superdome

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_risha_: sad sad sad
Elizabeth (_risha_)
superdome survives with the 100 thousand poor and homeless people taking shelter there. The largest...
bucngator: Hurrian Katrina
bucngator (bucngator)
This will be a disater of epic proportions. And i'm really hoping the superdome holds up.......
swisscelt: Katrina updates
SwissCelt (swisscelt)
Superdome is leaking. The building housing emergency operations in St. Bernard Parish, just east of...
mercurybard: Hurricane update--She's here
Cody (mercurybard)
rest of it seems to be holding. There is also roof damage to the Superdome, where New Orleans' poor were sent when they couldn't......
hiddenriver: Still on pins and needles
Hidden River (hiddenriver)
d" place for a storm of this size. I'm scared for all those people in the superdome. The roof is damaged on one side, so everybody had to crowd into ...
o0_ryan12_0o
o0_ryan12_0o (o0_ryan12_0o)
east so that's grood for the people of new orleans...and i'm also happy that the superdome kept and is......
_rowan_mayfair_: Exhaling
_rowan_mayfair_ (AE) (_rowan_mayfair_)
ing it's way on the internet. I pulled this from AOL News. 8/29/05 "At New Orleans' Superdome, home to 9,000 storm refugees, the wind ripped pieces of metal from the roof, ...
sonicdissonance: Wow
Andy (sonicdissonance)
entral Arkansas, but..... My heart goes out to the victims & survivors..... and I guess the Superdome aspect of the story gives new meaning to "New Orleans Saints". Can't bear to watch ...
carhyl_a
carhyl_a (carhyl_a)
The more I look at the news and see flooding and death and even the superdome being destroyed how can they be ok in a little house if the superdome ...
platypush: The Horror of New Orleans
Platypus (platypush)
the richest nation in the world to arrange to evacuate the 30,000 people at the SuperDome, and all other stranded citizens? I'm not trying to be facetious, or make ...
mouse870: Hurricane Katrina
Mouse (mouse870)
it killed a few people, flooded some areas, ripped parts of the roof off the Superdome where there were over 8000 refugees .... the worst was yet to come!!! Apparently this ...
hijinxlifer
Jordan (hijinxlifer)
coverage of Hurricane Katrina. I mean, this is major. The people temporarily housed in the Superdome are being forcefully converted from 21st-century people to cavemen. No longer do they have ...
sunlover823: Is anyone else depressed?
Jenny (sunlover823)
One woman had a five day old preemie, by c-section and was stuck in the Superdome with no food, no water, AC, probably nothing to take care of her new ...
leshy69: WHERE IS OUR ALMIGHTY????
leshy69 (leshy69)
morning. Authorities were having to evacuate the thousands of people at city shelters, including the Louisiana Superdome, where a policeman told CNN unrest was......
vickska241: Wow.
vickSka241 (vickska241)
At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina's refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, will travel in a bus convoy to Houston starting Wednesday and will be sheltered ...
vicatron: Good news
vicatron (vicatron)
the daycare and actually all of the University of Houston. They are moving all the N.O superdome victims to houstons astrodome.. and are taking in all evacuees. So we are starting a ...
docsrock: Texas Does Its Bit
docsRock (docsrock)
Superdome folks will be bussed over as soon as the planning folks can get the logistics...
chickabimbo: another update
Casey (chickabimbo)
still flooding, they have to shuttle all the people who are taking refuge in the Superdome in NOLA by bus to the Astrodome here in Houston. That's about 10,000 people ...
uberwenchrising: up here on my soapbox
mrs nabakov (uberwenchrising)
cue efforts, which include recovering pets that were left behind (many emergency shelters, including the superdome, did not allow pets), arranging rescue & relocation for shelter animals, & offering much-needed ...
polymexina
Oenone (polymexina)
to every sentient viewer: race and class. Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter, or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV was...
treyhawk: Maybe the first story answers the second story ...
Treyhawk (treyhawk)
start arriving in Astrodome 5:30 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 1 The first wave of evacuees from the Louisiana Superdome began arriving in Houston early this morning, as volunteers scrambled to prepare the Astrodome f...
amysue18: You have got to be kidding me
amysue18 (amysue18)
its residents would take to SHOOTING GUNS AT RESCUE HELICOPTERS and LIGHTING FIRES INSIDE THE SUPERDOME. For crying out loud. (The answer to my question is "stupid French people".)......
goodrumrose: VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY AT ASTRODOME!!!!
Melanie (goodrumrose)
as I get them. Also, there are a lot of people who were not in the Superdome in New Orleans that are showing up at the Astrodome because they heard it ...
mandasaurusrex
mandasaurusrex (mandasaurusrex)
superdome flew away. Its gone. The football team isnt there anymore either. Me: You are such...
skankingurl3: Here I am! Rock me like hurricane!
Bridget (skankingurl3)
New Orleans..and they're posting up to the minute updates on what's going on in the Superdome. It's seriously scary. http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=1647609&ok=true ------------------------------------- 2005-09-01 08:36:52 AM MorrisBird [TotalFark] Gulliver: Would some kind Farker who has been following ...
cowboysteve426: WHERE THE FUCK IS THE WATER?
cowboysteve426 (cowboysteve426)
a mandatory evacuation?  they were to leave their homes and go somewhere else-didnt matter where-superdome, shelters, hotels, highway bridges, anywhere but home.  And so now they are crying for he...
tkin2036
Reid's Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (tkin2036)
isiana and Mississippi is truly terrible and terrifying. Not only are people stranded at the Superdome, but the area has become a veritable battle scene. Snipers are pelting a children's ...
parlance: I'm speechless
Happy Friendly Sparkly Toast Club Charter Member (parlance)
Superdome: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/01/national/nationalspecial/01dome.html And the dome's reluctant residents exchanged horror stories, including reports, which could not be confirmed by...
viefhues: The poor are wandering the streets
viefhues (viefhues)
in greater numbers. The picture of an elderly woman left dead in her wheelchair in the superdome is a stark reflection of America’s vulnerability in the face of natural or human-made ...
theperplepigg: New Orleans links...
theperplepigg (theperplepigg)
tos: Before and After. A very moving piece about the sad state of affairs inside the Superdome: Trapped in the Superdome And because I know how much you all love Bush: No ...
feeorin
no matter what it takes she promises a show (feeorin)
a little boy's dog, the child cried until he vomited. "Snowball, Snowball," he cried". http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/Katrina.superdome.ap/index.html "We spent the last few hours at the New Orleans Convention Center. There are thousands of...
liarparadox
liarparadox (liarparadox)
his sister for ice. There have been rapes and deaths (including a suicide) in the Superdome. And there is no sanitation. "It's become urban warfare." The Ferderal Government did ...
proverbialgirl: But Sports must go on...
ProverbialGirl (proverbialgirl)
Superdome are both too full to accept more Katrina Refugees... meanwhile the Washington Nationals baseball team...
officer_denise: The End is Nigh..
officer_denise (officer_denise)
Russell of course. Maybe the only answer to the lawlessness over there is to turn that Superdome into the home-ground for a Gameshow of death.......
pythia_akrypta: Link Salad
Pythia (pythia_akrypta)
Superdome Evacuations Enter Second Day: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050902/ap_on_re_us/katrina_superdome_evacuation_hk1;_ylt=Ag4tt9hnnsdnYnFNJlOygKNH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg- Katrina Worst Disaster in Red Cross History: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050901/NEWS0110/50901037/1260 New Orleans Mayor Issues 'Desperate SOS' http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5249122,00.html Attacks...
spartalocal: Mismanagement of Katrina
spartalocal (spartalocal)
are doing little to help the people trapped in houses, hotels and even still the superdome, except sending in National Guard with shoot to kill orders. But there are not ...
freets: Government's response to New Orleans disaster is racist
freets (freets)
Superdome and the Convention Center are poor urban blacks. Last night I saw buses arriving at...
monsterbrain
Monsterbrain (monsterbrain)
Superdome? All the media uproar about how inappropriate that was? Wow, the rapes and beatings and...
kowboy
Mister Curtis if you're Nasty (kowboy)
that a report by another NPR staffer with regards to the conditions at the NOLA Superdome (no running water, no food, no bathrooms, etc) were "just rumours" and went on ...
az_tashtego: J.G. Ballard in New Orleans
az_tashtego (az_tashtego)
to see. It is not a pretty thing. A reporter from NPR that visited the Superdome Wednesday described a scene directly out of J.G. Ballard's......
greyzzz: New Orleans
greyzzz (greyzzz)
Orleans! Watching the news and seeing all those people in the convention center and the Superdome with no food, water, or medicine! People getting robbed and raped when they try ...
kitaj: Hurricane Katrina...
kitaj (kitaj)
at the rescue helicopters, young groups of men raping women and young children in Louisiana's Superdome where many have fled for safety. I have no......
haphazardmethod
haphazard method (haphazardmethod)
announced through a bullhorn to thunderous applause: "We got 30,000 people out of the Superdome and we're going to take care of you." "We've got food and water on the way....
vampymuse21: A small miracle amidst total devastation
KC (vampymuse21)
baking on the freeway as people pass by to pick up the people at the Superdome, why can't they send busses for those on the interstate? ...
vesta_sharess: Turn on NBC Nightly News Right NOW
vesta_sharess (vesta_sharess)
them on the highways) Turn your channels NOW.. The first trucks to arrive at the Superdome for help - Had Boxes of BIBLES.. NOT WATER.. and infants are dying because t...
poetlover: Well...
Poetlover (poetlover)
had about 500 evacuees here in Dallas. Today, the first busloads of evacuees from the Superdome arrived at Reunion Arena. Officials have asked North Texans to stay away and let ...
peg_74066
peg_74066 (peg_74066)
ball on the guy heading FEMA. That man should be made to live at the Superdome or the Convention Center in NO for 4 or 5 days in the conditions ...
dreamspirals78
dreamspirals78 (dreamspirals78)
devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina. Initial reports indicate that Witnesses who sought refuge in the Superdome in New Orleans are now being evacuated to the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, some 350...
lout_rampage
Kourtney (lout_rampage)
being taken to a stairwell in the New Orleans Center, a shopping mall near the Superdome, and given food and water. They feared some of them might have escaped, and ...
genkakuseikatsu: Wanting to do something
The Weazel (genkakuseikatsu)
ea" ... all exciting to imagine but an impossible movie-type-proportions mission. Mainly from the Superdome being called "worse than Willowbrook." Take a caravan of hundreds of cars/SUVS/trucks ...
dragonsgold5: There but for the grace of God.....
dragonsgold5 (dragonsgold5)
died already. I suspect there will be more. There's the debacle of the Superdome. Even worse, folks who were turned away from the Superdome but not told ...
ladymako71: Yippee!
Mako, Director of The Ancient Order of Sidewalks (ladymako71)
me on her last conversation with her brother. (lace's dad) They went to the Superdome, they called her up right before leaving for the Superdome on Sunday afternoon, so ...
hate_after_kate: new orleans blog site
hate_after_kate (hate_after_kate)
orleans. it seems good. but, all these people aren't the people in the superdome now - obviously, they have access to computers. all the same, it seems ...
farewelltolegs
matt(hew) byrne (farewelltolegs)
living in squalid conditions. families are living on the piss-soaked astroturf in the superdome. babies are dying of dehydration. peoples lives are ruined. and we weren't pr...
emmeethesexee: WTF
Emily Field (emmeethesexee)
n......
help4katrina: info
help4katrina (help4katrina)
lenda Plunkett , Special to RedCross.org Thursday, September 01, 2005 — HOUSTON -- When the Superdome in New Orleans was wounded Katrina, the 23,000 evacuees housed there would once again ...
nillabean87
nillabean87 (nillabean87)
Superdome Horroe I would like to think that if something like this happened around here, it wouldn't...
wyoluvr: we live in a dark and evil world
wyoluvr (wyoluvr)
periodically just lost the ability to speak. some reporter asked this guy outside the Superdome if he thought this was only affecting black people and the......
calgal
Sarah (calgal)
police have started to murdered citizens, but I do believe that the conditions at the superdome were completely inhumane. I do believe that many women and children were raped......
thedeadseraphim
Spence (thedeadseraphim)
was the federal government doing while people sat dying in the convention center and superdome? jerking off?! smoking weed?! no... the president was just on vacation til...
susiq1492: Hurricane Katrina and our wonderful government
susiq1492 (susiq1492)
the rest probably wish they were. There's been, I think, three reported rapes in the Superdome. WTF is......
chickenpaddy: NO MORE
chickenpaddy (chickenpaddy)
speak of indusgretions please, today I wish the white house was a homeless shelter, and the Superdome......
greanviouesboi
n/a (greanviouesboi)
been to in America. The train station where we parked is right next to the superdome. It's weird seeing it all on televisions. I was watching CNN and found out ...
charcoaldesigns: Hurricane
charcoaldesigns (charcoaldesigns)
ho have lost everything aren't even allowed to take their pets with them to the superdome or wherever they are getting bused off to. To some people their pet is ...
jessebc: Have we been duped about the violence in NOLA?
jessebc (jessebc)
diaculture/25116/ No babies with their throats slit. No 7 year old girl raped in the Superdome. Those are old news. Those were debunked days ago. But now there's reports ...
mkeane: More Information... same opinions?
Mike (mkeane)
New Orleans immediately after the storm to provide food and water to those in the Superdome, but the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, by order of the LA governor, denied ...
sarahtar: More Hurricane News
Sarahtar (sarahtar)
follow its own evacuation plans. http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3344347 I've enjoyed this blog: http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/005375.php "Not only did Nagin know that the Superdome would prove inadequate for shelter for any period longer than a few hours, he encouraged...
robby_rejected: Gah...there I'm giving in and bitching.....
robby_rejected (robby_rejected)
do is talk about how they're looting, how little girls are being raped in the Superdome where these people were abandoned, how they shouldn't have lived in an area susceptible ...
chefwayne (in right_v_left): New Orleans
ChefWayne (chefwayne)
the subject in the news. Where was the security at the convention center and superdome. I keep hearing how there were rapes and murders at the convention center ...
etumukutenyak: Excellent overview of what happened - and what went wrong -- in New York Times, Sept 11 paper
etumukutenyak (etumukutenyak)
nd Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco needed buses to rescue thousands of people from the fetid Superdome and convention center. But only a fraction of the 500 vehicles promised by federal ...
thejenn1: I'm as ticked as anyone...
thejenn1 (thejenn1)
lly yelling at the TV last week while watching all the folks trapped at the Superdome with no food and water, yet not being allowed to leave. I was also ...
mimiwimi: Stupis f*ing free republic!
mimi (mimiwimi)
it is: "I just read a media piece that talked about the extreme trashing of the Superdome following Katrina by the poor......
ericflee: hurricane part two
ericflee (ericflee)
the astrodome to endure yet another hurricane? and will the astrodome become the next superdome? these people really are having a rough go of it. It must hurt your psyche...
killingbarbie: Interesting article, folks.
.cassia. (killingbarbie)
Superdome overstated Reports of anarchy at Superdome overstated By BRIAN THEVENOT and GORDON RUSSELL Newhouse News Service NEW ORLEANS...
horuscg: Well what do you know...
horuscg (horuscg)
in the days after Hurricane Katrina, struggling to help the crowd outside the Louisiana Superdome separate fact from fiction. Armed only with a megaphone and scant information, he might ...
hady: Little Girl Screaming III
hady (hady)
of toxic sludge water and mold, and reports of what happened in shelters like the superdome are disgusting. A couple family friends had to be airlifted from their house in ...
llfezll
llfezll (llfezll)
Superdome, which is a temporary home to at least 10,000 evacuees. Welcome relief ... Supplies are...
laceydivine
laceydivine (laceydivine)
in one of the parishes. Victor is going to ride out the storm at the superdome and his parents are going to Baton Rouge to stay with friends. I'm worried ...
fieldsofgarlic: Going Back to New Orleans
fieldsofgarlic (fieldsofgarlic)
really like to see (even if the photo ain't so great): I'd way rather see the Superdome _ahead_ of all U-Hauls than behind them.........
exeyel: Rah-Rah-Racism
exeyel (exeyel)
ALREDY mostly African-Americans. 2) The crime rate in Houston, where most of the people from the Superdome and Convention Center (whatever......
knowewe: Gimme A Break
Steven Ambrose (knowewe)
SuperDome has a new sponsor. ......
rorys: weird exhibition
rorys (rorys)
Superdome about the human body. the whole exhibition involved all these dead asian guys preserved so...
aiobheil: Are You Angry, Yet?
Cairsten Yang Kuang Ning (aiobheil)
Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. Bush didn't ask a single question during ...
georgeliquor: No one could of known the levees were going to break!
georgeliquor (georgeliquor)
struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. Bush didn't ask a single question ...
sydneycat: Video Shows Bush Was Warned Before Katrina
Sydneycat (sydneycat)
Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage. Bush didn't ask a single question during ...
poets_hand: But we already knew this, didn't we?
poets_hand (poets_hand)
Katrina struck that the strom could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome, and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage... A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" ...
woe_sis: regrets, anyone?
lily (woe_sis)
Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according......
cbisbeezie: The Gris Gris is working! ! !
cbisbeezie (cbisbeezie)
the spirit of New Orleans and including the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the Superdome, Deuce Mcallister, and of......
backo: Here we go again.... BRING IT OONNNNNN!!!
Backo (backo)
of crap thats so boring that I cant be f'ed studying it anymore. Location: SUPERDOME.. Yeah i know same place as my FRA exam and hmm Prophecy, Utopia and ...