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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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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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Tropical Storm 12
9" equals inches.
THIS IS NOT GOOD NEWS..... Airlines are AIR-TANKERING FUEL around.
Carriers Are Stricken by Cancellations and Lack of Fuel
By MICHELINE MAYNARD
The airline industry felt the brunt of Hurricane Katrina yesterday, with some airports running low on jet fuel and carriers canceling hundreds of flights. Meanwhile, Wall Street feared that the financial problems of the sickest airlines could grow worse.
The industry's trade group, the Air Transport Association, said the nation's supply of jet fuel had been cut 13 percent because of damage to refineries on the Gulf Coast.
The association arranged for supplies of jet fuel to be shipped by air tanker to airports in Charlotte, N.C., and Fort Myers and West Palm Beach in Florida, where supplies had dwindled, the group's chief economist, John Heimlich, said yesterday.
The group also planned to send jet fuel by tanker truck as well as plane to other airports, Mr. Heimlich said. Of particular concern are supplies at two big airports -Hartsfield, serving Atlanta, and Dulles, serving Washington. Both airports generally rely on supplies from refineries in Louisiana and in Memphis.
Complicating matters is the coming Labor Day weekend, which wraps up the summer travel season and is generally the last period of strong travel for the airlines until Thanksgiving. Car travel is also heavy then.
And with gasoline selling for upward of $3 a gallon in some parts of the country, versus $1.88 for jet fuel, Mr. Heimlich said the airlines were worried that refineries might choose to produce gasoline rather than jet fuel, which would be less in demand.
Tell me, do you consider your innane posts to be adding to the wealth of knowledge on FR?
IF so, I'll tell you this: the grownups here know who dropped the ball; if you can't see it, something is wrong with you.
He must've thought the civic order come from the federal level. Since Bush acted first, it just displays who's acting and who's out to find the nearest CNN camera to display his alleged "wit".
The mandatory evacuation order was given at around 10:30 a.m. Sunday monring.
And everybody HERE knows it.
Cripes, man, do you read? Does everybody "HERE" know how you twist posts to back off of your own irritating statements? Here is what I said:
"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." The mandatory evacuation very well did come late Saturday or early Sunday. The voluntary evacuation and the warnings came Friday, because I was glued to the news and I even thought the mayor was being overdramatic when he said "this is the one we've been afraid of." Over and over again. His, and other officials, predictions could not have been more dire, and we all saw and heard them on the news. Where were you? You totally mischaracterized him by saying he was planning that the storm would turn.
Enough. Keep spinning it however you want.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473894/posts
Did you see this?
I think Delta will file soon...
Makes me glad we don't get storm surges out here in Puget Sound. Tides out here run from -3 feet to +12 to 13 feet daily. Fortunately all of that range is already defined as "beach". :-)
Does that even make sense. New Mexico is one of the poorest. THAT I can understand, but LA... that doesn't make sense and tells me someone must be dipping in the till along the way.
BOTTOM LINE...
This guy, and the Governor's hestitation meant that Routes started closing within 6-7 hours of declaration...
Add to that their OBVIOUS attempt to blame BUSH for ordering them to do it, when they STILL thought it would turn away, and you have a recipe for disaster...
Does Huey Long ring a bell?
No. Absolutely NOT.
The voluntary order was Saturday. It might have even been after lunch on Saturday.
And the mandatory was Sunday morning at about 10:30 a.m.
That was a "voluntary" evacuation order, Bush issued a "mandatory" evacuation. There is a difference.
Ah the tides. What are the tides on the lake. I did a search and found nothing. Nobody has seemed to have written about the tides in the lake on the net. I am not done yet either.
I can't believe how laid-back the mayor is over this situation.
Buddy, if you consider this frowny-faced circle-jerk of whining and blame-casting that you've been leading for the last two days to be some kind of knowledge base, then yes, my "innanity" fits in exceptionally well.
That's the nice thing about competing with people like you. I don't have to try hard. :)
-Dan
They should have filed last year, while they still had some unencumbered assets...
Uniteds abuse of the bankruptcy system has created a nightmare for the Industry...
OMG...
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/D8CAJ9TO0.html
It's downtown Baghdad," said tourist Denise Bollinger, who snapped pictures of looting in the French Quarter. "It's insane."
"It's like being in a Third World country," said Mitch Handrich, a registered nurse manager at Charity Hospital, where nurses were ventilating patients by hand after the power and then the backup generator failed. Some 300 patients had yet to be evacuated, but the babies in intensive care had been flown out.
"We're just trying to stay alive," Handrich said.
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