Hurricane Katrina a Category 5 Hurricane!

[bamacre]

Wow, WDSU just showed some amazing video!

Edit: Two guys riding out the storm shooting video at a hotel on the coast. They were in the lobby when huge waves blasted through the doors, then a car started coming through the lobby.

 

[Mill]

Live blog

 

[MrDingleDangle]

haha

Wolf Blitzer just said...so many people "so poor and so black"

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper

Originally posted by: conjur
Cafferty on CNN apparently just went apesh*t about the lack of Federal response.

My second question of the day

Who's Cafferty? A political commentator/correspondent?

I believe he's on the morning show but is now a reporter in the field.

Listening to NPR on the way home, their reporter stated 2,000 people at the Conv. Ctr. The only food/water they've had is what some people were able to "loot" from stores along the river walk. They are about a mile from the Superdome where there is some food and where people are being evacuated but there are flooded streets between them.

The NPR reporter said there were two bodies on the side of the building, one in a wheelchair and that two more elderly died today. There is human waste everywhere. There are women with babies there. They've seen buses go by, cops go by, Nat'l Guard have stopped by but provided no food/water.

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: MrDingleDangle
haha

Wolf Blitzer just said...so many people "so poor and so black"

Oops

 

[lsman]

And on Astrodome, there are ppl who got out before the storm hit (and stay at hotel first) now want to live inside (not those that slowly been bus to)... how to due with those ppl and I am sure the number 25000 going to fill up easily... may be we need military base etc

 

[plastick]

I dont know if this has already been mentioned or not, but I wonder if we have any anandtechers down there that had to evacuate..

 

[conjur]

WWL links updated in the OP

 

[bamacre]

Originally posted by: plastick
I dont know if this has already been mentioned or not, but I wonder if we have any anandtechers down there that had to evacuate..

A few, but I think they have all been accounted for.

 

[YetioDoom]

Originally posted by: bamacre

Originally posted by: plastick
I dont know if this has already been mentioned or not, but I wonder if we have any anandtechers down there that had to evacuate..

A few, but I think they have all been accounted for.

Yeah, does anyone know of any missing ATers?

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

I no longer have any sympathy for those left in the city, other than the children whose parents kept them there.
The Mayor of New Orleans made a good call in ordering an evacuation of the city in advance. He offered public transport. But not everyone listens. So not everyone left.

Ok I can understand not hearing about the free evac after a day or 2 but they freaking had a week, and after a week word like that would have gotten to 95% of the people there.

 

[conjur]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9160710/

TONY ZUMBADO: I've gotta tell you, I thought I'd seen it all, but just when you think you've seen it all, you go into another situation and you see something horrific. I've never seen anything in my life like this. ... I can't put it into words the amount of destruction that is in this city and how these people are coping. They are just left behind. There is nothing offered to them. No water, no ice, no C-rations, nothing, for the last four days.

They were told to go to the convention center. They did, they've been behaving. It's unbelievable how organized they are, how supportive they are of each other. They have not started any mêlées, any riots ... they just want food and support. And what I saw there I've never seen in this country.

We need to really look at this situation at the convention center. It's getting very very crazy in there and very dangerous. Somebody needs to come down with a lot of food and a lot of water. There's no hostility there ... they need support. These people are very desperate. I saw two gentlemen die in front of me because of dehydration. I saw a baby near death.

 

[plastick]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I no longer have any sympathy for those left in the city, other than the children whose parents kept them there.
The Mayor of New Orleans made a good call in ordering an evacuation of the city in advance. He offered public transport. But not everyone listens. So not everyone left.

Ok I can understand not hearing about the free evac after a day or 2 but they freaking had a week, and after a week word like that would have gotten to 95% of the people there.

plus there was probably water everywhere...

 

[Ipno]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050901/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina

I never before believed something like this could happen in the good ole US of A, especially when you consider that only 1% of the US is in need of help.

WTF ????

 

[PG]

Originally posted by: flyingboujanero
Well since the AaronB water purchase thing is done, I'm trying to find the best place to donate money, thinking of ways to get the biggest bang for the buck.

I know a lot of places are probably doing things where you donate and they'll match donations, so i'm looking for the place that gives the highest.

Maybe if we get some good links the OP can post them in the original.

I know the CHicago Tribune (local for me) is matching 50cents on the dollar
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Anyone else know of some that are just as good if not better?

This is a great deal, I hope some here take advantage of it. I just donated some money and the cap has now been raised to 2 million vs. the 1 million before.

 

[ViRGE]

WASHINGTON (AP): It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.

If Congress is even discussing the idea, then I'm thinking the debate is going to happen. This is going to be a looooong rebuilding process, if it happens at all

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: JeffreyLebowski
I no longer have any sympathy for those left in the city, other than the children whose parents kept them there.
The Mayor of New Orleans made a good call in ordering an evacuation of the city in advance. He offered public transport. But not everyone listens. So not everyone left.

Ok I can understand not hearing about the free evac after a day or 2 but they freaking had a week, and after a week word like that would have gotten to 95% of the people there.

That free evac wasn't.

The RTA (the public bus system in N.O.) was FREE for people to get to the Superdome, not out of the city!

 

[MrDingleDangle]

they just said on cnn that someone was shooting at the people at the convention center, but he thought he might be caught now

 

[ViRGE]

And now the mayor is practically giving permission to loot the city as a last resort:

WWL: In hopes of defusing the unrest at the convention center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they can find. But the bedlam appeared to make leaving difficult.

 

[conjur]

Wow!

Huge caravan of buses coming into the city headed to the Superdome. WWL just showed the video. THRONGS of people still waiting at the Superdome. On there now...a crowd shot.

 

[ViRGE]

Good god! Look at all of those people!:Q

 

[ViRGE]

Oh great, someone invited Jesse Jackson to Louisiana.

 

[imported_weadjust]

CNN is talking to the authorities about arresting people for looting. I think you would be better off if you got arrested. At least they would take you to jail (or wherever they are keeping the prisoners) and give you some food and water.

 

[MrDingleDangle]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
WASHINGTON (AP): It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.

If Congress is even discussing the idea, then I'm thinking the debate is going to happen. This is going to be a looooong rebuilding process, if it happens at all

wtf....fine if something ever happens to chicago i guess we shouldnt rebuild that cause its close to a lake

why the hell is he making statements like that instead of talking about getting people out

 

[MrDingleDangle]

4:15 P.M. - (AP): Police say storm victims are being raped and beaten inside the New Orleans Convention Center.