Katrina

[JohnR]

Don - check FEMA and Red Cross websites for a databse system.

Hope your family is OK

[Bliz]

Thanks John.

None of us have heard from neither my Parents nor my Sister's families.

I'm headed for FEMA's website now...

[Bliz]

Nada there...

[MakoMike]

Originally Posted by Bliz

Nada there...

I think I read a news article on either IWON or yahoo that said that the damage around the Hattiesburg area wasn't too bad. No where near like the damage they had down near the coast.

[Bliz]

Just got this in...

As the first blush of a new day dawned today, the Pine Belt got its first real glimpse of the wreckage and ruin of Hurricne Katrina that smashed the area like a punch to the gut.
Trees were snapped like toothpicks or ripped entirely from the ground by their roots, billboards collapsed and shattered on the ground and signs and light stands crumpled under the 100 mph-plus winds.

Many Hattiesburg area homes and businesses were destroyed by the powerful hurricane that came ashore near New Orleans just after sunup on Monday and then mowed through the heart of Mississippi, leaving a wide path of destruction.

“I have never lived through anything like this before,” said Joseph Oliver of Hattiesburg as he surveyed damage to his West Fourth Street home early today.

“I was here with Camille and lived in Florida when Andrew hit and nothing compares to this. This is an absolute nightmare.”
Katrina was the worst storm to hit the Pine Belt since Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Hardy Street, one of Hattiesburg’s main thoroughfares, looked as if Katrina had flicked her hand across the road and brushed aside trees, signs and power lines like an angry child flinging her toys.

The storm took no pity. Only the homes and businesses fortunate enough to have generators had power. Officials said it could be weeks before power is fully restored. Water, telephone, cable, Internet and natural gas services were mostly gone.

There were no confirmed reports of deaths or major injuries in the Pine Belt, but Gov. Haley Barbour said unconfirmed reports put the death toll at up to 80 in Harrison County – which includes Biloxi and Gulfport. Barbour said the death toll could climb.

Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County officials ordered a dusk-to-dawn curfew Monday and today.


This gives me some hope that everybody is okay...

[Bass Babe]

Bliz, I hope your family is okay; it sounds promising. Cell phone service is horrid down there. I've tried calling my sister quite a few times and only lucked out once or twice because I was circle dialing for tens of minutes. I'll hazard a guess regular service is probably out, too. Maybe you could shine out the family bat signal and wait for a response beam?

[Bliz]

There hasn't been any response as of yet.

We are hopeful though, as no news... is good news.

The rest of my family are networking together to get information.

[Raven]

i think thats a very conservative estimate for damage assessment.
especially when it was just anounced that 4 CITIES are completely
destroyed.

[Raven]

national guard troops ....have been called to head down to katrina's hell.

The problem is....it's as deadly as IRAQ there and will become

even more so with so many dead people,dead animals, floating fish and sewage infecting

the flooded areas. There will be bloodshed over the looting quite soon.

[stormfish]

Hey Bass Babe,
what kinda economics are you going by? Bush cut 42% of FEMA's flooding fund in 2001 in support of the IRAQ war. FEMA has enough to cover the disaster just like Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.

The rest of the world would donate funds to the US tragedy because they love America! They do don't they???

[Raven]

after the rescue mission is over....and clean up begins.......

unfortunately even the houses that survived the worst damage with have to be bulldozed to end mold growth taking over and will never be inhabitable again.
with flooding predicted to take months to subside and a temperature of 80 degrees and up....there's no stopping it..or living with it.

there is a silver lining in the clouds...there will be a building boom down there like we've never seen before on a very massive scale.

[Bass Babe]

Stormfish, I'm just going by what they reported on the news. I know very little about economics, nor do I profess to know much. Like I said, "I heard on the news". You obviously know way more about FEMA and whatnot, so thanks for the heads up.

[MakoMike]

If they have any smarts they will rebuild the city in a different location and on higher ground.

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by Bass Babe

Stormfish, I'm just going by what they reported on the news. I know very little about economics, nor do I profess to know much. Like I said, "I heard on the news". You obviously know way more about FEMA and whatnot, so thanks for the heads up.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/inte...372455,00.html