CNN Just Reported "Water Is Lapping at the SuperDome."

[newswolf56]

Sorry no link: this was TV broadcast.

[Tyranny_R_US]

1. and yesterday it was flooded

:wtf:

[Hekate]

3. My God, those poor souls

Watched Nightline -- it looks like New Orleans may be a total loss. Buildings of wood and brick and drywall, all marinating in water to the eves. The highways -- washed away. Someone called the storm surge "our tidal wave," and indeed it is.

My husband has been grieving Biloxi as much or more than NO. He was in the Air Force and stationed there during Hurricane Camille, so even though we live in California he's been reliving it for nearly a week.

My God, those poor souls. The Coast Guard rescue copter crews are incredibly skillful and brave.

Hekate

#Why won't the Chickenhawk cross the road?#

on edit -- meant to add: Wonder what John Ashcroft makes of it all? Nah, we probably don't really want to know for sure.

[newswolf56]

4. If CNN broadcasts any more information on this...

before I shut down for the night -- probably an hour from now -- I'll post it.

The CNN Daybreak staff -- not the brightest and the best -- were already speculating the water might close the last remaining highway out of New Orleans and thereby trap 20,000 displaced persons in the Dome. Conditions there are already said to be unspeakable -- verging toward another Black Hole of Calcutta -- and this will merely worsen the horrors.

May your namesake be merciful.

[theHandpuppet]

6. They're saying it will take a week to get people out of there

And my next question is: WHY? Why the fuck is it impossible for the most powerful nation on earth to evacuate one stadium? I'll bet if the U.S. Congress was sitting in that damn stadium it would have been evacuated within hours.

If this is the best we can do, folks, we as a country are truly and royally fucked and we've just broadcast our disorganization, ineptitude and vulnerability to the entire world. If it's going to take us a week to empty one stadium, there are going to be a lot more dead in NO before this is through.

[lvx35]

2. Crazy!

Well, at least there's those high seats, right?

[izzie]

5. Look at picture in WashPost on line.

Looks bad to me.The family and I were talking about this yesterday and I said I understand people not leaving. I would not have. I have animals, not enough money and would have to drive it my self and I am lucky I have a car. Most of these people did not.