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New Orleans under water

Much of New Orleans was flooded after Hurricane Katrina broke levees that protect the low-lying city. Click on the satellite image, taken August 31, 2005, to see sections of the city in closer detail. Water appears green in the photograph; dry areas are brown.

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/images/map/map00.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

The pictures on the NY Times site are devastating.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/khtml/2005/09/02/national/20050902_STORM_FEATURE.html

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:03 (twenty years ago)

the middle picture on the third row is where the Superdome, Convention Center, French Quarter, and Tulane are located

― gear (gear), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:04 (twenty years ago)

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20050901/capt.laeg10509011725.hurricane_katrina_laeg105.jpg?x=232&y=345&sig=SFEDVNRliszuDb.Aoz.0.A--

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:05 (twenty years ago)

from that NY Times link: Day Four>Evacuation>picture 6 is heartbreaking.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:06 (twenty years ago)

before and after pics

http://i.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/images/map/before.jpg
http://i.cnn.net/cnn/SPECIALS/2005/hurricanes/interactive/fullpage.nola.flood/images/map/after.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

And with that pic of the corpse in the wheelchair, I'm never visiting this thread again.

I'm glad Spencer posted that pic. At the same time, I just fucking lost it right now.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Somewhat should send wallpaper of that corpse pic to GWB as a nice early holiday season gift.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

Is it a corpse or an old dude asleep?

― Oh Lord, My God, is there no help for the widow's son? / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

these are the sandbags being dropped into the levee breach. it doesn't reassure me.

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.impact/vert.sandbag.drop.pool.jpg

― gear (gear), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:16 (twenty years ago)

There is a subsequent picture of that man being covered with a sheet by a man holding a baby. He's not sleeping.

― ianinportland (ianinportland), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Just checking.

― Oh Lord, My God, is there no help for the widow's son? / Kate (papa november), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

And with that pic of the corpse in the wheelchair

Worse, dude. A lawnchair.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

We had a massive debate on whether to use that picture. But it turns out there was a sheet over him, and it was removed for the photograph and replaced. So he wasn't lying completely in the open, but may as well have been.

― stet (stet), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:30 (twenty years ago)

Ah, journalism.

I think describing this would have been way more effective than removing the sheet. Removing the sheet is kinda disgusting.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

This is what the entire world has to look forward to once that pandemic comes around, kids! Enjoy the corpses in the lawn chairs while they are just pics!

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:39 (twenty years ago)

From: [email protected]
Newsgroups: alt.obituaries
Subject: Fats Domino found in New Orleans
Date: 1 Sep 2005 17:38:02 -0700
Fats Domino Found in New Orleans
by Gina Serpe
Sep 1, 2005, 5:25 PM PT
One of rock 'n' roll's chief architects has been rescued from the
rubble of New Orleans.
Fats Domino, who had been unaccounted for in the wake of Hurricane
Katrina, was plucked from the flooded city by a helicopter late
Thursday. He was reported to be in good condition.

An APB went out for the musician and his family earlier in the day.
The musician's niece, Checquoline Davis, posted a plea on
Craigslist.com for information on her missing relatives, writing that
Domino and his wife, Rosemary, and their children and grandchildren
"didn't get out" of their New Orleans home. Her plea was one of
thousands seeking information on missing friends and family on the
site.
The R&B legend had last been heard from on Sunday night, a day before
the storm struck. During a phone call with longtime agent Al Embry, the
77-year-old performer insisted he would ride out the hurricane in his
three-story home.
It is not immediately known if Domino's family made it to safety.
Domino's house was located in the city's 9th Ward, an area that is
heavily flooded and littered with dead bodies.

The singer and boogie-woogie pianist, born Antoine Domino, has sold
over 110 million records in his nearly five-decade career highlighted
by the jukebox staples "Blueberry Hill" and "Ain't That a Shame." The
New Orleans music fixture's 1949 recording of "The Fat Man" is
considered by some to be the first rock 'n' roll record, and Domino was
among the inaugural group of inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame in 1986.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

You shouldn't live in a place where you can get sick, donut.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

The musician's niece, Checquoline Davis

is she named after chico marx's "chicolini" character from duck soup? am i the only one thinking this?

― renegade bus (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Yes.

― k/l (Ken L), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Well, I have the Space Children From Omicron V6A to protect me from viral intrusions into my private space, k/l. They just float around me all day long zapping these tiny things in the air. The zapping noises get annoying sometimes, but they make good company, and I stay healthy!

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 1 September 2005 23:59 (twenty years ago)

But it will make it especially moving when the Abba wannabees sing "Chiquitita" at the performance of Mamma Mia Condee will be attending tonight.

(xpost)

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm getting increasingly appalled at the lack of coverage this story is getting on local stations here, relative to the size of this story.

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

What, gear, you don't care about that girl who got killed in Aruba?

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:22 (twenty years ago)

what can I say, i'm an insensitive clod!

― gear (gear), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Going back to an earlier question on this thread, it's estimated that there are approximately 112,000 households without transportation in New Orleans which authorities, during "Hurricane Pam", a previous test disaster-response exercise, assumed would represent the number of people unable to evacuate from their homes.

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:26 (twenty years ago)

According to a Times-Picayune reporter interviewed on the radio

― Thea (Thea), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:28 (twenty years ago)

This is what the entire world has to look forward to once that pandemic comes around, kids! Enjoy the corpses in the lawn chairs while they are just pics!

That made me think of this. End times, people.

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

some very sad, ugly racist shit here:
http://www.nola.com/forums/crime/

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 2 September 2005 00:45 (twenty years ago)

That's Southern hospitality. Fuck yeah.
I wish it were as commonplace as everyone else thinks it is. Southern hospitality's almost a foreign concept to me.

If Alan comes back by this thread, tell him that NBC News reported tonight that 28% of people in New Orleans live below the poverty line.

I'm going to volunteer for Red Cross tomorrow and help out with aid and whatnot. A whole bunch of volunteers were dispatched from here yesterday and I've been inspired to go out there. I'm going to feel so drained and despondent and my senses will doubtlessly feel assaulted by the devastation and whatever else I'll potentially see, but they need all the help they can get and I'm not up to much of anything here. My job schedule's very sporadic and I'm simply wasting electricity by being here and being unable to find a full-time position now that the 70,000 college students have returned.

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of society's derangement. (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Southern hospitality's almost a foreign concept to me.

We have a general distrust of the British.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:23 (twenty years ago)

I keep waiting for interdictor to go all Kurtz on us.

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:34 (twenty years ago)

i wonder how much camo paint he has hidden away under his desk, just in case

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

I once saw a snail... crawl along the edge... of a STRAIGHT RAZOR

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:08 (twenty years ago)

It's been a long time since Kuwait.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

on an unrelated note, SomethingAwful.com is down. Its servers are housed on the 10th floor in downtown.

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Well, at least that'll kill the enormous animated gif from upthread.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

this was posted on an LJ group today, and i can't confirm anything yet:

TO: All Law Enforcement Agencies
FROM: Madison County Sheriff Communications Canton, MS
SUB: Hurricane Relief
**********************REQUEST NATIONWIDE BROADCAST***********************************
We received a call from Hancock County Sheriff Steve Garber this date requesting any and all assistance with clothing for his deputies. The only clothes these men and woman have is what they were wearing when Katrina hit Monday.
Their needs are basic, including underwear, boots, socks, t-shirts, pants and toiletries. The sizes we were given range from 34-36 waist and sm-xxx shirts. These items are desperately and immediately needed.
Any donations can be sent to the following address:
Madison County Sheriffs Office
ATTN: Sheriff Toby Trowbridge Jr
2941 Hwy 51 South
Canton, MS 39046
If you have any questions, feel free to contact our agency at (601)859-2345. Thanks in advance.
Madison County Sheriffs Communications, Canton, MS
Auth: Sheriff Toby Trowbridge, Jr. Madison

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:50 (twenty years ago)

One of the things that handwringing anchors and commentators seem to miss (as far as I've seen, mind) when talking about the problems with rebuilding and rescue is the water -- A-1 culprit on the list. It's mentioned passively wrt the levees and flooding, but in an earthquake, people can and have just bulldozed everything and built from the ground up (cf. SF 1906); in a fire, same deal. The water is the killer, as was mentioned early in all of this, most of the fatalities come from flooding. I don't know why I'm bringing this up here; I'm sure everyone's with me on that... but in terms of looking at solutions to the question of 'why aren't they (anyone -- from HS, to the FEMA to the Prezznit[to a degree]) doing anything?'

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why I posted that... it's pretty obvious...

― Jimmy Mod Loves Alan Canseco (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:57 (twenty years ago)

>on an unrelated note, SomethingAwful.com is down. Its servers are housed on the 10th floor in downtown.<

Somethingawful's servers were the ones being kept going by Interdictor, actually (DirectNic).

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)

>If Alan comes back by this thread, tell him that NBC News reported tonight that 28% of people in New Orleans live below the poverty line.<

I was aware of that fact already. I also won't bother going back to the FEMA numbers (even if they're what I said they would be) because there's basically no way of knowing whether or not they're right. I doubt they're doing scientific polling as people are brought to safety. If they are, as the threat of post traumatic stress disorder looms, I think it would be fairly tasteless.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:05 (twenty years ago)

>Anyone thinking Interdictor is losing it a little?<

Read his early journal entries. He was never all that with it to begin with. While I'll admit that he's done a fine job of reporting from the ground, the whole "I'm going to stay and fight it out!" thing was in many ways a giant ego trip (which is why all those entries are public, unlike others he's made in the past) that has also endangered the lives of others, including his girlfriend, who chose to stay with him (and may now have to evacuate. There's been more than a few "if the cops can't stop them, maybe I will" type things that he's said.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Somethingawful's servers were the ones being kept going by Interdictor, actually (DirectNic)

no shit?

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

It's interesting/sad reading the comments - all these 'overinsulated' geek/goth types suddenly using military parlance and telling each other to 'watch your six'. What the fuuuuck...

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

>no shit?<

Seriously. It had been referred to earlier by people replying in the journal, and in a recent entry, he makes note about how he has to cut off their server and its traffic for right now.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:33 (twenty years ago)

Seriously, get the fuck out, give the supplies to hospitals/national guard units...

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Watching footage of a small fire cresting the waterline on CNN right now -- how much oil and other combustible materials are in the water, and what would happen if fires started spreading? I'm getting terrified thinking about it.

― disco violence (disco violence), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:43 (twenty years ago)

all these 'overinsulated' geek/goth types suddenly using military parlance and telling each other to 'watch your six'

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000099T2H.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0007DGB4E.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AJMPK.01._SCMZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

i'm being dead serious, by the way. that's how many of them pick up the lingo & shit.

chubby computer geek + military/survivalist leanings = war gamer

― kingfish 'doublescoop' moose tracks (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 2 September 2005 03:58 (twenty years ago)

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