What was the actual damage from the hurricane in New Orleans before
the levee's broke.

All I've really seen and heard about is the flooding and I've not
really heard what kind of damage the actual hurricane itself did.

Craig

Craig wrote:

What was the actual damage from the hurricane in New Orleans before
the levee's broke.

All I've really seen and heard about is the flooding and I've not
really heard what kind of damage the actual hurricane itself did.

Craig



Take a peek at what it has done to Mississippi. The damage there has
nothing to do with the levee breaks.

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stupid *******......the whole city got wiped out by the hurricane

"Craig" wrote in message
ups.com...
What was the actual damage from the hurricane in New Orleans before
the levee's broke.

All I've really seen and heard about is the flooding and I've not
really heard what kind of damage the actual hurricane itself did.

Craig

Bob Dalton wrote:
stupid *******......the whole city got wiped out by the hurricane

"Craig" wrote in message
ups.com...
What was the actual damage from the hurricane in New Orleans before
the levee's broke.

All I've really seen and heard about is the flooding and I've not
really heard what kind of damage the actual hurricane itself did.

I had to smile but the OP did point out that he has been informed of
the disaster.

Here is the NASA take:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/New...3?img_id=17018


What is all now lost in the hype that successive news reporters are
showing at the expense of the good name of the people left to die by
the rich and powerful, is the engineering that gave way.

I rather think that this is what the OP is asking for information
about. Adding insult to injury is not the way to reply -even on altnet.

Bob, the city is wiped out by the levee breaking, which was caused by
the hurricane,
I was wondering what kind of damage the hurricane itself did, had the
levee not broken.

The only thing I ever did hear was that NO got 7" of rain, i never
did hear the highest wind speed etc.
I didnt think NO had the same kind of damage as Gulfport for
example.

And yes BOB, I am very aware of what the levee's breaking has
caused.

Craig wrote:
Bob, the city is wiped out by the levee breaking, which was caused by
the hurricane,
I was wondering what kind of damage the hurricane itself did, had the
levee not broken.

The only thing I ever did hear was that NO got 7" of rain, i never
did hear the highest wind speed etc.
I didnt think NO had the same kind of damage as Gulfport for
example.

And yes BOB, I am very aware of what the levee's breaking has
caused.

Bob D. appears to be pulling his "facts" steaming from his butt.

Since the eye of Katrina passed just east of New Orleans, there was not
as much damage as there was farther east, where the winds were greater
and the storm surge higher as the south winds pushed Gulf water ashore.

The levees were damaged as the low pressure and north winds just west of
the eyewall, pushed water from Lake Pontchartrain over them. The actual
failures occurred a full day later on Tuesday. There doesn't appear to
have been all that much wind damage to the city from the storm, though
there certainly was some.

There doesn't appear to
have been all that much wind damage to the city from the storm, though
there certainly was some.

Thanks Bob H.
Thats what I was wondering,
And yes I can understand how the west side of the hurricane pushed all
that water over and broke the levee's.
On Monday, all I ever saw was I think a brick wall down and the
Hyatt with all the windows blown out. And they were all saying that the
streets were already dry,
So thats why I was wondering what the damage was Before the levee's
broke.

Thanks
Craig

Bob Harrington wrote:
There doesn't appear to have been all that much wind damage to the
city from the storm, though there certainly was some.

Correct. Remember all the articles from late Monday about people
rejoicing at how the historic portions of the French Quarter,
especially, were relatively undamaged?

Katrina was bad for New Orleans, yes, but nothing unfamiliar to folks
who survived Andrew in 1992 (which literally wiped Homestead FL and
its Air Base from the face of the earth) or Ivan just last year, and
certainly nothing as bad as what Gulfport or Biloxi MS (also nearly
wiped clean) saw from it. It was the totally-unexpected levee
breakings on Tuesday that turned a familiar post-hurricane cleaup
story of the kind we've all seen dozens of times on the news into an
unprecedented national disaster.

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