Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[TexasEagle]

I still can't believe how long it's taken to get this rolling and that there's still people stuck on top of buildings out there. It's just mindboggling and pathetically sad.

[Wingspan]

Stories from inside the SuperDome

not to make any light of that particular situation, but a passing thought i had was after this is all said and done, and cleanup and rebuilding is in the works...i dont see how the saints could ever go back into playing there.

it's taken on a new "life" so to speak, the lure of the place will have the same as some of the plantations and old boarding houses in the french quarter.

[rjs246]

Um I don't think anything in that city will be ready for much of anything for a while. The Superdome is probably going to be leveled. It's full of human waste and dead bodies. It's gots huge holes in the roof. There have been some pretty awful acts of violence there. I would be stunned they don't raze it.

[Butchers Bill]

This is unbelievable.  There should have been convoys of food, supplies, and water sent to the Superdome and the Convention Center days ago.  It understandable that it could take some time to assemble the sheer amount of supplies it would take to feed 100,000 people, but damn...something is better than nothing.

[Wingspan]

Um I don't think anything in that city will be ready for much of anything for a while. The Superdome is probably going to be leveled. It's full of human waste and dead bodies. It's gots huge holes in the roof. There have been some pretty awful acts of violence there. I would be stunned they don't raze it.

i was thinking more along the lines of next year.

at the earliest. if ever.

the irony being the history of violence was part of the lure of new orleans.

trying to think ahead  to the rebuild part of this, i just dont see how it can be fixed without leveling and literally moving the city to safer ground.

[Father Demon]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Basically, these guys are holed up on the 15th floor of a high-rise. They're security/computer guys, keeping a network up. They're former military, and have 20 days of generator power.

Fascinating, fascinating reading.

[PhillyGirl]

Philly to help

[MadMarchHare]

Why even try?  Get everyone out, make sure there isn't some looming environmental disaster (if there is, clean it as best you can), and leave it for the crocs.  As Dio has said countless times, stupid farging place to put a city.

[Diomedes]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Basically, these guys are holed up on the 15th floor of a high-rise. They're security/computer guys, keeping a network up. They're former military, and have 20 days of generator power.

Fascinating, fascinating reading.

Thanks for that link.

[TexasEagle]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Basically, these guys are holed up on the 15th floor of a high-rise. They're security/computer guys, keeping a network up. They're former military, and have 20 days of generator power.

Fascinating, fascinating reading.

Thanks for that link.

Ditto... how much of this won't come out for months/years while the media continues to interview the talking heads.

[MURP]

thanks Demon.  just got their cam to stream on windows media player... looking at a smoking building in the distance..

[MURP]

from Demons link... interviewing a police officer

Over 30 officers have quit over the last 3 days. Out of 160 officers in his district maybe 55 or 60 are working. He hasn't seen several since Sunday. HQ is closed, evacuated. No phones to contact them.

[TexasEagle]

Also from the link:

New Orleans Police Department Status: The situation for the NOPD is critical. This is firsthand information I have from an NOPD officer we're giving shelter to. Their command and control infrastructure is shot. They have limited to no communication whatsoever. He didn't even know the city was under martial law until we told him! His precinct (5th Precinct) is under water! UNDER WATER -- every vehicle under water. They had to commander moving trucks like Ryder and UHaul to get around. The coroner's office is shut down so bodies are being covered in leaves at best or left where they lie at worst.

They don't even know their own rules of engagement. He says the force is impotent right now. They have no idea what's going on, no coordination, virtually no comms, etc. the National Guard is gonna air drop a radio system for them with 200 radios? They are getting very little direction.

The 3rd District bugged out to Baton Rouge because they flooded out.

His quote: "It's a zoo."

So many people out there still just have no idea how terrible this is and has been.

[rjs246]

from Demons link... interviewing a police officer

Over 30 officers have quit over the last 3 days. Out of 160 officers in his district maybe 55 or 60 are working. He hasn't seen several since Sunday. HQ is closed, evacuated. No phones to contact them.

Spineless police officers?! Who'dathunkit!?

[Father Demon]

You see stuff on the news and in online articles, but none of them do justice for how bad it really is.

The interview with the cop in that blog is frightening.  I'm simply amazed at how brittle civilization is.