RSSVictim of Hurricane Katrina Needs Your Help
The City of New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast has experienced an unthinkable disaster with the impact of Katrina. As of right now the experts are stating that New Orleans may be uninhabitable for the next 2 months.
You can help with your donations. Right now we are steering people to the Red Cross. If there are local charities that may be able to help these people. we will let you know.
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or Call 1-800-Help-Now
Thank you for your support, these people will need it.
California Yankee has a great list of resources to help this catastrophe.
On a personal note, we have a reader who is missing family members Billy and Margaret Gill in Bogalusa, LA. If you have any information, please email us at tom@scaredmonkeys.comand we will get that information to the family.
Katrina Hits Land; LA & MS Coasts
AP: Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with howling, 145-mph winds.
Hurricane Katrina plowed into this below-sea-level city Monday with howling,
145-mph winds and blinding rain that ripped away pieces of the roof of the Superdome, knocked out power and flooded some homes to the ceilings. Katrina weakened overnight to a Category 4 storm and turned slightly eastward before hitting land about 6:10 a.m. CDT east of Grand Isle near the bayou town of Buras, providing some hope that this vulnerable city would be spared the storm’s full fury.
New Orleans in the Eye of the Katrina
New Orleans is a city know for its powerful drink, the Hurricane. Unfortunately for New Orleans, the city will be forever tied to the name Katrina if it hits dead on. The reason for this, is that New Orleans is a city built below sea level.
The levees that protect the city from flooding are also a flood threat themselves. “The biggest threat that the city has is that of a slow moving Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane, which would create a surge of water that could be up to 30 feet high. Now if this (high) water comes into the city, it will top the levees. It will go over the top of the levees and actually fill up the city,” said Hijuelos.
So we are looking at New Orleans as a giant fishbowl. Katrina is expected to have a storm surge that will be over 20 feet. That will be enough to overwhelm the levee’s and flood the city. Then we are looking at months before the water level of the city could be pumped out.
An expert in Hurricane Management gives this harrowing story:
Hurricane Katrina – Category 5 Storm
If you live anywhere near where Hurricane Katrina will be coming to shore, please get away from there. This storm is now said to be the third strongest hurricane ever to be recorded with sustained winds of 175 mph. If it directly strikes New Orleans, the city could be underwater for months.
Link to Intellicast satellite loop. Update: KATRINA NOW A CATEGORY FIVE HURRICANE WITH 160 MPH WINDS HURRICANE KATRINA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY
God Bless.
More Links
- Washington Post, II
- New York Times. II
- CNN, II
- BBC Looking for Live Reports
- Mobile Register on the impact on Gasoline
- NOLA is Blogging the Storm
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