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 Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:31 pm [KATRINA] Relief Comes to New Orleans in Full Force |
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Katrina could inundate New Orleans
Evacuation ordered; 175 mph winds, 28-foot tidal surge possible
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Emergency officials in New Orleans braced for a potentially catastrophic blow on Sunday as Hurricane Katrina swept toward the Gulf Coast -- and the city -- with maximum sustained winds near 175 mph.
Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency on Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city the Category 5 storm approached.
Forecasters said the storm surge could reach 28 feet.
"We are facing a storm that most of us have feared," Nagin said. "I do not want to create panic, but I do want the citizens to understand that this is very serious and it's of the highest nature. About 70 percent of New Orleans is below sea level, and is protected by a series of levies. (Watch video of mayor's announcement)
"The storm surge most likely will top our levee system," Nagin said. (Full story)
About 485,000 people live in the city, and many began evacuating before sunrise. (Watch video of how New Orleans reacted to warning)
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that westbound traffic was heavy and that the state police was urging people to travel to the north or east. Nagin said the city could expect complete loss of electricity and water services once the storm had done its work and that the Superdome, the city's main shelter, "is not going to be a very comfortable place at some point in time." (See video from New Orleans, where not all are ready to leave)
He said people who must stay in the shelter should bring enough food, water and supplies to last several days.
Federal Emergency Management Agency teams and other emergency teams were in place to move in as soon as the storm was over, FEMA Undersecretary Michael Brown said.
Katrina is blamed for at least seven deaths in Florida, where it made landfall Thursday as a Category 1 hurricane. As much as 18 inches of rain fell in some areas, flooding streets and homes. (See video of the damage floodwaters left in one family's new house)
At 2 p.m. ET, Katrina was centered about 180 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was moving to the west-northwest at about 13 mph.
NHC forecaster Ed Rappaport said Katrina's strength could fluctuate before it reaches shore but noted the difference between a high Category 4 and a low Category 5 was practically inconsequential.
"There will be extensive to potentially catastrophic damage to many structures ... and inland," he said. "We'll have a lot of trees that are going to come down, perhaps millions of trees. But the first threat is going to be the storm surge. You must get away from the coast now."
CNN meteorologist Brad Huffines said the Katrina would come ashore "sometime between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m." Monday. (Watch video update on Katrina's path)
Bush issues disaster declarations
Rappaport cautioned that New Orleans was not the only area threatened -- the storm's hurricane winds spread out as far as 100 miles. As far east as Mobile, Alabama, forecasters warned of storm surges reaching 8 to 10 feet.
"I'm afraid most people look at the map and say, 'It's going to New Orleans, we're all right,'" said Mobile Mayor Mike Deal. "We're in harm's way with the current path of this storm."
"This is not a joke," Walt Dickerson, director of the Mobile County Emergency Management Agency, said. "This is for real."
President Bush announced Sunday that he had issued disaster declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi.
The president urged anyone in the storm's path "to put their own safety and the safety of their families first by moving to safe ground."
Hurricane warnings were posted from Morgan City, Louisiana, eastward to the Alabama-Florida state line, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. A hurricane warning means hurricane conditions, including winds of at least 74 mph, are expected in the warning area within the next 24 hours.
A tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch were issued from the Alabama-Florida state line eastward to Destin, Florida, and from west of Morgan City to Intracoastal City, Louisiana. Another tropical storm warning was issued Sunday from Intracoastal City, Louisiana, west to Cameron, Louisiana, and from Destin, Florida, eastward to Indian Pass, Florida.
A tropical storm warning means tropical storm conditions, including winds of at least 39 mph, are expected within 24 hours. A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible, usually within 36 hours.
Category 5 is the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane intensity. Only three Category 5 hurricanes have made landfall in the United States since records were kept. Those were the Labor Day hurricane of 1935, 1969's Hurricane Camille and Hurricane Andrew, which devastated the Miami area in 1992. Andrew remains the costliest U.S. hurricane on record, with $26.5 billion in losses.
Camille came ashore in Mississippi and killed 256 people.
Oil production cut
U.S. energy companies said U.S. Gulf of Mexico crude oil output was cut by more than one-third on Saturday because of the threatening storm, Reuters reported.
The Gulf of Mexico is home to roughly a quarter of U.S. domestic oil and gas output, with a capacity to produce about 1.5 million barrels per day of crude and 12.3 billion cubic feet per day of gas. (Full story)
Many oil platforms and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico have been evacuated. ((Watch the video of drilling crews securing rigs and seeking safety.)
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Seven of Nine
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:36 pm |
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I was just wondering why no-one had posted about this... it's pretty big news even here.
I hope that Katrina doesn't cause too much trouble, but at those speeds it's likely I'll be wrong.
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Puck
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:39 pm |
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Storm surges of up to 28 feet, and New Orleans is below sea level.... If it is as bad as some people are predicting, it could take months for them to pump all the water out.
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LightningBoy
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:38 pm |
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This will be the worst disaster in the history of the United States.
New Orleans will be gone. The city will be leveled by wind, including skyscrapers, then what's left will be flooded up to 20 feet under.
Anyone who finds high ground and survives the wind will be at danger of dying via snakebites, disease, and malnourishment.
This is going to be terrible.
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:56 pm |
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This is why I love Maine. Last hurricane we had was in 1988.
And we've been watching the updates on CNN and the Weather Channel, it's getting bad.
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Republican_Man
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:56 pm |
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Gosh, so many named storms...Hope everyone down there is okay!
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 4:54 pm |
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| LightningBoy wrote: | This will be the worst disaster in the history of the United States.
New Orleans will be gone. The city will be leveled by wind, including skyscrapers, then what's left will be flooded up to 20 feet under.
Anyone who finds high ground and survives the wind will be at danger of dying via snakebites, disease, and malnourishment.
This is going to be terrible. |
Gee thanks for giving me so much hope about my home...
I managed to get to Texas. I can only hope that everything is going to be alright or at least, semi-intact.
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Republican_Man
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| Sun Aug 28, 2005 5:08 pm |
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Well, most devastating NATURAL disaster, but very much most devistating disaster in history, yes. I hope things are not that bad in the end for the people there--especially for my good STV friend Founder...
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Lord Borg
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My thoughts and prayers to everyone. Founder, and others, good luck.
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LightningBoy
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| Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:26 am |
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Thank God, it looks like dry air got pulled in from Texas, and saved most of New Orleans. I think most everything is going to be O.K.
This had potential to be the worst thing to ever happen to our country, luckily it wasn't.
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It's good news that things have turned out better than expected. Whew.
And this is a DEAD SERIOUS statement, and yet at the same time a lighter one: If I were in the midst of the hurricane, and it was coming after me and the weather was bad, I would put on some Star Wars battle music  (DEAD SERIOUS STATEMENT, mind you  )
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Alucard
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I'm glad that it's better than expected.
I'd probably blare out a song that said go away a bunch of times.
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LightningBoy
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| Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:40 pm |
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Yeah, it looks like a blast of dry air came through Texas. If it hadn't, we would not be having this casual conversation now.
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Puck
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| Mon Aug 29, 2005 11:12 pm Relief Comes to New Orleans in Full Force |
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Fast Facts: Hurricane Katrina
Monday, August 29, 2005
Hurricane Katrina's (search) effects, at a glance:
LOUISIANA:
� After hitting Florida last week, Katrina strengthened to a Category 5 storm over the Gulf of Mexico but weakened slightly and came ashore early Monday as a Category 4 storm with wind of 145 mph.
� Near Lake Ponchartain (search), entire neighborhoods of one-story homes were flooded up to the rooflines. Up to 20 feet of water was standing in one poor neighborhood on New Orleans' east side.
� An estimated 40,000 homes were flooded in St. Bernard Parish just east of New Orleans.
� A 50-foot water main broke in New Orleans, making it unsafe to drink the city's water without first boiling it. Police made several arrests for looting.
� Authorities rescued dozens of people from rooftops and attics.
� The highest winds in New Orleans were estimated at about 100 mph.
� Evacuations: New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (search) ordered the entire city of 485,000 to evacuate. For those who couldn't, the city opened 10 shelters, including the Superdome. The mayor estimated that 80 percent of the city's residents had left.
� About 9,000 spent the night at the Superdome arena. Power failed, and three hours later the wind tore away metal and left two holes in the roof, one 15 to 20 feet long. Officials said the holes were not dangerous.
� Power outages: Some 370,000 customers in southeast Louisiana were estimated to be without power, but the number could end up much higher as authorities assess the damage.
MISSISSIPPI:
� Winds hit 135 mph as the storm pounded the Mississippi coast. Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan called it "a devastating hit." A 22-foot storm surge was recorded in Bay St. Louis. Gulfport Memorial Hospital in Biloxi experienced major damage.
� At least three people were killed by falling trees.
� Debris was stacked 4 to 5 feet high in some places, covering cars.
� Evacuations: The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said Monday that about 8,500 people were in 79 shelters. American Red Cross shelters were filled to capacity.
� Several of Mississippi's beachfront casinos were flooded, but the scope of the damage was not immediately known.
� Power outages: Exact numbers were unclear, but more than 200,000 customers from just one utility lost power.
ALABAMA:
� The storm hammered Alabama's coast Monday with huge waves and tree-bending winds. Water swirled in the streets of Gulf Shores.
� Two people died in a wreck attributed to heavy rains from the storm.
� Stately homes in a well-to-do section of Mobile Bay were awash in brown baywater storming over docks and porches.
� Power outages: At least 400,000 homes and businesses were without power.
FLORIDA:
� Katrina hit the southern tip of Florida on Thursday as a Category 1 hurricane.
� Deaths: 11, according to state tally on South Florida strike.
� When the storm made landfall Monday in Louisiana, its fringes flooded streets in the Florida Panhandle and eroded beaches. Gusts of up to 59 mph reported.
� With Florida dodging the worst of the second hit, Gov. Jeb Bush said "everything we got here that we don't need" would be made available to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
� Damage: Initial computer modeling estimates pegged the insured wind damage from the first strike at $600 million to $2 billion.
� Power outages: At least 82,000 customers were without power.
WASHINGTON, D.C.:
President Bush pledged extensive assistance for victims. The government put into effect a massive emergency assistance program that included rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas.
TEXAS:
Evacuees from Louisiana took shelter in churches and hotels along Interstate 10 in Southeast Texas. Most of Houston's 58,000 hotel rooms were booked.
OUTLOOK:
The National Hurricane Center projected Katrina would head north and turn toward the northeast, carrying its center through Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio on Tuesday and Wednesday, then Ontario and possibly western New York state. In Tennessee, the entire middle third of the state was under either an inland tropical storm warning or watch.
GULF OF MEXICO:
Crude oil futures spiked to more than $70 a barrel for the first time Monday. Wholesale gasoline prices in the New York and Gulf Coast markets soared by 25-35 cents a gallon. Oil companies shut down 1 million barrels of refining capacity in the Gulf, but that amount could be far higher because not every producer reports data, said Peter Beutel, an oil analyst with Cameron Hanover.
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Aug. 29: Rescuers take residents to an interstate ramp after a tidal surge overwhelmed a levee in New Orleans.
Aug. 29: Dozens of residents move to higher ground in New Orleans.
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:34 am |
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Dam! I heard about this the other day! I hate it when stuff like this happens, but I suppose that there's really nothing anyone can do....
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 11:16 am |
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That's a ridiculously large amount of water.
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Birdy
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 1:42 pm |
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I just saw a man on tv, he had lost his wife. He held her hand, but couldn't hold on anymore. She said: "take good care of the kids and grandkids". My god, it was heartbreaking. 
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| Birdy wrote: | | I just saw a man on tv, he had lost his wife. He held her hand, but couldn't hold on anymore. She said: "take good care of the kids and grandkids". My god, it was heartbreaking. |
That's sad.
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| Birdy wrote: | | I just saw a man on tv, he had lost his wife. He held her hand, but couldn't hold on anymore. She said: "take good care of the kids and grandkids". My god, it was heartbreaking. |
I saw that too. This whole thing is very sad.
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:17 pm |
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^ Yeah, exactly. This is just one man who lost someone, there are a LOT more people who have lost someone, and/ or their homes...
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:29 pm |
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I just read on Wikipedia that some parts of New Orleans was under Martial Law... does anyone know anything of this?
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:29 pm |
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| Seven of Nine wrote: | | I just read on Wikipedia that some parts of New Orleans was under Martial Law... does anyone know anything of this? |
Probably because of all the looting that is going on.
I'm unable to return home so far. I wish I at least knew the state of my house....
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Lord Borg
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| Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:34 pm |
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Yeah I've heard that several arrest have been made
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Puck
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| Wed Aug 31, 2005 12:22 am |
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I hope none of us are still making it out 'better than expected'. In New Orleans, water level is rising, there are 10,000+ people in the superdome and other areas that now need to be evacuated because it is no longer safe, bodies are being pushed to the side. Buildings that survived Camil are no longer there.... Some people are asking if we are going to be able to save New Orleans. This is the worst possible situation brought into real life.
I feel soooo bad for all of the victims, and for all of those who have lost there life's work, or loved ones. If anyone is interested in helping, I recommend www.redcross.org . Is an organization that can be trusted in my opinion. Anyhow, will keep praying for all of those affected.
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| Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:35 am |
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The latest reports say that there are hundreds dead and massive flooding, with the water still rising in some places. Because of the water there is alligators and snakes getting into the city. Some reports say they might have to abandon the city altogether.
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