Qhs Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 + the levy by the humongo lake next to NO is breached and tons of water is pouring into a major swath of NO. Some place by the city park. Ill try to get a picture. Its been puring in since 2:30 am EST USA time and now its 11 am EST time. Thats a lot of water. From watching CNN, and Miles O' Brien's report, the death toll could go way beyond 55 becuase in Mobile, Alabama, an entire apartment building, estimating 15 floors with aboout 30 people inside, collapsed from the surge and a firefighter said that a section of Mobile is really "messed up." I guess NOAA was right when they said "Total structural failure." Edit: Here is the pic of the newly flooded area. Photobucket autoresized it... Some more pictures: Pictures from CNN. Pictures may change without warning. Edit2: Confirmed 68 dead, 55 in MS alone. Link to post Share on other sites
hippiehater44 Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 hurricane katrina is officialy over it is now a tropical storm headed inland saw the damage today on the news scary stuff i tell ya death toll is over 100 i for the short time i was at school (sick) i asked about a hurricane relief food drive and they agreed so we will be stting up a food drive and i am trying to get a hurricane relief airsoft game started here in kansas city Link to post Share on other sites
Dafool Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Why didn't they helicopter the people who couldn't escape out ? I mean, America has alot of cash and military power, why didn't they use it ? Link to post Share on other sites
Lord Jebus Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Why didn't they helicopter the people who couldn't escape out ? I mean, America has alot of cash and military power, why didn't they use it ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's for them to Know, and the conspiricy theorists who think it was the terrorist weather machine to find out Edit: Is there a current estimate on damages? Link to post Share on other sites
Qhs Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 I dont know but CNN interview a coast guard dude and he said he made 200 rescues with helicopters with 8-16 people / rescue. Thats about 3200 people. Lord Jebus- about $26 Billion dollars. Edit: Re-watched CNN and got my position wrong. Worse than I though. See above post for comparison. Link to post Share on other sites
rizzo Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 That's for them to Know, and the conspiricy theorists who think it was the terrorist weather machine to find out Edit: Is there a current estimate on damages? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nothing to do with the 100mph+ winds Link to post Share on other sites
hippiehater44 Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 they didnt use helicopters because of the wind those things dont weigh that much and wind could blow them into trees buildings and all sorts of other stuff Link to post Share on other sites
Phoenix Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Thats cool. And you guys go to school this early. We dont tart until the 7th of September, <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Gwinnett Co. GA started August 8th. Link to post Share on other sites
Phoenix Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 1. Many people in NO didnt have cars or other means to get out. 2. They were saying that there could possibly have been 100k+ people in the city when the storm hit. Airlifting that many people in just a few hours is a logistical nightmare. Link to post Share on other sites
Foxtrot Posted August 30, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 A large porition of the people that stayed are those who could not leave. Elderly and the sick. Then, add their families that stayed with them, as well as the hospital staff, and their familes. There's at least 10,000-12,000 people right there. Then, the New Orleans/Beloxi/Mobile area is a /very/ poor area for the most part. Alot of people don't /have/ cars, as said above. Nor does the police force/national guard have the time, or man power to go door to door to evacuate everyone. Remember, they had about 36 hours to evacuate. Yes, they could of done alot of door to door - but then you put the police and national guard force as risk of being in the hurricane. Link to post Share on other sites
Phoenix Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 BTW, I am currently 519.32 Miles (835.36 km) from New Orleans (roughtly where the center of the storm was) in Statesboro, GA, not far at all from Savannah on the Atlantic coast. As I walked to class yesterday after noon it started raining here, from the same storm. It was then sunny for a while, but then it rained again as night fell, lots of lightning and tornados down here. Thats how big this storm was. Link to post Share on other sites
Qhs Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Yeah, Katrina was 1000 miles across. Link to post Share on other sites
expvideo Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 hurricane katrina is officialy over it is now a tropical storm headed inland saw the damage today on the news scary stuff i tell ya death toll is over 100 i for the short time i was at school (sick) i asked about a hurricane relief food drive and they agreed so we will be stting up a food drive and i am trying to get a hurricane relief airsoft game started here in kansas city <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I am also trying to set up a charity game. I encourage anyone who can to do so, and I commend your efforts. Some other suggestions that V. Arena and I cooked up are: Teddy bear drive, for the children of the disaster area. Buying a few boxes of Star 30rd mags ($55) and having them painted/stamped/marked in some way, and selling them for $10-$15 each, procedes going to the disaster relief. Also, if your community wants to do an arm-band fund raiser, http://www.band-together.com does excellant quality armbands. Aaron Link to post Share on other sites
hippiehater44 Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 I am also trying to set up a charity game. I encourage anyone who can to do so, and I commend your efforts. Some other suggestions that V. Arena and I cooked up are: Teddy bear drive, for the children of the disaster area. Buying a few boxes of Star 30rd mags ($55) and having them painted/stamped/marked in some way, and selling them for $10-$15 each, procedes going to the disaster relief. Also, if your community wants to do an arm-band fund raiser, http://www.band-together.com does excellant quality armbands. Aaron <{POST_SNAPBACK}> great idea i was gonna have it at my grandpas farm and buy some hotdogs cheap pop and charge 1.50 a meal and 15 dollars to go airsoft all day and there would be a donation box thuis will all be payed out of mine and my moms pocket we are still planning it ill post more when more arrives Link to post Share on other sites
clmwrx Posted September 1, 2005 Report Share Posted September 1, 2005 Local players and I are planning a charity game as well and someone has offered to let us use there field free of charge and we could get anywhere from 20 to 80 people to show up Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore_Mitsuko Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I know this isn't the most prominent issue in anyone's mind right now, but has anyone said anything about how all this flooding will affect the New Orleans area in the long run? From what I've heard of NO there's a lot of swamps around about it; is this amount of flooding going to make the swamps bigger and thus make some areas of the city uninhabitable? This is probably just me blowing things out of proportion, feel free to tell me if I'm being a dumbass. Link to post Share on other sites
Phoenix Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 No, the city was built on a drained swamp though. And only certain parts are flooded. The rest is protected by levees. I do however think its pretty dumb to have a city below sea level surrounded by a large lake, a huge river, and an ocean. Link to post Share on other sites
Gene Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Nope, you're right H_M. They reckon the costs this Hurricane is going to incur is more than 9/11. There are millions of people without homes. And thousands will be dead. It's going to take at least a month to pump out all the water from the city. By that time everything will be rotten and very dangerous to enter. IMO, they might as well just forget the whole thing and start all over again. (BTW New Orleans is a bowl shape, it's something like 10 feet below sea level) Link to post Share on other sites
Phoenix Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 Most places will have severe structural damage, it might just be easier to some to build New New Orleans in a better location. though, this will not happen. BTW, the National Guard has been ordered to shoot to kill now. about time. Link to post Share on other sites
hippiehater44 Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 new orleans is 6 ft below sea level and, the damage cost will be roughly around 26 billion dollars Link to post Share on other sites
Hardcore_Mitsuko Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I really hope they manage to get the city back on its feet, it'll more than likely never be the same again though. I've wanted to go to New Orleans for years now and it looks like my chance to see it as it was has passed me by Link to post Share on other sites
elrey Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/ Words cannot describe... http://s1.amazon.com/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB...2909801-0854344 Don't know if that link has been posted before, but whatever. Link to post Share on other sites
hippiehater44 Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 http://www.cnn.com/ Words cannot describe... http://s1.amazon.com/paypage/PELYGQVJ8Q7IB...2909801-0854344 Don't know if that link has been posted before, but whatever. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> tru dat some scary stuff i tell ya Link to post Share on other sites
airsofter138 Posted September 2, 2005 Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I Just sent out Boxes and Boxes of food, water, and what not to my mom's friend that is a Police officer in New Orlean's. He was at the superdome for About an 3 hour's and he gave out all our stuff, People cryed thanking Him, and I donated some money to the red cross, im selling some stuff to donate the money to them because I Know they need food more than I need new airsoft Stuff, Airsoft will be around for a long time. So I dont need gear and new gun's right now Link to post Share on other sites
Foxtrot Posted September 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2005 I've donated about 200$ so far, and the company my family owns/works for matches everything. So far all the employees have donated about 5000, growing by the hundreds each day. So we've put 10k toward it. As for rebuilding NO.. Don't do it in the same spot.. please.. about 30 miles north will be great. I know it's sad, but it's just going to happen again... Plus 80% of the city is destoryed anyways. Link to post Share on other sites
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