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

[76834]

Exactly.....

[morans14]

Hard to hear but sadly, all too correct.

[uncbob]

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war

Maybe the 15 or was it 25 BILLION for AIDS in Africa would have been more than enough

[Cascadians]

Bravo Jeffers.

[HoHoeHeaux]

Here is just one of the posts.

http://www.nola.com/weblogs/nola/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_nolaview/archives/2005_08.html#075517


Story: I just received this email from my friend Bill Quigley:
Dear Friends:
There are about 1300 people here who need help. I would appreciate
it if you could forward this
information to federal and state authorities and press in the US and in
Louisiana to make sure these sick people are cared for.
I am in Memorial Hospital in New Orleans. We have nearly 200 very
sick people, hundreds of staff and hundreds more families. The
hospital has some basic electricity but many rooms have no electricity and
many stairwells have no electricity/ There is no a/c and no external
windows. We cannot phone out and can receive few incoming calls. The water
is rising and the hospital is already surrounded by water. Once the
water hits the first floor, the computers, the email,
all intercoms, and all internal communication inside
the hospital will cease.
Our phones do not work so this is the only way I
can reach out. This is not official but what I have
been able to find out from listening to many, many
people here.
The City of New Orleans is completely
overwhelmed. No electricity. Incredible wind damage and now a broken
levee that is flooding the city even further.
Please make sure that someone is working to make sure these sick
people and their families are helped.
They need care. For hours they have been announcing that patients are
going to be medivaced (is this a word?) to other hospitals and
shelters. But little real action so far.
I know there is much, much to do out there, but
these sick people need attention asap.
Please reach out in whatever way you can to make sure these folks
are cared for.

Bill Quigley

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I am watching Shep for the first time today- and I am about ready to fill up the back of my car with water bottles and drive some down there myself. How can they have people just sitting on the highway without any water on a hot day??? This whole thing is just heart wrenching.

[glock rocks]

What about flying a blimp with a lighted sign over the area?

That's out of the box brilliant. Goodyear and Fuji do football, why the heck not??

[HoHoeHeaux]

Me too Betsy. I want to go so badly.

[NautiNurse]

How can they have people just sitting on the highway without any water on a hot day?

Who is "they"?

[Peach]

I'm so terribly sorry. May it be consolation that you and your family are safe from the biggest disaster to hit our country.

[BurbankKarl]

Volunteer Sarah Roberts carries flood victims to safety after they were rescued by boat from their neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.

[ncpatriot]

you would have thought that the huge screens within the superdome would have still been capable to operate with a satellite signal and the generator. Information about the scale of what has happened might well have keep the anger level WAY down.

I thought of that too. The people need to get information like what Guillani did in NYC. No one is telling the people what is going on.

WHERE ARE THE LEADERS?

[proud American in Canada]

Yes! It was!

:) Amazing Grace is probably the most beautiful, moving hymn ever written. I cry every time I hear it. We played it at my mother's funeral, and I suspect it's played at a LOT of funerals. :)

Okay, if I was misting up at hearing that the French Quarter is having a fire, and watching a Mississippi lady with three kids describe how she lost contact with her husband after the eye passed, well, now I've got full blown tears. :)

I'm not very poetic, but I'd like to offer a prayer:

"Oh Lord, please help those people. Please give strength to everyone involved in rebuilding the Gulf, to help them make the choices they will have to make about where they will rebuild their own lives, and to the whole nation as the effects are felt, for months and years to come. And thank you for the beauty and history that was New Orleans, and for the wonderful, friendly people all along the Gulf Coast. Amen."

(On our honeymoon, I dragged my Canadian husband on a road trip through the U.S.--we went south from Chicago to N.O., then drove through all the paths of Katrina's devastation. We camped in Biloxi, then continued on to Florida, to Sarasota so he could meet my grandfather. There are no friendlier people than Southerners).

*gets Kleenex* I have to log off to get my kids to bed. Take care everyone.

[not_apathetic_anymore]

You have my prayers. I cannot imagine how lost I would feel in your situation. Anything else I'd try to say would just sound trite. I'm so sorry.

[uncbob]

America faces the worst disaster in its history. More dead than Pearl Harbor. More than 9/11. Maybe only ten times as many dead. Maybe 100 times as many.

And just what did you think the Civil War was A PICNIC

[BurbankKarl]

This msg went out to every employee in the City of Los Angeles.

---

State OES has learned that trapped victims on the Gulf Coast are calling
family, friends, loved-ones, or anyone they can get a call out to in
California asking for someone to rescue them. These requests need to go
immediately to the US Coast Guard's Rescue Line at 800-323-7233 and
immediate assistance will be sent.

Please distribute this information as widely as possible.

Thank you.

---

Eric Lamoureux
Chief, Office of Public Information
California Governor's Office of Emergency Services
Ph. 916-845-8400
Cell. 916-869-3367
Pgr. 916-845-8911
Fax. 916-845-8444
eric_lamoureux@oes.ca.gov

[bjs1779]

How can they have people just sitting on the highway without any water on a hot day??? This whole thing is just heart wrenching.

You would think the Federal Government has the resources to remedy that. I guess I am dreaming...

[ican'tbelieveit]

I don't want to criticize, because I don't understand the logistics involved, but I can't understand why they can't airlift in some water and food to these people. Maybe they are and we aren't seeing it, but I keep hearing how they can't get in because the roads are down.

[nwctwx]

thx for the ping.