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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by 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.
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
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
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.
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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.
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Ohfercryinoutloud, this is NOT about the President's PR. He is doing what he should be doing, and right now is not the time for him to go.
Can you imagine the resources it would take to bring him into the area?
He could crawl down there with a mop and bucket and it wouldn't be enough for some people...many of them FReepers.
Oh get real, the majority of the folks in this country are not displeased with Bush. Didn't the Pro-Bush rallies at Crawford this past weekend enlighten you on anything. Quit drinking the left's koolaid.
If you want to start a ZOT thread, do it somewhere else, troll.
Looks like a pic of the breech in the canal levee thats allowing Lake P to flood the city.
Thanks for a chuckle on an otherwise very serious thread.
They=the "round table" discussion in the last part of the show. Krauthammer, Kondrake, et al.
Nonsense. Pres Bush is only on thin ice with radical democrats.
"Those choppers should have been in the air this morning. And as for landing strips for transport planes...try the freeways...they are closed to traffic."
Choppers were in the air this morning, and yesterday, too.
This will be the second night that Coast Guard rescue helicopters operate using night vision equipment. They plucked 1,200 people off roofs in the last 24 hours.
Freeways are NOT closed to traffic, but there is little vehicular traffic because there are few operable vehicles. What roadways are open are needed for relief and emergency traffic.
On top of that, there are people walking the freeways to get out of town.
Let's all be less critical and appreciate the difficulty of the task at hand. This is too big for easy, quick solutions.
Remember Titanic, when reality set in to the captain and he became practically useless to the crew? That's what the mayor reminds me of right now.
Yes. I heard the whole dreadful thing. Blanco was just on Larry King doing her whining act. Hard to decide which is the greater tragedy... the flood or the "leadership."
Problem is, you can't get to the breach from the sea. Or from any other navigable waterway.
But did you hear the guy on WWL -- he said they did try this morning but it wasn't working and didn't know why the Mayor didn't know.
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Bush will go when it works for him to go.
But right now he knows what some here do not appear to know: This is not about him, just now.
> So instead of feeding through a breach or two, it backs up and spills over the entire bank on both sides? The water keeps coming, no matter what you do with the canal.
Someone famous said something like, "water is an irresistible force." One can not just "plug" problems like this. As you point out, plugging buys you nil when it continues to flow over the entire bank.
And, not spoken about yet, time is the enemy of levees, as sodden foundations weaken over time.
He can be impeached over WHAT?
Did NC suspend some of it's gas tax? I thought they were considering it.
Anyway, why I ask is that here in north GA, near the border with NC, we have almost always had gas on average fifteen to twenty cents cheaper than NC. Lately, we've been the same or at times even higher. Right now we're at 2.76 for mid-grade. We were at 2.61 Saturday. Yesterday was 2.69.
"Why doesn't the Pres. authorize the marines to use those big troop carrying hovercraft for evacauations? What are they ever used for anyway?"
Maybe he has.
""Damn straight - we are going to be the laughing stock of countries that have been doing this for hundreds of years in the North Sea.""
"No. They don't have hurricanes."
The dykes survived the hurricane - thelake never surged over the top - these dykes simply failed below their design level
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