Hurricane Katrina in MS

[rabidsamfan]

Right now they're predicting the worst part of the eyewall to come in right over dreamflower02.

Yikes...

links to live webcasts:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8004316/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/27/national/main798725.shtml

Edit:

And the superdome is starting to leak.

Comments

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

Yes, am glued to the news. We don't get cable, so we're limited to the Internet and radio and what little we get from network news.

...and one of the levies is leaking and the pumps are failing and the radio says the water is up to the second stories of some buildings and an apartment building has collapsed with people inside and the rescue workers can't get to it.

But they say the superdome, though leaking, is still structurally sound and a safe refuge.

Thanks for the links!

[shirebound]

Holy cow! How awful.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

The reports this morning only make me fret all the worse. I'm a weather junkie, but I wouldn't stick around for a hurricane -- the only defense against anything that big is to get out of the way.

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

I know. Have watched about 20 minutes of coverage this morning on network tv. Looks as if Biloxi had a big "bulls eye" painted on it, so far as this hurricane was concerned.

I keep thinking about the Biloxi I used to know. I wonder if my apartment building is gone--it was a block off the beach. My dh used to jog around Back Bay--and I hear the little community on the peninsula is completely gone.

Fretting, but don't know when we'll hear an update. At least I think Dreamflower was further inland, IIRC where the freeway lies.

[lindelea1.livejournal.com]

(oh, BTW it's dreamflower02)

Just noticed.

Funny thing. Someone "friended" me as "lindelea" and complained some weeks later that I hadn't friended her back... of course I hadn't, 'cause I'm "lindelea1"--not by choice but because the other person got there first...

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, I'll fix the link. It kept saying the thing was overloaded, not that I'd blown it.

This is a scary, scary storm.

[slipperieslope.livejournal.com]

*hopes*

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Keep hoping!

[arwen-baggins.livejournal.com]

super dome leaking? uh-oh! Did they get it all filled up or what?

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

No, it just lost parts of the roof and rained inside. But a lot of New Orleans is flooded.

[arwen-baggins.livejournal.com]

I meant "Did they get the place filled to capacity before the storm hit?" So no one died from being trapped inside? Good!

[(Anonymous)]

They never said the Superdome was supposed to be water tight. It like most stadiums is open has open areas at ground level and doors. I think that they are expecting it to flood the field which is why everybody there was told to bring three days of medicince and food if they could. The dome is just someplace that should withstand the winds, flying debris, has emergency generators, and holds a lot of people.

Three days in those awful plastic seats? Ouch! But, it's better than dead or out in it.

Randi

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

The reports this morning are just as scary.