Hurricane Katrina
#16
Posted 30 August 2005 - 08:27 AM
#17
Posted 30 August 2005 - 08:44 AM
Yep - the levees broke last night, so the flooding is actually worse today than yesterday.
Sinatra "Here's to the Losers"
#18
Posted 30 August 2005 - 10:39 AM
About as many as people helping Bill Gates if his house got destroyed/flooded.
-- Albert Einstein--
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#19
Posted 30 August 2005 - 10:40 AM
I meant all of the southeaster U.S.
-- Albert Einstein--
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#20
Posted 30 August 2005 - 12:14 PM
Then just a few weeks ago, along came Dennis, straight at them. Again, due to a last-minute zig, Dennis didn't hit them head-on, and they survived.
I e-mailed her yesterday, and got my reply back this morning. She said they are all fine, but they have no power, everything is flooded, and they don't know when it will be back on.
I think they've had more than their fair share in that area. Everyone down there is in my thoughts and prayers. I can't even imagine how awful it must be.
#22
Posted 30 August 2005 - 12:35 PM
We actually live in Germantown, 15 minutes outside of Memphis. Our roof sprang a leak last night and we woke up to a yard littered with leaves and small branches, a broken flag pole and a swimming pool an inch or so from cresting. But we consider ourselves fortunate after seeing the devastation our neighboring states suffered! We will have to deal with a few tornado warnings over the next few days but all in all, we're very lucky!
#23
Posted 30 August 2005 - 01:03 PM
Governor: Rest Of New Orleans Needs To Be Evacuated
Police in New Orleans say there are hundreds of people still on rooftops in the
city, waiting for rescue.
MORE DETAILS: http://treets.kcra.c...?l=59104594&t=1
#24
Posted 30 August 2005 - 02:40 PM
We're big boys on the world scene, we can take care of ourselves, and the world knows it.
-- Albert Einstein--
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#25
Posted 30 August 2005 - 03:16 PM
i hope other countries help out. The US always helps in a big way when something like this happens elsewhere.
I hope everyone that can will help out own people in some way.
Red Cross or Salvation Army
#26
Posted 30 August 2005 - 03:21 PM
Brace for more Katrinas, say experts
Tue Aug 30,10:55 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.co...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
PARIS (AFP) - For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms.
2005 is on track to be the worst-ever year for hurricanes, according to experts measuring ocean temperatures and trade winds -- the two big factors that breed these storms in the Caribbean and tropical North Atlantic.
Earlier this month, Tropical Storm Risk, a London-based consortium of experts, predicted that the region would see 22 tropical storms during the six-month June-November season, the most ever recorded and more than twice the average annual tally since records began in 1851.
Seven of these storms would strike the United States, of which three would be hurricanes, it said.
Already, 2004 and 2003 were exceptional years: they marked the highest two-year totals ever recorded for overall hurricane activity in the North Atlantic.
-- Albert Einstein--
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#27
Posted 30 August 2005 - 03:25 PM
Brace for more Katrinas, say experts
Tue Aug 30,10:55 AM ET
http://news.yahoo.co...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
PARIS (AFP) - For all its numbing ferocity, Hurricane Katrina will not be a unique event, say scientists, who say that global warming appears to be pumping up the power of big Atlantic storms.
2005 is on track to be the worst-ever year for hurricanes, according to experts measuring ocean temperatures and trade winds -- the two big factors that breed these storms in the Caribbean and tropical North Atlantic.
Earlier this month, Tropical Storm Risk, a London-based consortium of experts, predicted that the region would see 22 tropical storms during the six-month June-November season, the most ever recorded and more than twice the average annual tally since records began in 1851.
Seven of these storms would strike the United States, of which three would be hurricanes, it said.
Already, 2004 and 2003 were exceptional years: they marked the highest two-year totals ever recorded for overall hurricane activity in the North Atlantic.
we've been keeping records for how many years now? earth has been around for how many years now?
i seriously doubt we can project/predict future earth events. we just can't extrapolate 150 years of data over millions of years of actual events.
maybe these events happen every 200 year and we just haven't figured that out yet. maybe they're every 500 years. we don't know.
#28
Posted 30 August 2005 - 03:43 PM
The historic French Quarter appeared to have been spared the worst flooding, but its stores were getting the worst of human nature.
"The looting is out of control. The French Quarter has been attacked," Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson said. "We're using exhausted, scarce police to control looting when they should be used for search and rescue while we still have people on rooftops."
As Sen. Mary Landrieu (news, bio, voting record) flew over the area by helicopter, a group of people smashed a window at a convenience store and jumped in.
At a drug store in the French Quarter, people were running out with grocery baskets and coolers full of soft drinks, chips and diapers. One looter shot and wounded a fellow looter, who was taken to a hospital and survived.
http://news.yahoo.co...ina_new_orleans
#29
Posted 30 August 2005 - 03:47 PM
With water from nearby Lake Pontchartrain rising throughout the city of 500,000 people after an overnight break in at least two protective levees, rescuers plucked people from roofs, bodies were seen floating in the streets and the famous French Quarter was threatened.
"We probably have 80 percent of our city under water; with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 20 feet (7 meters). Both airports are underwater," Mayor Ray Nagin said in a radio interview.
Nagin added he expected the death toll to be significant.
"This is catastrophic," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.
http://news.yahoo.co...a_neworleans_dc
#30
Posted 30 August 2005 - 03:52 PM
I believe that's 6,000.
-- Albert Einstein--
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