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Bob Roberts vs Katrina
dabone:
A better link to where the flooding is.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4207202.stm
Show how anyone across the mississippi escaped any flooding caused by the lake.
Hopefully most of the looting is on the other side of the river from Bob.
Later,
dabone
pathdoc2:
I've been worried about him as well and just noticed this thread. I grew up in Lafayette and lived in NO for a few years. By the grace of God I now live in Dallas. We're getting 25,000 refugees today in Dallas.
NoOne=NBA=:
I spent four years down south ('83-'87), in the Alabama/Georgia/Florida "tri-state" area, and do NOT miss the weather at all.
I'll take my current situation, complete with an active volcano 45 miles from my house, over going back to the tornadoes and hurricanes anyday.
I was an air traffic controller in the Army at the time, and got to watch tornadoes go by a few miles out, while sitting in a 100 ft. tall tower.
Yep, THAT was exciting.
We had to wait for the "tower top" winds to exceed 60 m.p.h. before we could put the radios on remote, and abandon the tower.
Then there was the tornado that picked up the entire roof of a supermarket 3 blocks from my house, and dropped it back down inside the store.
Fortunately, I was in the tower watching a different one at the time.
I loved the people I met down there, but the weather had me ready to "get out of Dodge" at the first available opportunity...and I DID.
I'm keeping the people down there in my prayers, as well.
PaulG:
--- Quote from: kenc3dan on September 01, 2005, 12:56:22 am ---I don't get a great feeling of relief looking at Bob's web status entry. Does anyone else see from the way this is worded that he may have stayed? Please tell me I'm wrong and there's something there saying he got out early.
http://www.homearcade.org/BBBB/status.html
From Bob's site...
8/27/5
Things will be delayed for a few days as hurricane Katrina has it's eye on New Orleans! Unlike her little brother Ivan, she is on a more direct path right at us! Mandatory evacuations started this morning with Plaquemines Parish followed by several others, along with voluntary evacuation for New Orleans, which will most likely be upgraded to mandatory this evening. Stores are closed & boarded up at this point, as well as, many gas stations which have run out of gas. Alice & I have been devoting our time to hurricane preparedness, so email, orders, notifications & such are delayed, but I will try to square up everything pre-Katrina since she will no doubt be responsible for power outages for several days after we have weathered her wrath.
Incredibly, all roads lead out of New Orleans at this time with zero roads in... and it looks like the contraflow traffic plan is a great success, alleviating the bumper to bumper exodus of Ivan's evacuation.
--- End quote ---
Jeez. After rereading that, it kinda does sound like he stayed there. That was posted on Saturday. You'd think if he was about to leave, he'd have mentioned that as opposed to hurricane preparedness:(
jmelan:
i live (lived) in Metairie, bordering N.O. to the west and am in Baton Rouge now.
Baton Rouge is located 60 miles or so west of New Orleans and 80-90% of homes lost power here. Most of the damage in Baton Rouge was caused by downed trees. Power has not been restored in all of Baton Rouge yet
Gretna looks looks like it was spared flooding of the kind that New Orleans got from the Lake, but the wind damage (trees and debris) was at least equivalent to what New Orleans received.
On the other hand, the mayor allowed the people stranded in N.O. to cross the river to look for food and water, and some of them decided to turn to violence and looting and burned down the Oakwood mall right across the river.
Power may not be up in the Greater New Orleans area for at least a month from now (in the dry areas).
Good luck on receiving your items to finish your projects.
I finished my cabinet 2 days before the hurricane hit and am hoping that it was spared
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