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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
Is that an inside joke????
Agreed on the jewelry, stereos and jeans, but with football season arriving soon, if I'm going to be stuck in my flooded house for a month, the plasma tv IS a necessity.
Sorry, just trying to bring a bit of levity to a terrible event.
I am surprised that the Mayor didn't apologize to the Gays because their Labor Day weekend that they hold every year in the French Quarter has been cancelled.
Best to stop digging while you can, RC.
How would that have changed anything?
That would be a new role for FEMA but makes sense. Could be very expensive for false alarms. Where would this semi permanent tent city be? Why don't we just build a nice spare city somewhere?
I hate bad cops. Uh, what were they grabbing?
Now the governor is speaking about the situation in the Dome. 20,000 she says. A mix of good folks and bad actors. Water still rising around the Dome.
My qoestion: Where is the National Guard / Army troops. This silly woman lacks gravitas.
She still has no answers....
I would imagine there are dozens, if not hundreds of flat bottom boats and airboats, their crews being heroes to the helpless.. rescuing them. That's all that I believe can be done until the water issue is resolved.
Larry King should stick with doing Shrek movies.
I must admits I am jealous. The rest of the states must have some pair of magic shoes like in the wizard of oz or something. God It hits on Sun night its Tuesday and Mr Brown doesnt know why not every man and woman enlisted in the guard is not there there right now. Talk about alt reality.
You're typing too fast! ;)
The mayor didn't wait to evacuate his own family. They were gone by Saturday.
A magic 8 ball doesn't ask questions, it provides answers. Very good answers. :-)
"Federal troops are not allowed to by law to perform policing activities. Only the NG can under these circumstance or the can repeal the Posse Comitatus Act(sp?)."
Mass Evacuation is not just a police action.
I did not know that they had one (not surprised, though.) They must have a lot of vacations- they head to Disney the first week of October.
She's talking about the deteriorating sanitary situation as if though it is a surprise. She talking about busses taking the people out when they had hundeds of school busses before the event...which are all now under water.
I'm just dumbfounded. She sounds like she is making it up as she goes and she is just as bewildered as the refugees in the Dome.
The President needs to federalize this now IMHO.
I assume the person that told them to go there in the first place had a plan to move them in the PREDICTED/LIKELY situation downtown NO would flood....
Well, cajungirl, leave it to you to spell it out in plain language. YOU should be the mayor of NO!
> You are right. I have heard for years how NO would one day float in the sea from a big cane. Mostly people joking about it. But I can't believe there really was no plan down there-- pumps that can only handly 2 inches of rain? On the coast? No back ups?
You should read "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds," by Charles MacKay (1841). There is a groupthink that allows bad decisions to be made by large groups of people, only because every one else is doing it or not worrying about it. In retrospect, would you build a house in a coastal city that was below sea level and surrounded by a huge lake and the continent's largest river?
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