If you live in New Orleans, please leave.

[Archangel]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040914/ap_on_re_us/vulnerable_new_orleans

[amberstar]

That would be tragic!!!!!!!:(

If anyone lives there take the advice and leave just to be on the safe side...

[bsg1fan1975]

I know what New Orleans looks like from personal experience. I have been there with my dad.

[shiningstar]

Please listen and leave New Orleans .......for the duration of the hurricane.
It's not safe. :(

[bsg1fan1975]

I wish that Em had been spared the hurricane.

[BST]

Yep, they really got pounded. :(

She's a nurse, right? I wonder if she had to stay behind, at the hospital, for the emergency. Usually, places like that are the safest during these types of storms since they're sturdy and have backup generators. In a way (might get thwacked for saying this), I hope she's still at work.

:D

[bsg1fan1975]

nope your just showing a natural concern for a friend.

[shiningstar]

Yep, they really got pounded. :(

She's a nurse, right? I wonder if she had to stay behind, at the hospital, for the emergency. Usually, places like that are the safest during these types of storms since they're sturdy and have backup generators. In a way (might get thwacked for saying this), I hope she's still at work.

:D

I'll have to say no to this one Bst. .....I only THWACK the ones who
EARN it. You didn't 'earn' a THWACK for this. But I will be watching you :devil:

[BST]

:nervous: *whew!!

Looking back on this storm --

One of these days, folks in New Orleans are not going to be as lucky. Had this storm made landfall just WEST of New Orleans, the loss of life would have been enormous! Even if there had been a mandatory evacuation, how would the people who don't have a car, and depend on mass transit, have gotten out? The city would have been under an estimated 20 feet of water, perhaps more. Pumps would have been submerged and probably not worked. Even if they did, where were they going to pump the water? Quite honestly, New Orleans is living on borrowed time, similar to sitting atop an A-bomb, with the clock ticking down. Some day, it's just not going to be there. I pray to God that I'm wrong.

It's terrible just thinking about it.

:(

[shiningstar]

:nervous: *whew!!

Looking back on this storm --

One of these days, folks in New Orleans are not going to be as lucky. Had this storm made landfall just WEST of New Orleans, the loss of life would have been enormous! Even if there had been a mandatory evacuation, how would the people who don't have a car, and depend on mass transit, have gotten out? The city would have been under an estimated 20 feet of water, perhaps more. Pumps would have been submerged and probably not worked. Even if they did, where were they going to pump the water? Quite honestly, New Orleans is living on borrowed time, similar to sitting atop an A-bomb, with the clock ticking down. Some day, it's just not going to be there. I pray to God that I'm wrong.

It's terrible just thinking about it.

:(

Sadly you are too right about that. :(

[The 14th Colony]

BST, you are very right. What would happen to New Orleans is perhaps worse than what happened to Galveston, Texas in 1900. At the time, the city of Galveston was perched a mere 8 inches above sea level, and when they were hit by an unexpected hurrican which gave no one time to escape the barrier island, the entire city was flooded and much of it was wiped out, and 6,000 people were killed. If New Orleans is below sea level the devestation would surely be far worse.

From the History Channel:
September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devestating personal tragedy.

[bsg1fan1975]

we had a similar thing happen in 1938 to the state of Rhode Island. My stepfather's mom was 8 at the time and they had a hurricane that struck without warning. What happened was the hurricane reports were inaccurate because they were being told that the hurricane was hitting the south when it was already hitting around New York and so everyone thought it was a bad rain storm that they were getting when in actuality it was a hurricane.

[julix]

found this thread................it was from last year.........the story is not there anymore, but it is clear that this has been comming. Look at BST's and 14th's prophetic words.................

[kriechbaum]

worse than what happened to Galveston, Texas in 1900.

Just read through this thread, glanced towards the TV and happened to see the words "Evacuation of Galveston" flash across BBC World. I hope history is not repeating itself.

-KB