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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
President Bush: "We are dealing with one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history." Push has appropriated vast federal resources to assist with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
78,000 people are currently in shelters. New Orleans evacuation continues. 10,000 additional National Guard troops have been called to service.
Hospitals are running low on supplies, and public health concerns include water borne disease, poor sanitation, food and drinking water contamination and shortages, mosquitoes, carbon monixide poisoning from electricity generators, lack of childcare, and the special needs of the elderly.
Links to various news, local and state 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 includes shelter and volunteer updates
WLBT.com Jackson MS
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
St Bernard Local Government
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers
Streaming Video:
WWL-TV: http://www.khou.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad
WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx"
WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739
WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WTOK-TV (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/
WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Related FR Threads:
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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Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
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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
There was no plan to get people on buses out of the city. See the pictures of what 50-60 school buses under water. How many more are like that? The city did crap pre-storm. Smart people left. It is sad. People were screaming at Ray pre-storm, virtually, to get the job done. There was a major crisis of leadership.
Hope the Mods are hanging around keeping an eye on the thread tonignt.
On second thought ... is it unfair to assume they know how to behave?
Sorry, you can't have it both ways.
He really is a disgusting human being. He just can't wait to blame the entire disaster on President Bush. He doesn't even make a vague attempt to hide it.
When they interview the survivors and ask them why they stayed at some point the phrase, "I didn't think that..." comes out of their mouth. They need to terminate that sentence with simply "I didn't think."
Orleans Parish has the worst public education system in the nation. That is an assertion not hyperbole.
They had all day Saturday and all day Sunday.
You're making excuses.
Understand
Also helps to have a roadbed capable of supporting a train.
Thats being worked on.
UP, BNSF, CSX and NS are all teaming up.
Lot of resources incoming
Picking up people at local elementary schools with school buses is a great idea--everyone knows where they are. Has anyone noticed that most of those left behind seem to be poor and probably don't own cars?
One man said he was caring for his elderly mother and how could they get out? He couldn't leave her.I'm sure he wasn't an exception. Also I heard that the buses had been taken out of service, but I don't know if that is true or not.
Thank you for checking in. Stay safe!
I don't think I have ever witnessed so many incompetent people in one place in my life from the Governor to the Mayor to the parish officials. Lack of brainpower is staggering.
Prayers for strength needed - My friend Don is an Air force LTCOL currently serving our country in Iraq. His parents live in Slidell and lost everything. They are all ok, but his childhood home is completely gone. Please pray for them and this brave soldier in the war zone feeling helpless so far away to be able to help his family. Thanks.
If she had not been hit by that puff of dry air, we might not have a looting problem. And if there are 150,000 - 200,000 people in that city...
The mayor and governor was willing to let a CAT5 into his city with 150,000 people in it.
People are going to be ANGRY. I already am.
And then big media, which can transmit stuff, only focuses on big places, not the smaller towns and communities.
And that could possibly be only one school district. There are probably more of those buses sitting around NO.
They must have missed some neighborhoods or skipped the poor ones based on the scene in the streets.
It finally occurred to me why the NO mayor looked so inept. I've been mentally comparing him with Gulianni on 9/11. That's the kind of leadership NO needs right now.
I saw the same thing; told my husband it looked like a scene out of Gone With the Wind when Scarlett returned to the farm towards the end of the war and her mother had died and her father wasn't all there... everyone needed her to tell them what to do... this was an echo of that... and sent chills down my spine that this has been allowed to happen 140 years after the Civil War.
There is a woman, Paula, on WWL from Saint Bernard parish begging for any help. Food, water, the whole parish is under water.
This is just so incredibly frustrating. These poor folks.
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