some pretty scary footage is coming out now, I guess it might be another day or two before they get around to all the worst hit areas and find out the death toll.
Freakaloin wrote:i mean u morons do know that cat5's almost always significantly weaken right before landfall and the media purposely does not report it until after they blow over? haven't u dipshits noticed how they aren't talking about the winds near as much now? take a wild guess why no0bs?
No deaths have been officially confirmed in Louisiana, but New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said bodies were floating in high waters that covered most of the city.
"The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation," he told television station WWL. We probably have 80 percent of our city under water; with some sections of our city the water is as deep as 20 feet (6 metres). We still have many of our residents on roofs," he said. "Both airports are under water."
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Tulane University Medical Center vice president Karen Troyer-Caraway told CNN the downtown hospital was surrounded by 6 feet (two metres) of water and considering evacuating its 1,000 patients.
"The water is rising so fast I cannot begin to describe how quickly it's rising," she said. "We have whitecaps on Canal Street, the water is moving so fast."
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At least two drilling rigs were knocked adrift and one in Mobile Bay, Alabama, broke free of its mooring and slammed into a bridge.
"We have 80 percent of our city underwater. In some parts of the city, the water is as deep as twenty feet.
"We have people still trapped on their roofs.
"We have an incredible amount of water in the city. Both airports are underwater."
"The twin spans in New Orleans East are destroyed. They're gone.
"We have three huge boats that have run aground. We have an oil tanker that is also run aground. And leaking oil.
"We have a serious levee break at 17th Canal. It's causing waters to continue to rise in certain sections of the city.
"We have houses that have literally been picked up off of their foundations and moved.
"The yacht club on the lake has burned and is destroyed.
"I must tell people who are driving around that if you drive on the highrise, we're not sure about the structural soundness of the high-rise, because it appears that a barge has hit one of the main structures of the high-rise.
"This is a briefing that I got from FEMA.
"All of Slidell is under water.
"We have gas leaks that have sprout out, and even when they are under water, you will see a flame shooting out of the water. It's not a pretty picture."
