SillyDog701

[Ramona]

I have to echo profman's comments, re: the auto dealership. A disaster such as you are experiencing, Jay, can bring out the best in our fellow man, and I think that just happened to you, and to many others. Wow, free car repair from a dealership, what a concept!

I have been glued to CNN since Katrina struck, and glad to see the death count is so much lower than first anticipated. Good luck to you and to your family...

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[Antony]

Looking for missing person?

There are a number of sites provide service for people to post and search information about their loved one. The problem... far too many sites providing such service.

One site, http://katrinalist.net/ , is trying to consolidate all the database around many other site, providing a centralised database.

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[Ramona]

And most importantly, let's don't forget the missing children, and the children separated from their parents:

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

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[Antony]

Exciting good news for New Orleans - New Orleans centre and French Quarter to reopen (New Zealand Herald, 16.09.05)

The New Orleans central business district and the historic French Quarter will reopen over the weekend, nearly three weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, mayor Ray Nagin has said.
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The areas to reopen over the next two weeks were home to about 182,000 people, he said, out of a population of 450,000 before Katrina flooded the city and forced a total evacuation.
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Many other neighbourhoods could take months longer to reopen, Nagin said, adding that some will probably have to be leveled. Half the homes in the city could be salvaged, he said.

City and emergency officials have been opening areas as electricity, water and sewer service is restored, although a few residents and businesses are camping out with generators and bottled water.

Full report: New Orleans centre and French Quarter to reopen (New Zealand Herald, 16.09.05)

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[admin]

All Mr Jay Garcia's disgusting slam against SillyDog701 and our deepest concern about Mr Jay Garcia's safety were moved to another thread [sdt=9833]Jay Garcia's response after Hurrican Katrina[/sdt]. Other posts relating those this matter are also in thread thread.

("disgusting slam" were words borrowed from Jay Garcia in his another fictionally identity - "WileC")

Please keep this thread relating to Hurricane Katrina.

Admin

[Antony]

One incredible surviving story: an elderly man is survived after 18 days trapped in attic of flooded home.

Day after day, for more than two weeks, the 76-year-old man sat trapped and alone in his attic, sipping from a dwindling supply of water until it ran out. No food. No way out of a house ringed by foul floodwaters.

Without ever leaving home, Gerald Martin lived out one of the most remarkable survival stories of Hurricane Katrina. Rescuers who found him on Friday, as they searched his neighbourhood by boat, were astounded at his good spirits and resiliency after 18 days without food or human contact. "It's an incredible story of survival," said Louie Fernandez, a spokesman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency search unit that carried out the rescue.

Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/ame ... 313462.ece

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[Antony]

One incredible surviving story: an elderly man is survived after 18 days trapped in attic of flooded home.
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Source: http://news.independent.co.uk/world/ame ... 313462.ece

Our good friend, Mr Jay Garcia [sdp=63701]informed us[/sdp] this elderly man survived Katrina did not last long.

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[Antony]

According to CNN, Katrina's official death toll tops 1,000. Louisiana, our good friend, Mr Jay Garcia's resident state, claims 801 death, Mississippi reports 219 people dead, and 11 from Florida.

And the bad news for Louisiana... another hurricane Rita which has strengthened to a Category 4 storm is close to Louisiana. Hurricane Rita's maximum sustained winds were about 210 kph (135 mph).

Katrina's official deaths top 1,000 (CNN.com, September 21, 2005)

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[DJGM]

Just when the people of New Orleans thought can could go back to their homes and start clearing
up the mess, the debris, and total devastation left behind by Hurricane Katrina, another massive
storm, this time named Hurricane Rita, is on it's way, and they're all being turned away again.

Sometimes, Mother Nature can be so very cruel . . .

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[beanboy89]

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Hurricane Rita is to make landfall at around 7:00 AM CDT Saturday on Texas' Gulf coast.

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[Ramona]

Galveston, TX is being evacuated even at this moment, as they expect Rita to either hit there, or close by. I simply can't imagine a category 4 hurricane force wind.

I survived hurricane Carla in 1961, when visiting my Mother in Galveston, and that was scary enough! Not only were the winds at 100 mph, but tornadoes ripped across the area. My great aunt's home was leveled by a tornado, but her life was saved by her son placing her in a bathtub and covering it with a door. I have a picture of the leveled house somewhere.

Why did my husband and I stay? Good question, and not unlike many New Orleans residents, my Mother and Step Dad (a retired ship's Captain) refused to leave, and I was afraid to leave them there. By the time we had finished arguing the point, the causeway was covered by water, so the choice was taken away from us.

We were so, so, lucky, as the tornadoes missed my Mom's home, and altho there was rising water, it only covered the front porch, and did not come into the house. I would never, ever, do that again, even it if meant rendering someone unconscious to get them out of harms way! I always thought that those in authority in New Orleans should use force to evacuate these people, in order to protect them from themselves.

- End of story -

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[Lorraine]

Yes Ramona, I agree with you. They should be removed by force if necessary. As I mentioned in another thread we were told to evacuate in S.C. during hurricane Hughes. The motel was later destroyed by Hughes.
We left the morning when they started to throw the chairs in the pool. I didn't want to go in a school.

I think if I had been a resident there, I would have stayed, I would never want to go with a bunch of evacuees.

But since seeing what happened in N.O., I guess I have changed my mind for now, anyway.

-Lorraine

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[JayGarcia]

during hurricane Hughes

Hughes ?? I remember one named "Hugo" in 1989 but no Hughes that I can remember.

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[Lorraine]

That's right Jay, it was Hugo, I knew when I was typing the name it didn't sound right, so I typed Hugh and I said that's not it either and changed it to Hughes but that didn't sound right either. Thanks, sometimes I forget things, well a lot of water has gone under the bridge since 1989. Thanks for telling me the year too, I didn't remember the year either.
It had been a beautiful day, the water was so warm, and at nighttime the water was right up to the motel. I remember how the water was flowing in the ocean front motel suite, on the main floor, we were on the second floor. We left early and went to Virginia Beach. Tornados!
We ended up near Wildwood, N.J. of all places.
Found a place in Avalon which is nicer.
The following year when we went back, where the motel in S.C. was previously, it was a parking lot for another nice new hotel, in which we stayed. The other place was cosier, but Hugo really decimated it.

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[Antony]

According to local news (Ten News),
95% of people did obey the evacuation order, this results much less death.
Louisiana was hit again.

SillyDog701 and Antony are thrilled to learn that our good friend Mr Jay Garcia absconded to Longview during hurricane Katrina, and returned safely to Louisiana. Mr Garcia's activities can be seen in this [sdt=9833]dedicated thread[/sdt].

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