Monday, August 29, 2005
What those poor people must be going through...
Experts Expect Katrina to Turn New Orleans Into Atlantis, Leaving Up to 1 Million Homeless By Matt Crenson The Associated Press.
I realized it was bad, but I didn't realize it was THAT bad!
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Poor, Homeless, Frail Flock to the Safety of Superdome, By Mary Foster Associated Press Writer.
Eli, in the comments, advised me he got his donation links from Watertiger at Dependable Renegade. Heh, her top picture for Sunday is of, you guessed it, Shrub!
I realized it was bad, but I didn't realize it was THAT bad!
..."All indications are that this is absolutely worst-case scenario," Ivor van Heerden, deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, said Sunday afternoon.
The center's latest computer simulations indicate that by Tuesday, vast swaths of New Orleans could be under water up to 30 feet deep. In the French Quarter, the water could reach 20 feet, easily submerging the district's iconic cast-iron balconies and bars.
Estimates predict that 60 percent to 80 percent of the city's houses will be destroyed by wind. With the flood damage, most of the people who live in and around New Orleans could be homeless.
"We're talking about in essence having - in the continental United States - having a refugee camp of a million people," van Heerden said...
Eli at Multi Medium has a couple donation links. Bryan at Why Now? does, too.
Poor, Homeless, Frail Flock to the Safety of Superdome, By Mary Foster Associated Press Writer.
The sickest among them didn't flee the 160-mph wrath of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday as much as they hobbled to safety on crutches, canes and on stretchers. Others lined up for blocks, clutching meager belongings and crying children as National Guardsman searched them for guns, knives and drugs.My sympathy goes out to them. What an ordeal!
Eli, in the comments, advised me he got his donation links from Watertiger at Dependable Renegade. Heh, her top picture for Sunday is of, you guessed it, Shrub!
