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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: dfwgator

NAS reopened today.


5,941 posted on 08/31/2005 1:15:28 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: SandyInSeattle

Would refer you to the experience of Grand Forks, ND after the 93' Mississippi floods.
Whole town under water and in the downtown area everything burned to the waterline.

What makes this especially bad is no way for firefighters to get in.

Think of it as a fire at sea, few things worse


5,942 posted on 08/31/2005 1:15:33 PM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: colorado tanker
This just makes me ill. I swear I'll never complain again about having to shovel out of a three-foot blizzard.

Sure puts things in perspective, doesn't it? I have nothing to complain about here in the Pacific Northwest, that's for sure.

5,943 posted on 08/31/2005 1:15:42 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: spectre
"You're an idiot."

I suppose. Obviously you find some comfort by adding drama to what is already a dramatic event. I leave you to your pursuits.

5,944 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:00 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: beyond the sea

I agree!!!!!!!


5,945 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:03 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: gopwinsin04

Maybe those are C-17s?


5,946 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:03 PM PDT by Broker (Semper Fi)
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To: colorado tanker; sheikdetailfeather; SandyInSeattle
I'll never complain again about having to shovel out of a three-foot blizzard.

Agreed. This whole event has made me think very little of my own aches and pains and seeming troubles.

Perspective is much more clear now.

5,947 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:08 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
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To: IamConservative

if it spreads....Shep said there was a lot of exterior damage already to those buildings.


5,948 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:12 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Fitzcarraldo

There was a phone call to a freeper today but the connection was so bad that she couldn't make out any words. She hit *69 and it was a Mississippi area code and she doesn't know anyone there, except Gulfcoast6, so we're somewhat hopeful. Pray for him...he's a lovely, wonderful, elderly man.


5,949 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:26 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: All

Our President HAS done a flyover already, some time ago. He has also worked with agencies to put executive orders in place, release oil, and all sorts of things like that, all of which take time, meetings, judges you name it. He will speak soon. PLEASE stop expecting him to be God!


5,950 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:42 PM PDT by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: Cboldt
In this photo released by the U.S. Coast Guard, Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Beaty, 29, of Long Island, N.Y., looks for survivors in the wake of Hurricane Katrina from the door of a rescue helicopter over New Orleans. Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005.
5,951 posted on 08/31/2005 1:16:46 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: RummyChick

OK, this is getting way out of control. I think it's time for the police to use their guns.


5,952 posted on 08/31/2005 1:17:01 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Howlin

Jean Misserve on CNN now


5,953 posted on 08/31/2005 1:17:12 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: SandyInSeattle

I rememberr the flood on the Red River in Minnesota (Grand Rapids i think) and several blocks were on fire as no way to get people in to put it out. Tragedy upon tragedy.


5,954 posted on 08/31/2005 1:17:24 PM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: gidget7

To paraphrase: "God's busy, so He sent us President Bush."


5,955 posted on 08/31/2005 1:17:43 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: dfwgator
"I think a lot of our priorities just got rearranged."

Agreed. I had a call yesterday from a friend who called me and said after seeing this tragedy he feels very lucky to have a home, a job, a family, and friends. Just the basics.

5,956 posted on 08/31/2005 1:18:00 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather
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To: Rokke

I think you are the one that is sounding like an idiot.

People are dying there. It is dramatic, and it is going to be more dramatic as the days go on.

No one is helping those people now. They need help. I don't know how to get the help to them, but they need it now or there will be hundreds more dead in the coming days.


5,957 posted on 08/31/2005 1:18:01 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Mr. Jeeves
both Islamic and Christian extremists think God is using hurricanes

Any Moslems that think that are indulging in a basic heresy in their faith. Their god does not intercede. The Christian God does, so we Christians are free to wonder if there is a mighty message here. If there was a miracle it was that the storm was met with a burst of dry air at the last minute that reduced the force and diverted the track away from the main city.

5,958 posted on 08/31/2005 1:18:03 PM PDT by RightWhale (Cloudy, 51 degrees, scattered showers, wind <5 knots in Fairbanks)
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To: Strategerist

With God's help we will know the Islamist clear off the face of the earth. If one of those countries was going though this we would be right there helping and taking care of them. May a pox be on their heads!!!!!!!!!


5,959 posted on 08/31/2005 1:18:30 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Lizarde

Mobile County and other supprounding now compeltely out of fuel.


5,960 posted on 08/31/2005 1:18:38 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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