(5 Sep 2005) SHOTLIST
New Orleans
1. Skyline of flooded city
2. Helicopter drops massive sandbag in attempt to create foundation to repair road
3. Broken watermain pumping out water
4. Flooded homes – water still up to roof line
5. Small pumping station
6. Digger on floating pontoon pushing sandbags into water to shore up road embankment, pullout
New Orleans
7. Crashed helicopter wreckage
8. Skyline of flooded city
9. Repairs at pumping station
10. Vehicles with generators arrive
Jefferson Parish, near (south of) New Orleans
11. Sporadic traffic in Jefferson parish as some residents allowed back to salvage belongings
STORYLINE:
US army engineers tried to plug New Orleans’ breached levees with giant sandbags and concrete barriers on Monday, using Chinook helicopters to drop sandbags and stone into a 500-foot (150-metre) gap in a failed flood wall.
The engineers hauled 15-thousand-pound (6,750-kilogram) sandbags to the levees as part of massive cleanup operations.
While the death toll was not known, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin warned that 10,000 people may have died.
The dead were floating in canals, slumped in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways and hidden in attics.
Nagin on Monday said that the situation was stabilising, however, and that his officials had the resources to continue with the evacuation and cleanup operations.
On Sunday, a helicopter involved in the Hurricane Katrina rescue effort crashed near the Danziger Bridge.
The two people on board escaped with only cuts and scrapes.
Meanwhile, traffic began crawling through suburban Jefferson Parish after dawn on Monday.
One week after Hurricane Katrina turned the region into a disaster of biblical proportions, miles-long lines of vehicles crawled along as residents were allowed to return for brief inspections of what’s left of their homes.
Officials planned to allow traffic in for 12 hours, though they encouraged residents to inspect their property, pick up personal items and leave.
KEYWORD – HURRICANE KATRINA
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Post time: Jun-19-2017