Superdome to be evacuated

[redsoxliberal]

3:25 P.M. - With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Tuesday that people now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers need to be evacuated.


"The situation is untenable," Blanco said during a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking."

[yankeeinlouisiana]

1. Is there a link

or did you hear it on the news?

[CottonBear]

3. Link:

http://www.wdsu.com/video/4907831/detail.html

Press conference on now. Reported on WDSU earlier today.

[CottonBear]

2. See this post on the evacaution:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4510991

Local live news link: http://www.wdsu.com/video/4907831/detail.html
Press conference with Gov. and Senators on now.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Well at least someone is making a command decision

Since we have no real commander in chief. He's busy eating cake and strumming his guitar. AWOL again. Pathetic.

[leftchick]

5. feed them first then evacuate

when they figure out how to do it. from the video feed.

:(

[Shadder]

7. There's the rub...

When they figure out how to do it. For all the years they have talked about the possibility of a cat 4 or 5 hurricane hitting NO, and saying that it was a matter of when and not if you would think that they would have had at least some kind of contengincy plans in place.

[NYC]

6. Floating dormitories

are being considered. I don't even know what that means.

They said that absolutely New Orleans will be rebuilt.

[Caoimhe]

8. What about Cruise Ships?

Empty them of the rich people and send them at full speed to New Orleans to get those people

[rzemanfl]

9. Empty them of rich people??? That would be compassionate

and selfless, they would bitch about it for 50 years!

[NYC]

10. Foreign registration.

I'll bet most of those ships are registered in foreign countries, not American. (so can't be commandeered)

[catmandu57]

11. I don't know if they could get them there

I don't know what kind of shape the river is in. I think their best bet would be to get people to the west and north of the city then bus them to camps in drier locales.

[shraby]

12. I just hope they haven't waited too long.

[jarab]

13. Locking

In accordance with LBN rules, See this -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4510991