Readers will doubtless be glad to know ...

[unixronin]

...that scyllacat made it.  She has been seen in New Orleans since the storm passed over.

Others weren't so lucky.  65 deaths have been attributed to Katrina, 54 of them in Mississippi (50 of them in Harrison County, 30 of those in a single apartment building that collapsed near Biloxi).  There is extensive flooding in Mississippi and in New Orleans, with a 200-foot-long breach reported in the Lake Pontchartrain levee along the 17th Street Canal.  80 percent of New Orleans is reported as under as much as 20 feet of water, and 1.3 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi are reported without power.  Much of Mobile, Alabama was also flooded by the storm surge.

"The president was expected to authorize at least a loan of some oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, said administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly."

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

You'd think that son of a bitch *wanted* gas prices at $3 a gallon. I mean, yeah, we need to get off the oil barons' teat, but we don't need to kill our economy into the bargain...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Do you have evidence he doesn't? The oil business owns George of the Jungle White House, lock, stock and barrel.

[jilara.livejournal.com]

Isn't it funny that he criticised Clinton for wanting to tap the reserve in a previous crisis, and now he's the one doing it?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Par for the course for politicians. :p