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Yeah - that's why I couched it as a "rumor" - caught me by surprise after not following everything for a while.
So here is what I am wondering ...
Assuming the roof of the Superdome remains intact (keep in mind that the roof is supposedly 270 feet high and the winds get stronger the higher you get), how in the hell are they going to evacuate 30,000 hungry, scared, and dehydrated people if New Orleans is under 10-20 feet of water for weeks? I can not even begin to imagine what a hellhole that place will soon become.
The south side was the worst side when Katrina hit Miami.
The only possible thing I can think of that can do the job.. shallow draft, maneuverable, large, would be the Navy's LCAC:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/s...s/ship/
lcac.htm
The only possible thing I can think of that can do the job.. shallow draft, maneuverable, large, would be the Navy's LCAC:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/s...s/ship/
lcac.htm
According to Paul from Wizbang, there is an upper concrete deck on the outside of the stadium, and access to the outside.
Not sure how this would stand up to the storm. Evac by helocopter seems possible if enough of the outside upper deck remains intact. Still, though, that's not a quick evacuation of a building.
I'm so scared for New Orleans. I lived through Andrew. A quarter of a million people were left homeless. This is going to make that look like a walk in the park.
30,000 people in the Superdome, all those tourists stuck in downtown, hospitals full of people....how do they rescue that many people???
Quite bluntly, Lisa--they don't. Many will die. The WWL video feed just said that it's estimated that 1 million people fled, but that the New Orleans metro area has 1.3 million people, so that's 300,000 people who've decided to ride it out. The odds that they'll all make it are virtually 0.
I know. I'm absolutely horrified by what, in all likelihood, is about to happen.
They should drop off the mayor at the Superdome as soon as the storm is over. Let him experience the conditions first hand.
Please, please everyone pray for all those in the path of this thing. My wife, Mary, is a nurse and is on duty at West Jefferson Medical Center, on the Westbank of the Mississippi river. She is a nurse in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and is taking care of sick newborns.
I am at home in Baton rouge. My parents are here, but the full scale of what is about to hit new orleans with my wife there in the way is quite a burden. She is the love of my life and dear lord I can't even think about losing her. By the way, she is three months pregnant with our first child.
Please pray for Mary, and all the others.
Sean
Sean, my thoughts are with you. The good news is that she'll likely be one of the first evacuated after the storm. And a hospital is usually the safest place to be if you have to stay for the storm.
Also, you probably won't hear from her for days. I know it will be excruciating, but keep in mind that in these situations, no news is usually good news.
Amazingly, no one in the media seems to have pointed out yet that it would be really nice to have the Louisiana National Guard at full force at times like this, rather than fighting an unnecessary "war" halfway around the world.
I've seen comments about it. That's why the Texas National Guard is mobilizing near the border.
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