Update [2005-8-30 17:18:59 by BooMan]: They are closing the Superdome because they do not have enough food, water, or medical care. I have no idea where they are going to take the people.
Robert Plant sang about it, but I never thought I’d see an American city eighty percent under water.
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If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s going to break
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s going to break
A-when the levee breaks, have no place to stay…
Cryin’ won’t help ya, prayin’ won’t do ya no good
Now, cryin’ won’t help ya, prayin’ won’t do ya no good
A-when the levee breaks, mama, you got to move, a-woo-hoo
Cryin’ and praying’ wont help, but the people of New Orleans need all the assistance we can provide.
New, terrifying floods swept through the heart of New Orleans. Water blanketed 80 percent of one of the nation’s largest, most popular cities. And yet fires raged.
Medics transformed part of the Superdome into a triage center. Looters roamed. Martial law was declared in two parishes close to New Orleans.
The awful panorama of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation stretched across four coastal states, and a rag-tag, numbed army of refugees searched desperately for the bare necessities of life — water, food, shelter and, to escape from it all, gasoline.
”There’s nowhere, nowhere to go,” said Robert Smith, a truck driver who fled New Orleans with his family of six and ended up stranded on Interstate 10 near Gulfport, Miss. “There’s nowhere to eat, get gas or stay.”
I recommend sending your donations to the Red Cross. Other organizations can be contacted here.
It looks like virtually the entire city is going to need to be rebuilt. Nothing like this has happened in the USA since the San Francisco fire a hundred years ago. People will need places to stay for an extended period of time. Anyone that has space to offer should consider offering it to people that cannot go back to their homes.
