So I'm awake. This bites.
Can't sleep. Really wish I could stop looking at news sites.
Mayor Ray Nagin reports the Twin Span Bridge is "totally destroyed" and that 80% of the city is underwater.
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
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 10:29:51 pm PDT #2398 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
billytea - Aug 29, 2005 10:32:59 pm PDT #2399 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
You're going to be absolutely defective over this thing, aren't you?
Right. You're the one stuck on a conversation loop and Cass is defective.
Cass - Aug 29, 2005 10:43:37 pm PDT #2400 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Aw, Dana. Put down the tv and get just a little bit of sleep.
All of your people are safe right now, yes?
So there are a lot of things that you don't, and can't, know yet but your parents are safe and you need to try and get some sleep if you can.
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:44:32 pm PDT #2401 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I can't sleep. If I lie in bed, I just imagine the worst. At least on the computer, I can find out details of the worst.
dw - Aug 29, 2005 10:44:48 pm PDT #2402 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Can't sleep. Really wish I could stop looking at news sites.
I understand. Mucho -ma.
And still more horrors:
A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new ‘hurricane proof’ Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina’s fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.
This apparently explains why the water in NOLA was still rising this afternoon and evening. The hole in the levee is two blocks wide. The mayor says that some parts of the city are under 20 feet of water.
Cass - Aug 29, 2005 10:49:47 pm PDT #2403 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I can't sleep. If I lie in bed, I just imagine the worst.Unfortunately, I get this.
Want to be distracted, helped in the search for details or just allowed to post?
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:50:48 pm PDT #2404 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I was fine all day today, sort of. I guess I had something to do, at least. I tried calling my parents tonight, but I guess the phone and power is out in Jackson.
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:51:19 pm PDT #2405 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Want to be distracted, helped in the search for details or just allowed to post?
Um, distracted, I guess. I've managed to upset myself pretty well.
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:57:53 pm PDT #2406 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I'm watching the mayor on TV from earlier tonight.
Slidell is under water. Metairie is mostly under water. There's basically no way in or out of the city. There's no potable water except in the CBD and Algiers. There's no elecricity, and it'll take at least 4-6 weeks to get it back up.
Dana - Aug 29, 2005 10:59:03 pm PDT #2407 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Now CNN is reporting a two-foot breach in a levee somewhere.