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Posted on 08/29/2005 2:08:51 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Hurricane Katrina made landfall today at 6:10AM CDT, and she continues to drive northward into Mississippi and Alabama. Several local radar sites are down. Tornado and flash flood watches and warnings are widespread.
President Bush has declared major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal aid.
The following links are self-updating:
Public Advisory Currently published every 3 hours 5A, 8A, 11A, 2P, etc. ET
NHC Discussion Published every six hours 6A, 11A, 6P, 11P
Three Day Forecast Track
Five Day Forecast Track
Navy Storm Track
Katrina Track Forecast Archive Nice loop of each NHC forecast track for both three and five day
Forecast Models
Alternate Hurricane Models via Skeetobite
Images:
Montgomery AL Long Range Radar
Storm Floater IR Loop
Storm Floater Still & Loop Options
Color Enhanced IR Loop
Other Resources:
Birmingham AL Weather
Meridian MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Jackson MS Weather (Radar down at this time)
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
I saw some footage shot in Mobile that had BB-60 (USS Alabama) in the background. She still appeared to be at her mooring, thank god.
do you have a link with live stream for WDSU?
Thanks
Can you keep me updated on Nashville? I have a friend who lives there in Murfreesburo. Thanks!
LOL. That's funny.
Seems like the French Quarter may have dodged the worst case scenario, but NO still took the bullet.
What??????
Camille was much more compact... wind was the main issue outside a small area. This thing had an amazingly large storm surge.
This problem with the Red cross organization is well known. It's not the volunteers that people have a beef with. It's the track record for many many years of charging people for the basic necessities during times of crisis that turns most people off.
They charged the volunteers who were helping with the clean up after Hurricane Audrey. My uncles were there helping recover bodies and they were charged for water and coffee etc. Too many people telling the same story for different calamities tells me that the organization is more concerned with making money off the misery of others. I will not give a penny to the Red Cross, I will give to the Salvation Army and the Southern Baptist Disaster relief, 100% of donations to them go to the one's who need the help the most. Oh, the red cross uses the SB disaster relief for food prep. We Baptists don't charge people in crisis for food and water. That is downright sinful.
http://www.sbc.net/redirect.asp?url=http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=21477
Disaster Relief volunteers en route to La., Miss., & Ala.
By Martin King
Aug 29, 2005
3-state response
Jim Burton (left) coordinates Southern Baptists’ disaster relief response, explaining logistics of the three-state response to Hurricane Katrina to Robert E. (Bob) Reccord, president of the North American Mission Board. courtesy of NAMB
ALPHARETTA, Ga. (BP)--With Hurricane Katrina having roared into three Gulf Coast states, the nation’s third largest disaster relief operation, the Southern Baptist Convention, began mobilizing the first wave of volunteers from its supply of 30,000 trained disaster volunteers Monday, Aug. 29.
“Mobile kitchens, shower units, cleanup and recovery units and communication equipment from more than 20 states are being moved today to staging areas near Memphis, Tenn., and Marshall, Texas,” said Jim Burton, volunteer mobilization director for the North American Mission Board.
“By Tuesday morning we’ll have more than two dozen disaster relief units on the road to the areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The units will be manned by the first wave of SBC volunteers who are trained and committed to minister to the tens of thousands affected by this disaster.”
Burton said the American Red Cross has requested Southern Baptists to prepare 300,000 meals a day by mid-week, increasing capacity to half a million meals a day by the end of the week.
During a natural disaster, the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army depend on NAMB to coordinate the nearly 600 disaster relief units owned by churches, associations and state conventions and staffed by Southern Baptist volunteers.
“We’re working right now to determine where our units will set up in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. We’ll be able to assign units to those locations by Tuesday morning, and most of them should be in place and ready to serve hot meals by Wednesday,” Burton said.
Probable assignments include units from Tennessee, Texas Baptist Men, Louisiana and Oklahoma going to Louisiana locations including possibly Slidell, Kenner, Houma, Alexandria, Covington and Baton Rouge.
Disaster relief units from Mississippi, Georgia, Florida and Missouri will most likely be sent into Mississippi including Biloxi, Pascagoula, Gulf Shores, Hattiesburg and McComb.
Units from Alabama most likely will be assigned within their own state where the coastal areas were hard hit, Burton said.
Southern Baptist disaster relief units from Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio and the Virginia Baptist Mission Board are being activated and assigned as well.
Robert E. (Bob) Reccord, NAMB president, said Southern Baptists are blessed to have one of the most experienced and well-equipped disaster relief forces in the world.
“As we pray for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, I hope every Southern Baptist will remember in prayer those from our state conventions who are rushing in now to meet these most urgent needs,” Reccord said.
Donations to support Southern Baptists’ massive mobilization may be made to the state conventions which are sending units, to the state Baptist conventions most affected by the hurricane and to NAMB which coordinates the national response. To make a donation and to stay abreast of Southern Baptist’s response, go to www.namb.net/dr.
Me too... my in-laws and sister-in-law also live in and around Murfreesboro. Also have relatives around Montgomery, AL.
Blood is not free at hospitals, either,
even if you donate on a regular basis.
You give to them for free though.
I said it before and I'll say it again, this is NOT a 3 day storm.
Video of looting on the ABC link, WBRZ. Sick.
Amazing aerial video, maybe the same that you guys are seeing? Saw Coast Guard rescue a guy from his roof. Plus a house fire and firefighters trying to figure out how to attack it. Many homes flooded up to their roofs.
When Hugo hit Charleston, there were roofs torn up as far away as Greenville/Spartanburg SC and Charlotte, NC.
we have family not far from Nashville. OH dear....so " K" is headed that way??!!
The pictures are steadily getting worse. Air rescue of a man on a roof.
I'd agree with you- except that earlier he said it's amazing how small his little part of his world has been...his 14 blocks as he calls them...he had no idea...he saw only Bourbon St.
This is really mind-boggling, isn't it?
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