Mississippi looked to have been awash again

[HeeBGBz]

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=8930429

Why am I not seeing this on teevee? Water up in houses and the Hard Rock.

These are peoples uploaded photos.

[Retrograde]

1. because everybody's in New Orleans?

The Retrograde theory of major news coverage: the more good restaurants in your town, the better your chance of getting overrun with disaster reporters. Even 3 years after Katrina, New Orleans trumps Biloxi.

More seriously, the GOP is cynically using Gustav to show how much better things are going in Louisiana now that they have a Republican governor.

[Bluebear]

2. Sorry, Laura Bush & Cindy McCain's telethon is more vital news.

:eyes:

[HeeBGBz]

4. The House-on-Stilts thing seems to be working

All that water over Highway 90 is disturbing to see.

[jobycom]

3. The Hard Rock didn't have much water or damage.

The Hard Rock, according to video on WLOX.com, had about two feet in the lowest level, which is all storage and maintanance. All of the casino and restaurant stuff starts on the second floor, which is twenty feet up, and that was all dry. They'll have to clean the salt water out of the pool and mop out some closets, but the casino was built to accomodate a few feet of water. The manager they interviewed said they'll be open when the Coast allows the rest of the casinos to open. I haven't heard about the Beau Rivage, which, as I remember, has a gaming and shopping floor a lot closer to sea level than the Hard Rock.

My mother lives about ten miles from the beach, and she says they barely lost power for about half an hour this morning. There were stories of tornadoes around that area (I hope BOSSHOG is okay, because some of those were reported in his neck of the woods).

And there was a lot of flooding of bayous and rivers inland a ways, but a lot of those flood during a strong rainstorm. There was water on Highway 90, which is right above the seawall, and I've seen videos of water up to the seawall and a little over it. I've heard of boats on the highway, but all the pictures I've seen so far show them on the Gulf side of the seawall, not actually on the highway. I even saw a picture of a car in the surf, but it was also on the beach side of the seawall--no idea how it got there.

I saw some earlier footage of water in Bay St. Louis and Waveland, which is the far west side of the Mississippi, near Louisiana. And I haven't heard anything about Pearlington and Clairmont Harbor, which are small communities along the western part. They would have gotten the worst of the surge and flooding, so I hope they are okay.

Anyway, just what I've seen. Not conclusive or all-inclusive, and I'm in Austin, so I haven't seen it in person.

[HeeBGBz]

5. My kids and grandkids are in Biloxi

The first significant hurricane since Katrina was bound to have nerves on edge.

I moved from there to Missouri last November. Looks like Gustave is heading my way. According to this track has it coming to the Ozarks as a tropical depression. We're supposed to flood. We need a little rain, but a lot might be a problem.