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[steve2470]

Current mood: awake
Current music: Last of the Katrina 24hr coverage
Entry tags: hurricane katrina

Well, New Orleans is closed!

Search and rescue will be going on tomorrow, Tuesday. Curfews are in effect as well. 5000 Entergy (electric company) trucks are going towards N.O. tomorrow, too. Reports of 750,000+ without power Louisiana. That doesn't include the million that are still out in the other states, and that number is probably growing. May take up to a month to get power around New Orleans.

Somehow, Lafayette got missed by the winds that went and did some damage all the way north to Alexandria and Shrevesport. My niece in Alabama is gonna get wet from this storm, as well.

Pictures are a a premium; since there's no power and the helicopters didn't go far enough to check New Orleans' West Bank or North Shore.

State offices in New Orleans are closed...The scenes of the buildings with windows blown out, roofs peeled off, lightpoles snapped like matchsticks, flooding and rescues...

Folks won't be going home soon.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/bonfoi/7922.html

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. I am thankful Lafayette was spared

one of the most charming southern cities there is

[FreedomAngel82]

2. How horrible

:( This is all so awful. We're supposed to get some effects here in Tennessee as well. We're supposed to tomorrow and I start college back. We had some good rain yesterday evening. Last night my dad got a call from his work (he works at TVA as a civil engineer) that Mississippi had power lines down so he'll probably have to go out there whenever they are able to put them back up (he designs and helps oversees the buildings of power lines).