Hurricane Katrina / Need Prayers

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OK, I’m going to pm the mods again…If you all just let me know, I can basically take any shift that you all can’t until tonight…(I have to get to a doctor’s appt tomorrow).
 
Momofone:
Let’s also pray that the levees hold!
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The storm surge will be higher than the levees. There’s no hope for them doing any good at all in this storm.
 
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geezerbob:
The storm surge will be higher than the levees. There’s no hope for them doing any good at all in this storm.
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Oh, God! I think I’m going to be sick now!
 
TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ROSARY THREAD:

Please, number your Hail Mary’s and list which Mystery of the Rosary you are praying.

If the demand becomes great, a second rosary thread could be started.

To relieve the number who want to pray, we may need people round the clock to do this.

ALSO a Chaplet of Divine Mercy has aslo been started by Lisa4Catholics.
Please number the decade you are on plus the number the phrases you are praying.

Keeping this in order is key, also.

Lord have mercy on us all!
 
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geezerbob:
The storm surge will be higher than the levees. There’s no hope for them doing any good at all in this storm.
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20-25 foot storm surge, plus that DOES NOT include the winds and waves caused by the winds.

They are using the Superdome for the ‘last minute’ emergency headquarters.

It really doesn’t look good.
 
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geezerbob:
Another scary thing was related by a former weather forecaster who went through three hurricanes along the gulf coast. People move to higher ground to escape the rising water and so do snakes. He recalled seeing the bodies of many people who had died from snakebite.

FEMA, Red Cross, Salvation Army, Catholic Charities, Baptist Brotherhood and others are already preparing to go and do what they can. The SC Baptists usually send two tractor trailers, one full of food and the other containing a complete kitchen. Volunteers go to cook and serve the food. No restoration work in the city can be done until it can be pumped dry. After the water subsides, the pumps are capable of removing an inch of water per hour, so they’re looking at being underwater for ten days or more.
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Bob, and what are the chances that the pumps may be blocked by debris?
I had heard that what ever isn’t floating or already underwater will project through the air!
 
I pray to God that every one here in LA has gotten out of harms way. If someone has not yet left, GET OUT. If you need a place to stay, PM and I’ll help you out.
 
My God…

This is so horrible. The devastation will be unlike anything seen before. Andrew was less powerful than this. I can’t think of another storm so strong.
May God have mercy on those in the path of this beast. Please St. Francis…pray for all the critters. I’m praying for critters and humans alike.
 
I truly hope Quicumque got out of City in time and didn’t even think about staying. Even though uptown doesn’t flood because it is on the natural levee of the Mississippi River, if I still lived at home (New Orleans will always be my home) I would get out.
 
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brotherhrolf:
I truly hope Quicumque got out of City in time and didn’t even think about staying. Even though uptown doesn’t flood because it is on the natural levee of the Mississippi River, if I still lived at home (New Orleans will always be my home) I would get out.
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WJBO just stated winds are now 165MPH
Katrina is 150 SE of the Mississippi River basin

You are to have sustaining winds between 35-50 mph.

I’ll be leaving for church tonight, I’ll pray some more and will be back tonight.
 
I’ll be here for at least a couple more hours. Then I am going to take a break & then get back here. I would love to just stay, but I have to do some stuff in the house. I think I will just put my rosary around my neck & pray as I work.

If I hear more news, I may drop things & come back. If I didn’t have tosee my doctor tomorrow, I would stay on all night, but I will be praying in any case.

God bless all here!
 
Quicumque: You are in my prayers, and all those in the path of this storm. May Christ hold you close within His Most Sacred Heart.
 
Just to let folks know: There is a rosary thread at the top of this page (sticky).

Lisa4Catholics started a Divine Mercy Chaplet on the Spirituality forum. That one is not sticky, but it is there, & we need pray-ers there too.

Just be sure to type in what # you are doing on the aves, so we don’t get lost.

God bless all here!
 
I just saw part of the local news up here. There are disaster relief workers flying out from this area right now, to go to Baton Rouge to work coordinating relief efforts.
Hopefully, this means that Baton Rouge is OK. But maybe we need to be praying for these people, too, who are taking themselves into harm’s way to help others.
God bless all here.
 
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005
…DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED…
.HURRICANE KATRINA…A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED STRENGTH…RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS…PERHAPS LONGER. AT LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL…LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL. PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE…INCLUDING SOME WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.
HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY…A FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.
AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD…AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS…PETS…AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS…AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING…BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR HURRICANE FORCE…OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE…ARE CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.
ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET…DO NOT VENTURE OUTSIDE!
From this morning:eek:
 
Just wanted to let you all who are in the path of Katrina know that many people are praying for you. I was at Mass this evening and wanted to light a candle for you all, but I couldn’t because every last one of them was already lit! Well, except for the few votives that had burned out.(not a usual circumstance). Since I couldn’t light one, I knelt and united my prayers with a candle whose intention was for those in the path of the storm.

You were also remembered in the Prayers of the Faithful during the Mass. We are very concerned for everyone who will be impacted by this storm.
 
QUICUMQUE VULT where are you going?? I hope you got out. I was lucky and I am in Dothan, Alabama with family. Take care and be safe.
 
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