WDSU reporter Heath Allen says he is stranded on the second floor of the St. Bernard Parish government building. He said officials are telling him the water is 15 to 20 feet deep on the streets throughout the parish.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:25:59 am PDT #2084 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
tommyrot - Aug 29, 2005 10:30:16 am PDT #2085 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
From MSNBC:
National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warned that New Orleans would be pounded throughout the day and that Katrina’s potential 15-foot storm surge, down from a feared 28 feet, was still enough to cause extensive flooding.
So the worst of the storm surge is yet to come?
Sue - Aug 29, 2005 10:32:01 am PDT #2086 of 10002
hip deep in pie
The tides would influence the storm surge too, tommyrot.
Emily - Aug 29, 2005 10:32:22 am PDT #2087 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I really like this photo. That's so me. Just a cigarette, a beer... and a portable DVD player. Mine you, I wouldn't be quite so sanguine about that wall of glass I was sitting near.
Emily - Aug 29, 2005 10:34:35 am PDT #2088 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
And I know this is less interesting at the moment, but I thought I'd mention that Netscape's bit on Dr. Swinbourne's logical analysis of the Resurrection has made it to the "What's New" popup. Now the writeup says both "he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father" and "Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true," which seem inconsistent to me. But then again... Netscape News and religion are unmixy things.
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:35:51 am PDT #2089 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, man.
Mayor Ray Nagin said that 200 people were stranded on rooftops in the Lower Ninth Ward and several “bodies are floating in the water” in the Bywater neighborhood.
Gudanov - Aug 29, 2005 10:36:09 am PDT #2090 of 10002
Coding and Sleeping
"he has created a formula that he says shows a 97 percent certainty that Jesus Christ was resurrected by God the Father" and "Considering all these factors together, there is a one in 1,000 chance that the resurrection is not true,"
Maybe he was resurrected by somebody else. Maybe somebody named "Eddie".
Steph L. - Aug 29, 2005 10:38:14 am PDT #2091 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I am earwormed with "The only living boy in New York":
I can get all the news I need/On the weather report...
And now I'm earwormed with it.
ION, I just had to show incompetent!boss how to (I swear to you) change the font size and leading in a fricking WORD DOCUMENT.
Kathy A - Aug 29, 2005 10:38:39 am PDT #2092 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Maybe those bodies are from the aboveground cemetaries? When talking about potential toxic waste, etc., on the news last night, they included corpse upheaval as a potential source of disease if the city floods.
le nubian - Aug 29, 2005 10:39:02 am PDT #2093 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
wow.