Massive hurricane hammers 3 Gulf Coast states

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WEATHER
HURRICANE’S PATH
MOBILE, BALDWIN
Today: Thunderstorms possible.
Continued breezy. Rain chance 50
percent today.
NEW ORLEANS
STILL STANDS
FLOODING, BIG
RIVER CRASH
Tomorrow: Partly cloudy and hot.
Thunderstorms possible. Highs
low 90s. Rain chance 25 percent.
Complete Weather/10A
Damage from Katrina
not as bad as feared/2A
feared/2A
Assessing the local toll from Katrina/7A
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2005
Katrina kills 55
Massive hurricane hammers 3 Gulf Coast states
Ernest
Swaggerty
pauses as he
contemplates
cleaning up
what’s left of
his mobile
home in the
south Mobile
County
community of
Irvington in
the wake of
Hurricane
Katrina on
Monday. The
large,
powerful
storm left a
swath of
destruction
along the Gulf
Coast from
New Orleans
to Alabama.
G.M. ANDREWS/Staff Photographer
Editor’s note
៑
This special edition of the
Mobile Register was printed on
the presses of the Pensacola
News Journal after floodwaters
from Hurricane Katrina swept
into downtown Mobile on Monday and knocked out power to
the Register’s building.
A complete edition of this
newspaper — including stock
market tables and a full-size
Sports section — will be printed today at the Birmingham
News and delivered to all our
home subscribers with their
Wednesday Register.
Katrina’s destructive force felt from
New Orleans to Alabama
By ALLEN G. BREED
Associated Press Writer
NEW ORLEANS — Announcing itself with shrieking, 145-mph winds, Hurricane Katrina slammed into
the Gulf Coast just outside New Orleans on Monday,
submerging entire neighborhoods up to their roofs,
swamping Mississippi’s beachfront casinos and killing at least 55 people.
Jim Pollard, spokesman for the Harrison County
emergency operations center, said 50 people were
killed by Katrina in his county, with the bulk of the
deaths at an apartment complex in Biloxi. Three other people were killed by falling trees in Mississippi
and two died in a traffic accident in Alabama, authorities said.
For New Orleans — a dangerously vulnerable
city because it sits mostly below sea level in a bowlshaped depression — it was not the apocalyptic
storm forecasters had feared.
But it was plenty bad, in New Orleans and elsewhere along the coast, where scores of people had
to be rescued from rooftops and attics as the floodwaters rose around them. An untold number of other people were feared dead in flooded
neighborhoods, many of which could not be
reached by rescuers because of high water.
“Some of them, it was their last night on Earth,”
Terry Ebbert, chief of homeland security for New
Orleans, said of people who ignored orders to evacuate the city of 480,000 over the weekend. “That’s a
hard way to learn a lesson.”
“We pray that the loss of life is very limited, but
we fear that is not the case,” Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.
Katrina knocked out power to more than a mil-
lion people from Louisiana to the Florida’s Panhandle, and authorities said it could be two months
before electricity is restored to everyone. Ten major
hospitals in New Orleans were running on emergency backup power.
The federal government began rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas, along with doctors,
nurses and first-aid supplies. The Pentagon sent experts to help with search-and-rescue operations.
Katrina was later downgraded to a tropical
storm as it passed through eastern Mississippi,
moving north at 21 mph. Winds were still a dangerous 65 mph.
Forecasters said that as the storm moves north
through the nation’s midsection over the next few
days, it may spawn tornadoes over the Southeast
and swamp the Gulf Coast and the Tennessee and
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Katrina’s surge
eclipses others
Storm smacks
Alabama coast
By BILL FINCH
and SUZANNE HAGGERTY
By JEB SCHRENK
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporters
Big green and blue dumpsters and a white ice-vending machine sailed like tubby boats down Water and
Royal streets, past the submerged mail trucks at the
city’s downtown Post Office. Water submerged the first
floor entrance of Mobile’s Exploreum at the foot of Government, and the waves of Mobile Bay whipped the
base of the RSA Battle House Tower, the city’s halfcompleted signature skyscraper.
On Dog River, the Mobile Fire-Rescue Department’s
Swift Waters rescue team pulled at least 30 people to
safety as sea water inundated homes along the banks
of that river. Emergency workers fear they’ll find hundreds of homes on Dauphin Island to be a total loss
Daily
Daily
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Vol. 192 No. 112 Mobile, Ala. 20 pages 2 sections
VICTOR CALHOUN/Chief Photographer
Emergency personnel use boats to rescue residents of the Orange Grove public
housing community north of downtown near the Mobile River on Monday as the
storm surge generated by Hurricane Katrina flooded the area.
Hurricane Katrina’s powerful east side reached over
to make a stinging assault on Alabama’s coastline Monday, pushing water over roads and up rivers, stranding
residents and killing power to thousands of residents.
An oil rig broke free from its moorings and struck a
large suspension bridge, forcing its closure; beach
areas still rebuilding from mid-September’s Hurricane
Ivan were awash again; and everything from fish camps
to multimillion-dollar homes along Mobile Bay took on
water at an alarming rate.
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley plans to lead several officials on a helicopter tour today to survey damage, with
stops in Mobile, Bayou La Batre, Gulf Shores and Chatom.
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HURRICANEKATRINA
KATRINA
Quarter rides out storm in grand style
៑
Survivors celebrate after
famed neighborhood
comes through Katrina
mostly intact
French Quarter
visitors Blair
Quintana, right,
and Patrick
Lampano seek
shelter in a
doorway in the
famed New
Orleans
neighborhood
as Hurricane
Katrina pounds
the Crescent
City on
Monday. While
most of the
Quarter was
deserted, a few
people rode out
the storm there.
By ALLEN G. BREED
No knocking nurses
I just want it noted to anyone who says
anything bad about nurses and their profession:
While people are at home in their safe havens,
nurses are out on the road trying to get to work
to take care of patients who should be at home.
Carrier comes through
I live in west Mobile on McFarland Road
and I want to thank my paper carrier for braving
the elements this morning to get my paper to me.
I strolled out at 5:30 this morning in the wind and
rain, and sure enough, there was my paper, high
and dry, in my paper box. Thank you so much to
my paper carrier.
More dauntless carriers
I never thought for one minute that we
would have a paper delivered today on such a
bad day, but when my husband went outside at 4
o’clock this morning to look around, there lay
our paper, safe and sound. Thank you, T.D., for
being such a good paper person.
Rising above the norm
We have the most dedicated paper delivery
Mobile County has ever seen. It’s 3:30. Our mailbox is on the left of our driveway, which is pretty
far from the house. The carrier knows that we’re
all kind of disabled in this house. He drove all the
way up to our house and put the paper on the
porch during this storm. He’s great. I don’t know
who he is, but he is a great paper carrier and he
needs recognition.
Just the facts, ma’am
I commend you for your excellent hurricane coverage, especially “Katrina, the facts” on
the front page of Monday’s paper. I thank your
staff and your delivery people for excellent work.
Twelve’s a good number
They just announced on TV that Tropical
Depression 13 was out there. What happened to
Tropical Depression 12? I can count 11 right
here. Katrina is 11. Maybe they’re going to skip
12 and go to 13. That’s good. Twelve is all we
need.
More schooling needed
Please give the meteorologists a thesaurus.
There should be another word for ‘catastrophic’
they can use.
What, me worry?
So Killer Katrina is here. I don’t believe
that, because Devastating Dennis wasn’t anything. So I’m staying right here in my bed with
my Chihuahuas. Good luck to everyone.
Birds are people, too
Please remember to put your hummingbird
feeders out as soon as the storm passes. The
little critters are really hungry.
‘You have not done your job’
To George Bush and Republicans who control the House and Senate, hear this: Hurricane
Katrina is a testament to the reality of global
warming. You have not done your job.
NEW ORLEANS — Gail Henke
could think of no better way to celebrate the French Quarter’s survival of Hurricane Katrina than to
belly up to a bar on Bourbon
Street with a vodka and cranberry
juice. Call it a libation to the storm
gods.
“You know what? There’s a reason why we’re called the Saints,”
the 53-year-old tour booker said
Monday as she communed with 20
or so other survivors. “Because no
matter what religion you are,
whether you’re a Catholic, whether you’re voodoo, whether you’re
Baptist or so on, so on, and so on.
We all pray. We all pray.
“I’m not a religious fanatic. But
God has saved us.”
Neighborhoods outside the
Vieux Carre were inundated with
up to 15 feet of water. But the old
city, built on the highest ground
around, weathered the glancing
blow from the Category 4 storm in
grand style.
Some chimneys collapsed into
streets, and the famed streets
were littered with roof slates and
Spanish tile. Linda Smith, 49, a
mortgage broker from Kansas City,
walked the streets gathering gold,
purple, green and silver Mardi
Gras beads.
“These are a gift from Katrina,”
said Smith, whose neck and left
arm were already adorned with
about 40 strands. “I’m working on
DAVE MARTIN/Associated Press
the right arm now.”
Near the river, a daiquiri bar
lost four door panels. And over on
Burgundy, a two-story brick outbuilding that had once been slave
quarters collapsed.
Arnold Steinbrenner was riding
out the storm in his second-floor
apartment next door when bricks
began falling into his building. He
said a woman who was in the collapsed structure emerged unscathed.
“They were in the process of
renovating it,” he said. “It was
coming along. It just didn’t get
there fast enough.”
In the courtyard behind the
278-year-old Cathedral St. Louis,
two massive oaks toppled, their
roots pulling up a 30-foot section
of iron fence. Carrie Hanselman
marveled at how the branches
straddled a marble statue of Jesus
Christ but, miraculously, only
knocked off the thumb and forefinger on its outstretched left hand.
“He was right in the middle of
it,” the 47-year-old pastry chef
said. “Jesus and his mother were
watching out for us. I had that candle burning all night. I know I did.”
In fact, New Orleans homeland
security director Terry Ebbert said
the French Quarter appeared to
survive Katrina better than any of
the city’s neighorhoods.
After the storm passed, police
circled the quarter with bullhorns
shouting: “The French Quarter is
closed. This is a state of emergency. Please, please get off the
streets or you will be detained.”
But that couldn’t dampen the indomitable spirit of one of the nation’s most famous — and
infamous — neighborhoods.
Tamara Stevens, 45, and her
boyfriend Rick Leiby, 65, found
their way to Johnny White’s Sports
Bar before the winds even stopped
blowing. After spending a harrowing night in their swaying camelback apartment, they needed to be
out among people.
“This place will still be here,” Leiby, a mule-drawn tour guide, said
as he sipped a screwdriver from a
plastic cup. “And it ain’t gonna
quit.”
Crescent City dodges ‘worst-case scenario’
៑
Slight turn, cooler air
enough to blunt
catastrophe
By LEE BOWMAN
Scripps Howard
Waves of computer-model projections and dire warnings of Hurricane Katrina’s path and potential
destruction preceded the storm
for days, but a slight jog to the
north and a little shot of cool air
kept the “worst-case scenario” out
of New Orleans on Monday.
Katrina went down in the books
as the fourth-most-intense Atlantic
hurricane in modern times upon
reaching its lowest barometric
reading of 902 millibars and top
sustained winds of more than 160
mph.
But the storm didn’t maintain its
catastrophic strength before making landfall 60 miles south of New
Orleans, largely because cooler air
from another weather system
started to influence the storm late
Sunday.
Katrina turned course just
enough that the low-lying city did
not get the storm surge that everyone feared would overwash levees
and submerge it under 20 to 30
feet of water.
By last Friday, forecasters at the
National Hurricane Center in Miami had nailed their track for the
hurricane to within 15 miles of
where Katrina ended up going in
Louisiana. The typical margin of
error is 80 miles. “If that’s not a superb forecast, I don’t know what
is,” said Director Max Mayfield.
But forecasters still can’t be as
precise as they’d like when it
comes to a hurricane’s intensity at
landfall. “We haven’t made the
same strides with intensity as the
path,” Mayfield said. In fact, Katrina did considerably more damage
even as a minimal hurricane at its
first U.S. landfall in Florida last
week than would normally have
been expected.
As the storm headed up the Gulf
of Mexico with a growing reputation, researchers at Louisiana
State University’s Hurricane Center pumped information from each
update into a supercomputer program that projects damage impacts. Under the most dire
strength and path projections, Katrina would have damaged half a
million homes in southeastern
Louisiana, with up to 1 in 4 homes
severely damaged or destroyed.
The center later reduced that projection by about 200,000 structures after Katrina weakened and
moved slightly east.
The New Orleans office of the
National Weather Service picked
up on the worst-case scenario, issuing a grim forecast Sunday. It
warned that if Katrina hit with
winds near or above 155 mph,
“most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks, perhaps longer,”
and that “at least one-half of wellconstructed homes will have roof
and wall failure.”
Even President Bush added to
the sense of foreboding by joining
local and state officials in noting
the strength of the storm Sunday
evening and urging residents along
the coast to move to safe ground.
New Orleans officials said they
believe that about 80 percent of
residents heeded calls to evacuate, up from about 50 percent
when Hurricane Georges threatened to swamp the city in 1998.
“It makes sense that more people would respond to this, given
the forecast that people had in
front of them all weekend, and a
lot of local publicity about how
vulnerable the city is to a storm
this size,” said Jay Baker, a professor of geography at Florida State
University and a leading expert on
how citizens behave under hurricane threats.
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All-purpose prayer
Before you go to bed tonight, say a prayer
for our brothers and sisters in New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulfport and Pass Christian that God will
preserve them, protect them and watch over
them. When you wake up in the morning, say a
prayer of thanks that God allowed you to see another day.
Inundation unlimited
I am reading in Sound Off about how everyone’s mad about how the weather is being shown
every two to five minutes on television. Be thankful this was not a tsunami and that we have the
technology to get people prepared so there is
less loss of life.
Story boosts spirits
Thank you so much for printing the beautiful story on Virginia and John, the sweethearts
who met in the seventh grade. It was a very uplifting story, just what we need at a time like this.
I really enjoyed reading it, and I wish the couple
all the best and many, many happy years to
come together.
Homegrown good guys
Why did the woman call the young men
that helped her change her tire good Samaritans?
They are not from Samaria. They are from Mobile. They are good Mobilians!
Highway hero strikes again
Friday morning, I was hit by a senseless
driver. I would like to say thank you to the man
who chased the driver down and got the tag
number for me. It was a really kind and generous
thing to do.
Blame it on the exports
OPEC has picked the right time to rape the
nation — during hurricane season. People are
having to gas up their cars and all so they can
leave to be safe. A lot of stations are out of gas.
That’s only to jack the prices up higher. But remember, OPEC, what goes around, comes
around.
America’s Achilles’ heel
It’s obvious that one segment of the economy, the oil industry, can bring this country to its
knees. They look for any little excuse to jack up
the price of oil. Once it goes up and the excuse
goes away, the price does not come down. It’s
about time George Bush went after these people
and got the price back down to where it should
be. The people are tired of it.
Lottery
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From 1855:
“Washington — The American
Commissioner to the Siamese Government has succeeded in obtaining
the removal of the restrictions imposed upon American Missionaries
in that country. He has also negotiated an advantageous commercial
treaty.”
Wed., Aug. 30, 1905
“Alabama Sand Island Front
Range Light. Notice is hereby given
that this square, pyramidal structure (from which a fixed white light
was shown) in 3 feet of water, 310
feet S. by E. 1-4 E., from Sand Island
Light House, Ala., was destroyed
during a storm on August 25, 1905.
It will be re-built and relighted as
soon as practicable. In approaching
Mobile Bay from seaward, when not
in less than 60 feet of water Sand Island Light House should bear N. by
W. 1-4 W., and this course pursued
until the Mobile Point Lights come
in range. The outer bar whistling
buoy, in 48 feet of water, 1-4 miles
outside the bar, is on the range line
formerly marked by the Sand Island
Lights.”
“In the new season’s belts,
says the London Express, this fact is
perhaps even more noticeable than
the other dainty trifles that add
much to the beauty of dress. Leather belts are a revelation, carved and
combined with silk into wonderful
effects. The daintiest flowered ribbons are given character by the
bands of leather which border it
and cover it.”
“The many friends whom Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Morris have made during their stay in Mobile the last six
months will regret to hear that they
have gone to Birmingham to live.”
Fri., Aug. 30, 1930
“KASUMIGAURA, Japan —
(AP) Harold Bromley’s projected
non-stop flight across the Pacific
ocean to Tacoma, Wash., was postponed again today when his heavily
laden monoplane experienced diffi-
culty in leaving the ground.”
“Definite preliminary plans to
arrange for a top notch boxing program for September 20 for the benefit of the Mobile county tuberculosis
sanitarium were begun yesterday
upon receipt of assurance by Mayor
Harry T. Hartwell that Jack Dempsey, former world’s heavyweight
champion, will referee the bouts.
Dempsey will come to Mobile to officiate in the benefit program without
asking any kind of financial guarantee for his services, a telegram received by the mayor from Leonard
D. Sacks, business manager of the
ex-heavyweight titleholder, stating
that ‘your terms are my terms.”
“With the city of Mobile’s annual 25 street tax becoming delinquent after September 1, it was
announced yesterday at the office of
J. Rogers Burgett, chief collector,
that clerks will remain on duty until
7 o’clock tonight at the city hall to
receive eleventh-hour payments.”
Tues., Aug. 30, 1955
“That traffic light hanging in
Bienville Square doesn’t mean that
the city is going to put a road
through the park. It’s the police traffic division’s signpost, for traffic fatalities, and they hope it never turns
red. The light has been hung in the
bandstand at the square in connection with Operation 125 in 1955, the
city’s traffic safety campaign that
began Monday. It will remain green
as long as there are no traffic deaths
in the city, but will turn red for 24
hours if a fatality occurs.”
“The first edition of The Siren,
a local civil defense printed booklet,
is to be mailed out here Tuesday to
some 2000 PTA presidents, school
principals, the Mobile County Civil
Defense Advisory Council, the CD
staff and Authority, as well as civic,
religious and educational organizations. It will be published every other month and is edited by Mrs. Alan
Hershberger, Ed Kahalley and Mrs.
Harry Luscher.”
— Compiled from earlier issues
of the Register
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MOBILE REGISTER
SIGHTS OF DOWNTOWN
MICHELLE ROLLS/Mobile Register
SUBMERGED
Hurricane Katrina left much of the heart of Mobile under water
MIKE KITTRELL/Staff Photographer
Water covers the
streets of
downtown Mobile
on Monday after
Hurricane Katrina
slammed into the
Gulf Coast.
Above,
Government
Street along the
Bankhead Tunnel.
Top left, the Arthur
R. Outlaw Mobile
Convention Center
on Water Street.
Top right, Royal
Street in front of
the Museum of
Mobile.
Center left, the
CSX Railroad
building on Water
Street at the
Interstate 10
interchange.
Bottom left, the
recently restored
GM&O building on
Water Street near
Interstate 165.
Bottom right,
Water Street
below the bridge
linking the
Convention Center
and the Riverview
Plaza Hotel.
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Katrina’s storm surge highest in modern hurricane history
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from Page 1A
when the Gulf finally retreats
to its familiar shoreline.
Katrina’s storm surge, estimated to be somewhere between 11 and 12 feet at the
Mobile state docks, was much
higher than any recorded in
Mobile’s modern memory —
much higher than Hurricane
Frederic’s in 1979, and several
feet higher than Hurricane
Georges’ wake, which pumped
more than 8 feet of water into
Mobile in 1998.
Katrina’s reach may have
been at least a few inches higher than downtown’s previous
high water mark — a flood of
water standing 11.6 feet above
sea level, pushed into the city
by an unnamed hurricane in
1916.
Storm surges — a virtual
wall of water bulldozed onto
shore by the winds of tropical
storms — are often considered
to be the most devastating aspect of a hurricane. Through
much of the 20th century,
storm surge accounted for the
overwhelming loss of life associated with such storms.
Though reports have been
slow to come in — tidal guages
were in many cases knocked
out by the storm — the height
of Katrina’s storm surge along
the Mississippi Coast is apparently the worst since Camille,
whose wall of water was responsible for more than 100
deaths. But Katrina’s surge battered a coastline that is far
more densely developed and
populated than it was in 1969
when Camille struck, and the
damage to property may be
much greater.
Areas such as Mobile Bay
and the Mississippi Coast are
considered to be exceptionally
vulnerable, primarily because
their ragged, shallow-water
coastlines are perfectly designed to maximize the effects
of hurricane surges. Surges are
produced when the deep-water
turbulence stirred up by hurricane winds moves up onto the
continental shelf. The turbulence, in essence, has nowhere
to go but up, and the overall
level of the ocean rises several
feet above normal.
But the surge often continues to increase in height as it
moves inland, encountering
JOHN DAVID MERCER/Staff Photographer
Reid Sellers, Mike McElmurry and Cap Lillard gather items from a residence Monday at Sunset Bat Villas along Lake Forest Yacht Club in Daphne as Hurricane Katrina
makes landfall along the Gulf Coast. An unusually high storm surge accompanied Katrina’s arrival.
still shallower water, and the
shores of islands and bays,
which virtually squeeze the water to new heights. Surges are
also much more severe on the
east side of northern Gulf
storms. On the east side of
these circular storms, winds
blow steadily from the south,
driving waters into shore; on
the west side, prevailing north
winds can actually drain water
away from shore.
As a result, storm surge
heights greater than 20 feet are
believed to have developed in
the back bays and inlets
around Bay St. Louis, Biloxi
and Gulfport in Mississippi,
just to the east of Katrina’s
landfall.
Katrina’s surge effect was
felt strongly as far east as Mobile Bay and Pensacola, even
though the center of the storm
struck more than a hundred
miles away.
In some areas surrounding
the Bay, the surge appeared to
be even higher. Mike Eubanks,
who was working with the Mo-
bile rescue workers on Dog River, said that “every canal and
tributary” connected to the
River is flooded. He said his
crew spent most of the day
Monday rescuing some 30
stranded residents from waterside suburbs such as Cypress
Shores.
Residents along Robinson
Bayou estimated that Katrina’s
surge was at least 5 to 6 feet
higher than the 8- to 9-foot
surge produced by Georges,
which was this generation’s
previous high water mark.
“Never in my life — 33 years
here — have I seen water like
this,” said Voncille Sadka, who
said she left her Austin Street
home about 2:30 p.m. Monday
when the water in her house
rose to her waist.
Most of the other homes in
the neighborhood also appeared to be flooded. Sadka
added that she, like many of
her neighbors, didn’t have
flood insurance.
Though Gulf Shores and Orange Beach appeared to have
escaped with storm surge
heights significantly below
those recorded last year during
Hurricane Ivan, Katrina’s waters appeared to have risen to
surprising heights in the more
inland areas of Baldwin County. The swollen waters of
Weeks Bay began pouring over
U.S. 98 at Yaupon, near the Fish
River Bridge. An emergency official working in the area said
he never recalled that happening before.
(Register reporter Marc Anderson contributed to this
story.)
Alabama’s coast absorbs hard hit from Hurricane Katrina
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from Page 1A
No storm-related deaths or serious injuries were reported in Mobile
or Baldwin counties. Two people died
in a Washington County traffic accident, though a state official said it
could not immediately be determined
if the accident was related to Katrina.
“I think we’ll find that Mobile
County experienced the most hurricane damage since Hurricane Frederic,” said Randy McKee, head of the
Mobile office of the National Weather
Service.
Mobile Bay surged into Mobile River and overflowed into downtown,
forming white caps and flooding
buildings and submerging vehicles —
reminiscent of the water from Hurricane Georges that surrounded the
city’s convention center in 1998.
In Baldwin County, the Grand Hotel in Point Clear was flooded with 4
to 6 feet of water, and most homes
along the Eastern Shore between Fly
Creek and Baldwin County 1 had damage, said Fairhope Police Chief Chris
Browning.
Early Monday afternoon, Bert Noojin stood near Pier and Mobile streets
in Fairhope as he watched waves roll
through the first floor of the bayfront
home he built in 1999.
“There are 6-foot breakers rolling
through my living room right now,” he
said. “In my nightmares, I never expected this to happen.”
Nearby, Fairhope’s pier was completely underwater by 1 p.m. The
surge totaled the Fairhope Yacht Club
and scattered boats, Browning said.
Authorities rescued at least 30 to
40 people by boats and even more
were taken by car or bus from the
southern end of Mobile, where Dog
River overflowed, emergency management officials said.
“Most of these people did not
evacuate and got caught up in high
water,” said Walter Dickerson, director of the Mobile County Emergency
Management Agency.
On the northern edge of downtown, Fire Capt. Brian Gilliland helped
direct the boat rescue of about 100
people trapped in flooded apartments
Monday afternoon in the Orange
Grove public housing community off
Beauregard and Water streets near
downtown.
Shekeda Williams was among the
children rescued from an apartment
in the 700 block of Marmotte Street.
The 11-year-old said she and others scrambled up to the second floor
of the apartment as the floodwater
filled the bottom floor. “I was scared,
there was too much water,” Shekeda
said.
In Irvington, Marybelle Potter was
sitting on the couch in her living room
around noon Monday when winds ripped the roof from her trailer home.
“All of a sudden, it just went,” she
said, wiping away tears as she recounted the experience later in the
day. “I just covered my face, and it
was gone.”
The home that Potter shared with
Ernest Swaggerty at Suburban Trailer
Park off Highway 188 was destroyed.
Place’s daughter, Marlene Swaggerty,
who also lives at the trailer park, lost
her roof as well during Katarina’s
sweep into Alabama. Place has lived
there about 17 years.
Potter, Swaggerty and other relatives searched the wreckage Monday
afternoon, pulling out a ceramic angel
and loading what they could into a
car.
“Now, I’ve just got to start over,”
Potter said. “God doesn’t give you
more than you can handle.”
Alabama National Guard members
on Monday evening were in the process of rescuing at least 100 people
from a rising Bayou Sara in east Saraland. A Big Lots parking lot was used
as an assembly area and residents
with no place else to go were offered
transportation to a shelter.
Two officers rescued 30 people by
water in Bayou La Batre on Monday,
according to Conservation Commissioner Barnett Lawley.
Maj. John Thomas Jenkins, with
the Alabama Marine Resources Division, and Spencer Collier, a state
trooper and state representative, rescued a pregnant woman and her five
children. “They found people everywhere,” Lawley said, adding that
some were on rooftops and others
floated in the stormwaters.
Katrina is expected to continue
weakening today as it makes its way
northeastward out of Mississippi and
moves through the Ohio Valley as a
tropical depression.
Even as the storm lost intensity
through the afternoon, bands of thunderstorms rotating around the center
brought raging winds to the Mobile
area.
The National Weather Service in
Mobile reported a peak gust of 83
mph at the Mobile Regional Airport in
west Mobile — the highest gusts at
that location in the past 10 years,
McKee said.
There was an 11- to 12-foot storm
surge in downtown Mobile at the Alabama state docks. The downtown
flooding surpassed flooding by Hurricanes Frederic and Georges, McKee
said.
Rainfall generally ranged from 4
inches to 5 inches around the region
— nowhere near the almost 40 inches
that 1997’s Hurricane Danny let loose.
McKee classified Katrina as a historic storm with a huge wind swath.
Because the storm was so powerful at
landfall, it took a long time for winds
to die down in the Mobile area.
“Most of the other storms we’ve
had had come in, moved north and
gotten out of here quicker than this
one,” McKee said.
At one point, Interstate 10 was
closed across two states because of
debris on the roadway, but it had
opened in Alabama by the end of the
day. I-10 and U.S. 90 into Mississippi
remained closed as of Monday evening.
Ronnie Poiroux, the division engineer for the Alabama Department of
Transportation, said that the main
part of the I-10 Bayway structure appeared fine. But he said the onramp
from the Causeway to eastbound I-10
at the interchange in the middle of the
Bayway had been damaged.
Poiroux said concrete slabs that
are part of the highway ramp shifted
because of floodwaters.
“It means that we will close that
ramp once the weather gets to where
we can get some barrels out there,”
Poiroux said. “It doesn’t affect the integrity of the main structure.”
Poiroux said it appeared that the
storm had come up higher on the Bayway than it ever had before. The tops
of some waves reached the top of
some supports, but did not reach the
actual bridge decking, he said.
State highway officials closed the
Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge on
Monday after it was hit by a floating
oil drilling platform that had broken
free.
The bridge will remain closed until
Alabama Department of Transportation engineers can inspect it for damage. The rig broke from its mooring,
apparently from a repair yard downriver, and drifted north until it
jammed under the west end of the
bridge’s main span, according to the
state highway department.
There were widespread outages
throughout south Alabama, though
not quite as many as Hurricane Ivan
caused last year. Where Ivan knocked
out power to almost 100 percent of
customers in both Mobile and Baldwin counties, Katrina appears to have
affected about 70 percent of customers in Baldwin County and about 86
percent in Mobile County.
All told, more than 300,000 people
in southwest Alabama were without
power after the storm passed.
Early reports suggest that inland
areas such as Brewton that were hard
hit by Ivan and Dennis escaped with
minimal outages. Other areas, particularly Clarke and Washington counties,
reported significant damage.
Overall, power company officials
predicted a speedy recovery, talking
in terms of days, not weeks. Still, they
cautioned that a full picture of the
damage won’t be known until the
wind dies down and floodwaters recede.
At 10:30 a.m., Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Mark Barlow
walked into the Emergency Operations Center and reported that he had
seen extensive damage on a drive
through the south part of the county.
“It’s scary,” he said. “It is bad.”
Later, he and Cpl. Paul Burch went
back out, keeping an eye out for people stranded by the storm and using a
winch on Barlow’s pickup truck to
clear trees off roads. Driving was hazardous, with downed power lines, fallen traffic signals and fallen trees.
Downtown, the pair came across a
man — apparently homeless — hanging onto a planter as the wind tried to
pry him off. Burch grabbed him and
put him in a building alcove. He said
the man didn’t want to be taken to a
shelter.
As powerful wind gusts burst into
downtown Mobile, large rectangular
pieces of foam-core insulation flew
through the air like playing cards being flung from the upper stories of the
RSA Tower, which remains under construction. A bumper — no sign of
where its car was — was pushed
along North Lawrence Street.
Water rising around cars parked at
the renovated GM&O terminal and the
downtown post office caused automotive electronics to fail, popping open
trunks and, in one case, turning on an
empty vehicle’s windshield wipers.
Dauphin Island Parkway in Alabama Port offered the most stunning
display of Katrina’s power. Stumps
and other debris littered the road
where it had been flooded at mile
marker 9, about a mile north of the intersection of Alabama 188. A
10-foot-long section of pier lay in the
road. A television set was nearby.
Dauphin Island Parkway was impassable just south of Alabama 188 —
much farther north than the road had
been flooded during Ivan, Barlow
said.
“I’ll be honest with you,” Barlow
told someone on his cellphone. “As
high as the water is, I don’t see how
there is a west end of Dauphin Island.”
About a dozen Dauphin Island residents chose to ride out Katrina and
were believed to be all right, said Ginger Simpson, who is both a town clerk
and its EMA representative.
As for the island itself, it’s too
early to tell, she said.
“From the flooding I’ve heard
about, it might have been worse than
Ivan,” Simpson said.
As of late Monday, it was impossible to reach the island by car because
of flooding. “I have no earthly idea
about the west end because we
haven’t been able to get down there
and assess it,” Simpson said.
On the Baldwin County coast, Katrina damaged beach homes and sent
water and sand across Alabama 180
along the Fort Morgan peninsula, said
Sonny Emerson, chief of the Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department.
“There’s quite a lot of damage on
the beach,” he said. “It looks a lot like
Ivan.”
Emerson said the road was impassable west about six miles from
the tip of the peninsula.
Farther to the east on Fort Morgan
Road, winds from Katrina pushed the
water from Little Lagoon beyond
many homes on the north shore.
The beaches in Gulf Shores and
Orange Beach were mostly spared,
with little debris and most roads
passable. No major structural damage
was reported, though southernmost
Gulf Shores was flooded and sections
of a new beach berm had been washed away in both cities.
Gov. Bob Riley, speaking in Clanton at the state emergency management headquarters, said Monday’s
response effort mainly involved
search-and-rescue missions. Ten damage assessment teams were awaiting
dispatch orders.
The state had stockpiled, as of
Monday, 55,000 bags of ice; 164,000
units of water and more than 150,000
MREs. State emergency management
Director Bruce Baughman said the
supplies would be sent to affected
counties as soon as local EMA officials prepared distribution centers.
Maj. Gen. Mark Bowen, adjutant
general of the Alabama National
Guard, announced that he is ready to
deploy a security battalion of about
450 troops to Mobile and Baldwin
counties today. Bowen said troops
would concentrate on traffic control
and securing areas.
President Bush, meanwhile, granted requests by Riley to extend federal
aid to the affected areas in the southwest portions of the state. The president’s disaster declaration will
provide federal money to help local
officials rebuild damaged infrastructure in six counties: Baldwin, Clarke,
Choctaw, Mobile, Sumter and Washington.
Residents in Baldwin, Mobile and
Washington counties will also be
available for individual aid to help
them recover from personal property
damage. State officials said the list of
eligible counties could be expanded
in coming days as damage assessments continue farther inland.
(Staff Reporters Steve Myers, Casandra Andrews, Jeff Amy, Susan
Daker, Bill Barrow, Sallie Owen,
Virginia Bridges, Eddie Curran,
Ryan Dezember, Guy Busby, Kim
Lanier, Ben Raines and Dan Murtaugh contributed to this report.)
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HURRICANEKATRINA
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winds that reached as high as
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surge of 15 feet were enough
to tear holes in the roof of the
Superdome and cause extensive flooding in the area. At
least 370,000 were left without
power.
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Dozens of residents were
barred from returning to their
homes Monday afternoon by
State Troopers manning a roadblock at Alabama 188 and Padgett Switch Road. Some
residents on Satsuma Street
were evacuated, aided by emergency personnel. About a dozen
other residents were plucked
from the area Monday afternoon and taken toward Grand
Bay, riding in the back of a
large, military-style truck.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew was in
effect, and by 5:30 p.m. Monday,
a sheriff’s deputy parked his car
in the middle Alabama 188 near
the Suburban Trailer Park and
began asking residents to get off
the roads.
Chickasaw
“We’ve got an ungodly
amount of trees down,” Police
Chief Perry Mathews said. The
area was without power, and
flooding was rampant throughout the city, particularly in Pirates Cove subdivision, which
had an estimated 6 feet of water.
effect.
Citronelle and Creola
Both towns were without
power, and authorities there reported a number of downed
trees. A dusk to dawn curfew
was in effect in both towns.
Dauphin Island
As of late Monday, it was impossible to reach the island by
car. Ginger Simpson, who is the
island’s emergency management agency representative,
said the island’s low-lying
causeway was washed out in
several places. “Based on when
they can get that fixed is when
residents can get on the island.”
Simpson said flooding was
likely worse than what occurred
during last fall’s Hurricane Ivan.
Irvington
At least two homes in the
Suburban Trailer Park were destroyed. In the Bay Oaks neighborhood, dozens of homes lost
shingles and siding, but by Monday afternoon, residents braved
persistent winds to begin pulling large limbs and other debris
from roadways. A dusk-to-dawn
curfew was in effect.
Mount Vernon
A mobile home was badly
damaged near the intersection
of Pierce Street and Old U.S. 43
Monday, police said. A dusk-todawn curfew was in effect.
Significant roof damage was
visible along East Silverhill Avenue, and much of the roof of the
Robertsdale Athletic Club was
demolished. The steeple blew
off of the Church of the Nazarene in Robertsdale.
Many areas of Robertsdale retained power service.
A curfew was in effect.
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Though the area lost power
about 8 a.m., according to a Police Department dispatcher,
there was little significant damage in town. But freshly planted
palm trees, part of the landscaping for the new Eastern
Shore Centre, littered the
ground there, and streetlights
in that area were knocked
down. Motorists had to drive
over downed power lines along
Alabama 181.
The Causeway was closed to
traffic.
Shellfish waters
The state Health Department
closed all shellfish-growing waters in Mobile and Baldwin
counties to harvesting Monday.
The order, which included Cedar Point, and Portersville,
Grand, Heron, Dauphin Island
and Bon Secour bays, was issued because of possible bacteriological contamination due to
heavy rainfall.
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Several of the million-dollar
homes along the bay in Point
Clear were flooded, but not submerged.
The road leading into Battles
Wharf Estates had been transformed into a canal by early
afternoon, and people waded
through knee-high water, hauling their possessions to vehicles they had left along Scenic
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The hotel “has been a survivor for 157 years,” said General
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said water had likely infiltrated
the hotel. A Fairhope police officer said earlier Monday that the
Grand could be under as much
as 12 feet of water.
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County schools suffered
more damage from Katrina than
from mid-September’s Hurricane Ivan, said Tommy Sheffield, executive director of
facilities for the school system.
At Chastang Middle School in
Mobile’s Trinity Garden community, the outer layer of the
roof “peeled off like a can of sardines,” Sheffield said, but the
building appeared to have remained structurally sound. He
said water damage is likely.
Sheffield said contractors
have already been assigned to
work on schools damaged by
Katrina, but he did not know
when the schools would reopen.
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MISSISSIPPI: Katrina unleashed deadly fury
on the state, killing 50 people in Harrison
County alone and three others when the
hurricane pushed northward into central
Mississippi. With winds topping 100 mph
and a storm surge that exceeded 20 feet,
the storm damaged a Biloxi hospital and
flooded casinos and roads.
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An estimated 12-foot storm
surge from Hurricane Katrina
shoved the Mobile River over
its banks and into downtown
streets, Monday, flooding the
Arthur R. Outlaw Mobile Convention Center and the Gulf
Coast Exploreum Science Center.
Carnival Cruise Lines officials
diverted the cruise ship Holiday
to a port in Tampa, leaving the
ship’s 1,550 passengers to find
their way back to Mobile, some
of them to vehicles parked at
the Alabama Cruise Terminal.
Had they made it back to the
terminal Monday, they would
have found 4 feet of standing
water in the terminal, with
white caps dotting Water Street.
Other waterfront companies
were left to wonder about the
status of their properties Monday. According to Hershel Vinyard, spokesman for
shipbuilder Atlantic Marine
Holding Co., the company
hoped to have its 700 employees back in the shipyard as
soon as the floodwaters receded. “That’s an hour-by-hour
assessment,” he said.
State transportation officials
closed the Cochrane-Africatown
USA Bridge at midday after the
bridge was struck by a drilling
platform that broke free from
moorings at Bender Shipbuilding & Repair Co. Inc.
Authorities rescued at least
30 to 40 people by boats from
the southern end of Mobile
where Dog River overflowed; on
the northern edge of downtown
boats were used to rescue another 100 people trapped in the
Orange Grove public housing
community off Beauregard and
Water streets.
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Prichard
Trees were toppled and
homes were damaged along the
entire stretch of Main Street, beginning at the Municipal Complex near Interstate 165 and
ending at the historic Whistler
Cemetery, said Mayor Ron Davis. Alabama Village flooded
and homes there were badly
damaged. Fallen trees and power outages were widespread,
but no injuries were reported.
Blount High School, which
opened in March, had some
roof damage.
effect.
Saraland
Paige Hughes said she had to
be rescued from her Saraland
home by the National Guard on
Monday evening when waters
from Bayou Sara threatened to
trap her. Guard members and
Saraland firefighters wearing
life jackets brought residents
from areas of east of the railroad tracks and south Adams
Middle School near Lillian Avenue to the Big Lots parking lot.
The city was without power
except for a few residences near
the K-Mart on U.S. 43, said Saraland police Sgt. Steve Stafford.
Rising water made parts of U.S.
43 nearly impassable, and Reuben, Clark and Bayou streets
had some of the worst flooding.
Stafford said that at one point
he saw a red train boxcar floating down the overflowing Chickasabogue Creek.
effect.
Daphne
Damage was scattered but
did not appear catastrophic.
The city lost power midmorning. The water of D’Olive Creek
rose just above the bridge on
Main Street, and the bridge was
closed by city officials.
Storm surge pushed the water of Mobile Bay across the
parking lot of Bayfront Park and
up several hundred feet onto
Bel Air Drive. Water rose above
a portion of Yacht Club Drive at
the Lake Forest Yacht Club, and
several boats had pulled away
from their moorings.
There was a curfew in effect.
Elberta
Police Chief Gary Peaden said
a few trees blocked roads, but
“everything seems to be relatively calm. There’s been no
crime or looting, either.” Peaden noted some flooding
around Wolf Bay, but the water
had receded by the afternoon.
Fairhope
Twenty-seven residents at
North Mobile Retirement Center
sought shelter in another part
of the building Monday morning
after high winds peeled back
about half of the facility’s roof,
police said. The residents and
four or five caregivers remained
in good spirits despite the damage, said Capt. Carey Parker
with the Satsuma Police Department. No injuries were reported.
The Fairhope Yacht Club was
wrecked and all homes along
the coast between Fly Creek
and Baldwin County 1 were
damaged, said Police Chief
Chris Browning. Pier pilings,
storage buildings and boats
blocked Baldwin 1, according to
a member of the U.S. Army National Guard.
Magnolia Beach Condos had
water over the second floor,
according to a Fairhope official.
The city received several phone
calls from people stranded in
upper stories on U.S. Scenic 98
due to flooding.
Just before noon, two city officials paddled a kayak to rescue a couple with medical
problems from a flooded Ecor
Rouge home, according to an email from Fairhope police dispatch. The couple was taken to
the special needs shelter at the
Fairhope Satellite Courthouse.
Browning said police were
ticketing sightseers and encouraged people to stay at home. A
BALDWIN COUNTY
Fish River-Marlow
Satsuma
Bay Minette
Several buildings were damaged but few other problems
were reported by city Councilman Mike Phillips. “We have a
few trees down and we’re without power, but we were lucky,”
he said. Traffic from Interstate
10 was being detoured off the
Bayway through Bay Minette,
said a police spokeswoman.
As waves crashed along the
tree-lined bank of Weeks Bay,
the surge pushed up Fish River,
creating levels 6 feet 7 inches
above the high-tide mark by 3
p.m., according to Kaylan Driskell of the Fish River-Marlow
Volunteer Fire Department. Although the water level was
high, Driskell said no problems
had been reported. “Homeowners might start panicking to-
night, but hopefully most of
them got out,” said Driskell.
Next to the Fish River-Marlow
fire station, business was pumping at Dixie Oaks, a gas station
and convenience store at the intersection of Baldwin County 32
and 9. Owner Larry Wilson said
his business was open at 5 a.m.
and never closed because of a
heavy generator he had out
back. “The main reason for
opening is for the community,”
said Wilson, who is a Marlow
resident. “We try to help out all
we can.”
Foley
Officials reported no injuries
and little damage from the
storm. High winds blew the roof
from a two-story office building
at Alabama 59 and Myrtle Avenue. Police closed Alabama 59
for about an hour Monday afternoon when the winds blew debris from the roof onto the
highway, said Lt. Tommy Resmondo, acting police chief.
Fort Morgan
The hurricane damaged
beach homes and sent water
and sand flooding across Alabama 180, said Sonny Emerson,
chief of the Fort Morgan Volunteer Fire Department. The damage “looks a lot like Ivan,” he
said. Alabama 180 was impassable west of Fire Station No. 2,
about six miles from the tip of
the peninsula. Farther to the
east on Fort Morgan Road,
winds pushed the water from
Little Lagoon beyond many
homes on the north shore.
Gulf Shores
As Gulf Shores officials assessed the damage Monday
afternoon, they found that while
some clean-up efforts are
needed, serious damage is minimum, said Colette Boehm,
spokeswoman for the county’s
Emergency Management Agency. Some rental management
companies have reported they
will be ready for the upcoming
Labor Day weekend, Boehm
said.
Loxley
Tin roofs were peeling off sev-
eral old buildings on East Relham Street, but power remained
on in restaurants and gas stations, and in the hotels near Interstate 10.
Magnolia Springs
Lois Hudson waded in waistdeep water to her one-story
apartment on the banks of the
Magnolia River Monday afternoon in an effort to save keepsakes. “I’m trying to save
everything I can get,” Hudson
said. “The river rose a little bit
during Cindy, but not like this.”
Tropical Storm Cindy struck in
July.
Magnolia Springs Volunteer
Fire Department Chief Joby
Smith said Monday’s flooding
was the worst he had ever seen.
“I’ve lived all my life and I have
never seen water where it is today,” Smith said.
Smith added that one resident told him the water had risen 4 feet in one hour, but
despite the flooding the Fire Department had not received any
phone calls for help as of Monday afternoon. All main streets
were passable and no injuries
were reported, he said.
Orange Beach
During the storm, city officials reported damaged buildings, downed traffic lights and
power lines problems along Alabama 182. But there was minimal serious damage to the
resort areas of the beach, and
some beach property management firms expected to be open
for visitors by the weekend,
according to information from
the Baldwin County Emergency
Management Agency.
The city expected to reopen
most of its zones at 6 a.m. today, though zones 9, 10 and 17
— in the Perdido Beach Boulevard area will not open, Orange
Beach City Administrator Jeff
Moon said in a news release.
Ono Island also will not open.
Plash Island
Water covered Baldwin County 6, keeping many residents
from their homes. Bert Guy
walked through the woods in an
effort to get to his home about
200 yards up the flooded road.
“I could see my boat. It was just
sitting out there dancing on the
water,” he said. “I couldn’t see
the house though, but there will
be water in the bottom.”
Point Clear
More than 6 feet of water covered the driveway to the Grand
Hotel in Point Clear on Monday
A woman was slightly injured
in Silas when a tree struck her
home. It was one of many residences across the county that
had tree damage. Many roadways were blocked by debris,
and a curfew was in effect.
CLARKE COUNTY
Trees and power lines were
down throughout the county,
and a few trees fell on houses. A
CONECUH COUNTY
Tornadoes were spotted on
radar across the county, but
there we no reported touchdowns. There were isolated
power outages, and there was
some debris in roadways.
ESCAMBIA COUNTY
Flomaton reported minor
structural damage to buildings,
intermittent power outages,
trees and some power lines
down.
Brewton officials reported no
severe damage, isolated power
outages and downed limbs, with
trees on lines in some areas.
Atmore officials reported roof
damage to the technical school,
other businesses and residences. Most of the area lost
power.
MONROE COUNTY
Tornadoes were indicated on
radar, but none were reported
to have touched down. There
were sporadic power outages
across the county, downed
limbs and trees in some roadways and minor structural damage to buildings.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
A man and woman were killed
in a two-vehicle crash Monday
morning during the storm and a
third person seriously injured.
Officials also reported downed
trees, roof damage, bridges and
roadways blocked. A curfew
was in effect.
(Marc Anderson, Casandra
Andrews, Connie Baggett, Virginia Bridges, Guy Busby, Eddie Curran, Susan Daker,
David Ferrara, Rena Havner,
Andrea James, Dan Murtaugh, Craig Myers and Liz
Stuart contributed to this report.)
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MOBILE REGISTER
Katrina causes fewer power outages than Ivan
By BEN RAINES
Staff Reporter
There are widespread outages
throughout south Alabama, though
not quite as many as Hurricane Ivan
caused last year.
Where Ivan knocked out power to
almost 100 percent of customers in
both Mobile and Baldwin counties,
Hurricane Katrina appears to have affected about 70 percent of customers
in Baldwin County and about 88 percent in Mobile County. More than
310,000 customers in south Alabama
were estimated to be without power
because of the storm.
Early reports suggest that outages
in some communities northeast of
Mobile County, such as Brewton, may
be much less significant than the
wreckage left after Ivan and Dennis.
Washington County and Clarke County may have suffered significant damage, however.
Overall, power company officials
predicted a fairly speedy recovery —
especially in Baldwin County — talking in terms of days, not weeks. They
cautioned that inspections today will
provide a better picture of the
storm’s statewide impact.
“We’ve mainly got trees in our
lines and stuff like that. Lot of trees
that have blown over, but we’re optimistic. We’ve done a lot of work since
Ivan so we’re in a good position,” said
David Horton, with Riviera Utilities.
Horton said he believed that most
of the outages would be easy to fix
and that many of the main transmission lines, such as the line that runs
down Highway 59, were intact.
“We’ve got approximately 35,000
electric customers, and about 20,000
of them are out right now,” Horton
said at 2:30. “But you know, those
trees are still falling. Our guys are just
now starting to get out and see where
the problems are. The first things
we’ll look at are substations.”
Bernie Fogarty, with Alabama Power, said the company lost the bulk of
its customers in the morning hours —
by noon, 179,000 out of 225,000 in the
Mobile division were out — but were
still counting new outages as late as
3:30 p.m. He said that there were
186,000 out by 2 p.m., and 192,380 by
3 p.m.
“I believe most of the damage is
going to be in west Mobile and in lower Baldwin County,” Fogarty said. “I
can’t tell you yet what it’s going to
take to get everybody back on because we haven’t been able to get out
there and look.”
Fogarty said that outage numbers
in the upstate areas were minimal,
though he felt they might rise as the
storm headed north.
“We’re going to be busy, that’s
clear already. This thing is going to
continue to pound us. We serve quite
a bit of south Alabama but it may be
tomorrow before we’re able to get out
and see what the damage is. Warn
people to stay away from downed
powerlines,” Fogarty said.
The Alabama Rural Electric Cooperatives reported significant damage
on the western side of Alabama, and
minimal trouble on the east side.
“We’re right at 62,000 without
power right now. After Ivan we were
well over 300,000. Most of what we’re
seeing in Baldwin County is flood
damage,” said AREA spokesman Darryl Gates. “The water was much higher than during Ivan. On the
southwestern side of the state we had
some lines down, some poles down.
Washington County is beat up pretty
bad, Clarke County too, but not quite
as bad.
“Choctaw, Greene, Marengo, we’ve
got about 12,000 out there. We’ll have
to see the strength of the storm as it
moves up the western side of the
state this evening.”
The Mobile Register lost power at
around 2:30 p.m., just as floodwaters
in town reached their peak somewhere between 11 and 13 feet.
It appears likely that Katrina’s
storm surge was the highest recorded
in Mobile since 1916. Fogarty said the
loss of power downtown was likely attributable to the flooding.
In Baldwin County, water damage
was expected to be a significant problem for many areas.
“Outages — we’re right at 36,000.
That’s out of 56,000. We were at
39,000 at one o’clock so we’re already
making progress,” said Karen Moore,
with Baldwin EMC. The outages are
scattered all over, but there are people still on all over, too. As soon as
the water recedes and we can get out
and assess the damage we’ll know
more.
“I think our water damage is going
to be more intense than in Ivan. We
may have to repair or replace a lot of
transformers.”
Melanie Harrison, with Southern
Pine Electric Cooperative, said there
were very few outages in their service
area. The co-op provides power to rural areas in Escambia, Conecuh and
Monroe counties. Some of the utility’s
communities, such as Brewton, were
dealt devastating blows by Ivan and
Dennis.
“We’ve been fortunate. Probably
at the worst we lost about 5 percent
of our customers. There was some
wind, and it’s been significant, but it
was mostly tropical storm strength,
Harrison said. “We’ve been dispatching crews throughout the day and
we’re down to about 1 percent of our
customers without power.”
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A tattered American flag flies in front of the blown out Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area on Monday.
Katrina responsible for at least 55 deaths along Gulf Coast
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Ohio Valleys with a potentially ruinous 8 inches or more of rain.
Oil refiners said damage to their
equipment in the Gulf region appeared to be minimal, and oil prices
dropped back from the day’s highs
above $70 a barrel. But the refiners
were still assessing the damage, and
the Bush administration said it would
consider releasing oil from the nation’s emergency stockpile if necessary.
Katrina had menaced the Gulf
Coast over the weekend as a 175-mph,
Category 5 monster, the most powerful ranking on the scale. But it weakened to a Category 4 and made a
slight right-hand turn just become it
came ashore around daybreak near
the Louisiana bayou town of Buras,
passing just east of New Orleans on a
path that spared the Big Easy — and
its fabled French Quarter — from its
full fury.
In nearby coastal St. Bernard Parish, Katrina’s storm surge swamped
an estimated 40,000 homes. In a particularly low-lying neighborhood on
the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, a levee along a canal gave way
and forced dozens of residents to flee
or scramble to the roofs when water
rose to their gutters. Across the region, the fierce winds of Katrina blew
out windows in hospitals, hotels and
high-rises.
“I’ve never encountered anything
like it in my life. It just kept rising and
rising and rising,” said Bryan Vernon,
who spent three hours on his roof,
screaming over howling winds for
someone to save him and his fiancee.
Across a street that had turned
into a river bobbing with garbage
cans, trash and old tires, a woman
In New Orleans, looters have a field day in Katrina’s wake
NEW ORLEANS — High waters
made law enforcement difficult but
provided loads — truckloads in
some cases — of opportunity for
looters.
teens to mid-40s, braved a steady
rain and infrequent tropical storm
wind gusts to tote boxes of clothing
and shoes from the store. Some had
garbage bags stuffed with goods.
Others lugged wardrobe-sized boxes
or carried them on their heads.
Mid-afternoon Monday, a parade
of looters streaming from Coleman’s
Retail Store, located at 4001 Earhart
Blvd. The looters, men and women
who appeared to be in their early
The line going to and from the
store numbered in the dozens and
appeared to be growing. Some looters were seen smiling and greeting
each other with pleasantries as they
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leaned from the second-story window
of a brick home and pleaded to be
rescued.
“There are three kids in here,” the
woman said. “Can you help us?”
Blanco said 200 people have been
rescued in boats from rooftops, attics
and other locations around the New
Orleans area, a scene playing out in
Mississippi as well. In some cases,
rescuers are sawing through roofs to
get to people in attics, and other
stranded residents “are swimming to
our boats,” the governor said. In one
dramatic rescue, a person was
plucked from a roof by a helicopter.
A fire later tore through a yacht
club near Lake Pontchartrain.
Elsewhere along the Gulf Coast,
Mississippi was subjected to both Katrina’s harshest winds and highest recorded storm surges — 22 feet. The
storm pushed water up to the second
floor of homes, flooded floating casinos, uprooted hundreds of trees and
flung sailboats across a highway.
“Let me tell you something, folks:
I’ve been out there. It’s complete devastation,” said Gulfport, Miss., Fire
Chief Pat Sullivan.
In Gulfport, young children clung
to one another in a small blue boat as
neighbors shuffled children and elderly residents out of a flooded neighborhood.
“Everything is flooded. Roofs are
off and everything,” said Shun Howell,
25, who was trying to leave with her
5-year-old son. “Everything is ruined.”
In some cases, debris was stacked
4 to 5 feet, covering cars. Houses
were washed from their foundations.
In Alabama, Katrina’s arrival was
marked by the flash and crackle of exploding transformers. The hurricane
toppled huge oak branches on Mobile’s waterfront and broke apart an
oil-drilling platform, sending a piece
slamming into a major bridge.
Muddy six-foot waves crashed into
the eastern shore of Mobile Bay,
flooding stately, antebellum mansions
and littering them with oak branches.
“There are lots of homes through
passed. Another group was seen riding in the back of a pickup truck,
honking the horn and cheering.
The scene also attracted a handful of curious bystanders, who left
the safety of their homes to watch
the heist. But no police were present
in the area, which was flooded heavily with standing water two to four
feet deep on all sides of Earhart.
Looting also was reported at a
Winn-Dixie Supermarket just outside
the French Quarter.
here worth a million dollars. At least
they were yesterday,” said a shirtless
Fred Wright. “I’ve been here 25 years,
and this is the worst I’ve ever seen
the water.”
It was Katrina’s second blow: The
hurricane hit the southern tip of Florida as a much weaker storm Thursday
and was blamed for 11 deaths. It was
the sixth hurricane to hit Florida in
just over a year.
Calling it a once-in-a-lifetime
storm, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
had issued a mandatory evacuation
order as Katrina drew near. But the
doomsday vision of hurricane waters
spilling over levees and swamping the
city in a toxic soup of refinery chemicals, sewage and human bodies never
materialized.
Forecasters said New Orleans —
which has not been hit directly by a
major storm since Category 3 Hurricane Betsy struck in 1965 — got lucky
again.
“The real important issue here is
that when it got to the metropolitan
area, it was weaker,” said National
Hurricane Center deputy director Ed
Rappaport, who estimated the highest
winds in New Orleans were 100 mph.
A giant water main broke in New
Orleans, making it unsafe to drink the
city’s water without first boiling it.
And police made several arrests for
looting.
At New Orleans’ Superdome, home
to 9,000 storm refugees, the wind ripped pieces of metal from the roof,
leaving two holes that let water drip
in. A power outage also knocked out
the air conditioning, and the storm
refugees sweltered in the heat.
Katrina also shattered scores of
windows in high-rise office buildings
and on five floors of the Charity Hospital, forcing patients to be moved to
lower levels. White curtains that had
been sucked out of the shattered windows of a hotel became tangled in
treetops.
In the French Quarter, made up of
Napoleonic-era
buildings
with
wrought-iron balconies, the damage
was relatively light.
On Jackson Square, two massive
oak trees outside the 278-year-old St.
Louis Cathedral came out by the
roots, ripping out a 30-foot section of
ornamental iron fence and straddling
a marble statue of Jesus Christ, snapping off the thumb and forefinger of
his outstretched hand.
At the hotel Le Richelieu, the
winds blew open sets of balcony
French doors shortly after dawn. Seventy-three-year-old Josephine Elow
pressed her weight against the broken doors as a hotel employee tried
to secure them.
“It’s not life-threatening,” she said
as rainwater dripped from her face.
“God’s got our back.”
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Battleship
Park sees
extensive
damage
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COCHRANE-AFRICATOWN USA BRIDGE
Oil platform slams into span
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‘Everything on the
Causeway is flooded,’
says Spanish Fort
police spokeswoman
By GEORGE WERNETH
Staff Reporter
Battleship Memorial Park on
the Causeway sustained extensive damage Monday from the
winds of Hurricane Katrina,
which left the park’s aircraft
pavilion apparently battered
into a “total loss” and its centerpiece USS Alabama listing,
officials said.
The damage appears to be
“between $1.5 and $2 million,”
said Bill Tunnell, the park’s executive director, and he noted
that this was just a preliminary
estimate and was “conservative.”
As for the rest of the Causeway, dotted with some of the
area’s best seafood restaurants, the news also was not
good. “Everything on the
Causeway is flooded,” according to a spokeswoman for the
Spanish Fort Police Department, which has jurisdiction
over much of that strip across
the northern end of Mobile
Bay. The extent of the damage
to these establishments was
not immediately determined.
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John Welborn, left, and Robert Rishel, both of Mobile, watch an oil platform that was in dry dock for repairs at a local shipyard bump against the CochraneAfricatown USA Bridge over the Mobile River on Monday in Mobile. It was unclear Monday evening how long the bridge would be closed. State Transportation
Department inspectors began examining the bridge Monday evening after traveling from Montgomery, but were expected to complete their work this morning.
Bridge used by trucks carrying hazardous materials to bypass tunnels closed
G.M. ANDREWS/Staff Photographer
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Marybelle Potter of Irvington
holds her head as she
recounts the destruction of her
mobile home by winds
associated with Hurricane
Katrina on Monday. Potter was
sitting in her home when high
winds peeled the roof off. “Now
I’ve got to start over,” Potter
said after her home for the last
two years was destroyed.
Rural areas
feel wrath
of Katrina
By CONNIE BAGGETT
Staff Reporter
EVERGREEN — As winds and
stinging rain subsided late
Monday, people began assessing damage across the region
hit by the eastern edge of Katrina with two people killed in
Washington County in a twovehicle crash early in the day.
Washington County EMA Director Deborah Nichols said a
man and woman were killed
when their vehicles collided on
Washington County 17. Another person was critically injured
in the crash that happened before 10 a.m. as the violent
weather intensified.
“We have a 3 p.m. curfew until conditions improve,” Nichols said before noon Monday.
“We have two accidents and
one with fatalities. We have got
to get people off the roadways.”
In Clarke County, EMA
spokeswoman Sharon Jones
said officials recorded 40 mph
sustained winds by 11:30 a.m.,
and conditions began to deteriorate rapidly.
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By JEFF AMY
and ANDREA JAMES
Staff Reporters
A 13,000-ton oil platform blown
loose from its moorings Monday morning by Hurricane Katrina plowed
through a state docks terminal and
then slammed into the Cochrane-Africatown USA bridge, severing a vital
trucking link.
It was unclear Monday evening
how long the bridge would be closed.
State Transportation Department inspectors began examining the bridge
Monday evening after traveling from
Montgomery, but were expected to
complete their work this morning.
Trucks carrying hazardous materials depend on the bridge to bypass the
Wallace and Bankhead tunnels, where
such cargo is prohibited. The closure
means hazardous-material trucks must
go north to Interstate 65 to cross the
river.
Tony Harris, a transportation de-
partment spokesman, said the state
was working Monday to deploy message signs warning of the detour.
The PSS Chemul, an oil platform belonging to Mexican state oil company
PEMEX, had been drydocked atop a
leased barge at Bender Shipbuilding &
Repair Co. Inc.’s yard nine. The shipyard is on Blakeley Island, on the east
bank of the Mobile River. Bender won
a contract last year to expand and refit
the vessel, which holds crews and
does maintenance on offshore oil platforms.
Bender could not be reached for
comment Monday.
Monday morning, a “very alert”
captain of a nearby ship saw the loose
platform and reported it, according to
Harbormaster Capt. Dave Carey. Tugboats chased the Chemul, but couldn’t
corral it, as it blew across the river,
colliding with a berth and then a barge
loader at Alabama State Port Authority’s Bulk Material Handling Plant.
The Coast Guard monitored the
news of the Chemul, but couldn’t send
out crews right away because of the
dangerously high winds, according to
spokesman Petty Officer Nyx Cangemi.
“It really comes down to life over
property,” he said. Initial reports
showed that the platform rolled down
the berth near the mouth of Three Mile
Creek, potentially hitting it several
times, docks Director Jimmy Lyons
said.
The rig then destroyed a barge
loader. “The barge loader is gone,”
Lyons said.
The docks agency was spending
$10 million to expand the berth, which
was planned to handle wood products
and general cargo. The berth was
scheduled to reopen within weeks, but
the collision may have damaged the
dock or its pilings. Lyons said the
barge loader alone was worth $4 million, and pier damage could cost millions more.
The bulk plant and barge loader
were just an appetizer for the Chemul,
Baldwin coast
mostly spared
By ELIZABETH STUART
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporters
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Please see Oil platform Page 8A ៑
Home’s residents
scramble for cover
By RYAN DEZEMBER
and DEREK BELT
GULF SHORES — Along a shoreline still
rebuilding from mid-September’s Hurricane
Ivan, Hurricane Katrina knocked out power,
flattened sections of a 14-mile-long beach
berm under construction and flooded large
areas Monday.
Still, officials surveying the damage Monday evening said they believed the resort
stretch of Alabama coast known as Pleasure
Island largely dodged destruction and likely
will be open for business on Labor Day
weekend.
The mayors of Orange Beach and Gulf
Shores said after tours of their cities that
there was little visible damage to homes
and businesses. No deaths or major injuries
were reported in either city.
The extent of damage to the westernmost end of the Fort Morgan peninsula was
uncertain Monday because the road was impassable about six miles from the tip.
Farther to the east on Fort Morgan Road,
winds from Katrina pushed the water from
Little Lagoon beyond many homes on the
which drifted farther north, scraping
under the bridge before 11:15 a.m.,
according to Tony Harris, a spokesman for the Transportation Department.
The collision with the 140-foot-high
bridge roadway sheared off much of
the top structure of the platform. The
storm-surge swollen river pinned the
Chemul under the west side of the
bridge for several hours. But about 5
p.m., the barge began to slowly pinwheel, as the receding river allowed it
come unpinned.
Harris said inspectors planned to
eyeball the $70 million bridge Monday
night. Opened in 1991, it is Alabama’s
only cable-stayed bridge.
Pemex will be held liable for the
damage to docks facilities, but that issue might be settled between Bender
and Pemex, Lyons said.
When Bender landed the contract
in November, the company touted it as
ROB CARR/Associated Press
Tyler Dahlgren walks through the rain from Hurricane Katrina
to check on his boat Monday in Orange Beach. The mayors
of Orange Beach and Gulf Shores said after tours of their
cities that there was little visible damage to homes and
businesses. No deaths or major injuries were reported in
either city. The Gulf Shores City Council is meeting at 8 a.m.
today to discuss cleanup and re-entry of evacuees. Orange
Beach officials said power should be restored to the entire
city by early today except for the area along the beach
highway.
Hurricane Katrina tore about half the roof off
a Satsuma retirement home Monday, sending
employees and police scrambling to get 27 residents under what little cover remained at the
building, authorities said.
The residents, along with four or five caregivers, were inside the North Mobile Retirement
Center at 300 Baker Road when the hurricane
struck, said Capt. Carey Parker of the Satsuma
Police Department.
Center staffers called police for help, and the
officers who responded spent most of the morning helping caregivers move residents to more
secure parts of the building, police said.
At one point, authorities considered moving
the residents to an area shelter or another
building, but the center’s staffers believed that
the storm made relocation risky, police said.
The Mobile Register could not reach center
staffers for comment Monday.
Morale among the residents and caregivers
was high Monday despite the damage, Parker
said.
“They’re all chipper. They know (the building is) leaking on one end, but they’re pretty
stable,” he said.
No injuries were reported.
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MOBILE REGISTER
Katrina lands deadly blow on Mississippi
By HOLBROOK MOHR
GULFPORT — Rescuers on
the Mississippi Gulf Coast
pulled residents from rooftops
Monday as a storm surge
swirled around buildings, and
Gov. Haley Barbour said Hurricane Katrina left death and terrible destruction on the coast
and inland.
Jim Pollard, spokesman for
the Harrison County emergency operations center, said 50
people were killed by Katrina
in his county, with the bulk of
the deaths at an apartment
complex in Biloxi. Three
deaths were confirmed in central Mississippi as the storm
pushed northward with blinding rain and winds topping 100
mph, said Robert Latham, director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency.
Several roads and highways
in south Mississippi were engulfed by water, and trees
snapped as far north as Jackson. More than half of Entergy
Mississippi’s 410,000 custom-
ers lost power in the wake of
the storm and boil water notices were issued in several
counties.
MEMA officials recorded
deaths in Hinds, Warren, and
Leake counties more than 150
miles inland — although details
of those deaths remained
sketchy Monday afternoon.
“The state today has suffered a grievous blow,” Barbour said in Jackson. “We know
some people got trapped and
we pray they are OK.”
Emergency officials on the
Gulf Coast said rescue teams
braved strong winds and high
water to reach people stranded
on roofs and in attics — people
who apparently ignored repeated orders to evacuate on Sunday.
Barbour said officials know
there has been tremendous
damage in the state, although it
wasn’t immediately possible to
quantify either property damage or casualties.
“The most immediate priority for us is going to be search
and rescue, in the same way
MICHAEL SPOONEYBARGER/AP, Tampa Tribune
Fire-and-rescue personnel launch a boat amid floodwaters from
Hurricane Katrina as they head out to rescue a family Monday
outside a hotel near Interstate 10 in Moss Point, Miss.
that up until this morning our
main priority was trying to get
people out of harm’s way and
get them to evacuate,” he said.
In Gulfport’s Forest Heights
subdivision, which is several
miles from the beach but south
of Interstate 10, young children
clung to one another in a small
blue boat Monday evening as
neighbors shuffled children
and elderly residents out of the
neighborhood,
which
was
flooded with at least 4 to 6 feet
of water.
People gently helped a
64-year-old woman with an oxygen tank get into a boat to
leave.
“Everything is flooded. Roofs
are off and everything,” said
Shun Howell, 25, who was trying to leave with her 5-year-old
son.
Barbour said people who
evacuated from south Mississippi and Louisiana should not
travel home until officials give
the all-clear — possibly in several days.
Katrina signaled its advance
on Hancock, Harrison and Jackson counties with stinging
squalls, destructive winds and
a rash of tornadoes. Then came
the storm surge that spread
out around homes and businesses. Storm winds ripped at
roofs, shattered windows and
sent debris and overturned
trees onto streets.
Interstate 10, the major eastwest route on the Gulf Coast,
was closed because of flooding
from the Biloxi River, officials
said.
Emergency officials said it
would take hours for the high
water to recede into the Mississippi Sound to allow search
Rural areas hit
hard by storm
Causeway
is flooded
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Meanwhile, Tunnell said the
park could possibly be closed
for weeks for repairs but said a
further inspection of the damage would have to be made before he could know for sure. He
said there was also about 2 feet
of water in the park’s gift shop.
“One of the leading tourist
attractions in the state of Alabama has taken it on the chin,”
Tunnell said.
“From all reports, damage to
the park was worse than damage (inflicted) by Frederic,”
Tunnell said, referring to Hurricane Frederic, a Category 3
hurricane that hammered the
Alabama coast in 1979.
The park’s director said
about 18 members of the park
staff and their families rode out
Katrina’s fury inside the battleship as members have done
voluntarily dating back to Hurricane Camille, a Category 5
storm which made a direct hit
on the Mississippi coast in
1969.
Tunnell said the 18 members
on the vessel were not in any
danger but said they could be
stranded on the World War II
battleship for several days as
much of the park was under 4
feet of water Monday. He said
their vehicles — which they
drove up a gangway onto the
ship before Katrina struck —
also could not be removed
right away.
He said the concrete gangway that was used to drive the
vehicles onto the ship was badly damaged and could not be
used to drive the vehicles off
the vessel.
Tunnell has said in the past
that the USS Alabama, which
has been the centerpiece of the
park since it opened during
January 1965, is “the safest
place in the area to be during a
hurricane.” He noted that the
680-foot-long battleship weighs
80 million pounds and is
anchored in some 20 feet of
Mobile Bay mud.
While the battleship was left
listing toward the port side,
Tunnell said, it is not believed
to have incurred any serious
damage. “The ship has shifted
its position, and will have to be
straightened back up.” He said
this also occurred during Camille.
While Tunnell reported that
damage to the aircraft pavilion
was severe, he said the dozen
or so vintage warplanes inside
apparently “are all repairable.”
Bill Parsons, who has been
an employee of the park since
it opened more than 40 years
ago, said the damage inflicted
on the park by Katrina was the
worse he had ever seen there
in any hurricane, Tunnell said.
teams into hardest hit areas to
perform rescues and, if necessary, to recover bodies.
Katrina’s winds slowed but
still packed a damaging punch
as the storm moved through
south Mississippi. In the Hattiesburg area, wind speeds
about 95 mph were reported at
midafternoon. In advance of its
arrival in central Mississippi,
the storm toppled trees and
sent branches from mighty
oaks at the Governor’s Mansion sailing onto downtown
Jackson streets.
The storm surge — the most
severe since Hurricane Camille
devastated Mississippi’s coast
in 1969 — rolled over beaches
and coastal U.S. 90, then into
dwellings.
“Let me tell you something,
folks. I’ve been out there. It’s
complete devastation,” Gulfport Fire Chief Pat Sullivan said
Monday afternoon. “I’m going
to go out on a limb here — 75
percent of the buildings in Gulfport have major roof damage if
they have a roof left at all.”
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John Welborn, left, Michelle Welborn, center, and Robert Rishel, all of Mobile, leave the scene where an oil
platform that was in dry dock for repairs at a local shipyard rests against the Cochrane-Africatown USA
Bridge over the Mobile River on Monday.
Oil platform runs into bridge
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the first oil rig job. The project was
projected to employ as many as
350 people, as Bender repainted
the platform, as well as adding new
office and living quarters.
Although the Port of Mobile shut
down Sunday night, three ships
were unable to evacuate.
“The weather got too bad too
fast to get them out,” Lyons said.
The port could remain closed
for days before the Army Corps of
Engineers and Coast Guard inspection teams find it safe to navigate.
The oil platform was not the
only escapee during Katrina. Robert Rishel, vice president of towboat company Henry Marine
Services, said tugboats chased a
number of barges. “The tugboats
did what they could,” Rishel said.
Rishel drove to the end of Paper
Mill Road Monday evening to look
at the oil platform, and spotted
what appeared to be several
barges floating over the CSX railroad track north of the bridge.
Docks officials received preliminary reports of empty containers
floating loose after the container
yard flooded, they said. The police
building lost shingles, a maintenance building lost a roof and
some of the warehouses lost
doors. That could mean damage to
the forest products like lumber,
paper and plywood, Lyons said.
The Alabama state docks was
one of the first areas to flood Monday, and Harbormaster Carey estimated the storm surge to be 11
feet.
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“There are hundreds without power, and
work crews will not begin repairs until the brunt
of the storm passes,” Jones said.
Power outages in isolated pockets began
early as wind gusts climbed rapidly to 75 and 85
mph in some areas, with strong sustained winds
whipping the region for most of the day, emergency management officials said.
Emergency management officials reported
damage to roofs and trees down across the region, some blocking roadways and bridges. A
woman in Silas in Choctaw County was injured
when a tree struck her home. EMA Director Bill
Gibson said her injuries were minor and did not
require medical treatment.
In Escambia County cities hard-hit by Hurricane Ivan last year and Hurricane Dennis earlier
this year, officials reported power outages,
trees down and rooftops ripped from some businesses and homes. EMA Director David Jennings said the roof of the local technical school
was severely damaged in Atmore and Flomaton
suffered structural damages as well. He said
Brewton escaped with only minor damages.
County sheriffs ordered their officers to seek
shelter at mid-day as the storm passed through
the area. Officers were allowed to asses emergency calls case by case to decide if the incidents warranted immediate action.
By early afternoon, deputies across southwest Alabama began driving through main
roads, removing small debris and reporting
larger trees to county work crews for removal.
In the areas most damaged, Clarke, Choctaw
and Washington counties, school officials decided early to cancel classes for today. Escambia
County schools will remain closed while Brewton City Schools will be open today.
There was no word late Monday on Conecuh
County schools.
In Monroe County, Monroe Academy remains closed as well as the county courthouse
and New Life Christian School. Alabama Southern Community College will be open, officials
said, and county school officials had not decided about reopening late Monday.
Jennings said early assessments of damage
indicated power should be restored to most
areas quickly with few power poles or lines
damaged.
“It all happened about like we expected,”
Jennings said. “We had rain and wind gusts, but
flooding apparently will not be part of the problem this time.”
“We have a lot of limbs on power lines, minor damages all over and some moderate to severe in the Atmore area,” Jennings said.
“Overall, it looks like short-term recovery for
us.”
“It all happened about like we
expected. We had rain and wind
gusts, but flooding apparently
will not be part of the problem
this time. We have a lot of limbs
on power lines, minor damages
all over and some moderate to
severe in the Atmore area.
Overall, it looks like short-term
recovery for us.”
— Escambia County EMA Director
David Jennings
Baldwin County’s coastal areas see very little damage
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north shore.
Renard Knight spent Sunday night
at the home of his son, but said Monday afternoon that he still could not
return to his house on the lagoon.
“I can’t get out there,” he said. “It’s
up on pilings and everything so it
should be OK, but I can’t reach it.”
Knight said the storm surge on
Little Lagoon reached within inches of
his son’s home, located about three
blocks from the shore.
“If it had come up another four
inches, it’d have flooded another
eight to 10 homes,” he said.
Firefighters from both Gulf Shores
and Orange Beach dealt with house
fires during the storm. A Laguna Key
home caught fire Sunday night but
was saved from destruction, according to Gulf Shores Mayor G.W. “Billy”
Duke III.
Orange Beach firefighters responded to two blazes in Perdido
Key, Fla., but those homes were lost,
said City Administrator Jeff Moon.
Also in Orange Beach, two marinas
and a condominium building suffered
visible damage.
Flooding affected homes along
West Beach and Little Lagoon in Gulf
Shores after the storm surge
breached Alabama 182 and overwhelmed the lagoon.
By 5 p.m. Monday, water stretched
from the Gulf Shores public beach
north on Alabama 59 for about a mile.
The water wasn’t as deep as it had
been after Ivan. Unlike last September, waves didn’t top the road and police didn’t patrol on personal
watercraft.
Duke said that complete damage
assessments will have to wait until
the water recedes.
“There’s no debris to speak of,” he
said. “It was a lot better than Ivan.”
The Gulf Shores City Council is
meeting at 8 a.m. today to discuss
cleanup and re-entry of evacuees.
A roadblock at the Alabama 59
bridge over the Intracoastal Waterway will be maintained today, though
residents of areas that were not evacuated may cross onto the island.
A full timetable for re-entry had
not been set Monday night. “It just depends on how quick we get the roads
cleaned up,” Duke said. “The beach
will be a few days for sure, but we
were fortunate.”
In Orange Beach, Mayor Steve Russo was more optimistic because Katrina was even kinder to his city, which
also was spared major damage from
July’s Hurricane Dennis.
Portions of the city never lost
power. Beginning at 6 a.m. today residents will be able to return everywhere except for Perdido Key, Ono
Island and areas along Perdido Beach
Boulevard.
Announcements will be made today regarding when those places will
be opened.
Russo said he spoke with an owner of Brett/Robinson and was told
that all of the realty firm’s Phoenix
condos will be ready to rent within
two days.
“We’re going to have a lot of units
ready by Labor Day (weekend),” Russo said. “Anyone who planned to
come next weekend could probably
come.”
In 40-mph winds Monday evening,
state highway and utilities crews were
already starting to repair damage.
Orange Beach officials said power
should be restored to the entire city
by early today except for the area
along the beach highway.
(Staff Reporter Guy Busby contributed to this report.)
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MOBILE REGISTER
Hurricane Katrina
What is open; who can help?
American Red Cross
Flooding
Alabama Gulf Coast Chapter:
251-438-2571
North Baldwin Service Center:
251-937-3801
South Baldwin Service Center:
251-943-3844
Bay Minette (for any emergency):
Call public works at 580-1848 or the
police department at 580-2559.
Spanish Fort (for any emergency):
Call City Hall at 626-4884.
Baldwin County:
To report flooding on state and county
roads or other emergencies in the
county call the county’s Emergency
Operations Center at 947-1011.
North Baldwin:
937-0317
Foley:
Public works at 943-8897 or City Hall
at 943-1545.
Robertsdale:
Call City Hall at 947-8900, after hours
call police at 947-2222.
Summerdale:
Town Hall at 989-6202 or police at
989-6446.
Orange Beach:
Public Works Department at
974-5617 or police at 981-9777 or
City Hall at 981-6979.
Gulf Shores:
Streets department at 968-1448 or
police at 968-2431.
Daphne:
For water over the road or other
things that could affect public safety,
call the police department at
621-9100. For clogged ditches, etc.,
call public works at 621-3182.
Fairhope:
928-2385, police; 928-2136, City Hall;
928-8003, public works.
Loxley:
Utility office 964-7644, police
department 964-6000.
Elberta:
Call Town Hall at 986-5995 or the 911
system for police calls.
Silverhill:
Call Town Hall at 945-5198 for any
emergency before 4:30 p.m. on
Friday; for weekend problems call the
911 system and they will connect you
with the proper agency.
Beaches
Dauphin Island: Dauphin Island is
closed to non-residents.
Orange Beach: Orange Beach was not
opened to residents on Monday, and
officials plan to make an announcement today on areas that will be safe
for residents to return to. The Orange
Beach Post Office will open and mail
delivery will resume Wednesday.
Gulf Shores: Only emergency personnel, utility providers and business and
property owners with Zone 7 decals
will be allowed into the City of Gulf
Shores. City Hall will be open today.
The David L. Bodenhamer Recreation
Center and Thomas B. Norton Library
will be closed until further notice. City
staff should report to duty for their
normal work schedule.
Bridges
Officials with the Alabama Department of Transportation have closed
the Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge
along U.S. 98 in Mobile County until
they can conduct a structural assessment for possible damage that may
have been caused when the bridge
was struck by an oil drilling platform
that had broken free in Mobile Bay.
Buses
The Wave Transit fixed route and disabled service will not run today.
Citizens Information
Mobile County EMA:
Call 460-8000. Citizens should not
call 911 unless they have an emergency. Please do not call 911 for information, to report power lines down,
or other non-emergency calls.
Baldwin County EMA:
Public information, available in English and in Spanish, can be found by
calling 972-6807 for South Baldwin;
990-4605 for the Eastern Shore, and
937-0317 for North Baldwin.
Courts
To find out if you need to report to jury
duty in Mobile County Circuit Court,
call 574-8603 or 574-8771.
For information regarding Baldwin
County Circuit Court juries, call
937-0363 or 943-7935.
For Mobile Probate Court, call
574-8506. For Baldwin County Probate Court call, 937-0399.
Curfew
Mobile County: A dawn-to-dusk curfew
is in effect until further notice. Only
those with an emergency or who are
required to go to work will be allowed
on the streets. The curfew includes,
but is not limited to, the following
areas: Mobile, Prichard, Chickasaw,
Saraland, Satsuma, Mount Vernon,
Creola, Citronelle, Bayou La Batre
and Dauphin Island. Also, all unincorporated areas of Mobile County.
Baldwin County: The following cities
have issued curfews until 5 a.m. today — Daphne, Fairhope, Gulf
Shores, Orange Beach and Spanish
Fort.
Gulf Shores: A curfew is in effect from
7 p.m. until 6 a.m. until further notice.
Orange Beach: A dawn-to-dusk curfew
is in effect.
Foley: A curfew is in place until 6 a.m.
today.
Robertsdale: A curfew is in place until
5 a.m. today.
Cruise ship
Mobile’s cruise ship Holiday, scheduled to return from a Caribbean cruise
Monday, was diverted to Tampa. Carnival canceled the five-day cruise that
was to have left Monday and refunded passengers the full ticket
price.
Garbage
Mobile: Garbage and trash pickup is
canceled today.
Baldwin County: Household garbage
pickup will resume in Baldwin County
today.
Fairhope: Garbage, trash nor recycling
will be collected today.
Health Department
The Mobile County and the Baldwin
County health departments will be
closed today.
Hospitals
Knollwood Park Hospital is open.
Mobile Infirmary is open.
Providence Hospital is open.
USA Women’s and Children’s Hosptial is open.
Thomas Hospital is open.
Springhill Medical Center is open.
Malls
Colonial Bel Air Mall will be closed today.
Mobile Regional Airport
The Mobile Regional Airport was
open and running on generator power
as of 8 p.m. Monday. Travelers
should not come to the airport before
contacting their airlines. The airlines
serving Mobile are:
ASA:
800-221-1212
Continental Express:
800-523-3273
Delta Airlines:
800-221-1212
Northwest Airlink:
800-225-2525
SkyWest:
800-221-1212
U.S. Airways:
800-428-4322
For more information about the
airport, call 633-4510 or
800-357-5373. Or online, go to
www.mobairport.com
Pensacola Regional Airport is scheduled to re-open at 5 a.m. Officials en-
couraged passengers to check a
flight’s status with individual airlines.
Airport staff at Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport are scheduled to return
at 5 a.m. Wednesday. The airport’s
Website, www.flygpt.com, says passengers should call airlines directly for
information about a particular flight.
Other area airports:
Birmingham International Airport:
205-599-0500
Pensacola Regional Airport:
850-436-5000
Gulfport Biloxi International Airport:
228-863-5951
Jack Edwards Airport, Gulf Shores:
251-968-6380
Louis Armstrong New Orleans
International Airport:
504-464-0831
Price gouging
Residents are asked to report price
gouging to the Attorney General’s
Family Protection Union, which oversees consumer complaints. You can
contact the Family Protection Unit by
calling toll-free 1-800-230-9485 or by
visiting the unit’s Web site at www.familyprotection.alabama.gov. You can
also reach the Family Protection Unit
by writing to 11 South Union St.,
Montgomery, AL 36130.
Power
To report power outages call:
Alabama Power:
800-888-2726
Alabama Rural Electric Association:
334-215-2732
Baldwin Electric Membership Corporation:
989-6247
Riviera Utilities:
943-5001
Southern Pine Electric Cooperative:
1-866-867-5415
Clarke-Washington Electric Membership
Cooperative:
251-246-9081
Pioneer Electric Cooperative:
334-382-6636
Black Warrior Electric Membership Cooperative:
334-289-0845
HAL YEAGER /Birmingham News
Hurricane Katrina’s storm surge put most of Bayou La Batre under water
Monday. Spencer Collier, left, and Scott Riva, a Bayou La Batre police officer,
carry two children who were rescued from downtown Bayou La Batre.
Roads
Spring Hill College: Spring Hill College
is closed today. However, faculty and
staff are being asked to return to the
campus Tuesday and assess possible
damage to their offices. For updates
call
460-2344 or visit www.shc.edu.
Schools
Alabama Southern Community College:
Mobile County: Both public schools
All branches will be closed today.
and Catholic schools will be closed to- Jefferson Davis Community College:
day. The following Mobile County
JDCC is closed Monday.
Public School System employees
Reid State Technical: All classes are
should report for work today: Maintecanceled today.
nance and renovation; 12-month
Temple Christian Academy: All classes
transportation; and the leadership
team. Principals who can do so safely are canceled today.
should check their schools and report Marietta Johnson School: All classes
damage.
are canceled today.
Baldwin County: Both public schools
Good Shepherd Academy, Theodore: All
and Catholic schools will be closed to- classes are canceled today.
day. Baldwin County twelve-month
employees are asked to report to
Shelters
work.
Escambia County (Ala.) School District: Mobile County:
Public schools will be closed today,
Baker High School (special needs)
including Brewton city schools.
Burns Middle School
Monroe County: Public and private
Denton Middle School
schools will be closed today.
McDavid-Jones Elementary is closed.
Choctaw Country: Public and private
Satsuma High School
LeFlore High School shelter is at capacity and is closed.
Clarke County: Public and private
O’Rourke Elementary
schools will be closed today, as will
Meadowlake Elementary
Thomasville city schools.
Causey Middle School
Conecuh County: Public and private
The Theodore High School shelter is
at capacity and is closed.
Washington County: Schools will be
closed today .
Baldwin County Shelters:
University of Mobile: UM is closed toDaphne East Elementary
day. For updates, call 675-5990 or
Fairhope Elementary
visit
Baldwin County High School
www.umobile.edu.
Spanish Fort High School
University of South Alabama: The UniFairhope satellite courthouse (special
versity of South Alabama and USA
needs)
physician offices are closed today.
Foley satellite courthouse (special
needs)
Bishop State Community College:
BSCC is closed today. Maintenance
Prichard: A shelter for senior citizens
employees are asked to report to
work this morning. Students and other will be open at the Prichard City Hall,
216 E. Prichard Ave., through today.
employees may call 690-6454 for
You
are urged to bring your medicaposted updates.
tions and other necessities to make
Faulkner State Community College:
your stay comfortable.
FSCC will be closed today.
For information on road closures in
Alabama, go to www.dot.state.al.us/
closures.
Telephones
BellSouth:
There is no need to call Bell South to
report service outages unless you live
outside of the Mobile metropolitan
area and do not have service restored
within two days.
GulfTel:
952-5100
CenturyTel:
334-201-4099
Frontier:
800-476-4001
Millry Communications:
888-846-2242
TDS:
205-459-3766
Pine Belt Telephone
334-385-2106
Other Utilities
Mobile Area Water and Sewer System:
694-3100
Mobile Gas Service Corporation:
476-2738
Fairhope Utilities:
928-8003
Daphne Utilities:
626-2628
Water
(Drinking, cooking)
Mobile County: The Mobile County
Water Sewer Fire Protection Board
has asked customers to conserve water. It is not necessary to boil water at
this time. The system serves Theodore, Tillman’s Corner, Fowl River
and the Alabama Port areas.
Bayou La Batre: Officials in Bayou La
Batre are advising all residents living
in the area to boil their water before
using. They are also advising that
they are experiencing low water pressure south of Padgett Switch Road.
Residents are asked to limit water usage.
General tips for after the storm
Don’t use candles.
The toilet may back up as the water
level rises. If necessary, use water
from the bathtub to flush the toilet.
Pour some bleach in the bowl after
each use.
Store gasoline outdoors, away from
anything that can ignite it. Never store
in the garage or home.
Don’t connect the generator to your
home’s wiring system. You could be
electrocuted or have a fire, and power
could travel to power lines, killing
neighbors or repair crews.
Using electrical cords, connect
items directly to generator. Be sure
cords are not damaged or wet and
don’t lie in water.
Uprooted but intact palms can be
replanted. Be sure to stake them and
pack soil around roots.
Cut off lower damaged fronds, but
leave as many as possible to absorb
sunlight and nutrients.
Partially uprooted trees and shrubs
generally can be saved. Replant
them, pack soil around roots and
stake trunks.
Trim most trees and shrubs back
by one-fourth to one-third to reduce
shock.
Citrus trees should be cut back no
more than one-fourth to save fruit.
Don’t ration; drink as much as you
need. Look for more water later.
Use water in tub, pipes, water heater or toilet tank for washing or flushing.
In a jam, you can use water in water heater. Turn off power and open
spigot at the bottom. Don’t reconnect
until you’re told water supply is safe.
Do not cook indoors using any kind
of grill, either charcoal or gas, because of the risk of deadly carbon
monoxide poisoning.
Camping stoves using Sterno, alcohol or propane fuel should not be
used indoors.
Do not attempt to heat unopened
cans.
If plaster or plasterboard walls are
wet, do not rub them. Let them dry,
then brush off dirt and wash walls with
a mild soap solution.
Wipe iron and steel furniture with a
kerosene-soaked cloth to ward off
rust.
Don’t throw out damaged papers or
art; professionals might be able to restore them.
Soaked books can also be saved.
Dry in an upright position with the
pages spread open. Then dust with
cornstarch and stack to prevent wrinkled pages.
If you’ve never used a chain saw,
don’t try now unless you have someone skilled to show you how.
Source: Palm Beach Post
10A ᑹᑹ
MOBILE REGISTER
Cold front ushers
in drier weather
trol of the region.
In addition to suppressing showers, the high pressure system is expected to bring hot conditions back
as residents clean up in the aftermath
of Katrina.
A trailing cold front is expected to
pass through the area Wednesday
morning. This front is expected to
head eastward through the Southeast,
bringing drier air into our area. In its
wake, forecasters call for a large area
of high pressure to settle in on Thursday and keep relatively dry condi-
Conditions should gradually improve as the remains of Hurricane Katrina push north of the region.
Today is expected to remain
breezy locally with good chances of
showers and thunderstorms. Look for
showers and thunderstorms to become isolated during the latter half of
the week as high pressure takes con-
State Weather
National Weather
Highest temperatures through 7 p.m. yesterday, lowest previous
24 hours. Precipitation for 24 hours ending at 7 p.m. CDT.
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Birmingham
Dothan
Huntsville
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Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Barbados
Barcelona
Beijing
Beirut
Belgrade
Berlin
Bermuda
Bogota
Brisbane
Brussels
Budapest
B’Aires
Cairo
Calgary
Caracas
Cop’hagen
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Atlanta
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Austin
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Billings
Birmingham
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Boston
Brownsville
Buffalo
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Charlotte,N.C.
Cheyenne
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Columbia,S.C.
Columbus,Ohio
Concord,N.H.
Dallas-Ft Worth
Dayton
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tions on tap through
the weekend.
Highs are expected
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upper 80s today.
Highs through the
rest of the week and
into the weekend are
expected to return to
the low to mid-90s.
Look for lows tonight in the 70s. Lows
Wednesday night through the weekend are expected to be in the 60s and
70s.
Weather Reporter
Mobile picked up 3.25 inches of
rain through 5 p.m. Monday, setting a
daily record, according to weather officials. The city received 3.68 inches
in the 24-hour period ending at 7 p.m.
The Mobile weather office on Monday had to serve as a backup for the
New Orleans weather office.
At 7 p.m. Monday, Katrina, downgraded to a tropical storm, was near
32.9 north latitude, 88.9 west longitude, moving north-northeast near 21
mph with maximum sustained winds
near 65 mph.
For the North Atlantic, Caribbean
Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: A broad
area of showers and thunderstorms
— the remnants of Tropical Depression 13 — are centered several hundred miles northeast of the Leeward
Islands. Upper-level winds are unfavorable for redevelopment.
An area of low pressure is nearly
750 miles west-southwest of the Cape
Verde Islands. This system has the
potential to become a tropical depression during the next day or so.
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Shelters see few people before the storm, more calls after
Eugene White
chills out after
checking into the
hurricane shelter
at Baker High
School on
Sunday. The
shelter
accommodated a
little more than
920 people.
By RENA HAVNER,
DAVID FERRARA
and PENELOPE McCLENNY
Staff Reporters
With fewer than 3,000 people
checking into Mobile County shelters,
emergency officials said people didn’t
seem to be taking Katrina as seriously
as some past hurricanes.
But they should have, according
to Steve Huffman, spokesman for the
Mobile County Emergency Management Agency.
Floodwaters swamped parts of
downtown Mobile, south Mobile
County and areas around Dog River
Monday, while strong winds, including possible tornadoes, damaged
homes and businesses.
In Baldwin County, meanwhile,
more than 1,000 people remained
sheltered in emergency facilities as of
Monday evening.
While some people had started to
leave by Monday afternoon, the shelters were open until further notice,
according to James Mullins with the
Baldwin County Red Cross.
Calls came in to Mobile EMA’s
bunker from residents whose homes
were severely damaged or who otherwise had no place to go.
Among the calls, according to
Huffman: a stranded truck driver; a
pregnant mother; a group of 10
stranded people; a woman and her
three kids.
“They didn’t evacuate but then
they realized that they should have,”
Huffman said. “To some people it’s always ‘that next one’ that’s going to be
the dangerous one.”
Katrina, he said, was “that next
one.”
The 3,000 who stayed in shelters
for Katrina on Monday represented
less than half the number who arrived
CHIP ENGLISH/Associated Press
during recent Hurricanes Dennis and
Ivan.
Seventy-four-year-old Eartha Mae
McKineey reached the Baker High
School special needs shelter in west
Mobile around 2 p.m. Sunday, after
evacuating the mobile home she
shares with her daughter off Dauphin
Island Parkway. McKineey and her
daughter, Martha McKineey, 43, are
diabetics, and Martha McKineey also
has a heart condition.
“I brought some blankets, some
pillows and some food and her medicine and my medicine and a wheelchair and a walker,” Martha McKineey
said.
The pair, who stayed at the same
shelter for Ivan last September, said
they returned because they felt safe
knowing that they had access to medical help if they needed it.
Eartha Mae McKineey said she
slept comfortably throughout the
night on a cot, while her daughter
rested on a chair. But both said they
were worried about reports that their
neighborhood had received serious
flooding.
“I hope I have a home to go back
to,” Eartha Mae McKineey said.
Extra generators were brought to
Baker to handle ventilators and other
life-saving machines for the 30 special
needs patients who checked in. The
shelter accommodated 918 others. All
total, that was half the crowd that
took shelter at Baker in some past
storms.
Julie Overstreet, who supervised
Baker’s shelter for the American Red
Cross, said people were able to
spread out a little more than usual
along the school’s hallways. The power went out late Sunday night, she
said, so the generator kicked in. The
air conditioner did not work but some
lights did. Overstreet said that, unlike
during Ivan, the generators allowed
all the medical machines to run all
night.
Baker had 27 staff members, including medical personnel. That’s
more than it had for past hurricanes,
Overstreet said.
No major problems were reported
Monday at the shelters.
The County EMA opened 11 shelters, which is more than usual, and
had them better staffed, Huffman
said.
Only one shelter, Theodore High
School, was filled to capacity at 512
residents.
Forecasters had predicted flooding in some of Mobile’s low-income
communities, so emergency workers
used buses to pick up about 50 residents who could not drive to the shelters on their own, Huffman said.
Baldwin County officials were
staffing the shelters at Daphne East
Elementary School, Fairhope Elementary School, and Spanish Fort, Baldwin County and Robertsdale high
schools. Special needs shelters were
located at the Fairhope and Foley satellite courthouses.
Around noon Monday, a pregnant
woman was rushed from Robertsdale
High to South Baldwin Regional Medical Center, having gone into labor,
according to Collette Boehm, spokeswoman with Baldwin County Emergency Management Agency.
The woman had not delivered her
baby as of 6:30 p.m. Monday, according to Mullins.
Boehm said activity at the other
shelters was calm.
The schools had a total capacity
of 3,860 people, Boehm said, and officials reported plenty of room at most
of the facilities.
At Daphne East, Elouise Wilson,
her son, Johnny Wilson, and her father, Willie Johnson, were packing to
head back to their Daphne home
around 3:15 p.m. Monday. The school
had taken in more than 200 people
since Sunday afternoon, and they
were among the first to arrive.
By early evening Monday, though,
only 155 people remained there with
the 13 school staff members and
emergency crews.
Wilson’s son and father ran quickly to their car, but as Wilson waited in
a hallway, her son and father returned, their faces and T-shirts wet.
“Is it still raining hard out there?”
Elouise Wilson asked.
“Yeah,” her father said.
A Baldwin County resident for almost five years, Elouise Wilson had
fled to Birmingham for hurricanes in
the past. She appeared eager Monday
to return home, but her father, who
has lived in Baldwin County for 50
years, convinced her that the family
should stay in the safe confines of the
school.
Johnson said this was the first
time he had taken shelter.
“It’ll be better in the morning,” he
told his daughter. “If we got to saw to
cut our way in, it’s going to be too
dark for that.”
They would stay another night.
Open for classes for less than a
month, Spanish Fort High had taken in
about 50 people Sunday and Monday.
Frank White of Grand Bay was one
of 35 who remained as of Monday
afternoon.
The school had room for 1,000 as
a shelter of last resort, according to
Principal Mike Lucci.
White, along with his wife and two
children, were headed toward Pensacola on Sunday when they decided to
turn off Interstate 10. “We couldn’t go
any farther on account of the traffic,”
White said.
He planned to stay at the school
Monday night.
The family had packed several belongings in their car, but White worried what he might find when he
returned home. “You don’t know if
your house is going to be there when
you get back so you take everything
you can,” he said.
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Recovery effort
from Katrina
may be biggest
៑
Rebuilding program
likely to dwarf those
that followed Andrew,
9/11, experts say
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Knight Ridder
WASHINGTON — For the
next few days, federal help to
Katrina-ravaged areas of the
Gulf Coast will be a matter of
life and death. It’s a “golden 72
hours” with the clock ticking
for dramatic rescues of people
stuck in high water or trapped
in rubble.
Then the federal job will get
much tougher — rebuilding
New Orleans and its neighbors.
The reconstruction after Katrina likely will be the biggest
recovery program in U.S. history, dwarfing 1992’s Hurricane
Andrew and 2001’s terror attacks, veteran emergency managers said.
Andrew, the costliest hurricane and natural disaster on
record, caused what would be
the equivalent of $36.9 billion
in total damages in 2005 dollars. Experts said it’s premature to put a price tag on
Katrina’s damage.
Too much water and too few
places to live will be urgent
problems facing the first rescuers.
“It’s going to be bad,” said
Eric Tolbert, former chief of
disaster response for the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. “I have to believe this
one (recovery operation) will
be larger than Andrew. We’re
talking about a very intense
three- to five-year recovery operation.”
By late Monday afternoon,
New Orleans and much of the
Gulf Coast were still too
flooded to make an assessment. It was too dangerous for
federal and state officials to fly
an airplane to get even a cursory idea of the damage, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said
in a news conference in Baton
Rouge.
“I’m begging for patience,”
Blanco said.
President Bush, at an RV resort and country club in Arizona, said: “I want the folks there
on the Gulf Coast to know that
the federal government is prepared to help you when the
storm passes.”
The federal government is
mobilizing thousands of truckloads of recovery supplies: ice,
water, food, temporary shelters and generators. Thirtyeight search-and-rescue and
medical teams were waiting for
the storm to subside so they
could enter the damage areas,
according to FEMA.
The American Red Cross
said it launched its “largest mobilization effort in history” for
Katrina.
FEMA
Director
Michael
Brown told Louisiana officials
at Monday’s news conference:
“You’re on the road to recovery.”
Beyond hampering searchand-rescue and recovery procedures, the flooding could
produce illnesses.
Because some of that highstanding water could be mixed
with sewage from damaged
wastewater plants, there’s a
good chance of spreading disease, said former Florida emergency management chief Joe
Myers.
“What’s critical right now is
the depth of water,” said Tolbert, now a Charlotte, N.C., disaster consultant. “Re-entry (to
some areas) may not even begin for weeks or months.”
After last year’s quadruple
hurricane strike, FEMA has
about 18,000 trailers that could
be used as temporary homes,
but as many as 40,000 will
probably be needed because of
the size, location and scope of
Katrina’s strike, Tolbert said.
“You’ve got displaced people. What about all those people in the Superdome?” Myers
asked. “It’s like going to a ballgame for a month, because
where are you going to go?
Their homes are under water.”
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Business
Briefing
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Mobile’s closed port shut out Holiday
Seattle
៓
៑
Boeing and union talks
going down to the wire
Days before a contract between Boeing Co. and the Machinists union is to expire,
labor leaders said the two
sides remain far apart and
warned of a possible strike.
Seattle-based Machinists
Lodge 751 on Monday countered the aerospace company’s
latest contract offer with its
own proposal, but the union
declined to provide details.
Machinists union leaders
representing 18,400 production
workers, who now receive an
average of $59,000 a year, said,
“The company’s latest offer
showed no substantial improvements on our top three
issues, which are pensions,
health care and job security.”
Cruise ship goes to Tampa
today, but Saturday’s
scheduled sailing from
Mobile should go smoothly
By ANDREA JAMES
Business Reporter
With the Port of Mobile closed, the
1,550 passengers aboard Carnival
Cruise Lines’ Holiday who were supposed to arrive in Mobile on Monday
will instead land in Tampa, Fla., today,
Carnival announced. Passengers can
disembark the ship at its scheduled
morning arrival or stay another night
on the ship. The Holiday will remain in
Tampa until Wednesday, the company
has said.
“We look forward to bringing the
ship back to Mobile just as soon as
possible and resuming normal operations,” said Jennifer de la Cruz, a Carnival spokeswoman.
The five-day Holiday voyage to the
Western Caribbean scheduled to leave
Monday from Mobile was canceled,
and guests will receive full refunds, the
company announced. Cancellations are
rare but not unprecedented, de la Cruz
said.
Many parts of the downtown waterfront flooded Monday. About 4 feet of
water rushed into the Alabama Cruise
Terminal at Mobile, according to the
director of cruise terminal operations,
Al St. Clair.
There was no structural damage,
and cars in the terminal deck appeared
unharmed, St. Clair said. The terminal
should be able to handle passengers
by Saturday’s scheduled sailing, St.
Clair said.
The Holiday remained at sea Monday, out of harm’s way, while Hurricane Katrina pounded the Gulf Coast,
according to company officials. Passengers will have to make their own ar-
Storm
stabs
airlines
Seoul, South Korea
៓
Hyundai, Kia workers
join in partial strike
Assembly lines at South Korea’s two biggest automakers
partially shut down Monday as
workers at Kia Motors Corp.
joined colleagues at Hyundai
Motor Co. who walked out last
week seeking higher wages.
Workers at Hyundai, South
Korea’s largest automaker,
which owns 38.7 percent of No.
2 Kia, laid down tools for part
of a third day after similar action Thursday and Friday.
As the largest single major
shareholder in Kia, Hyundai is
considered to have a controlling stake in Kia.
Strikes at Hyundai and Kia
have become something of an
annual event and are seen as
part of South Korea’s labor negotiating process.
៑
Katrina closes Gulf Coast
airports, including Mobile’s,
adding lost flights to
carriers’ gas cost woes
By HARRY R. WEBER
AP Business Writer
MARK LENNIHAN/Associated Press
A Southwest Airlines jet is refueled at J.F. Green Airport in Warwick, R.I. Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co. shuttered its service to New Orleans and Jackson, Miss., and planned to follow suit in Birmingham on Monday evening
because of Hurricane Katrina. The airline said service to those areas wasn’t expected to resume until at least today.
New York
៓
Wall Street stocks rebound
as hurricane fears subside
Ex-officials at KPMG
indicted in scandal
Eight ex-executives of KPMG
were indicted Monday as the
accounting firm admitted it
had set up fraudulent shelters
to help rich clients dodge billions of dollars in taxes.
The firm avoided an indictment but agreed to pay $456
million in penalties.
The Department of Justice
called it the largest criminal
tax case ever filed and said the
KPMG scam allowed the firm’s
clients to avoid paying $2.5 billion in taxes.
The former KPMG partners
named in the indictment are
Jeffrey Stein, John T. Lanning,
Richard Smith, Jeffrey Eischeid, Philip J. Wiesner, John
Larson, Robert Pfaff and Mark
Watson. The arraignment of
the men is scheduled for Sept.
6 in the U.S. District Court in
Manhattan.
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Wall Street rallied Monday after Hurricane Katrina weakened, easing concerns about refinery
outages along the Gulf of Mexico and pulling oil prices
back from record highs.
Stocks opened lower but quickly rebounded as
crude oil futures cooled after surging past $70 a barrel
in early trading on news that the storm shut down
about 8 percent of U.S. refining capacity. A barrel of
light crude settled at $67.20, up $1.20 on the New York
Mercantile Exchange.
Investors found some relief in reports that President
Bush was mulling whether to offset the supply disruption with oil from the nation’s petroleum reserve, but
energy and insurance stocks still came under pressure
as the market tried to gauge the hurricane’s financial
Editor’s note: The Register’s regular market listings will return Wednesday
Stock
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Satellite pioneer Intelsat Ltd.
said Monday it is acquiring
PanAmSat Holding Corp. for
$3.2 billion in a deal that would
add a top cable TV broadcaster to Intelsat’s dominant
position as the biggest provider of space-based data and
voice communications for governments and businesses.
Intelsat, created in 1964
through a partnership of 147
nations and then privatized in
2001, will also assume $3.2 billion of debt from PanAmSat,
the companies said Monday.
The proposed merger would
nearly double Intelsat’s satellite fleet to 53 spacecraft, creating a company with $1.9 billion
in annual revenues.
— From wire reports
Super-sized labor force
New numbers from the U.S. Census
Bureau indicate that more people work
in four American counties than work
in the state of Alabama.
Employed people
Cook (Chicago)
2,356,581
New York,
2,022,669
NY
Los Angeles
3,806,184
Source: Nasdaq, NYSE
៑
General Motors is likely to
report the sharpest decline
when automakers release
August sales figures
By DEE-ANN DURBIN
AP Auto Writer
TX
Harris (Houston)
1,707,646
Source: US Census
Bureau for year 2003
Alabama
1,597,529
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ATLANTA — The one-two punch of
Hurricane Katrina and oil prices briefly
topping $70 a barrel is giving the beleaguered major airlines just what they
don’t need as they approach a traditionally slow travel season and a few of
them flirt with bankruptcy.
The storm forced the closure of
several airports and caused scores of
flight cancellations throughout the Gulf
Coast region Monday. It also caused a
surge in oil prices, something the airlines have been battling for months
with no end in sight.
The result could mean more pain
for Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines Inc., a
major carrier to the area affected by
the hurricane, as it continues to try to
avoid a Chapter 11 filing. More broadly,
the other airlines also could suffer.
Like Delta, Eagan, Minn.-based Northwest Airlines Corp. also is in danger of
bankruptcy.
Airline shares fell Monday.
The Federal Aviation Administration said airports were closed in New
Orleans and Baton Rouge, La.; Biloxi;
Mobile; Pensacola; and at Eglin Air
Force Base in Florida. Airlines moved
their equipment away from the stricken areas and canceled all flights, FAA
spokeswoman Laura Brown said. Many
air traffic control facilities in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Alabama were closed.
The nation’s No. 2 carrier, United
Airlines, which is in bankruptcy,
canceled all 63 flights scheduled
through midday today into the area affected by the hurricane, with more expected later as the storm moves north,
a spokesman said. American Airlines,
the nation’s biggest carrier, canceled
36 flights in and out of New Orleans on
Monday, while Houston-based Continental Airlines Inc. canceled 111 flights
in the region.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines Co.
shuttered its service to New Orleans
and Jackson, Miss., and planned to follow suit in Birmingham on Monday evening. The airline said service to those
areas wasn’t expected to resume until
at least today.
Delta spokeswoman Chris Kelly
said the nation’s third biggest carrier
canceled dozens of flights Monday. She
said that included all flights to and
from nine cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Northwest said it canceled 29
flights because of the hurricane, and it
suspended service in 12 Southeastern
cities.
Hurricane Katrina and oil that
spiked briefly above $70 a barrel Monday before cooling to finish at $67.49
isn’t helping. And after Labor Day, air
travel traditionally slows.
Auto analysts see slower sales after summer discounts
IL
CA
impact.
Jim Dunigan, chief investment officer for PNC Advisors, said the market had braced for the storm and
started looking elsewhere for direction after the Gulf
Coast got “hit full force and survived.”
“It’s not likely this is going to have a significant impact on growth,” Dunigan said. “If it’s not going to have
a significant impact on energy, we’re still in pretty good
shape.”
The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 65.76, or
0.63 percent, to close at 10,463.05. Last Friday, the Dow
had its lowest close in seven weeks.
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 7.18, or 0.6
percent, to 1,212.28, and the Nasdaq composite index
rose 16.88, or 0.80 percent, to 2,137.65.
Much of Wall Street’s advance came late in the day,
when the hurricane diminished to a Category 1 storm.
Selected regional stocks
Satellite pioneer Intelsat
buying rival PanAmSat
REGISTER
BUSINESS WATCH
rangements to get home from Tampa
or to pick up cars parked at Mobile’s
cruise terminal. Carnival will provide
passengers with shuttle transportation
to the Tampa airport.
“Everybody’s going to approach it a
little bit different,” de la Cruz said.
“Some people are going to want to get
on an airplane. Some are going to try to
get in a car. There may be people who
have family who can come and get
them.”
Tampa is about an eight-hour drive,
or 515 miles, from Mobile.
The storm also altered Carnival itineraries in Miami, New Orleans and
Tampa.
DETROIT — Auto industry analysts
predict a slowdown in vehicle sales in
August, a trend due less to high gas
prices than to a summer of heavily
publicized discounts that thinned dealer lots and satiated consumers.
Analysts are predicting a seasonally
adjusted sales rate of around 16.9 mil-
lion vehicles in August, down from a
near-record 20.8 million vehicles in
July. The rate indicates what sales
would be for the full year if they remained at the same pace for all 12
months. Full-year sales for 2004 were
about 17 million.
General Motors Corp. is likely to report the sharpest decline when automakers release sales figures Thursday.
GM was the first to let all customers
pay employee prices in June and recently extended the deal through Sept.
30.
GM’s sales climbed 41 percent in
June and 19 percent in July, a phenomenal pace that cleared out 2005 models. By the end of July, GM dealers’
truck inventories were the lowest
they’d been in a nonstrike month for 10
years, Burnham Securities analyst David Healy said. Healy said the company
was bound to see some effect in August.
Chris Ceraso, an analyst with Credit
Suisse First Boston, expects GM’s sales
to fall 7 percent to 9 percent this
month compared with August 2004. In
a research note, Ceraso said GM will
likely grab a 25 percent share of the
U.S. market in August, compared to 28
percent last year.
Other automakers will fare better.
Merrill Lynch analyst John Casesa said
Ford Motor Co. continues to draw customers with its employee-discount pro-
gram, which began in July. In a note to
investors, Casesa predicted Ford’s
sales will be up 5 percent in August,
thanks to a fatter inventory than GM.
But Ford also is seeing some repercussions after July, when its sales rose 32
percent.
Ford spokeswoman Sara Tatchio
said Monday that the company hasn’t
yet decided whether it will extend the
discount beyond Sept. 6, when it is
scheduled to end.
Analysts predicted DaimlerChrysler
AG’s Chrysler Group will see a small increase in August after matching GM’s
discount in July. Chrysler has said it
will continue to offer employee pricing
on some 2005 vehicles indefinitely.
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SECTION C
14A
Randy Kennedy/Sports Editor
Preps
to play,
for now
OPINION
Bartow
bashes
the BCS
By GEOFF CALKINS
Scripps Howard
Gene Bartow has a month
or so before he casts his first
vote in the new Harris Interactive Poll. But if he could
vote for something today, it
would be for a big pile of dynamite under the whole lousy
system.
“I think there needs to be a
playoff,” Bartow said. “It’s the
fairest way to divide the money and the fairest way to pick
a champion. I can’t believe
the NCAA and Myles Brand
are comfortable with this.”
You can almost hear BCS
coordinator Kevin Weiberg
now, can’t you?
Who picked this guy! He
thinks we’re a joke?
OK, we are a joke. But we
shouldn’t give votes to the
people who say it!
Never mind the other embarrassing names in the
Harris Poll.
Never mind Kenny Roda, a
radio guy in Cleveland, who
has a Web site offering “pickup lines to bag a hottie.”
Never mind Jason Rash, a
businessman in Atlanta,
whose only tie to college
football is that his father-inlaw is Troy coach Larry Blakeney.
Seriously. That’s it. His
wife’s father is a head coach.
Rash got bounced from the
poll last week.
It’s enough to make the
BCS people blush, if they had
any shame, that is.
But the one voter who
might upset them is Bartow,
the nicest man in the world
who seldom has an unkind
word to say about anything.
Except the BCS.
In which case, he can muster unkind words, sentences
and paragraphs.
Bartow hates the BCS.
Some research would have
revealed this.
“I often wonder why the
NCAA doesn’t tell the BCS,
‘OK, we’re starting our own
football playoffs,’ ” Bartow
told the San Diego paper two
years ago. “Do you want to
participate? Do you want the
best of both worlds? To remain a part of our $6 billion
basketball tournament? Do
you want your university to
participate in more than one
sport?”
That’s right, Bartow wants
to put the screws to the BCS
schools.
“Why not?” he said. “Unless some of that BCS money
is shared, how long can some
of these (other) schools survive?”
Bartow’s view of the world
comes from a lifetime spent
in college sports. He coached
at big schools (Memphis) and
little schools (Valparaiso), at
BCS schools (UCLA) and nonBCS schools (UAB).
What Bartow has come to
see clearer than most is that
there’s only one reason for
the BCS’ existence.
“It’s money,” he said. “I
mean, I think there’s several
reasons the presidents say
they look at it. But I think it
centers around the 63 or 64
BCS universities sharing the
money and not wanting to
share it with the other universities.”
You were expecting educational integrity?
Of course, this is the reason. The fans want a playoff,
the players want a playoff
and more and more coaches
want a playoff.
The only people who don’t
want a playoff are the BCS
bean counters. They’re fighting as hard as they can to retain a system that guarantees
the TV windfall won’t be
shared by everyone.
So Baylor is in while Utah
is out.
South Florida is in while
Memphis is out.
Vanderbilt is in while BYU
is out.
“I don’t think it’s fair,” Bartow said. “I’d think people
would be embarrassed. And
the disparity is a lot worse
than it was 20 or 30 years
ago.”
Bartow’s solution is a 16or 24-team playoff. Anything
smaller would just be a different way of excluding the little
guys.
Please see Bartow Page 15A ៑
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In the wake of Katrina,
this weekend’s high school
football games in Mobile
County are set to be played,
although the decision will
be re-evaluated today
Staff report
G.M. ANDREWS/Staff photographer
Auburn cornerback David Irons is one of three players in the Tigers’ secondary who will be making their first start
Saturday night against Georgia Tech.
Auburn must Iron out
a way to stop Johnson
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Tigers will confront
Georgia Tech’s star
receiver with
inexperienced cornerbacks
in season opener
ᔢ INSIDE: Auburn updates depth chart / 15A
By EVAN WOODBERY
Sports Reporter
AUBURN — The game plan reads
like a Waffle House menu.
Auburn defensive coordinator
David Gibbs wants Georgia Tech’s
standout receiver Calvin Johnson to
be smothered and covered.
Pulling it off won’t be so easy.
Johnson was the ACC’s rookie of
the year in 2004 and might be the
most exciting receiver in the nation.
He’s also the one piece of the Geor-
gia Tech offense that is giving Auburn coaches the most worries as
Saturday’s season opener approaches.
“You don’t stop a guy like that,”
Gibbs said. “You just hope he
doesn’t make too many great catches, which he has a tendency to do.”
Gibbs has assigned cornerback
David Irons to follow Johnson’s every move, trying to match up with
him on every play.
But Gibbs knows the cat-andmouse game played by opposing
coaches. The defensive team tries to
put its strongest cover man on the
offense’s top receiver. The offensive
team tries to isolate the weakest
cornerback and pick on him with
the team’s best receiver.
That’s why the plan to have
Irons shadow Johnson is far from
seamless.
Even if it were to work, Irons is
one of three members of Auburn’s
secondary who will be making their
first starts on Saturday at 7:45 p.m.
against the Yellow Jackets.
The former junior college star
missed all of last season with a knee
injury.
“Wherever he goes, I’ve got to
go,” Irons said, referring to Johnson.
“I’m ready to match up against him
and see where I stand. It could be a
big jump for me, or it could be the
downfall for me.”
Auburn hopes Irons won’t falter in
his first big game, but his battle with
Johnson highlights the inexperience
of the Tigers’ secondary.
Safety Will Herring is the only returning starter. Eric Brock will start
his first game at the other safety
spot.
Opposite Irons, returning starter
Montae Pitts was edged out by
sophomore Patrick Lee in what had
Please see Auburn Page 15A ៑
This weekend’s high school football games in Mobile County are tentatively set to be played as
scheduled, according to Mobile County Public Schools athletics director
Calvin Crist.
Crist said he spoke to Alabama
High School Athletic Association executive director Dan Washburn after
Hurricane Katrina slammed Mobile
and Baldwin counties on Monday,
and Washburn said the games would
be played, although the situation
would be re-evaluated today.
The games could then be postponed, depending on the level of
damage and availability of electrical
power. School officials won’t be able
to survey most facilities until today.
Meanwhile, Steve Shackelford of
Decatur High School racked up 310
all-purpose yards and scored four
touchdowns to take the top honors in
the first state prep football spotlight
of the season selected by the AHSAA.
ᔢ Athens’ Rob Ezell completed 33
of 51 passes without an interception
for 408 yards and three touchdowns.
Other spotlight performances
were:
ᔢ Quincy Smith of Loachapoka
rushed for 251 yards and five touchdowns (41, 29, 29, 3 and 3 yards) in a
35-6 win over Lanett.
ᔢ Kyle Miller of Curry ran 26 times
for 253 yards and four touchdowns
(17, 23, 16 and 3 yards) in a 38-20 triumph over Carbon Hill.
ᔢ John Michael Caraway hit 15 of
32 passes for 279 yards and four
touchdowns — all part of Kevin
Cash’s nine-catch, 186-yard game —
in Clay-Chalkville’s 41-35 win over
Etowah.
ᔢ Tony Ellis of Flomaton rushed
for 196 yards and scored five touchdowns in a 35-0 victory over McKenzie.
ᔢ Zane Stackhouse carried only
nine times for 234 yards and four
touchdowns (44, 53, 33 and 32 yards)
in Georgiana’s 45-6 victory over Samson.
ᔢ The quarterback trio of Robby
Evans, Tyler Rasberry and Michael
Peterson hit 11 of 12 passes for 214
yards and four touchdowns in Florala’s 56-13 triumph over J.U. Blacksher.
ᔢ Chris Smelley passed for 209
yards and four touchdowns in less
than two quarters in American Christian’s 62-18 victory over Coffeeville.
ᔢ Josh Reed caught nine passes
for 124 yards, including the game-winning touchdown and two-point conversion in Leroy’s 28-27 overtime
decision over Jackson.
ᔢ Rod Jones of Demopolis scored
four touchdowns in a 38-0 triumph
over Sumter County.
Tide should be able
to exploit MTSU defense
៑
Blue Raiders change
defensive coordinators
but Croyle and
Company could well
light them up on
Saturday night
ᔢ INSIDE: Shula optimistic about
Tide offensive line / 15A
By THOMAS MURPHY
Sports Reporter
DAVE MARTIN/Associated Press
Alabama coach Mike Shula hopes Brodie Croyle and the Tide
passing game get off to a good start in Saturday night’s season
opener against Middle Tennessee State.
TUSCALOOSA — When Brodie Croyle steps up behind center JB Closner for Alabama’s
first offensive snap of 2005 on
Saturday night, the Crimson
Tide quarterback will be surveying an oft-exploited Middle
Tennessee State defense.
In six years as a Division I-A
program, the Blue Raiders have
made an offensive impression
with high-level skill players
such as Dwone Hicks, Tyrone
Calico, ReShard Lee and Clint
Marks.
But MTSU leaves much to be
desired defensively; the Blue
Raiders have ranked no better
than No. 73 in total defense in
those six years. In half of those
years, their ranking was No. 85
or worse, including a No. 86
showing last season when
MTSU allowed an average of
412 yards per game.
Middle Tennessee coach
Andy McCollum promoted
Mark Criner from secondary
coach to take over the defense
after Bradley Dale Peveto departed to work on the new Les
Miles staff at LSU.
“This first one always makes
you nervous when you’re playing a new coordinator,” Alabama coach Mike Shula said.
“We’ve got to be ready for
some different blitzes that we
haven’t seen.”
Criner, 38, spent the 2002-03
seasons at Cincinnati under
Rick Minter, the second of
which he spent as co-defensive
coordinator when the Bearcats
ranked No. 27 nationally in
team defense.
“He’s a great teacher and he
has an unbelievable attitude
and enthusiasm,” McCollum
said of his new defensive coordinator.
Criner will need to infuse
some of that enthusiasm into a
group that ranked No. 68 in
scoring defense (26.7 ppg), No.
45 against the run (139 ypg)
and an abysmal No. 112 in pass
defense (273 ypg).
“Hopefully we’ve grown from
last year and continue to get
better on that side of the ball,”
McCollum said.
“We started three true freshmen in the secondary last year,
and now they’re a year older.
Pass defense isn’t just about
them, though. It’s about your
linebackers’ drops and a pass
rush.”
Alabama’s mostly sophomore receiving corps, though
anointed with a “great talent”
label, is still striving to live up
to its recruiting hype. Junior
Tyrone Prothro and the sophomore group that includes Keith
Brown, Matt Caddell, DJ Hall
and Ezekial Knight will be
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Jarrett’s right turn was wrong
By JIM LITKE
AP Sports Columnist
The short answer to why there are so
many crashes in NASCAR:
Strip away the 800-horsepower engines, the flame-retardant suits, the 3,400
pounds of steel and the drivers go about
their business pretty much like everybody
else.
They laugh, they cry, they win a few
and lose all the rest. They show up at
work, get their feelings hurt, get mad, and
sometimes they get even.
Except in their case, that means just
about every time.
Maybe that explains why none of the
higher-ups got the least bit overheated
about the right turn Dale Jarrett made into
Ryan Newman on lap 318 of the Sharpie
500 late Saturday night. Never mind that it
happened at 100 mph, and knocked both
of them and Kevin Harvick — his only sin:
wrong place, wrong time — out of the
race.
In NASCAR, those little love taps aren’t
just tolerated; they ARE the rules of the
road.
And so maybe the only thing that distinguished this one from the dozen other
dustups and spinouts that took place at
the Bristol Motor Speedway — including
the handful of purposeful ones — was how
absolutely dumb and obvious it was.
“Mine was unintentional,” Newman
said about running Jarrett into a fence 17
laps earlier, “and his was intentional and
that’s all I’m saying.”
Jarrett was slapped with a two-lap penalty during the race, but that’s all. And in
the unlikely event officials call him in to
pursue the matter further, he’ll point out
he forgot to turn left only once in 1,272
tries, that it could happen to anybody, and
walk out of the hearing room with pride intact and nothing worse than another slap
on the wrist.
Besides, the higher-ups at NASCAR
probably figured out by now that Jarrett
did such a good job of punishing himself,
any further discipline would be piling on.
That little road-rage episode, coupled
with the two-lap penalty, resulted in a
31st-place finish. More important, it proba-
bly killed off any chance Jarrett had of
qualifying for “The Chase for the championship,” the lucrative little postseason
scheme NASCAR hatched last year to keep
fans from changing channels once the NFL
begins playing for keeps in the same weekend time slots.
Jarrett left Bristol without comment,
which was probably a smart decision. The
result dropped him from 11th place to
14th in the Nextel Cup “Chase” standings,
but the real shame is that he took Newman down a notch, from eighth to ninth,
and Harvick from 14th to 16th. With only
two races left to accumulate points before
the top 10 are awarded playoff spots, Jarrett needed more enemies and frustration
like he needed an allen wrench upside the
head.
He’s 0-for-his-last-94 races, and on his
eighth crew chief since Todd Parrott departed at the end of 2002. He’s already 48
and staring out a fast-closing window. Jarrett is one of the few older drivers who
hasn’t talked about slowing down, but
maybe he should.
Bartow: Strong-arm the BCS
៑ Continued
ELISE AMENDOLA /Associated Press
Serena Williams pumps herself up after recovering from a 1-3
deficit in the second set to beat Yung-Jan Chan 6-1, 6-3
Monday at the U.S. Open.
Flashy Nadal
wins in Open
៑
Teen sensation
shows he may
continue his
breakthrough year
with impressive
victory in first round
By STEVE WILSTEIN
AP National Writer
NEW YORK — The love affair begins.
Rafael Nadal and the U.S.
Open are made for each other.
He is high-energy personified,
a New York kind of guy — big,
bold and muscular on court,
impossible to ignore in his
skin-tight, sleeveless, Big
Apple red shirt and black toreador pants.
The king of clay, who captured the French Open two
days after he turned 19 in
June, showed in round one of
the year’s final Grand Slam
event Monday that he can be
just as dominating on hard
courts.
Seeded second behind Roger Federer, Nadal unleashed fiery flashes reminiscent of a
young Jimmy Connors amid a
workmanlike 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 rout
of hard-serving American wild
card Bobby Reynolds on a
hot, muggy opening day.
One point demonstrated
Nadal’s talents and tenacity.
He lunged to return a 123 mph
serve by Reynolds, a former
Vanderbilt All-American, leapt
to catch up to two overheads
and keep them in play, then
sprinted in from beyond the
baseline to pounce on Reynolds’ drop shot and pass him
with a winner. The crowd in
Arthur Ashe Stadium roared
as Nadal dropped dramatically to his knees and bounced to
his feet, punching the air with
a left-handed uppercut just as
Connors once did.
Nadal is a far more mature,
exciting and efficient player
than he was in his first two
U.S. Open appearances the
past two years, when he was
sent packing in the second
round each time. This has
been a breakthrough year for
him. He’s won not only his
first major title but eight other
tournaments, including the
Montreal Masters on hard
courts two weeks ago, with a
three-set victory over Andre
Agassi in the final.
“The last two years when I
was coming here, I was playing very, very bad ... but the
worst moment in the year
(was) when I come to the U.S.
Open,” Nadal said. “I think
now is a little bit different,
no?”
It is very different, too, for
Russian Svetlana Kuznetsova.
A year after she emerged from
virtual obscurity to win the ti-
tle, she sprayed shots wildly
in a 6-3, 6-2 loss to fellow Russian Ekaterina Bychkova and
became the first U.S. Open defending women’s champion to
fall in the first round.
There was little surprise in
Kuznetsova’s early ouster.
She’s been struggling to find
her rhythm all year and came
into the Open with a mediocre
27-14 record and no titles.
“I’ve learned a lesson and
it’s tough,” she added. “But
the tough things make you
grow stronger and make you
learn. What do I do, kill myself? No.
“I know how you feel when
you don’t have any gas and
you can’t go anymore. I think
it’s something else,” she
added. “I have to find out
what that is. It just takes a
while to learn it. It takes a
while to play with pressure.”
Women’s top seed Maria
Sharapova got off to a smart
start, dispatching Greece’s Eleni Daniildou 6-1, 6-1.
Serena and Venus Williams,
each of them two-time champions, won in straight sets,
though the No. 8 Serena looked less convincingly like a
contender than her No.
10-seeded big sister. Slower
and heavier than in the past,
Serena fell behind 3-1 in the
second set before bearing
down to beat 16-year-old qualifier Yung-Jan Chan of Taiwan,
6-1, 6-3. Venus, trying to build
on her Wimbledon triumph,
breezed past Rika Fujiwara of
Japan, 6-3, 6-1.
Perhaps Serena should worry less about her jewelry than
her conditioning. She flashed
a $40,000 pair of platinum-anddiamond chandelier earrings
on court, one of which fell off
during the match.
The highest-seeded player
to lose on the first day among
the men was No. 9 Gaston
Gaudio, the 2004 French Open
champion who was taken out
by wild card Brian Baker of
Nashville, Tenn., 7-6 (9), 6-2,
6-4.
The 20-year-old Baker, sidelined for three months earlier
this year with a left wrist injury, came into the tournament ranked No. 197 after
laboring mostly on the Challengers tour.
“I think I’ve always had it in
me,” Baker said of the biggest
victory of his career. “I just
haven’t quite been able to put
it together for a whole match.
Ever since I was a little kid,
you always dream about being
top 10 in the world and winning a Grand Slam. I know
that’s a long way away right
now, but hopefully with a lot
of hard work, getting a little
bit better, maybe I can accomplish those things down the
road.”
from Page 14A
If the BCS schools won’t go along, Bartow told the San Diego paper two years
ago — he declined to revisit the topic
Thursday, lest he be seen as a troublemaker — that he’d respond by declining to
play the BCS schools in anything.
“The NCAA should just say, ‘Go right
on ahead. You’re going to get sick and
tired of playing yourselves because nobody is going to schedule you greedy folks
in ping-pong. Go ahead and break away.
Then let’s see how it goes.’ ”
It’s a radical notion, one that demonstrates — as much as anything — just how
passionate Bartow is about the subject.
He knows wrong when he sees it.
He recognizes greed dressed up in a
bowl blazer.
“That’s what this is,” he said. “And it’s
not necessary. Auburn will always be Auburn. Notre Dame will always be Notre
Dame. They don’t have to worry about
UAB and Troy.”
The obvious question, of course, is
why Bartow agreed to vote in the new poll
at all. The Associated Press decided it
didn’t want to be associated with the BCS
travesty. Why didn’t Bartow make the
same decision?
Is he going to work from the inside?
Undermine the system with every ballot?
Cast crazy top 10 votes for Rice and Vanderbilt?
“No, I’m not going to do that,” he said.
“I’m going to do it very conscientiously.
But you can bet I’ll be voting for some
teams that aren’t part of the BCS. Heck,
someone told me Memphis is going to go
undefeated. If they do, I’ll vote for them.”
Dede beats Sears to start at linebacker
AUBURN — Junior Karibi Dede has
pushed his way into the starting rotation,
beating out returning starter Kevin Sears
at strong-side linebacker for Auburn.
That was biggest surprise Monday
when the Tigers unveiled their post-camp
depth chart, the first official glimpse at
changes made since the end of spring
practice.
Other notable tidbits from the new
depth chart:
ᔢ Patrick Lee has beaten out Montae
Pitts at cornerback. Lee is also listed as a
kickoff returner with receiver Devin Aromashodu.
ᔢ Joe Cope is listed at No. 1 center
ahead of Steven Ross.
ᔢ Ben Obomanu has jumped ahead of
Aromashodu at receiver.
Not all of the
changes may turn out
to be significant. Defensive coordinator
David Gibbs has said
Lee, Pitts and Jonathan Wilhite will all
see action at corner in
the first game.
Offensive line coach Hugh Nall said
Sunday that Cope and Ross were splitting
first-team reps in practice and would both
play against Georgia Tech.
At receiver, the distinction between
Obomanu and Aromashodu is probably
not important, since both seniors are expected to receive roughly equal amounts
of playing time.
But the decision to elevate Dede counted at least as a mild surprise. Linebackers
coach Joe Whitt has praised Dede this
month and called him a sort of “fourth
starter” among the linebackers. The demotion of Sears, who started 12 games last
season, was unexpected but he is still likely to see plenty of time in the linebacker
rotation.
Dede (6-0, 216) is four inches shorter
and about 30 pounds lighter than Sears,
and fits Auburn’s mold of small, quick linebackers.
Dede is from Woodbridge, Va., and enrolled at Auburn after a stint at Hargrave
Military. He redshirted in 2002, played as a
safety in 2003 and then switched to linebacker last year. He made one start
against Kentucky when Sears was injured.
Auburn corners a concern vs. Tech
៑ Continued
from Page 14A
been a month-long fight for the starting
position.
And there’s no doubt that the Yellow
Jackets will try to make Lee’s debut miserable by sending Johnson to his side of the
field.
“They’re good coaches and they’re
going to cause match-up problems,” Gibbs
said. “Trying to match up somebody for a
whole football game is impossible nowadays. They’ll motion (Johnson) around
and move him around. Everybody is going
to have a chance to cover him.”
Johnson was one of the most soughtafter high school recruits in the country,
but opted to stay close to his Tyrone, Ga.,
home and play for Tech.
He caught 58 passes for 853 yards in
his rookie season, approaching all-time
ACC rookie records. His size (6-4, 230
pounds) helps him stand out, but it’s his
speed that inspires awe.
“There’s not many times in a season
when you’re going to come across a receiver like him with his speed and size and
body control,” Herring said.
Herring said the corners — whether
it’s Irons or Lee or Pitts — have to disrupt
Johnson’s timing by being physical and aggressive as soon as the ball is snapped.
“If the corners are up pressing him at
the line of scrimmage, they’ve got to get
their hands on him,” Herring said. “If he
gets running downfield, he’s going to be a
hard guy to stop.”
Saturday will be Irons’ first time on the
major college football stage, and he admits it will be a nervous debut.
“He’s a great receiver and I’ve never
done anything in the SEC,” Irons said. “I’m
the underdog in this situation. He’s the
guy that’s the All-American who gets all
the TV exposure.”
But Gibbs said Irons — easily Auburn’s
best cover man — has nothing to fear.
“Calvin Johnson makes plays on everybody,” Gibbs said. “It’s not like you’re
going to go out there and hold him to one
catch. You just hope those great catches
don’t go for touchdowns. If they do, you’ll
have problems.”
Shula says O-line better with Caldwell
TUSCALOOSA — Alabama coach Mike
Shula’s assessment of the Crimson Tide offensive line, which was hampered by inexperience and injuries during two-a-days,
sounds like a cup-is-half-full attitude.
“We’re a lot better now than we were a
week ago,” Shula said. “With Antoine
(Caldwell) back, last week was our best
week, collectively with the scrimmage and
all through the week.”
Caldwell’s starting slot at left guard is
all but assured, as line coach Bob Connelly has not been overly impressed by any
of the other guard candidates. It appears
as if senior Mark Sanders, who dislocated
a finger in Sunday’s practice but returned
to the workout, will get the starting nod
over true freshman Marlon Davis at right
guard. Both Sanders and Davis are expected to play.
Sophomore Chris Capps, who was
healthy throughout preseason camp, held
off chronically injured Cody Davis (hamstring) at left tackle. Senior center JB
Closner and junior right tackle Kyle Tatum
had good camps, Shula said.
Depth on the offensive front will be a
concern, as the top backups project as
Cody Davis, Marlon
Davis, Justin Moon,
true freshman Drew
Davis and redshirt
freshman B.J. Stabler,
when he returns from
arthroscopic knee
surgery in a few
weeks.
ᔢ INJURY REPORT: Discounting the three
known players — tight ends Trent Davidson and Greg McLain and Stabler — who
are out for Alabama, the injury list is quite
short for the Tide’s season opener.
Cornerback Eric Gray (hamstring) will
be listed as questionable, and punter Jeremy Schatz is probably more along the
lines of doubtful. Schatz had tests run for
a heart arrhythmia last week, giving Jeffrey Aul a clear path to a starting role.
Gray’s status makes true freshman Lionell Mitchell the No. 4 corner in the
Tide’s rotation behind Anthony Madison,
Simeon Castille and Ramzee Robinson.
ᔢ KATRINA WATCH: University of Alabama officials have kept a close eye on the
progress of Hurricane Katrina, which walloped the Gulf Coast on Monday and then
moved north.
“If we have to miss some (preparation
time) based on power outages, we’ll make
the best of it,” Shula said. “The good news
is we’ve gotten a lot of work in on Middle
Tennessee already.”
ᔢ TIDE BYTES: Tide players have gone a
rare four consecutive days without media
interviews heading into today’s scheduled
press day. Shula did not allow interviews
with assistant coaches or players on Sunday, citing a players’ meeting with the student advisory board. Monday is Alabama’s
normal off day.
The university closed at noon Monday
in anticipation of Katrina’s advance north.
Any announcement regarding closings or
an adjustment of the school’s 1 p.m. press
conference today will be made at 6 a.m.
Shula cited sophomore defensive tackle Justin Britt as having probably the best
camp among the defensive linemen. Britt
edged out Daphne junior Jeremy Clark for
a starting role, although both are scheduled to see plenty of reps.
Tide facing leaky MTSU defense
៑ Continued
from Page 14A
running against corners Bradley Robinson
and Keon Raymond and safeties Jeremiah
Weaver and Jonathan Harris.
While Alabama has been a powerhouse
running team the last several years and
looks to be strong there again this season,
its passing game has soared primarily
when Croyle has been healthy.
McCollum talked as if he’s wary of anything the Crimson Tide puts forth offensively.
“Pick your poison,” he said. “Brodie
Croyle is a special quarterback. He plays
the game first class. We’re going against
probably one of the top quarterbacks in
the country.
“(Tailback Ken) Darby has done great
things. He’s very strong, explosive and
quick. No. 4 (Prothro) may be one of the
better players I’ve seen. He’s just explosive in everything he does.”
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HOUSTON — In the days following Sept. 11, 2001,
nervous Hollywood executives flew into a frenzy,
pushing back release dates, deleting scenes of the
World Trade Center and generally assuming people
would rather not be reminded of 9/11.
Those were business decisions: Upsetting patrons generally isn’t high on Hollywood’s to-do list.
Inevitably, however, filmmakers, like artists in other
fields, could not ignore the worst terror attack ever
to take place on American soil, and they’re betting
that an audience hungry for reality-tinged entertainment doesn’t want to avert its gaze either.
Mostly, the terror attacks have been treated tangentially or even allegorically, but now, for the first
time, 9/11 is taking center stage in a number of movies and television programs under development.
Three major studio releases dealing with the
World Trade Center attack are in production, and
ABC is developing a 9/11 miniseries. Another indication of a change in the pop cultural climate is the
stunning swiftness with which the war in Iraq was
transformed into a television series. “Over There,” a
Steven Bochco series on the FX cable channel, debuted July 27.
“It’s a whole new ball game,” said Robert J.
Thompson, a professor of television and popular
culture at Syracuse University, who noted that film
and especially television traditionally have been
slow to deal with such tumultuous events.
These upcoming projects — which put viewers
at Ground Zero during the attacks, inside a terroristcontrolled plane or in the middle of an ongoing, politically charged war — will test the extent to which
the public wants to be immersed and also whether
such emotional and politically divisive topics are
suitable for mass entertainment.
“In the 1960s and 1970s, television ignored everything that was going on in the real world,” says
Thompson, who is director of the Center for the
Study of Popular Television. “We had the civil rights
movement raging in the South, and the ‘Andy Griffith Show’ was the top show on television. Then we
had the war in Vietnam and ‘Gomer Pyle USMC,’
about a Marine for heaven’s sake, was the big
show.”
TV shows about Vietnam didn’t appear until
more than a decade after the conflict was over and
“The Deer Hunter,” the first major film treatment of
the war, was released in 1978, five years after the
United States’ withdrawal. In contrast, Thompson
says, “references to 9/11 have been pretty much
constant.”
It infuses the plot of the popular Fox program 24.
On the FX show “Rescue Me,” New York firefighters
deal with the emotional fallout of the World Trade
Center attacks. And the creator of “Lost,” an ABC series about plane crash survivors, acknowledges 9/
11’s influence.
The latest 9/11 project was announced by Universal Pictures recently. Production is set to begin
Oct. 1 on “Flight 93,” which will portray the heroism
of passengers on a United Airlines flight that hijackers were steering toward Washington. Passengers
stormed the cockpit, and the plane crashed in rural
Pennsylvania. Paul Greengrass, who directed “The
Bourne Supremacy,” will helm the $15 million movie, which will be released next year. No cast members have been announced.
The 9/11 attacks were such traumatic events
that it is inevitable they’d cast a long shadow over
American life and culture even though early Hollywood reaction and dire pronouncements about the
death of irony turned out to be off base.
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Bewitch Jeannie Hunter 1817127
Gunsmoke 1893547 Bonanza 8237059
Highway 8999721
Leave
Griffith
All-Family Good
Start Over 1641905 Turn Up Style
Good
Roc (cc) Apollo 3921189
Pressure Point (NR, ’62)
2105059
I’ll Fly 4798214
Start Over 7101382 Turn Up Style
Good
Roc (cc) Martin
In House
Dragonfly (PG-13, ’02)
(cc) 329769
Nash 676214
U.S. Open Tennis: Men’s & Women’s First Round. From the USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, N.Y. 3768189
JAG (TVPG) 175793 Law SVU 610363
Jump Start 731566 Top 20 Countdown (TVPG) 130498
Metal Ruled 854566 InsideOut 867030
Behind 597634
Simmons Hogan
Fab Life 134214
40 Least Hip Hop Moments 802363
Minority 272653
Paid
Paid
Paid
Paid
Norma Rae (PG, ’79)
Sally Field. Drama. 131011 Sirens (R, ’94)
Hugh Grant. 614653
Bridezillas 514160 Dr. T & the Women (R, ’00)
(cc) 857547
Felicity (cc) 63653
WGN
HBO
MAX
SHOW
STARZ!
TMC
Hap Days Hap Days Hillbillies Hillbillies Matlock 180950
Rockford 775450
Magnum 795214
News (cc) 425818
Rockford 434566
Magnum 439158
Videos 343740
Cosby
Cosby
Home Im Will
Garfield 116498
Leap of Faith (’92)
(cc) 495276
The Grudge (’04)
870059
What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
117011
Spider-Man 2 (’04)
(cc) 64839498
Eight Legged Freaks (3:45)
18850672 Grudge
Gremlins 2: The New Batch 91682672
Shrek 2 (’04)
(cc) 227943 The Matrix Revolutions (’03)
54579276 Impulse (12:40) (’90)
(cc) 38236360
A Time to Kill (’96)
Sandra Bullock. 464653
Boomerang 963092
Joey
87246030 SHO Me The Boyfriend School 7579108 Stealing Time (10:15) (’01)
92523653 Little Cigars (’73)
2922653 Son-in-Law (1:35) 15905276 Pursued (3:15) (’04), Gil Bellows 43161769 Prince & Me 343214
Confes
Home on the Range 63426363 Thelma & Louise (R, ’91)
97863189
Son-in-Law (11:20) 34068837 Little Black Book (1:05) (PG-13) 58985699 Honey (PG-13)
7090818
Confessions 42843479
Roller Bg Timeline (’03)
Paul Walker. 142214
It Runs in the Family (’03)
886011
Boat Trip (’03) (cc) 9771951 The Return of the Pink Panther 30608214 Memories of Me
4302617
Falcon-Snowm. 98656301

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