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Aug. 31st, 2005 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
holytoastrSo begins today's updates in full. More to come through the day as I find them.
Engineers were discussing how to "unwater" the city. They said the first step to that is to close up the levee. As we know, political stupidity prevented that from happening yesterday. CNN reports that there is going to be another attempt today to sandbag the 17th st canal. Let's hope it works this time.
From there, they say they can drain about half an inch an hour. (That should be about a foot a day.) However, that is in perfect ideal conditions. Another report written before all this predicted that it would take about 9 weeks to completely drain the city. (For more fun and misery, read about how Bush repeatedly cut funding for the Army Corps of Engineers projects in New Orleans!)
You can only imagine what people are going to come back to after everything has been stagnating in filthy water for more than 2 months.
I also learned this morning that the levees were never designed to survive anything larger than category 3. I think I may have know this before, actually, but it's a scary reminder.
Also scary: looters. From what I've been reading, people hear gunshots all night. There were two reports about hospitals being attacked. On nola.com, I found a story about how the looters have taken the gun collection from the walmart uptown and there are gangs of armed men moving around the city taking whatever they please. They've become very bold, even shooting cops.
The police can't stop this because they are doing their best to save people who are trapped in their attics. There are not enough boats or rescuers to go around in the disaster.
The super dome is expected to be evacuated in about 2 days. No word yet on where these people are going to be moved to.
[EDIT] Link to map of a wet city
[EDIT2] Super Dome refugees are going to be taken to the Astro Dome in Houston.
[EDIT3] For those that drive, it's been reported that gas prices are expected to rise by as much as $1.10 by this weekend. So fill your tank up as soon as you can. I filled mine up on monday. Since then, the price has jumped more than 20 cents in some places. (The place I got gas from on monday was $2.69 and was $2.93 this morning.)
Engineers were discussing how to "unwater" the city. They said the first step to that is to close up the levee. As we know, political stupidity prevented that from happening yesterday. CNN reports that there is going to be another attempt today to sandbag the 17th st canal. Let's hope it works this time.
From there, they say they can drain about half an inch an hour. (That should be about a foot a day.) However, that is in perfect ideal conditions. Another report written before all this predicted that it would take about 9 weeks to completely drain the city. (For more fun and misery, read about how Bush repeatedly cut funding for the Army Corps of Engineers projects in New Orleans!)
You can only imagine what people are going to come back to after everything has been stagnating in filthy water for more than 2 months.
I also learned this morning that the levees were never designed to survive anything larger than category 3. I think I may have know this before, actually, but it's a scary reminder.
Also scary: looters. From what I've been reading, people hear gunshots all night. There were two reports about hospitals being attacked. On nola.com, I found a story about how the looters have taken the gun collection from the walmart uptown and there are gangs of armed men moving around the city taking whatever they please. They've become very bold, even shooting cops.
The police can't stop this because they are doing their best to save people who are trapped in their attics. There are not enough boats or rescuers to go around in the disaster.
The super dome is expected to be evacuated in about 2 days. No word yet on where these people are going to be moved to.
[EDIT] Link to map of a wet city
[EDIT2] Super Dome refugees are going to be taken to the Astro Dome in Houston.
[EDIT3] For those that drive, it's been reported that gas prices are expected to rise by as much as $1.10 by this weekend. So fill your tank up as soon as you can. I filled mine up on monday. Since then, the price has jumped more than 20 cents in some places. (The place I got gas from on monday was $2.69 and was $2.93 this morning.)
