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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.
Related FR Threads:
FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
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.
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I think WalMart didn't lock up their weapons when they closed before the storm; a lady who lives in the quarter was on the phone and terrified because gangs were roaming the quarter with guns.
Salmonella Typhi lives only in humans. Persons with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. In addition, a small number of persons, called carriers , recover from typhoid fever but continue to carry the bacteria. Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their feces (stool).
You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage.
Once S. Typhi bacteria are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream. The body reacts with fever and other signs and symptoms.
I think she works for the Governor. I really do.
Wouldn't help Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, Springfield, or even as far away as I am in OH though.
Put the Governor's office in there too!
When I heard that people being plucked off rooftops were being taken to the Dome, I thought oh, my goodness, those poor people have no idea what they're in for.
I wonder what Da Kingfish would have done?
Yup...that water is pretty horrible right now. Yet those two women looked right into the TV camera and said the water is fine!
I guess Jesus was wrong.
"To: jeffers
Without water, most of them will die first. The guy who had to cut his arm off to escape the canyon in Utah had to drink his own urine just to survive five days.
He said they have water and MRE's, just no functioning toilets."
Evacuees were told to bring 5 days food and water with them. An untrained person will use at least a gallon per day each. A gallon weighs about 7 pounds. That alone is 35 pounds per person.
There are 30,000 people in the Dome, by most reports.
Other than whatever they carried in, they will need 30,000 gallons per day. A semi-tractor-trailer fuel tanker holds 9,000 gallons but carries about 6,000.
That's a lot of helo drops and helos are in short supply. They are needed from New Orleans all the way to Mobile.
" These ladies were taking shoes. "
Not only were these lady cops taking shoes, they were saunteringly though Wal Mart, as if they had nothing better to do.
Martin Savidge of NBC was talking to them.
A new thread started on FR about the shooting:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473839/posts
Diabetics without insulin. Sick infants. Fumes, flooding.
She sure has...
I fear earthquakes for the same reason. When we went through our big one here (WA) in 01, I was at work, (now ex) husband was at work across the lake, dad was at work 15 miles South, and my kids were 45 miles away. It took me hours to find out my kids were ok.
My mom was telling me earlier that when they lived in Alabama and went through a hurricane warning once, my grandparents were visiting from So. Cal. Grandma said she would take an earthquake anyday, because it just happened and you didn't sit around for hours waiting through the scare.
That was their plan.
They knew all along all these people were going to die, and they've been spending all day long trying to point the finger at others to save their skin.
They also are lying to the Federal government about the problem because the reality is this - any money spent to save NO was stolen.
These politicians get it - someone is going down for mass homocide.
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