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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: CedarDave

I will say again that the Bush presidency has been hit with disasters repeatedly.... terror attack, Afghanistan, Iraq, recession, corporate scandals.... and now this. Everything imaginable thrown at him, as history will show.

Regretably, this nation continues to atone for the sins of the Clinton Administration, along with our collective unwillingness to stand up to their evil.


6,201 posted on 08/31/2005 2:18:56 PM PDT by mwl1
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To: mware

Urging people to contribute to charity of your choice.


6,202 posted on 08/31/2005 2:19:29 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: mware
Make sure that you designate who you want your donations going to.

Perhaps he remembers what red cross did with their extra money.

6,203 posted on 08/31/2005 2:20:00 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: mwl1

And another three years to go...
(shutter)


6,204 posted on 08/31/2005 2:20:04 PM PDT by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: mware

Looks like Brian Williams is still in NO. Is he stuck there?


6,205 posted on 08/31/2005 2:21:04 PM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams

Bush: "The great city of New Orleans will be back on it's feet, and the country will be better for it."


6,206 posted on 08/31/2005 2:21:17 PM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: NautiNurse
I just returned from DU (Gawd, I need a shower). THey are REALLY aghast at the prospect of looters being shot. They try to justify it as "well if they need it...." When one poor schmoe tride to talk about roaming armed gangs looting and pillaging, he was defamed as a racist and thug.

Liberals never cease to amaze me with their ability to justfy evil. THe winner was the post about how if Bush hadn't created all the poor people in LA that there wouldn't be any problem. Another weasel tried to say that a "President Kerry" would have already released the SPR and that the gas prices would have NEVER risen.

Semper Astonished!

6,207 posted on 08/31/2005 2:21:33 PM PDT by Trident/Delta (Chaos, Panic and Disorder.....My work here is done!)
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To: mwl1

*** this nation continues to atone for the sins of the Clinton Administration, along with our collective unwillingness to stand up to their evil.***

Agreed...
But don't mention that to a Liberal, they'll go absolutely apoplexic on you...


6,209 posted on 08/31/2005 2:22:14 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: mwl1

I was just thinking the same thing


6,210 posted on 08/31/2005 2:22:14 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: r9etb
WWL-TV's Thanh Truong reports the water from the Lake is rising to meet with the River in Uptown.

OMG

6,211 posted on 08/31/2005 2:22:43 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Trident/Delta

I went to du once. My puter threw up for weeks afterwards.


6,212 posted on 08/31/2005 2:22:43 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: MrsCinAZ

what city did he say was destroyed??


6,213 posted on 08/31/2005 2:22:44 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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For the protection of the law-abiding survivors of the storm:

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle! Be our protection against the wickedness and the snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts, by the power of God, cast into Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.


6,214 posted on 08/31/2005 2:23:02 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: Pyro7480

Amen.


6,215 posted on 08/31/2005 2:23:37 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: OB1kNOb

You are threatening me-?

I am scared!!!!!


6,216 posted on 08/31/2005 2:23:40 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: r9etb
WWL-TV's Thanh Truong reports the water from the Lake is rising to meet with the River in Uptown.

Could the river levees be getting soggy and settling from the Lake side? Maybe they are not as well built on that side...

6,217 posted on 08/31/2005 2:23:47 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: Abigail Adams

From here:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

4:03 P.M. - (AP) Michael Leavitt, secretary of Health and Human Services, announced he had declared a public health emergency in the area stretching from Louisiana to Florida. "We are gravely concerned about the potential for cholera, typhoid and dehydrating diseases that could come as a result of the stagnant water and the conditions," he said.


6,219 posted on 08/31/2005 2:24:43 PM PDT by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: Trident/Delta

Good Lord these people are dillusional....I mean their arguments are so full of so many holes that Katrina could have passed through without a scratch....they are rotten to the bone....IMHO


6,220 posted on 08/31/2005 2:24:47 PM PDT by PigRigger (Send donations to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org)
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