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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: Protect the Bill of Rights
"I'm here in LA and just heard from a FEMA representative that FEMA just ordered 100,000 body bags. It doesn't look good here."

Well 100,000 maybe a bit overkill but there is real concern now because all infrastructure in those coastal areas are wiped away.

Now secondary effects come into play. People who need oxygen to survive, are going to die unless they can get somewhere to get fresh tanks. Ditto Diabetics needing insulin, Kidney dialysis, heart patients being overtaxed. Elderly frail people dying from dehydration same for very young children.

Also people trapped in the wreckage that are injured and can't get out and dying of exposure. Folks drowning trying to swim to safety. Folks dying in wreckage colapses, folks dying from animal attacks like snakes and gators.

This can get real ugly fast now.

6,241 posted on 08/31/2005 2:36:07 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: Lizarde

The just popped into the FEMA directors speech on Fox and verified it was prisoners...


6,242 posted on 08/31/2005 2:36:44 PM PDT by pamlet
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To: CedarDave

Ahh, a voice of reason and perspective. Make me a bit uneasy regarding the future though, LOL!


6,243 posted on 08/31/2005 2:36:46 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: mware

What's new about that? He's been saying that for the past day or so. Just stating the obvious.

I want them to tell us what it means if river and lake levels have equalized in the uptown areas.


6,244 posted on 08/31/2005 2:36:57 PM PDT by CedarDave (VietNam Vet Remembers -- This Time SUPPORT the Troops, COMPLETE the Mission)
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To: Txsleuth

FEMA talking about lootings. It won't be tolerated.


6,245 posted on 08/31/2005 2:37:01 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Txsleuth

If Shep showed up on TV doing rescue work, people would complain he was only doing it as a publicity stunt. There is no pleasing some people.


6,246 posted on 08/31/2005 2:37:23 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: dandelion

Last Christmas, when TArget stopped letting Salvation Army in front of their stores...

I made a point of going to stores with Salvation Army and giving more than usual...and I never saw one person not have a smile on his/her face.


6,247 posted on 08/31/2005 2:37:27 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Lizarde

I'm not sure if this has been posted yet, so:

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/D8CAVTG89.html

"Police officers were asking residents to give up any guns they had before they boarded buses and trucks because police desperately needed the firepower: Some officers who had been stranded on the roof of a motel said they were being shot at overnight."


6,248 posted on 08/31/2005 2:37:43 PM PDT by Darnright ( Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before)
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To: Petronski; All
Lootables?


6,249 posted on 08/31/2005 2:37:55 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: CedarDave

That is my point cedar, they say the words but no actions to make it happen.


6,250 posted on 08/31/2005 2:38:20 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: Lizarde

Gibson(?) couldn't recognize thety were cons? Duh! All the orange tipped me off immediately. They have been sitting there for about a day.


6,251 posted on 08/31/2005 2:38:22 PM PDT by Wacka
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To: Darnright

This PROVES that you should keep at least one weapon around for protection, AND KNOW HOW TO USE IT!

2 to the center of mass is an effective looter deterent...


6,253 posted on 08/31/2005 2:40:26 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: Lizarde

NOLA prisoners
6,254 posted on 08/31/2005 2:40:32 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: CedarDave
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.

It won't take long for these diseases to break out. Anyone alive must be removed as quickly as possible.

If cholera does break out, authorities will have no choice but to burn all the dead. The risk of these bodies being moved and spreading disease is simply too great.

6,255 posted on 08/31/2005 2:40:33 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: Lizarde
"By the way, have we heard yet from Tom Cruise?"

I heard Tom was headed down there with a vital supply of 'Dianetics" paperbacks to give to all the survivors.

6,256 posted on 08/31/2005 2:40:37 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: spectre

What the hell is wrong with you? How do you KNOW he wasn't dying?
Dehydration is lethal. All your organs shut down or are damaged.

You're an idiot.
Yes Just ask Terry Shiavo


6,257 posted on 08/31/2005 2:40:54 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: sinkspur

THere's one of the 20 or so missing/sunk/damaged iol rigs just off Daulfin Island.


6,258 posted on 08/31/2005 2:41:45 PM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: All

We need a new thread. BIGTIME


6,259 posted on 08/31/2005 2:41:47 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: mware

I hear you!


6,260 posted on 08/31/2005 2:42:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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