Katrina Live Thread XII

Various ^ | 31 August 2005 | Various

[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.

NOLA.com

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

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
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

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 XI
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

[Lady Heron]

I would hate to be a poor shop owner in New Orleans.

My thoughts are similar....There has been so much moaning about people not evacuating before the storm, but after this why would any shop owner or owner of any valuable property feel it would be safe if left in the hands of a democrat run city or state when a mandatory evac order is given.

This will only make those type of people more willing to stay behind and protect "what is theirs" and who could blame them in a dem state.

[madison10]

Look at all the HELP! Makes me tear up. We will help those states get through this...gas prices be d******.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the update!

[Arizona Carolyn]

I think someone should save these video's and make congress watch them... it's time to stop the FDR entitlements and get people working and standing on their own two feet.

[Torie]

Wow. With a cat 5, NO or a place a tad north, would have been beach front. They might as well dissolve Plaquamines (sp) Parish. Not much is left of it.

[RDTF]

I tell ya, I'd hate to be unemployed and lookin for work anywhere near Louisiana or MS. The competition just got intense. Many of the people that evacuated before Katrina hit won't be going back and are moving to your town to find work and live.

[txhurl]

Jefferson Parrish official said that between 200,000 and 300,000 of the 500,000 parish population was still there when the storm hit.

Yet only ?50K? made it to the Superdome.

Are we seeing 150K people still roaming the city?

Or did the potential death toll just get way more awful.?.?

I have to question his figures.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks -- that is how I was reading it too but wasn't sure.

[Howlin]

I saw that; very disheartening.

And the press laps this up.

[Thud]

From an LSU friend:

The two parishes south of New Orleans seem to be submerged. He hasn't gotten any hard data on the southernmost parish by the Mississippi border, which he deems ominous.

Communications by land phone and cell phone are out because most to almost all of the 504 Area Code system is down. He says it is like being nuked.

[John Jamieson]

We have the technology to make LP drain much faster.

[76834]

You never will.
Might make the military look good to the MSM.

As I am typing this I hear lots of aircraft going overhead.
Big planes C130 leaving Dyess and going southeast.

[Arizona Carolyn]

You know all the jobs the mexican's are dying to get here for? A few of these people need to start vying for those jobs.

[Howlin]

SandRat is posting a LOT of great militaty threads tonight!

[NonValueAdded]

Mississippi said $500,000 a day for theirs.

[madison10]

Am getting all this info in email but yet we hear NOTHING about what the military is doing from the MSM. I want to take all of these and shove them in Aaron Brown's face not to mention the Governor and Mayor's faces.

I don't have TV. Are you telling me that NONE of the military's hard work is being shown? All those ships, aircraft, people power, etc.?

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks! I cannot imagine living below the level of the Mississippi with an earthern levee between me and it!

[Abigail Adams]

How is it that people could be at the astrodome, if they weren't bussed there from the superdome? Can you clarify? And how could they turn anybody away?

[stlnative]

HEADS UP...

CNN has gained some access to the Astro Dome - they are interviewing the first bus load of refugees to get to the Houston dome. They will be airing these tonight and into tomorrow.

CNN once again is staying on the air live tonight.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Well... that could be next; Al Queda would love to take advantage of this opening.