Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate due to rising water levels and desperation. Search and rescue continues via boat and air. Authorities have announced the goal to evacuate all the remaining residents of NOLA. The New Orleans Mayor has reported numerous gas leaks throughout the city. Sporadic fires occurring. Attempts to evacuate hundreds of hospital patients from Charity Hospital and Tulane Medical Center are in process. Patients are being transported to other hospitals as far away as Florida.

The Army Corps of Engineers is at the NOLA levee breaks with current plans to drop 3000 lb sand bags in an effort to stop the flow of water. NOLA hospital evacuations continue for thousands of patients. Reports indicate all evacuees are being taken to the SuperDome, which is now surrounded by water. The generators at the Dome are now in jeopardy. The Governor of Louisiana has called for a day of prayer tomorrow...

Elsewhere, search and rescue continue in Mississippi and Alabama. Biloxi reports indicate catastrophic damage.

Links to various news and local government websites:

WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends (very slow load)

2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.

NOLA.com

Inside Houma Today needing boats, volunteers, lists gas station openings, water, etc.

WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.

Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports

Gulfport News via Topix.net

WAFB Baton Rouge

Mobile Register via al.com

Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger

Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser

Pensacola News Journal

St Bernard Local Government

Streaming Video:
WWL-TV (via KHOU/Houston): http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_khou&live=yes

WKRG/Mobile: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518

WDSU/New Orleans via WAPL/Jackson: mms://a842.l1291238841.c12912.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/842/12912/v0001/reflector:38841

All are Windows Media Player links.

Related FR Threads:

FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread

Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?

Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here

Looting Begins In New Orleans

Martial Law Declared in New Orleans

Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.

www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.

Previous Threads:

Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
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

[John Jamieson]

casino's are barges, not buildings.

[maquiladora]

Oh my God...

****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 12-15 FEET OF WATER ARE EXPECTED IN THE ENTIRE EAST BANK.****

http://www.wwltv.com

[RDTF]

I know - but it's huge, heavy, and moved. It wasn't in the water.

[NonValueAdded]

"The misunderstood fact is that these items are not just lying around waiting to be used."

Why not??? A levee breach was a foreseeable event from any big storm that happened to come close. Proper contingency planning dictates that these things ARE kept laying around ready to use. No excuse for the city and state not being ready for such a problem.

[Admin Moderator]

So do the Mods actually sit someplace and have to read all these posts?

We all sit in our own homes/offices on our own schedule and read threads that interest us. We rely on the abuse reports and a few other tools we have to alert us to problems

[don-o]

wrongwrongwrong, al

We got the Good Mod tonight.

[Warren_Piece]

CNN reporter on phone says looting is out of control in downtown NO.

[sfimom]

Heavy rain in NW PA not too much wind to speak of. We're under a flood/flash flood warning . I'm on a hill so we're safe but may lose power. If I dissappear that's why. Love you all.

[Spktyr]

Cruise ships usually have a 40+ foot draft. WIth current river conditions, there's no way they can get close.

[Torie]

Where this film was taken is about 1 foot above sea level. I carefully checked the topo map. It is at Bourbon and Common street, one block west of Canal Street. The water seems about 3 feet deep.

[RDTF]

oh Lord

[shield]

How do you know this?

[GOP_Proud]

< casino's are barges, not buildings. >

I like the way that Haley Barbour says "cuh-see-nuhs"

[jeffers]

"To: jeffers

But the river is not up to the levee is it?

I don't know anything anymore other than NO seems lost to me."

As long as there are people in New Orleans fighting to save it, it isn't lost.

If everyone has to leave, it still isn't lost until we all decide not to rebuild it.

I do know what you mean, but "lost" isn't the right word, not yet, maybe not ever. I'm an optimist, and to me, this is a temporary setback.

[Gabz]

Showoff :^)

[spanalot]

All good points but let me take a crack.

"Most of the choppers are busy with SAR right now. Lives first, property second."

These houses were not flooded before the breech. And the more they wait, the more threatened lives - Where is water and food going to come from while these people wait for evac.

"The barges are having to proceed downriver very slowly as the Mississippi will need to be resurveyed before it is truly navigable - and there is a LOT of debris (including dropped bridge spans) in the water. "

The breech is from Lake Panchatrain which appears to be full of a variety of unsalvageable hulls that can be towed and scuttled.

[U S Army EOD]

My understanding THERE ARE NO BUILDINGS LEFT STANDING IN PASS CHRISTIAN, Bay St. Louis is next to it. I lived in both places on my sailboat. What I heard from Bay St. Louis is from one family. They built a house with the foundation above the high water mark of Camille. It flooded up to the roof. They had tied a small sailboat out in the yard and were able to make it to the boat. They rode the rest of the storm out in the boat. Most people had gone up to the Stennis Space Center. Bay St. Louis is where the hurricane party was during Camille. The first place I had my boat was in a marina that was about three miles or more inland. There was a building there that had survived Camille. It was up on stilts and the high water mark of Camille was still up on the ceiling on the first floor. This surge was higher than Camille probably a good eight to ten feet. Pray for these poor people.

[John Jamieson]

Yes it was, from start to finish.

[eternity]

Police and Fire are helping themselves too.