Tunica-Biloxi open doors to hurricane refugees

From Pechanga.net   Tunica-Biloxi open doors to hurricane refugees
(LOUISIANA) -- The Tunica-Biloxi Indian Tribe in central Louisiana responded to the victims of Hurricane Katrina by opening the Paragon Casino Resort convention center as a refuge for families.    Casino Owners Look Toward Rebuilding
(MISSISSIPPI) -- As Hurricane Katrina blew a destructive path through Biloxi, Miss., on Monday, the Grand Casino Biloxi, owned by Harrah's Entertainment, came unmoored and washed across U.S. 90. The giant casino, with its 134,200 square feet of gambling space, is probably a total loss, the company said.   Where to Donate  Red Cross safest?
(USA) -- A variety of government and private agencies are en route to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, and federal officials said people wanting to help should not head to the affected area unless directed by an agency.   Isle of Capri officials check on employees from Gulf Coast area
(IOWA) -- With television and newspaper images providing some of their only clues to Hurricane Katrina's devastation in Biloxi, Miss., Isle of Capri officials turned their attention Tuesday to the top priority: accounting for their company's 1,650 employees in the Gulf Coast region.   Native Times news Helping Katrina's victims

Tribe opens casino to evacuees, Kiowa woman travels to disaster site
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Indian Country Today    Seminole Tribe of Florida sends emergency crew to Mississippi Choctaw by: Brenda Norrell / Indian Country Today CHOCTAW, Miss. - The Mississippi Choctaw were hit by Hurricane Katrina as it became a tropical depression, knocking down trees and power lines and cutting off roads as it tore through the central part of Mississippi. The Seminole Tribe of Florida responded immediately and had an emergency team, including emergency vehicles, police officers and firemen, at the scene, said Gilbert Thompson, executive assistant to Mississippi Choctaw Chairman Phillip Martin. more >>

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  ... Turtle hatchlings hit hard by Katrina. 140+ aftermath photos ... 130+ South Florida aftermath photos. Monster storm approaching NEW ... www.palmbeachpost.com/      UPDATE New Orleans sinks into crisis as two levees break, send water rushing in; about 80 percent city under water up to 20 feet deep.
• Mississippi apartments left as rubble

REPORTS FROM NEW ORLEANS
Residents battle rising watersOne man swam 200 yards to get to an area where he could walk neck-deep.
• New Orleans hospital still operating

Floridians helping storm victimsMore than 100 from faith-based organizations join convoy to Mississippi and Alabama. NEW

Storm 2005• Aftermath coverage | Tropical outlook
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 Crews pass dead to reach survivors

New Orleans flooding NEW Mississippi hit hard NEW
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NEWS 12: Gas to jump
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They Say it looks like A Tsunami in Mississippi and on other beaches.

  They said it may be 4 months before trhey can return! They Say it looks like A Tsunami in Mississippi and on other beaches.


  Governor: Everyone Must Leave New Orleans






Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover a portion of New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005, a day after Katrina passed through the city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)        


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David Keifer, leads his sister and son through flooded streets in New Orleans today. Rescuers, residents struggle

Katrina death toll estimated to be at least 120

Water still rising in New Orleans

Louisiana governor: "Logistical nightmare" at Superdome

Mississippi governor: More damage than Camille

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• Watch: Looters take to streets | Dome must be evacuated

• Watch: Saved from gators | Horses to get help

• Storm Roundup: Katrina's effects at a glance

• Special Report: Trail of destruction | Gallery | Levee system

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• Hotlines: Emergency info |Red Cross

• Superdome refugees moving to Texas |
  • Feds fan out for storm recovery efforts |
  • Wife makes desperate trip with husband's body
  • Watch: Wife searches for missing husband
  • 'It's like being in a Third World country' |
  • Biloxi: We swam among floating cars |
  • Mayor blasts failure to patch levees |



  WorldChanging: Another World Is Here

 Foresight in the Age of the Storm

To Know It for the First Time – Place, Environment and Ecology Jamais Cascio
 

In the age of climate disruption, clear-eyed foresight is a necessity -- but hurricane Katrina was a reminder that foresight means more than imagining the worst and preparing for it.

Katrina came as a surprise to few of its victims. The storm, which had been just a Category 1 when it crossed Florida, grewstronger over the warm ocean as it drew towards the Gulf Coast; in the age of real time satellites and doppler radar, residents of the region had ample warning that danger was coming. Nor was Katrina's arrival a surprise to meteorologists at the National Weather Service, who had earlier this month predicted that this hurricane season would be a strong one. Katrina's strength was certainly no surprise to climate scientists such as Kerry Emanuel or Kevin Trenberth, each of whom had published recent articles in top-notch journals arguing that greater hurricane intensity is the inevitable effect of global warming.

No, climate foresight means recognizing the signs that the game has changed, and that simply doing more of the same, but better, won't suffice.

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Katrina and the Levees To Know It for the First Time – Place, Environment and Ecology Emily Gertz

Check out "After Centuries of 'Controlling' Land, Gulf Learns Who's the Boss," a thorough, readable, straight talking, and slightly arch article in today's New York Times on the suite of environmental factors that have contributed to Katrina's enormously devatating impact on the Gulf Coast.

Reporters Cornelia Dean and Andrew C. Revkin chart development and depletion of coastal ecologies in the region since the 18th century, "when French colonial administrators required land claimants to establish ownership by building levees along bayous, streams and rivers":

As long as people could control floods, they could do business. But, as people learned too late, the landscape of South Louisiana depends on floods: it is made of loose Mississippi River silt, and the ground subsides as this silt consolidates. Only regular floods of muddy water can replenish the sediment and keep the landscape above water. But flood control projects channel the river's nourishing sediment to the end of the birdfoot delta and out into the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Aftermath Katrina

Levees break; New Orleans to evacuate refugees Hundreds believed dead across Gulf Coast states in Katrina's wake

Tuesday August 30, 09:28 PM

Hundreds feared dead on storm-ravaged U.S. coast

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BILOXI, Mississippi (Reuters) - Helicopters plucked frantic survivors from rooftops of inundated homes on Tuesday and hundreds were feared dead along the U.S. Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina sent a wall of water into Mississippi and flooded New Orleans.

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Hurricane Katrina now landfall

ADVISORY TIME...................August 29th 1:00PM ET
NAME.................Hurricane Katrina
POSITION..........30.8N x 89.6W
LOCATION.........40 Miles SSW of Hattiesburg,Mississippi.
MPH - PRES.......105mph / 27.76
MOVEMENT.......North @ 17mph
120 HRS............ In Canada absorbed after hitting SE Louisiana and Mississippi as a cat 4 Hurricane .

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· 485,000 Residents Told to Flee New Orleans
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Big Easy Braces for 'Once-in-a-Lifetime' Storm
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