[Ravensfort] Fwd: [Ansteorra] Katrina damage - Hattiesburg

L T ldeerslayer at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 31 10:35:18 PDT 2005



--- Hal Siegel <therion at therionarms.com> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:55:53 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Hal Siegel <therion at therionarms.com>
> To: ansteorra at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Ansteorra] Katrina damage - Hattiesburg
> 
> 
> I haven't seen any reports specifically about Lumberton and the Gulf Wars
> site yet, but here's a blog report (non-SCAdian) from Hattiesburg:
> 
> "My report from Hattiesburg, MS...
> 
> Guys, I rode Katrina out in Hattiesburg. I don't know what has been posted
> on here, but I'll give you my quick recount of what went down. Monday
> morning right at 8:00 we lost power. About 10-11ish, the weather started
> to pick up drastically. At about 12:15, we started to hit the eye wall.
> This storm's power was AMAZING! I can't even begin to describe the power
> of this storm. After a long morning, i was finally able to get out of my
> apartment at about 3:30 or 4:00. We had sustanded winds of 100+ MPH with
> gusts over 120MPH.
> 
> We soon went for a short ride around Hattiesburg. The destruction was
> devastating. Muggshots, Stricks, and Crecent City all have very severe
> damage. Tree's are down EVERYWHERE. WDAM reported that the best case for
> restoration of power in Hattiesburg is 2 weeks. I was told that the whole
> infastructure of power lines was destroyed and that they would have to
> replace about 80-90% of all power lines. Also there wasn't a power pole
> that was still intact. Hattiesbug is a disaster area. There isn't a street
> light that is in its correct location. They were all blown out. There
> isn't a gas station in the city that I found that didn't have a lot of
> damage. I found only a couple that were open this morning. And none were
> selling gas.
> 
> I am able to post this because I left Hattiesburg this morning. Hope this
> can give you guys a little bit of insite to the type of devastation there.
> Please pray for the people left in Hattiesburg, the Mississippi coast and
> New Orleans. The devastation in these areas are unimaginable."
> 
> 
>                Hal Siegel - TherionArms
>               http://www.therionarms.com
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