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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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I have no source for the following other than some idle hearsay, but, I had heard that the public transit buses were moved out of NO, during the height of the attempted evacuation process, empty, except for the driver.
I don't know the particulars of lake P, but from the photos of the bridges damaged that I have seen, it looks likr nearly ALL of the fallen bridge sections fell at odd angles in to the lake, and are still there...
could these have a significant effect on outflow?
No.
Thanks for the report tcrlaf,Prayers.
Because he wasn't "sure" he had the authority to order an evacuation, so he said.
(Just try to imagine ONE mayor on the East Coast thinking that, much less caring about that........LOL)
A total blackout.
Shove it up the DNC's collective wazoo the NANOSECOND they come out with a peep of "Bush's Fault".
Full Disclosure: It'd make dandy presidential campaign material, too.
If the dome is the last refuge of "safer/higher ground", it's gonna get very ugly.
No because parts of the bridges are intact, and if there were a damn effect, you would see an overflow over the sunken sections. You did not see that in the pics. One fallen brige over two miles does not a damn make, plus the swamp area between the lake and the gulf is barely above sea level itself, and riddled with channels to the gulf. Still it would be great to see an aerial photo of the exit routes.
You're wrong. And I'm tired of having to defend the mayor of a destroyed city just because politics puts him, or you, or whoever on the wrong side of the fence. The mayor and ALL of the officials of New Orleans and Louisiana as a whole warned everyone beginning Friday that this storm was not going to turn, that it was a worst-case scenario, and that everyone had to get out. A mandatory evacuation in a major US city is a significant order to give. They did it, and were as blunt as could be that people needed to leave.
A city like New Orleans does not have the means, or the equipment, or the manpower to deal with a disaster like this. THat's been the fear all along. There was no solution. With no money, what good would a paper "plan" have been? You don't have an army of helicopters and ships to plug the levees and evacuate every citizen. Keep some perspective.
But this creep should have been calling for action and granting a great big dose of hope...course no one in NO can hear her...there is no electricity...but the volunteers, and the police, and the others already working HARD to save lives need to be told, over and over, how terrific they are....because they, too, are at risk.
And if there is a breakdown in the law, and gun toting freaks are out there intimidating those trying to help others in horrific conditions....then these workers are risking their lives as they travel through the water...trying to locate life.
"Right. Are you going to tell us what the plan is?"
Well, for a start:
(from http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html#075207)
The White House released a list of the response through Tuesday afternoon by federal agencies and the American Red Cross:
FEMA
FEMA deployed 23 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams from all across the U.S. to staging areas in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana and is now moving them into impacted areas.
Seven Urban Search and Rescue task forces and two Incident Support Teams have been deployed and propositioned in Shreveport, La., and Jackson, Miss., including teams from Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Three more Urban Search and Rescue teams are in the process of deployment.
FEMA is moving supplies and equipment into the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible, especially water, ice, meals, medical supplies, generators, tents, and tarps.
U.S. Coast Guard
More than 40 Coast Guard aircraft from units along the entire eastern seaboard, with more than 30 small boats, patrol boats, and cutters are positioned in staging areas around the impact areas, from Jacksonville, Fla., to Houston, now conducting post-hurricane search, rescue and humanitarian aid operations, waterway impact assessments and waterway reconstitution operations.
Department of Transportation
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) dispatched more than 390 trucks that are beginning to deliver millions of meals ready to eat, millions of liters of water, tarps, millions of pounds of ice, mobile homes, generators, containers of disaster supplies, and forklifts to flood damaged areas. DOT has helicopters and a plane assisting delivery of essential supplies.
National Guard
The National Guard of the four most heavily impacted states are providing support to civil authorities as well as generator, medical and shelter with approximately 7,500 troops on State Active Duty. The National Guard is augmenting civilian law enforcement capacity; not acting in lieu of it.
Department of Agriculture
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) State Emergency Boards are coordinating agricultural-related responses at the county, state, and national levels in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and elsewhere. USDA is also coordinating damage assessments to area crops, livestock, and other agriculture-related operations. Farmers are encouraged to contact their local USDA Service Center for additional information on assistance available.
Department of Health and Human Services
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has sent 38 U.S. Public Health Service Officers to Jackson, Miss., for deployment. In addition, HHS has 217 U.S. Public Health Service Officers on standby for deployment to support medical response in Louisiana, Mississippi, and other Gulf states.
Department of Defense
The United State Northern Command (NORTHCOM) continues to assist FEMA after disaster declarations were issued for Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi following the devastation caused in parts of each state by Hurricane Katrina.
Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is contacting major power companies to the areas affected to provide safety briefings to employees at power restoration staging areas in affected communities. OSHA is also releasing public service announcements to inform workers about hazards related to restoration and cleanup.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross is providing a safe haven for nearly 4,000 evacuees in more than 230 Red Cross shelters, from the panhandle of Florida, across Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas. The Red Cross is launching the largest mobilization of resources for a single natural disaster involving thousands of trained disaster relief workers, tons of supplies, and support.
And that's just through Tuesday afternoon. Now we hear that the Pentagon is sending five Navy ships and possibly a hospital ship.
Thanks.
WWL is offline until the morning.
A magic 8 ball doesn't ask questions, it provides answers.
OK That was funny.Stop it.
~LOL~ do we know the MSM or what???
I don't know. How hard would it be to fly them to safer grounds. When you have that many people in a place without sewer you run a risk for all kinds of diseases. If the water is continuing to rise they are in danger of drowning too. These lawless are going to need food and water soon,also. Would it not be best to do both. Roof rescue and dome evacuation and leave the looters ?
"To: SolomoninSouthDakota
Maybe, but the lake has a HUGE drain into the gulf. Maybe someday, we will get to the bottom of it."
The Lake IS above its normal level.
The outlet to the Gulf IS exactly as big as the maps show it to be.
The flow through that outlet IS however many gallons per second it is carrying out now.
Since the Lake IS above normal levels, and the outflow IS what it IS, the inflow MUST exceed the outflow at this point.
The inflow can only come from two places.
The river, which drains so much of the US that you can't view all of it and the Lake on the same scale map, AND
The area around the Lake which is inundated from the storm surge and the rainfall.
I think the fundamental thing you arer missing is that this is a dynamic situation.
There is NO water IN the Lake.
All the water is flowing THROUGH the Lake.
More is coming than is getting out.
When that is not true, the level will drop.
While it is, the level will rise.
The guys with big calculators that get paid to calculate exactly this equation say that the level is rising.
My money says they are correct.
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