That B!tch Katrina!!!- Page 3

[Popular]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:14am

BUMP, Bluemoon?

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:17am

My family got off pretty easy. They live in Baton Rouge, Lousiana. Losta rain and some high winds. Loss of power.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:38am

Popular - you're so sweet to inquire. I'm busy and tired so I haven't been on much.

Mom is fine, but has lost everything - car, house, all her possessions. We need to decide whether to rebuild or just sell off the lot. The scene, as observed by an Allstate insurance agent this morning, is grim. No houses on her street, just 10 feet of water with bodies and refrigerators floating.

Thanks for your concern.

[xxnewgirlxx]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:47am

My thoughts are with you and your family, Bluemoon.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:52am

Thanks newgirl!

You know, you're really not that new anymore. I'm just going to start calling you girl.

[Popular]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 11:59am

I'm so sorry. I was reading an article about Gulfort just before reading your posts so it stuck in my mind. I figured it would be bad but I'm glad that at least she's ok. Tell her she'll be back gambling soon enough

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:08pm

From what I understand, her favorite casino was lifted out of the water and landed a half a mile on the other side of the highway. At least she won't have to cross the street to gamble!

I wonder how you lift a three story building up and move it back across the street?

[KelRel]

Posted: 8/30/05 at 12:12pm

Blue I am so sorry to hear about your mother's home and her possessions. At least she is safe which is the most important part.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 3:36am

"Their parents had been forced to evacuate and leave the infants behind"

May I NEVER in this lifetime know this kind of hell.

[Marquise]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 4:42am

OMG DGrant that's inconceivable.
I wouldn't have left.
To live with that...

[cudramacat]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 9:48am

This is insanity! All those poor people! I'm glad that the people who posted on here are okay though and my prayers will be with your family, Bluemoon! God bless, all!

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 9/1/05 at 9:53am

Thanks, Cat! Looks like Mom is moving to my sister's home in Chicago while we figure out our next move. I worry about all those people who don't have places to move to.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 9/2/05 at 6:59am

This is the beginning of an October, 2004 National Geographic article on the perilous condition of New Orleans' existence. The description of this scenario, written about one year ago, is frightening in its accuracy. This could be an actual news report we're reading this morning.

"It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday.

But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party.

The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.

Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States."