No one knows what's happened to the fat man (76) since he said he was planning to "ride out" the storm in N.O. with his wife on Monday.

There were early reports of people seeing his house partially submerged.  It was definitely his house.  It's very "distinctive".

I'll be damned.

I didn't even know he was still alive.  Hope they came through okay!

Sad to hear - I love his music.

Damn, why would someone who could afford to leave, stay?

Quoted: No one knows what's happened to the fat man (76) since he said he was planning to "ride out" the storm in N.O. with his wife on Monday.

Aint that a shame!
Somebody had to say it.

Quoted: Just wait until one of the asshats arrive in this thread to say that the gentleman was an idiot for staying and that IF he's still alive, it's likely he's out looting some liquor store! Eric The(WalkingToNewOrleans)Hun

agreed, sad to think he may have died like that :(

Quoted: Aint that a shame!

Quoted: Quoted: No one knows what's happened to the fat man (76) since he said he was planning to "ride out" the storm in N.O. with his wife on Monday. Aint that a shame!

Man that was bad...

ETA: ironically, some of his other hits were...

Going to the River

Poor Me

Blue Monday

Valley of Tears

and finally.... Let the Four Winds Blow

Has anyone checked Blueberry Hill?

(Maybe he took refugee on the high ground?)

Quoted: Damn, why would someone who could afford to leave, stay?

Because it's his home.  Some of us would rather die protecting what we have than to just give-up and leave.

Also, he's 77 years-old, not 76.  He's exactly 6 months (to the day) older than me.z

Quoted: ... ETA: ironically, some of his other hits were... Going to the River Poor Me Blue Monday Valley of Tears and finally.... Let the Four Winds Blow

I can't believe you forgot/omitted Walking to New Orleans...

Quoted: Damn, why would someone who could afford to leave, stay?

Maybe he thought that this storm would sweep through like most, causing some damage but not turning the city into a post-apocolyptic nightmare.

Quoted: Quoted: Damn, why would someone who could afford to leave, stay? Because it's his home.  Some of us would rather die protecting what we have than to just give-up and leave. Also, he's 77 years-old, not 76.  He's exactly 6 months (to the day) older than me.z

Damn Zoom, good to see the elderly get into new stuff like computers. Keep it up.

Quoted: I didn't.

Missed that.  D'oh!

He probably stayed because he knew that if he didn't he wouldn't have anything left.  I also see an interesting correlation.  It seems like most of the "elder" poplulation will stay to ride out a hurricane because they were able to ride them out for 50+ years without any problems.  Young people who have never experienced a hurricane will probably back it up and leave.

Forgive me in advance.

If you have access to a television and saw that monster while it was in the gulf, and if you had the means, you did not evacuate......you were being stupid with God's gift of life.

It is not giving up to do the prudent thing. How do you protect your stuff from nature?
Which group would you like to be a part of......the people who evac'ed or the people who drown?

This was predicted to be bad. There was NO chance it would not be.

Zoom while I understand what you are saying.......it is stupid to think there is anyway you could stop a hurricane, and if your home did survive, you don't have anything to look forward to except disease, hunger, heat, thirst.......do I need to say more.

I love his music.

But he's a retard for staying.  It's not like it was a thunderstorm or something.

Found!

You made, me cry when you said, goodbye Ain't that a shame, my tears fall like rain Ain't that a shame, you the one to blame You broke, my heart When you said, we'll part Ain't that a shame, my tears fall like rain Ain't that a shame, you the one to blame Oh well, goodbye Although, I'll cry Ain't that a shame, my tears fall like rain Ain't that a shame, you the one to blame

Seriously, he's been found.... alive.

Quoted: Seriously, he's been found....

On blueberry hill?



You've been a great crowd! Remember to take care of your waitresses because they're taking care of you.

Ain't that a shame...  (A damn crying shame if you ask me)





I hope we are all worried over nothing.

jUST READ THAT THE fAT MAN WAS FOUND AND RESCUED TONIGHT

Yea, I read it too, THREE POSTS ABOVE YOURS.

Quoted: jUST READ THAT THE fAT MAN WAS FOUND AND RESCUED TONIGHT

Quoted: Quoted: Seriously, he's been found.... On blueberry hill?

See! I told you guys where too look but no one would listen!

Still no word if the search and rescue teams  found his "thrill' though.

Quoted: Quoted: Damn, why would someone who could afford to leave, stay? Because it's his home.  Some of us would rather die protecting what we have than to just give-up and leave. Also, he's 77 years-old, not 76.  He's exactly 6 months (to the day) older than me.z

how exactly do you protect yourself from 140 mph winds ?

you leave

he is alive and well
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168254,00.html

Quoted: Quoted: Damn, why would someone who could afford to leave, stay? Because it's his home.  Some of us would rather die protecting what we have than to just give-up and leave. Also, he's 77 years-old, not 76.  He's exactly 6 months (to the day) older than me.z

Hate to say it, but going against a cat 5 storm and thinking you will weather it out is not protecting your home, its suicide and pure stupidity.

Rescuers help Fats Domino off a boat after he was rescued Monday from his New Orleans home.

(CNN) -- Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino was among the thousands of New Orleans residents plucked from rising floodwaters, his daughter said Thursday.

Karen Domino White, who lives in New Jersey, identified her father in a picture taken Monday night by a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer.

The photograph shows Domino -- the singer behind the 1950s hits "Ain't That a Shame" and "Blueberry Hill" -- being helped off a boat near his home in the city's Lower 9th Ward.

His whereabouts since the rescue were not immediately known. Nor was there any information about his wife, Rosemary, friends said.

The neighborhood was heavily flooded when a levee failed as Katrina slammed into southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Thousands are feared dead in the storm, Louisiana's governor and the mayor of New Orleans have said, though no official tally has been compiled.

White said she last heard from her father August 23, four days before the storm hit, and was unable to contact him Sunday.

"I didn't have any information. I was just praying," she said.

Writer Charles Amann said he last spoke to Domino on Sunday, and the singer refused to join the evacuation that was then under way.

"He said to me, in that wonderful Southern accent of his, that no, he was staying on -- that he had gone through the last one and he could go through this one," said Amann, who is working on a book on the early days of the "American Bandstand" television program.

Many of those evacuated from the Lower 9th Ward were taken to the Louisiana Superdome and are being transferred to the Astrodome sports stadium in Houston, Texas.

Alan Warner, an EMI Music executive, also saw the photograph of Domino's rescue. But he said he did not know where the 77-year-old singer, born Antoine Domino, was taken afterward.

"But the fact that he actually was rescued is just so gratifying," Warner said.