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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
I too hope all those people in a city that's already below water level are Ok.
Meanwhile I hope it drops as much water as possible in the Mississippi and Ohio River Valleys.
It's due to be here in the Toronto area about dinner time on Wednesday. They are already saying we could get 4" of rain in the few hours it takes to pass.
Best of luck.
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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
I too hope Peters is alright.
I was speaking this morning with a pilot friend of mine who has volunteered to fly relief supplies in to the stricken areas.
He says the upper east end of Alabama was hit pretty hard.
My thoughts and prayers are with those people.
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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
I just minutes ago got the following note from my friend who is presently on the ground in Atlanta GA waiting for clearance to continue on with a load of relief supplies.
"Murf, it's a real bad deal, I just spoke with one of the first pilots back out today, the levees are completely saturated and are now failing, both airports are underwater, they're trying to figure out where they can get us a place to land. They are trying to get one strip open at Louis Armstrong N. O. Int'l. open, but the guy I just spoke to doesn't think that will be possible. The city water system is now contaminated, they had a rupture in one of the main pipes which is in a flooded area and it drew in raw effluent. Both the I-10 bridges north east out of the city are completely destroyed, they won't even let the Nat. Guard use them. If you're feeling up to it we could use your hands for a few days. More when I can."
This is going to be a BIG clean up.
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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
A friend and I volunteered to fly down there to drop off some donated medical equipment and bring a couple of people back out. We got back last night.
What a mess, the TV coverage barely shows the tip of the iceberg. They seem to be concentrating on New Orleans, but there is a very large area of countryside that just no longer exists. Period. No trees, nothing, very erie to see first-hand.
Whole communities simply don't exist anymore.
The GPS said we were over a town, looking down all you could see were lines on the ground, when we got closer we could see what the lines were ..... streets. Nothing left but the streets, no trees, not a single building, just a few scattered pieces of debris and some concrete slabs.
God help them.
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Hey Randy You are going to get WET
Ann, you are, of course, right.
It does not change the facts. I realize that the media is in the business of 'selling' us information, more viewers mean more commercial sponsors.
My point was that where the media concentrates, so does everyone else.
One of the towns we went into, Gulf Shores, AL had literally nothing left, not one public vehicle or building left useable, the Fire Hall is standing, but just, and everybody is camping in it, no municipal records, nothing, not even one single house was left standing.
There is no real aid arriving either, trucks roll across I-10 towards Mobile, but don't turn south to them. Celebrities send truckloads of donations, but not to them.
The sad part is I have seen more done, and faster, for foriegn countries than is being done down there.
Best of luck (to them).
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