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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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ANd from the top of this thread:
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...
WDSU - Tulane Hospital- "They are Looting Our Cars"
"trout" boat just passed by the window with men and Guns...
Reporters scared after dark, gunfire, looting...
Total breakdown of Law and Order with even COPS doing looting!!
I agree with the other poster...
This thing needs to be FEDERALIZED in the morning. This Mayor and Governor are GETTING PEOPLE KILLED!
It crossed my mind today that maybe her HUSBAND had been governor and had died and she just took his place; honest.
I agree. And I wonder if President Bush is waiting to hold his press conference in order to state to the nation what "is" being done, i.e., sending in the Navy, etc. He can't go on national tv like the mayor and governor has and just talk the talk, schedule a day of prayer, we need to evacuate but no where to evacuate...he is the President and no matter if you are rep or dem, you know that when this President tells you the "plan" it is already in progress and most likely has been for several days...just my take on why we haven't heard from him yet.
People with guns in fur coats near the hospital? They better hope these are not upstanding citizens in need of a fix.
"She kept fading off. Said they had to have some place to evacuate the people in shelters *to* before they could evac them."
I'm shocked they wouldn't have had a plan in place for years of where to evacuate people. I feel so sorry for all those people who are basically stuck in that hedious Superdome.
There is going to come a point where there will be a mass exodus. I can't imagine why it hasn't happened already.
What are people thinking? What's the point in being a gangsta in these circumstances? What is there to gain?
There is still one way in and out on the West side. Some folks today had just started walking out. I don't blame them. That's what I would have done as soon as the water started coming in.
Nope because the pic I posted earlier suggests otherwise (just wade through my mass of posts until you find it, the lock is in place, and St. Bernard is a different bowl, and even if it were flowing into the NO bowl, about which we have no evidence, it would flow out into the lake from the breach on the north shore. I hope that helps.
"even if the Mississippi is flowing into the lake, how it could influence its elevation much, for the reasons stated. How is that?"
I've been across the Mississippi many times but never truly seen an ocean. For me it is hard to understand how that river flowing into any body of water wouldn't significantly influence its elevation--esp. with it being swollen from the torrential rains.
Wish NO had a battery run camera system that was 200 mph wind proof....would love to have the the ugly faces of gun toting, fur coated thugs to plaster all around NO as it is being rebuilt.
http://www.wwltv.com/sharedcontent/breakingnews/slideshow/083005_dmnkatrina/1.html
BTW, I talked to onyx again a bit ago; no change there: no damage, no power.
But she did tell me that she heard the Insurance Commissioner for MS on the radio and somebody called in and asked him what about looters -- and he said, "Shoot them."
No, it is not "what is he supposed to do about it" but "what he did not do" to prevent it.
I am sorry and I certainly do not know the man but it is totally obvious that he did not have any kind of viable plan for this event. A lot of people are suffereing....
Instead of herding people into the Superdome, why didn't the mayor order the use of these buses, and get those people out of the low-lying areas?
An aerial view shows flooded school buses in New Orleans. Water began rising in the streets Tuesday morning, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the city.
I left a couple of detailed posts on the Housing thread about how people can specifically provide help to the evacuated families who will be stranded in the Alexandria area for the next month. As reported by both KALB Newschannel 5 and the Alexandria Town Talk newspaper, the Rapides Parish Coliseum has just been opened as a shelter for this purpose, as more and more evacuees are being forced to check out of their motel rooms both here and in neighboring Avoyelles Parish.
The Rapides Parish School Board has instructed parents to register their children in our local schools on a temporary basis, but most likely these families left their public school uniforms and classroom supplies at home before embarking on the evacuation journey, never suspecting they'd be away from home this long.
If you would like to help these families with the added financial burden of replacing lost uniforms and supplies, here is the link to the School Board which will give you detailed information on what the children need in order to attend school in this area:
http://www.rapides.k12.la.us/
For those of you who don't live in Louisiana, please understand that it costs quite a bit of money to send children to public school here. First of all, you have to buy uniforms (typically white short-sleeved polo shirts and trousers with belt loops in either khaki or navy, and a belt) in addition to the usual children's wardrobe of underwear, socks and rubber-soled shoes. Thrifty Alexandria/Pineville moms get these items second-hand at the Salvation Army and Goodwill stores, but they can also be purchased new at Wal-Mart and JC Penney stores, with a lesser selection also available at Target. Clothing vouchers and gift certificates would be of tremendous help to these kids right now.
Louisiana families are required to foot the bill for *all* their classroom supplies, everything from pencils and notebooks to cans of Lysol and paper towels, and you never know when the teacher will send home a note telling you it's time to replenish the class's inventory of these items. And if that's not enough, you still have to pay an additional "instructional fee" for supplies, even though you've already purchased everything on the list they publish before the start of the school year. Alexandria is not an affluent community, so imagine the burden this cash outlay places on the low-income families already living here, let alone the thousands of refugee families arriving from the southern parishes. Keep in mind that because school starts much earlier in Louisiana than up North, all of these families had already gone to the expense of buying school uniforms and classroom supplies before the disaster hit, so they certainly can't afford to replace them all over again while they're displaced from their homes.
For all the people who posted that they wanted to open their homes or assist in some other way, I can't think of a better thing to do than help these children get prepared to attend their new schools here in Rapides Parish. Please give it serious consideration.
It's way past my bedtime -- pleasant dreams to all and prayers to everyone in Katrina's wake. See you tomorrow!
little jeremiah,(((Hugs)))
Maybe, but the lake has a HUGE drain into the gulf. Maybe someday, we will get to the bottom of it.
The Industrial Canal appears to have a lock on the river side.
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