[NautiNurse]

Most of these sites provide local updates, and emergency contact info.

[Jemian]

Good morning. Thank you for running these threads. My prayers to all in the devastation.

[NautiNurse]

New thread with local news links

[Aggie Mama]

NN, may God bless you richly for all of your hard work keeping things organized.

[Rebelbase]

Bump for everyone to jump.

[SlowBoat407]

I'm going into lurk mode for a while so people with good information can be seen. Prayers for the people of the Gulf Coast, for strength and safety and resilience.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Where is the International outpouring of financial asistance for New Orleans?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

It looks like the scope of this catastrophe is finally being realized. Prayers go out for the people in the area of devastation. And someone needs to tell Senator Mary L. to stop politicizing this and blaming Bush. Her father was a part of the problem in Louisiana.

[BluH2o]

Reporting in from SW Ohio (greater Cincinnati area) ... heavy rain now falling, no wind, although heavy gusts are expected later. 3 to 4 inches (possibly more) of rain expected in the next 18 hours.

[JohnMac]

Did anyone see the clip last night of Chris Matthews calling the gulf coast "The Redneck Riviera?

[ChadGore]

How's the levie in NO ? How is Lake Poncitrain(sp?)

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Where is Kofi Annan?

Is he flying in a helicopter over New Orleans to look at the devastion?

Has Saudi Arabia sent financial assistance yet?

[NautiNurse]

Bad link for WWLTV with greater New Orleans area updates. Sorry about that. Many, many local updates here.

[Strategerist]

There's a moderate risk (the way SPC does things, really moderate risk is "high" risk, and "high" risk is "armageddon") of tornadoes this afternoon from Katrina all the way up to Virginia...


http://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

These tornadoes will pop up rapidly from very small, very fast moving supercells.

[Quilla]

NN, can you or others on the thread point gumboyaya in the right direction? I know you're more familiar with links and emergency contact information than I. Thanks.

gumboyaya wrote:

Help am missing several relatives. Is there anyway a forum could be set up to help with messages. Any ideas? I know they left city but cannot find, cell phones not working just busy signals. That sick sob shummer just on complaining about strategic reserves, I am so pissed.

[CajunConservative]

Thanks for the excellent job of keeping these threads moving.

[cwiz24]

SLIDELL NEWS

Sorry--it doesn't seem like good news. Go to www.2theadvocate.com (Baton Rouge paper) and scroll down the right hand side. Under the heading "WBRZ Video" there is a video news report called "Katrina devastates Slidell". Very long and informative.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

Any words of sympathy from France?

What about Iran????? We sent them tons of money after the Bam earthquake. Are they sending us medics? Food? Money? Nuclear fuel from their nuke plants?

What about France? We bailed them out of the war? Are they going to come and "bail water" out of New Orleans?

Anyone?

Any nation?

Any help?

What about Indonesia. They received billions after the tsunami. Any help from them?

What about Africa. Bush sent them $15 billion to stop having sex. Can they at least come and help us clean up?

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Thank you bunches for keeping these threads running. I am going to go do some volunteer work here in Odgen this morning, but I am thinking about ways to do something to help NO and the gulf coast. People, if you have ideas, want to discuss it this afternoon?

God be with you all, especially you who have loved ones touched by this disaster (and your loved ones, too!).

[NautiNurse]

New Orleans info via nola.com

[daybreakcoming]

Does anyone have info about Slidell, LA? We have family there that no one has been able to contact or even find how the town made out other than taking a hard hit.