Louisiana is set to be *smacked*

[Darth K'Trava]

heck, we ain't armed. we are the United States Public Health Service.

Heck. I think they should send you guys down there to help provide disease control which is going to run rampant with all the dirty, contaminated water and corpses floating around in it...

 

[Del]

Looks like refugees have been arriving at the Astrodome, and people are just starting to enter now.

BTW here is CNN's Safe People list:

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/list/

 

[Scutisorex]

I am working as a public information officer for the St. Tammany Parish Emergency Operations Center in Covington, Louisiana. On Nothingland I go by the handle, Miss Kittin. Communications here on the Northshore are virtually non-existant. We do not have the mass looting and rioting present in New Orleans, but the destruction here is unbelieveable. Entire neighborhoods are basically gone. Millions of trees got knocked down or splintered. No estimates on casualties are reliable, but suffice to say that overall well over a thousand people were killed by this storm, and maybe several thousand. Bodies are still being recovered in the water, in homes, and even in trees. I cannot tell you how utterly horrible it is here in the entire central gulf region. I would like to say one thing though. Even though the news is focusing on looting, there are innumerable acts of human kindness going on here every minute of every single day. God bless all of you who are praying for us or helping out in other ways. If anyone has any specific questions for me about St. Tammany Parish, ask me and I will try my best to answer them as quickly as I can.

Tim

 

[Del]

If anyone has any specific questions for me about St. Tammany Parish, ask me and I will try my best to answer them as quickly as I can.

Tim

You getting enough liquids and decent food, yourself? Make sure you treat yourself good, because the first step in helping others is helping yourself. It would be easy to fall into starving yourself to get food and water to others.

Take care man, and keep your chin up.

 

[AdmundfortGeographer]

Real pessimistic, but maybe realistic, assessment of the future of New Orleans.

How long will it take to pump the city dry? How long then will it take to restore power through the city to every home? How long does it take to make the water system drinkable again? How long will it take for insurance adjustors to examine every single home? How long will it take to dispose of every home not worth restoring? How long will it take to restore homes? How long will it take to rebuild homes that were totaled? Months and months.

After all that, how likely will residents be to move back after they have settled new roots in a new town and gotten the insurance settlement?

How clean will the city be afterwards and how many folks won't wish to bring their kids back if it is toxic everywhere.

 

[ForceUser]

I spoke to my dad tonight on the phone. He lives in Ascension Parish, about a hour and a half from New Orleans. The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Dept. had apparently housed some evacuees from New Orleans in the brand new high school in Donaldsonville, but had to clear them out after they smashed up the place and set fire to the school kitchen.

Dad also said that among the 20,000 that sought shelter in the Superdome, there've already been 5 killings. Even more incredible is the following story, which he told me. Two sheriff's deputies from Ascension Parish took a bass boat down to New Orleans to help with the rescue efforts and encountered a nightmare situation: after bringing aboard several evacuees, the newly-rescued people attempted to throw the deputies overboard and steal the boat. The policemen shot and killed two of them in self-defense.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

 

[Scutisorex]

You getting enough liquids and decent food, yourself? Make sure you treat yourself good, because the first step in helping others is helping yourself. It would be easy to fall into starving yourself to get food and water to others.

Take care man, and keep your chin up.

I am doing fine, and thank you.

 

[Scutisorex]

I spoke to my dad tonight on the phone. He lives in Ascension Parish, about a hour and a half from New Orleans. The Ascension Parish Sheriff's Dept. had apparently housed some evacuees from New Orleans in the brand new high school in Donaldsonville, but had to clear them out after they smashed up the place and set fire to the school kitchen.

Dad also said that among the 20,000 that sought shelter in the Superdome, there've already been 5 killings. Even more incredible is the following story, which he told me. Two sheriff's deputies from Ascension Parish took a bass boat down to New Orleans to help with the rescue efforts and encountered a nightmare situation: after bringing aboard several evacuees, the newly-rescued people attempted to throw the deputies overboard and steal the boat. The policemen shot and killed two of them in self-defense.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

There was a situation today where a fuel truck and several fire engines were fired upon by residents in New Orleans.

 

[Emperor Valerian]

New Orleans PD is currently responding to a call where looters are attempting to break into Children's Hospital, and shots have been fired.

The scanners for the New Orleans P.D. can be found here:

http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u

 

[Del]

A few rules about communication -

Good information:

You witnessed it yourself.
Reported by authorities.
Recorded and hearable/viewable.

Bad information:

Rumours heard from other sources eg. "hearsay".
Wrong panicked conclusions yourself purported as fact.
Given by extremist sources known to lie.