastation was almost total. Most places were stripped to the bare earth. Casino row has been wiped out.
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Yeah. I crossed this bridge on the way out of town to pick up a po' boy. Hard to believe it was a week ago today.
 
Two more levees have broken in N.O., the governor has ordered everyone out of the city. She said they're assuming it will take twelve to sixteen weeks before they can start letting people go back to their homes.

A full day after the Big Easy thought it had escaped Katrina's full fury, two levees broke and spilled water into the streets Tuesday, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the bowl-shaped, below-sea-level city, inundating miles and miles of homes and rendering much of New Orleans uninhabitable for weeks or months.
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