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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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FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
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
You can't airdrop a Caterpillar D7.
Bobcat is about as big as a Blackhawk or something can carry.
omg
Thanks..I'll try later..
It's not moving sandbags. It's building a road out the the breach.
My sons best friend, a marine is stationed in Biloxi, he came home for the weekend and he was to go back Monday. He has no idea where to go and he can't get instructions on what to do. It appears he has no place to back to.
Northwest Airlines sending a DC-9 into MSY to evacuate NWA staff... Day late, dollar short..
Southwest evacuated THEIR staff and families on the last trip out....
Where's all the well fed able bodied ones that liberated the survival supplies? Are they still busy rescuing folks?
Stuck in 90+ degree, God knows how much humidity, with no facilities, not able to go outside, with no idea what's going on or become of your meager posessions. Yeah I might be a bit testy.
Prices slid as the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port regained power in St. James, La., and was in the process of starting an oil delivery to Exxon Mobil Corp.'s (XOM) refinery in Baton Rouge, La., in the heart of the refining region struck Monday by Katrina.
Crude Down More Than $2 as LA Offshore Oil Port Regains Power
by Leah McGrath Goodman FWN Financial News
This is my thought as well. Listening to President Bush tonight, when he spoke of how one day, the city of New Orleans will be "back on its feet," I had the thought that they'd have to implement something like the legislation (the Homesteader Act?) in the 1800's that encouraged people to move west.
And if there's hurricane activity in the Gulf area between now and the time the place is finally rebuilt, well.... it might take a lot of convincing.
What happened to NBC's Brian Williams -- last I heard him was the day after the hit on MSNBC, he was calling in from the Superdome and it sure seemed like the show's producer just cut him off in mid sentence with no explanation.
Fox News Channel: NOLA mayor estimates that there are still 100,000 that have to be evacuated from NOLA.
And on the world, or at least the U.S.'s biggest trading partner.
*cough cough* ;)
It's just starting to sink in.
Time to comandeer the cruise ships in Florida! (or use the Navy aircraft carriers)
Gives a new meaning to "glub, glub, glub", don't it. Sad.
Take a deep breath. Let me bring you back to earth.
You are getting a dose of television overload. They put those images up because we will look at them; and stay glued to the tube. What they do not broadcast, at least in proportion, is the huge majority of people who are doing right - helping each other, as best they can.
Yes, if we could get all the innocents to safety, and leave the thugs behind - sure, let 'em have at it.
"Innocents," don-o says. Too many Freeper have said, "Let the dumasses, who did not evacuate, let them die." I find this sentiment more dangerous for the survival of the Repblic than the conduct of the vermin thugs.
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