29-08-2005 19:00									#151
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quote: Originally posted by lightblue From wind, not from planes flying into it. Just seems a bit tasteless to drag 9/11 into it when it's got bugger all to do with it. It's more your post history though that made me assume the worst possible intentions (on a empathic plane).

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	29-08-2005 19:05									#152
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So the Superdome seems to have become the Superdoom. Will Katrina and the Waves be on stage tonight?

Anyway, if they are evacuating, where will they all go, and how? I think there's a mall and a nearby large hotel, the Hyatt Regency that can be reached without going outside, but can it house that many people? I the windows are blown in, only the corridors can be used.

	29-08-2005 19:09									#153
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Doesn't seem all that bad yet, a few small holes. Worst of the storm is yet to come though I believe.

	29-08-2005 19:13									#154
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I don't think it would be a practical action to evacuate to a highrise.

	29-08-2005 19:21									#155
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There have been a few tears in the fabric of the Superdome. The structural intregrity has not been damaged at all, according to CNN.

Nothing to worry about, except to the people right below the holes.

	29-08-2005 20:06									#156
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The CNN Breaking News things says:

quote: Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, on east side of city, under 5 to 6 feet of water after pumps fail, mayor says.

Doesn't sound great if the pumps are starting to fail before the surge is due to hit.

	29-08-2005 20:07									#157
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Here's a blog from folks holed up at the Times-Picayune:

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/in..._08.html#074698

	29-08-2005 20:33									#158
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Weather Channel is chatting with a guy in a nursing home a little east of New Orleans that sits 27 feet above sea level a half mile inland.

The entire first floor of the building is underwater.

	29-08-2005 20:42									#159
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Weather Channel is reporting that downtown Mobile, AL is underwater.

	29-08-2005 21:22									#160
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A Swedish MD who is working at a hospital in New Orleans was interviewed live on Swedish Radio news. He was very calm, when he said things like "The windows of the hospital has broken", "cars outside has been smashed" and "debris is flying viciously all around the house, causing severe injuries to anyone outdoors", but I suppose that's the profesional coolness you would expect from a doctor.

	29-08-2005 21:23									#161
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	29-08-2005 21:30									#162
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I don't know if anyone has brought it up, but even if New Orleans was spared, and this thing managed to somehow kill no one anywhere, the loss of business income and falling behind schedule in work, such as loading/unloading ships, would be substantial.

	29-08-2005 21:33									#163
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My sis and family evacuated out of the city yesterday at 1 pm. They have a place on Grand Isle, which is probably a goner.

Haven't heard anything about the levees.

	29-08-2005 21:34									#164
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Here's a better image of the same



But I think this one from Fox is more telling:

	29-08-2005 21:36									#165
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wow, aftonbladets got their own gonzo there?

	29-08-2005 21:51									#166
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Can't they nuke the thing before it hits earth?

	29-08-2005 21:54									#167
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Yeah didnt the russians have some technology to disperse clouds...or was it to create them. Like shooting silver to the sky or something...

	29-08-2005 22:03									#168
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it is shooting small particles into a cloud and thereby making it rain.

	29-08-2005 22:21									#169
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Uh oh...



Someone should tell him he left his lights on...

	29-08-2005 22:49									#170
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Jesus Christ, this thing is going to make Andrew look cheep.

	29-08-2005 22:50									#171
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CNN was bandying $12bn around earlier i think.

	29-08-2005 22:52									#172
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quote: Originally posted by The Mad Monk Art Bell has received reports that WLL New Orleans is off the air.

Art Bell? isn't he that nut who had a book that was the inspiration for The Day After Tomorrow??

	29-08-2005 22:54									#173
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quote: Originally posted by lightblue CNN was bandying $12bn around earlier i think.

Thats it? I was expecting a lot worse, especially if New orleans gets Lake Ponchatrain blown onto it.

	29-08-2005 22:56									#174
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	29-08-2005 23:04									#175
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Have Mississippi and Alabama been evacuated? If not, what happens to all the trailer parks when the storm hits?

	29-08-2005 23:12									#176
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quote: Originally posted by Odin Thats it? I was expecting a lot worse, especially if New orleans gets Lake Ponchatrain blown onto it.

The latest figures seem to be $25bn, I think the 12bn figure might have been just New Orleans and not Biloxi etc.

	29-08-2005 23:25									#177
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov He hasn't posted in almost 5 hours, either...

Aparently he was asleep. There are some new postings.

	29-08-2005 23:57									#178
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quote: Originally posted by Gangerolf Can't they nuke the thing before it hits earth?

I don't think that you are aware of the power of a hurricane - a nuke against a hurricane is like a mosquito attacking an elephant.

	29-08-2005 23:57									#179
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quote: Originally posted by SlowwHand Dis is an idiot. He tries hard to not be though, so ignore him. The Witch-queen Of New Orleans Redbone Marie Marie la voodoo veau she'll put a spell on you. Marie Marie la voodoo veau she'll put a spell on you. Marie Marie la voodoo veau she's the witch-queen oh of New Orleans of New Orleans. I'm gonna tell you a story strange as it now seems of zombie voodoo gris gris and the witch-queen of New Orleans. She lived in a magic possessed by the devils skew from a shack near the swamp lands made of mud be brick. Marie stirred her witches brew. Marie Marie... Dime or a nickel anyone could buy voodoo of any kind she had potions and lotions herb and tanna leaves guaranteed to blow your mind early one mornin' into mucky swamp dew vanished Marie with hate in her eyes tho' she'll never return all the cajuns knew a witch-queen never dies.

am I an idiot? As predicted this storm really hasn't done much damage or killed many people.

It's you guys who need to stop listening to these doom and gloom "experts" who say the entire city would be destroyed. I knew that wouldn't happen.

	30-08-2005 00:31									#180
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quote: Originally posted by Dis As predicted this storm really hasn't done much damage or killed many people.

It's a bit early. I'm not a gloom-and-doomer, but my guess is that this storm will easily surpass Andrew in cost, both financially and in terms of human lives. And that is pretty significant.