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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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Tropical Storm 12
Can you elaborate?
Do they still have Higgins' boats? Seriously, they could load 60,000 people onto ships in a couple of days.
In addition near the Louis Armstrong Airport there was ten miles of incomplete levees from the Bonnet Carre Spillway -- five miles from Lake Ponchartrain; a 5-10 foot wall of sandbags along the Airline Drive to the Mississippi Rver levee near the airport; another 60 miles o flevees that needed to be raised and were years away from completion; computer models said that the low levee from Monticello Ave in Jefferson Parish near the city's water plant was a likely spot for a major flood to enter the city.
With this information in hand the fact they didn't call a mandatory evacuation -- or face arrest -- is terrible.
I just cannot imagine choosing her when they could have had Bobby Jindal.
Precisely the same as the predominant ethnicity of those who did not escape NOLA on Sunday.
What was YOUR point?
Hardly!
Saw Cooper earlier. It looked like he would need to breath into a paper bag... he was practically hyperventilating. I thought I heard or saw that someone tried to steal gas from the CNN truck (so much info). But, what kid of "trouble" is he in?
Speaking as an oil and gas income person, if enough refineries are offline long enough, wee will see rationing, fill your tank daily!
We are!
Some people have this asinine belief that the mayor and governor are responsible for not forcefully removing everyone from their homes and forcing them onto buses. A million people in a few days.
Maybe the "c" word is being bandied about (cannibalism).
The damage here will FAR SURPASS the cost of 9/11 - both in lives and $
Why is he not down there sticking his finger in the dike?/sarcasm
500,000 bytes? obviously you haven't dealt with dial up like mine....might download by tomorrow.
There are no flights fromm No to BTR.
If tourists could get to the airpport, they could get out of NO to BTR. I don't think the tourists are going to die heere, I think the people who are going to die are the residents of NO. And they would not have been flying out of the airport.
I could be wrong, but I think the airlines wouldn't have made a huge difference.
The big difference would have been an evacuation of NO sat AM with every available bus, truck, whatever. That would have taken leadership and a strong stomach.
LT Gov just spoke about price gouging and now someone else is saying 37,600 are in shelters.
We Will rebuild this city
I dont think Cooper is in NO.
Damn them all.
steveegg: CNN's Aaron Brown must not have been paying attention since the end of the business day Friday. Film of whatever he was on at 11.
36,700 in shelters in New Orleans now. Nine total showers.
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