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Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

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.

NOLA.com

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

Gulfport News via Topix.net

WAFB Baton Rouge

Mobile Register via al.com

Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger

Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser

Pensacola News Journal

St Bernard Local Government

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

Looting Begins In New Orleans

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.

Previous Threads:

Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aftermath; hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina; livehurricanekatrina
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To: mware

that could be some of the bodies they are seeing..popped open coffins..or maybe one of the sea containers that split open had coffins in it.


5,801 posted on 08/31/2005 12:49:57 PM PDT by WoodstockCat (Gitmo? Let them eat Pork!)
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To: Spktyr
The NOLA school buses are all underwater.

Sheer stupidity. There should have been an evacutation plan to bring EVERY school bus, state owned 15 passenger van to NO to haul people out before a Cat 3+ storm. There are empty school gyms all across the north part of the state that could have been used.

New Orleans did not suddenly drop below sea level. The Gulf of Mexico did not suddenly sprout big storms for the first time. There has been time to plan, time to prepare. The corpses fall at the feet of the elected officials in LA.

5,802 posted on 08/31/2005 12:50:30 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: gopwinsin04
Al Sharpton still has heartburn from the Cindy Sheehan bar-b-que in Crawford.

and his high speed chase to get out of there! Jesse must still be vacationing at Chavez's private villa.

5,803 posted on 08/31/2005 12:50:44 PM PDT by operation clinton cleanup
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To: sandyeggo

What a coward I am. I could not watch those poor people just wandering around on the interstate. Please someone help them.


5,804 posted on 08/31/2005 12:51:05 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Howlin
Howlin I did not get the name of the place. I was kind of in shock seeing the coffins scattered about.

I am sure I saw at least 5 in the short time they showed it.

They did not say if these coffins were empty or not. It might just be from a funeral home that got destroyed.

5,805 posted on 08/31/2005 12:51:58 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: BurbankKarl
Here's an update:

LSP Troop B is requesting immediate backup. Troopers, riot squad, and national guard. He said the crowd is triple the size it was earlier and they are about to be overrun.

The location is 610 and eleshafield(spelling?).

Should I make another thread that has events going on down there? Lots of stuff has gone on and half of it never makes it on the news or anything.

UPDATE: The SWAT team that was handling the hostage situation is going to be dropped off to assist with the growing crowd.

I'm going to pick up an audio cable in a few hours and set up a live stream tonight

5,806 posted on 08/31/2005 12:52:13 PM PDT by Pete
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To: Spktyr

And the local authorities don't even have a citywide working radio system. Is Bush the President or not? This is simply a long drawn out 911. Lincoln stretched the legal limit during the civil war when required. Hiding behind beauracracy is not an acceptable excuse.

If the rumor of the mass hostage situation at the local hospital is true, Bush is going to catch hell for not getting the military in there sooner. And with good reason.

I couldn't care less about the looting, but securing the evacuation and emergency service is the priority.


5,807 posted on 08/31/2005 12:52:43 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: nwctwx

One more question and I'll leave you alone; I have missed reading where they officially "called" landfall; do you know what it was?


5,808 posted on 08/31/2005 12:53:45 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: madison10
BTW, why is there a moat around a sports arena?

Folks are better off on that high ground than they would be sacttered about, or in the water.

5,809 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:00 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: mware
There haven't been many burials in the affected areas since Katrina hit. Those are most likely old coffins unearthed by the tidal surge and flooding.

Most of the dead bodies along the Gulf Coast are probably in the debris piles of the buildings they were in when the tidal surge hit.

5,810 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:15 PM PDT by Thud
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To: mware

I'm surprised we haven't see more of that.


5,811 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:20 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: mariabush

Are you dense? Shep has been asking everyone he can to tell these people where to go for water, etc. Should he tell them to go to the dome? They will have to swim, but so what? At least Shep would have lived up to your high standards.And Shep just gave water to a 3 year old....


5,812 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:30 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: Diddle E. Squat
He is in action.

The feds are starting from scratch here.

There was NO plan and we are having to play catch-up.

5,813 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:35 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: Howlin
The people are coming OUT of the Projects. They don't know where they are going...they are like the walking dead.

Shep showing a little boy who is obviously dying before our eyes...dear God in heaven.

sw

5,814 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:48 PM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: CedarDave

I heard the Ambulance guy asking for help with the looters (he's worried about his own people being shot) and yet right after him someone got on and explained the three tiers and how this only merited the National Guard, not the Army. I think in this case we have to toss the rule book.

I've talked about the incompetence surrounding this tragedy which is going to be a force multiplier in that many who are alive now may not make it because these morons waited a) too long to evacuate the city before the event; b) didn't move fast enough after the event; c) aren't properly trained, d) the list goes on.

One more story I heard this morning from a 'Citizen Journalist' was that she was talking to the Mayor who told her (she's a health worker, I believe) that he was releasing the prisoners and she should get out of there because looting would begin with these prisoners on the loose. Better he had left them free but locked inside the jail to fend for themselves than to be out, now armed with guns and whatever, free to attack the rescuers, citizens and anyone else. This was a piece of utter insanity. Better to have executed them all and taken the heat. I would have. The bad guys? You bet. Rather than let them loose on the population now, of all times.

Utter incompetence!


5,815 posted on 08/31/2005 12:54:53 PM PDT by foreign devil
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To: nwctwx

Holy crap. Just...wow.

}:-)4


5,816 posted on 08/31/2005 12:55:25 PM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: colorado tanker

The President can't just fly in LA or MS and walk around shaking people's hand. The security involved in a Presidential visit is staggering. Gov. Haley Barbour asked the President NOT to come for a visit for a few days. His police force can't sustain a visit right now.

What do you suppose the President should do today by going to LA? People are walking around the city in six feet of water filled with human sewage and dead bodies. It is not safe right now for the President to be in that city. I would say the same thing if the President were a democrat.

That said Wendal Goller just said the President would be in LA and MS on Friday and Sunday.


5,817 posted on 08/31/2005 12:55:30 PM PDT by Republican Red (''Van der Sloot" is Dutch for ''Kennedy.")
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To: BurbankKarl

A city literally in its death throes.


5,818 posted on 08/31/2005 12:55:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I am in tears. Someone please help these people. Please help these children. God, please make resources avaiable to help these people.


5,819 posted on 08/31/2005 12:55:30 PM PDT by eyespysomething
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To: Cboldt

Did you just see Shep showing the little kid on the freeway? He looks awful. I have tears in my eyes. Fox news people have thrown down water to them. Poor baby.


5,820 posted on 08/31/2005 12:55:45 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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