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Post by Marik on Aug 28, 2005 23:41:48 GMT -5
If you haven't heard any news lately there is a category 5 hurricane hitting Louisiana. There have been only 3 class 5's that hit the US and it's hitting the major city (and 200-400 mile area) of New Orleans, a city that is under the sea level. It is really in a valley(like a bowl) under the sea level, which is worse. It has winds up to 200 mph.
The city will be flooded.... if not destroyed. The people in the area have been forced to evacuate Sunday morning. I hope anyone that reads this and is in the area will be safe and away from Louisiana and soon Mississippi and perhaps Tennessee.
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Post by Kit on Aug 29, 2005 1:40:27 GMT -5
This is horrible. One of my roomates sisters live there. Fortunately shes visiting family, so shes not there right now. Unfortunately shes not there to pack up and take any of her things, so shes pretty much going to lose everything.
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Post by Marik on Aug 29, 2005 2:04:43 GMT -5
It's 3 am and Katrina has been downgraded to category 4 but its still just as big, its no less of a threat. Its wind was reduced to 155 but if it picks up(and it might) and picks up by 1 mph it'll be cat 5 again.
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Post by Midori-chan on Aug 29, 2005 16:01:36 GMT -5
Frightening... It's likely too much to hope for that no one is hurt, but still... Wow...
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Post by ShadowFan24 on Aug 29, 2005 21:26:09 GMT -5
It hit as a level 4 storm.
Man, and I wanted to go to Mardi Gra one year. Now I can't until they get rid of this water.
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Post by Marik on Aug 29, 2005 23:06:46 GMT -5
10K people retreated to the Superdome and I guess a big hole was made in the roof.
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Post by ShadowFan24 on Aug 30, 2005 10:21:48 GMT -5
I think people would rather that then having the place fall in on them.
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Post by Midori-chan on Aug 30, 2005 16:53:35 GMT -5
*nods* Yeah. Goodness, that would be terrible if it collapsed...
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Lord Striker
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Post by Lord Striker on Aug 30, 2005 17:22:33 GMT -5
HEY! Thats my state!
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Post by ShadowFan24 on Aug 30, 2005 19:49:19 GMT -5
Ooh! Tom! Next Mardi Gra can you take me? I've wanted to go to one for years now! You're the closest!
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Post by Kit on Aug 30, 2005 23:29:41 GMT -5
What city do you live in Thomas? Nothing bad is happening there I hope.
We should all go to Mardi Gras next time. That would be fun.
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Lord Striker
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Post by Lord Striker on Aug 31, 2005 20:55:18 GMT -5
I live in Shreveport, which is in northwest Louisiana. We got the least severe part of the storm. Unfortunately New Orleans is going to be a ghost town in less than two weeks and from what I heard if the Levi (or Levy) breaks more the water will rise from 15ft to about 30ft! DAMN! That is alot! There are sharks in the water that runs down in the city streets, roads, well yeah, I think you get the point. New Orleans will never be the same again.
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Post by Marik on Sept 1, 2005 0:35:21 GMT -5
I hope you guys know that Mardi Gras isn't gonna be for a long while. The city is very much destroyed. 80% flooded. This city is like a bowl full of water, you need a big spoon to drain this water. It's the worst disaster in US history. People's lives are destroyed, their home, work, hangout. Thing of restarting everything in a new town where you cannot have that connection with. Or if you're a kid, new school in a whole new area in a new home, if you lived through this, it's kinda hard. Well try that but no possesions either, that includes the entire family. It's hard for a kid to live this. Oh yea one more little thing, most insurance companies don't cover flood damage.
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Post by Midori-chan on Sept 1, 2005 16:21:14 GMT -5
Wow... that's just... mind-blowing. *shakes head* I think it just hit me now that New Orleans as we all know it is gone...
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Adilor
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Post by Adilor on Sept 1, 2005 16:23:27 GMT -5
Yeah...it makes me even more glad that I did go on that trip to NO a few years ago...because it's never gonna look like that again...
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Post by ShadowFan24 on Sept 1, 2005 19:54:11 GMT -5
Im so worried... for one person right now. I... I hope he's ok. Because no one has heard from him... no one. And his family didn't evacuate, because they knew if they did... they would be trapped in traffic when the hurricane hit.
I... I wanna go down to Pensagola, and find that friend of mine. I want to make sure that he's alive, I... I REFUSE to lose another friend. Too many of my friends have died... I don't want to lose another one... I wish I could go down there... and find him.
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Post by eh on Sept 1, 2005 22:08:28 GMT -5
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Post by Kit on Sept 2, 2005 3:18:22 GMT -5
Im sure whoever your looking for is OK Nyiana.
Today I was watching a TV special on Hurricane Katrina and it was the first time I was able to see the damage, and its just..........terrible. People were firing guns at rescue helicopters..........I hate seeing those people who will do anything to save themselves, and couldnt care less what happens to anyone else. I know its hard, but the only way through things like this is by helping one another.
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Post by Chris The Hedgehog on Sept 2, 2005 12:53:04 GMT -5
My thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the hurricane
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Post by ShadowFan24 on Sept 2, 2005 17:44:09 GMT -5
So do I... All I can hope for is that he comes back. I don't want to lose him like I did with Dawn.
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Post by eh on Sept 4, 2005 0:24:33 GMT -5
Q is ok!!! but he got so lucky 4 blocks away from his house the water was 15feet deep and it was only 2 feet deep in his yard for a short while
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Guess Who
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Post by Guess Who on Sept 4, 2005 1:58:52 GMT -5
I live in Orange, Texas, which is practically the first city you enter coming from southwest Louisiana, so we are being packed with evacuees. My sister was also in Gulfport, Mississippi, thankfully however we know she is safe and managed to catch a flight to Houston, where she is now.
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Post by ShadowFan24 on Sept 4, 2005 13:35:45 GMT -5
Q... Thank god 2Tails is alive. ^^ Now I can sleep easy!!
Yeah, Boston is going to house from people. I'm gong to talk to my mayor, hopefully and see if we could possibly get some people here in Fitchburg.
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