{"id":2679,"date":"2005-09-01T00:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-31T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galacticmuffin.net\/day17\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2005-09-01T00:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-31T14:32:00","slug":"katrina-affects-us-plebs-in-australia-crazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.galacticmuffin.net\/day17\/2005\/09\/katrina-affects-us-plebs-in-australia-crazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Katrina affects us plebs in Australia! Crazy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard that part of Alabama might get hit by Katrina before it hit but promptly forgot about it till we got emails yesterday morning from our companies IHQ (based in Birmingham) advising that most of our websites were offline and they have been running on back up power.
\nWe are able to access our mainframe which is based over there, and log onto the network, man work would have been the pits if we couldnt! But yeah – so just a little while ago I decided to look up some news to see just how bad the problem was and found this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Katrina left 636,891 Alabama Power customers statewide without electricity at the peak outage, the second highest number ever seen. The peak in Birmingham was 230,367 customers without power.<\/p>\n

At 11 p.m. Tuesday, 341,186 Alabama customers statewide and 87,558 in the Birmingham area (Jefferson and Shelby counties) still lacked power.<\/p>\n

There is no timetable yet on how long it will take to restore power in Birmingham, Kurlander said. After Hurricane Ivan and after the Blizzard of 1993, it took eight days. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

\nThe peak outage was 203,000 out of 225,000 Alabama Power customers and the outage was still at 173,632 at 11 p.m. Tuesday, the company said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

EEK! The second page of the article says how mch worse it is in Mississippi. <\/p>\n

I dont know what else to say about it really. I hope New Orleans can recover. I have wanted to visit there for quite a few years. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

ARGH! Was just read this article<\/a> about the Govenor of Louisiana ordering all people to leave New Orleans.<\/p>\n

A full day after the Big Easy thought it had escaped Katrina’s full fury, two levees broke and spilled water into the streets on Tuesday, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the bowl-shaped, below-sea-level city, inundating miles and miles of homes and rendering much of New Orleans uninhabitable for weeks or months.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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