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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #20 on: 08/29/2005 02:22 pm »
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #21 on: 08/29/2005 02:32 pm »
Where?
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #22 on: 08/29/2005 02:51 pm »
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #23 on: 08/29/2005 02:59 pm »
I don't think the forum can display tif images.  Here they are converted to jpg...
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #24 on: 08/29/2005 03:02 pm »
Thanks wouldnt let me save them as .jpg's

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #25 on: 08/29/2005 03:03 pm »
Reports from a Hospital in New Orleans suggest its bottom floor is under 6ft of water as the "bilge" pumps keeping the city dry failed earlier today

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #26 on: 08/29/2005 03:35 pm »
7 Dead according to BBC so far. Sky say it's 15.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #27 on: 08/29/2005 05:36 pm »
Downtown New Orleans  - image AP

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #28 on: 08/29/2005 06:33 pm »
Looks like I get to see Katrina on Wednesday Morning...


 I would rather see the clock counting down.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #29 on: 08/29/2005 07:04 pm »
Unconfirmed, but there's been no contact with the rideout crew at MAF for three hours. Last report was apparently that the facility was getting a battering and flooding concerns were being said.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #30 on: 08/29/2005 07:23 pm »
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Unconfirmed, but there's been no contact with the rideout crew at MAF for three hours. Last report was apparently that the facility was getting a battering and flooding concerns were being said.

Probably just a case of riding out the storm rather than having to report in all the time
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #31 on: 08/29/2005 07:47 pm »
Sounds like there has been some damage to the roofs, with some security cameras been blown off.  State of the facility will be check when the winds die down this late this afternoon to below 50mph.  There however seems to be some water damage and leaking. Facility is on backup power and Pumps were working  " doing a good job".

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #32 on: 08/29/2005 08:50 pm »
I just got an e-mail saying MAF has not suffered "major damage".

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #33 on: 08/29/2005 08:53 pm »
Here's hoping. That would be very good news if confirmed which might take a few days I'm sure. Especially to the doom and gloom media that popped up again when covering the what may happens.
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #34 on: 08/29/2005 09:08 pm »
Yes, confirmed info would be good.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #35 on: 08/30/2005 12:24 am »
Anyone heard anymore? I'm getting nothing back from MAF people I know.
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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #36 on: 08/30/2005 02:17 am »
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0508/29michoud/

In general it looks like the New Orleans area escaped devastation but still duffered extreme damage and flooding in much of the area. There is no word on Stennis apparently, which was closer to the worst area of the storm than Michoud.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #37 on: 08/30/2005 03:48 am »
I spoke too soon. Images are just coming in from the Mississippi coast around Biloxi...it is total devastation:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/ids_photos_ts/r150213133.jpg

The death toll is 55 in just part of one MS county.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #38 on: 08/30/2005 04:00 am »
This is apparently now the deadliest hurricane since Agnus in 1972 which killed 122.

My thoughts are with the friends and families of anyone living in the area and who may be reading this.

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RE: MAF watch - Katrina
« Reply #39 on: 08/30/2005 10:59 am »
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- As the death toll from Hurricane Katrina reached at least 54, a levee holding back the waters of Lake Pontchartrain sustained a breach two blocks long overnight in the Lakefront area of New Orleans.

The breach triggered rapidly rising floodwaters in the city's downtown and prompted at least one hospital to evacuate patients by air.

The death toll was expected to climb from one of the most powerful hurricanes to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in half a century. Fifty of the deaths occurred in one county in Mississippi, CNN confirmed.

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin confirmed the breach in a local TV interview. City fire officials said the break was about 200 feet long in the levee surrounding the 17th Street Canal.

"My heart is heavy tonight," Nagin said in the interview on WWL-TV. "I don't have any good news to share.

"The city of New Orleans is in a state of devastation. We probably have 80 percent of our city underwater. With some sections of our city, the water is as deep as 20 feet."

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