tx_dem41
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:15 AM
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We just heard from my wife's father in New Orleans..... |
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He's on the roof of Tulane Med Center evacuating all the remaining patients to Lafayette by National Guard helicopter. Because of the breech of the 17th St. Canal levee in Bucktown this morning, downtown now has 6 feet of water in the streets and the level is rising. The hospital is close to losing electricity. The remaining staff will stay there tonight and get flown out tomorrow.
My wife sent this news out in an email about an hour ago, and someone actually got Diane Rehm to read the email on air this morning.
I believe it will be necessary for the entire city to be evacuated within the next 24-48 hours if the levee breach is not closed soon.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:17 AM
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1. I take everything back I ever said about hospitals!! |
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Thank God for these brave people.
Hope your father is safe and gets to dry ground soon!!!
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:18 AM
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How terrible for those people.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:19 AM
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Its happening in slow motion.
The city I love is in gawdawful trouble.
Hat's off to your FIL for staying to help these stranded folks
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:24 AM
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9. The flooding is as slow and painful as being swallowed by a python |
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:19 AM
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Glad your father in law is all right and that he is doing good works. It's just sort of strange to think the entire city of New Orleans may have to be evacuated. Good luck to your in laws and all others in the ravaged areas.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:20 AM
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5. You're wife's father is to commended |
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He's doing a very difficult and dangerous job. Thanks for giving us this news.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:21 AM
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6. Amazing stories of courage! |
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Your father-in-law will be in my thoughts and prayers.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:21 AM
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7. No way a breech that large can be closed against the flow of water. |
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They will only be able to close it once the water levels equalize.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:23 AM
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8. Thank you for the update |
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I can't even imagine what this is like.
:cry:
Prayers to everyone. I just lit a candle at work. No one is giving me funny looks yet :)
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:26 AM
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10. God bless your wonderful father-in-law |
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Thank goodness the evacuees have someone compassionate and caring to help them evacuate expeditiously and safely. :)
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:27 AM
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11. Thank you for this update. I hope all will be well *hugs and prayers* |
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:27 AM
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who are putting in 48 hours of straight sleepless shifts so far, all the while worried about their own families.
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:38 AM
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17. THese people are heroes! |
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:32 AM
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:33 AM
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14. THANK YOU ALL....for those thoughts!! |
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My father-in-law is the most decent person I have ever met and I am pretty damn proud of him and everyone at Tulane right now.
Thanks again. It means a lot.
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Tue Aug-30-05 10:41 AM
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15. We might lose New Orleans. |
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:38 AM
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My thoughts are with the staff and patients at this time.
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:40 AM
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19. I wonder when they get to Charity? |
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That the huge public hospital complex across the street.
Evacuation of the city will be complicated by the fact that I-10 east is closed.
I wonder if I-10 west is open? There would be a lot of debris on the caseway over the spillway, since that area is a major concentration point for storm surge.
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:42 AM
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20. I think I heard 10 is destroyed. |
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I don't know NO, though. It could have been another highway. I did hear there's only one way out, through the Crescent City connection (whatever that is).
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:54 AM
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23. The Crescent City Connection are the two twin high-rises.... |
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across the Mississippi River at New Orleans. It goes to the West Bank and out the West Bank Exwy to Hwy 90 which exits to the SW portion of New Orleans metro area.
If the 17th St. Canal level breached at Bucktown, I-10 is surely impassable to the West.
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Tue Aug-30-05 12:08 PM
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24. Yes. They're saying the only evac route is GNOB/CCC to 90 on the West Bank |
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then up to I-10 west of the city.
(You can tell how long I've been gone when I hae to say Greater NO Bridge, but I used to communte to Gretna).
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:48 AM
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21. Warm hugs to father-in-law for the work that he's doing! Blessings! |
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Tue Aug-30-05 11:51 AM
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22. Thanks for the news tx_dem |
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I'm glad that your father in law is okay. This is one long nightmare and I have a feeling it will go on for a while longer. I can't even imagine being there right now. Here is to the safety of your family and everyone else.
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