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Roxy66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:13 PM
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Breaking News...50 people dead in Mississippi Harrison County
Edited on Mon Aug-29-05 10:16 PM by Roxy66
WDSU.com reporting live video

http://www.wdsu.com/index.html
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:14 PM
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1. Oh no . . . .
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:16 PM
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2. I'm afraid there will be more stories like this
once daylight comes tomorrow and they can start really assessing things.

May those lost rest in peace, and peace and strength to those surviving.
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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:18 PM
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3. Oh No
Those poor people.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:19 PM
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4. AP story here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina
Katrina Floods Gulf States, Killing 55 By ALLEN G. BREED, Associated Press Writer
5 minutes ago



NEW ORLEANS - Announcing itself with shrieking, 145-mph winds, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast just outside New Orleans on Monday, submerging entire neighborhoods up to their roofs, swamping Mississippi's beachfront casinos and killing at least 55 people
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:20 PM
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5. I'm sure there will be more...unfortunately

http://www.siteone.com/towns/harrisn.htm

I'm sure many stayed behind...light a candle for them.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:22 PM
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6. Jeanne Merserve
of CNN reports many many bodies, is in tears, sobbing .
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:24 PM
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7. She is doing the first real life scope of the tragedy and am crying
with her.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:29 PM
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8. she is in NO
about 5 miles east, in poor areas she said. Heartbreaking. The first real reporting I have heard.
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berner59 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:29 PM
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9. very moving...
I'm listening with horror...her reports about dogs yelping and being elecuted by wires & no one can get there... People being trapped in boats or houses...

Brown is doing a good job of keeping her calm, yet getting the story... Jeanne is hanging in there...how awful...
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Pithy Cherub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:32 PM
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10. Jeanne made it real in a way NOTHING else has all day.
The horrific injuries. They had to stop the rescues, they need boats badly. I am in tears! This is only going to get worse.
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:33 PM
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11. Jesus, she sounds just horrified and broken down by the story.
Very scary. My heart goes out to her and to all the people there.

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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:35 PM
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13. She's usually pretty unflappable, too, from what I remember. : (
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:37 PM
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14. Yes, she's a straight-up hard nosed reporter.
She must be tired, horrified, hungry, and wrenched out by the ordeal.

She heard people dying, yelling for help. That doesn't go away.


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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:34 PM
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12. I just saw this
on Faux of all places.
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:37 PM
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15. why can't SEALS rescue these people?
thousands of hungry, wet people sleeping on their rooftops in the rain because we don't have enough boats to save them? The police are going home to get their own personal boats to use for rescue, is that right? Why not use all our military amphibious craft to patrol all night and SAVE THESE PEOPLE? We have billions of $$ invested in all this military CRAP, and now that there is a REAL use for it, local cops are using their own little fishing boats instead. DAMN I am pissed.
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Rainscents Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 10:53 PM
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16. AP News is reporting 55 now and it's climing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina

This is not good, there will be many more. :cry: :cry: :cry:
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 12:06 AM
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17. Oh ****! I thought the casualties were very low. Dam.
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