OT: All Holed Up

[Ash]

Hurricane Katrina is battering Louisiana and Mississippi.
Thousands have flocked to the SUPERDOME.



I wonder what it'd be like to be there right now with them weathering the storm.


Look at that thing!!

I heard that the roof rattles non-stop from the winds and at least two holes have been ripped open in it.

People there probably do a lot of looking up at the ceiling.

The thing that fills my mind first & foremost is what the stench is like in there.
The body odor of thousands.....yes...THOUSANDS!!

I wonder how many have vomited and wiped it up with napkins.  

Can you picture all this in your minds?  Maybe even smell it?
They said that the AC went out.  It must be ungodly in there.
Thousands just laying about on hard cement steps and uncomfortable stadium chairs...some in sleeping bags just a bit too close to you.

I'm glad Iowa doesn't get hurricanes...no chance of that here.  :)

Thoughts?



Post Edited (08-29-05 11:09)

[ulthar]

My sister lives in Mississippi and is getting hit pretty hard; carport and garage caved in with two cars damaged so far, plus upstairs windows broken (allowing water in) an roof going. As of 11:30, they were still getting hammered.

She lives just outside the mandatory evacuation zone (by a bit over five miles).  They live sorta in the country and have some animals that did not want to leave.

Thoughts and prayers to all in the "zone" of this storm.  Worse one to hit that area in over 35 years.

[Ash]

Is there a police presence in the SUPERDOME while this is going on?

Surly there must be.
Otherwise, who would stop some potheads from firing up a joint one of them had stashed. ( I'd ask to partake)

Or some scumbag bringing a gun in and terrorizing the whole place.

I wonder how many cops are assigned to the SUPERDOME.
I hope they get Hazardous Duty pay



Post Edited (08-29-05 11:28)

[ulthar]

ASHTHECAT wrote:

> Is there a police presence in the SUPERDOME while this is going
> on?
>
> Ot some scumbag bringing a gun in and terrorizing the whole
> place.
>


They did extensive (though how effective?) searches of everyone entering yesterday.  On the news they were showing the long lines and long waits.

[Derf]

Having lived through hurricane Celia in 1970 (the eye passed right over us, so we caught the full force of the storm while holed up in the county courthouse), I can say that emergency personnel (police, firefighters, etc.) do stay (my father was a deputy sheriff at the time), so there is likely a good police presence in the Superdome and in any other "safe" house gathering location. I remember watching my father go out during the eye and get a guy who hadn't quite made it inside and was holding on to a tree just outside the courthouse. I also remember people huddling in dark hallways, windows shattering and showering glass up the hallways, and spending the night on a courthouse bench. I feel for those in New Orleans; my thoughts and prayers are with them.

[raj]

Yeah, they've got the La. National Guard there.  The Superdome has got to be the last place I'd want to be, even if there's a gianormous hurricane.
I hope everyone makes it through ok.