Hurricane Katrina
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- JazX0
You French bloods need to get the f*ck out of Dodge. That thing is gonna' tear you up. The eye is headed straight for the city. Hoep the historic monuments and buildings hold up in the midst of this thing.
Doesn't help that you're already below Sea Level. Nothing the Army Corps of Engineers can do with this one. Hope your levees hold up now.
- Neuarmy0
Katrina (minus The Waves) is definitely walking on NO's sunshine!!
;)
JazX
(Aug 29 05, 08:05)----
actually, she's DID bring the waves...and wind, and rain.
man, i feel for those people.
- Geith0
I'm not religious, but I'm praying for those people. Let's hope the impact is as minimal as it can be.
- peteski0
new video on cnn (tv) right now, NO looks pretty fucked up.
- JazX0
On an educational note, the State of Louisiana is divided in Parishes not Counties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
What a great State!
- DIA0
My fuckin house is gonna be flooded or gonewhen I get back. Thanks GOD design is a portable biz. Brought the studio on the road with me. UGHHH
I feel bad for the cats ridin' out. By Friend Ness and Brett who are fellow designers are still there.
www.iamalwayshungrycom (ness)
www.504destruct.com (brett)
bretts site name is fitting isnt it.
- JazX0
I've always liked the fact that LA told the US Government to screw off a few times in its history. They got the Napoléonic Order (Code civil des Français) in state and Parishes in tact. All via France.
- TheTick0
Did anyone mention the fact that there are a large number of gators/crocs and nasty water snakes that are going to be bumped out of their nests and swimming around in that water?
JazX
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You know, that's a good thought. Also up there with the news advisory that local stations were just giving residents who decided to stay put - "Bring axes with you if you go up to your attic"..you know so you can hack out if the water rises...
- pepe0
i talked to Ness a few hours ago, he said he was heading north to stay with a friends parents or something. This is fucked up.
- Goozebump0
hahah jsut read the news it spared new orleans hahah all those ppl evactuated for nothing.
- scarabin0
this is the last day new orleans will exist.
they're already below sea level, anything under four stories tall will be submerged after this shit
welcome to the new orleans bay
- pepe0
fuck that. lets just hope the hurricane shifts course or mellows in the next 6 hours or so.
- slappy0
...models projecting up to 80% damage or destruction of the city?!
jevad
(Aug 28 05, 20:56)Models would know, were they hot?
- chz0
there is no more chz
JazX
(Aug 29 05, 12:50)"oh really?
- Crouwel0
hahah jsut read the news it spared new orleans hahah all those ppl evactuated for nothing.
goozebump
(Aug 29 05, 11:51)no you dumb f*ck.
many streets are flooded and highly polluted, people are still ordered to stay inside and many buildings became dangerous to even pass by.
- Rand0
holy fuck--this sounds like something out of that movie where a tidal wave hit NY:
"When Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans on Monday, it could turn one of America's most charming cities into a vast cesspool tainted with toxic chemicals, human waste and even coffins released by floodwaters from the city's legendary cemeteries.
Experts have warned for years that the levees and pumps that usually keep New Orleans dry have no chance against a direct hit by a Category 5 storm.
Activity on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter continued as Hurricane Katrina, with 175-mph wind and a threat of a 28-foot storm surge, neared in New Orleans, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, despite a called mandatory evacuation of the city. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (Eric Gay - AP)
That's exactly what Katrina was as it churned toward the city. With top winds of 165 mph and the power to lift sea level by as much as 28 feet above normal, the storm threatened an environmental disaster of biblical proportions, one that could leave more than 1 million people homeless."All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario," Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said Sunday afternoon.
The center's latest computer simulations indicate that by Tuesday, vast swaths of New Orleans could be under water up to 30 feet deep. In the French Quarter, the water could reach 20 feet, easily submerging the district's iconic cast-iron balconies and bars.
Estimates predict that 60 percent to 80 percent of the city's houses will be destroyed by wind. With the flood damage, most of the people who live in and around New Orleans could be homeless.
"We're talking about in essence having _ in the continental United States _ having a refugee camp of a million people," van Heerden said.
- version30
about the oil refineries
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
- Goozebump0
its was'nt realaly "flooded," or as bad as they had u to believe yesterday. i consider it the segway phenomenon
- Rand0
fucked