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Katrina Live Thread XII
Various ^ | 31 August 2005 | Various

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.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: hurricane; katrina; tropical
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To: LibertyRocks

Thanks for the info, LR. I saw that the thread was pulled but then I saw that it was up again. I listened so carefully to the scanner talk and just couldn't imagine how anyone could make it sound like it did...sounded real to me. I'll tune in again tomorrow. For now, it's getting late 1:15 a.m. AK time, and it's way past bedtime.

Thanks again. :)


2,381 posted on 09/01/2005 2:13:28 AM PDT by Chena (I'm not young enough to know everything)
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To: Arizona Carolyn; thecabal

See my post in 2380


2,382 posted on 09/01/2005 2:14:02 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: LibertyRocks
Oh My God!

Crack vials littered the restroom (I thought they were searched when they came in?)

A child raped during the night... blood on the walls...

2,383 posted on 09/01/2005 2:14:58 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Mo1

Thanks, I think it's time for Jeff to get out of there.


2,384 posted on 09/01/2005 2:17:34 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: geopyg
"Thanks for all your prayers - but can you cut it out! :-)

LOL!

I think as a nation though He will turn He did with Israel and He will with us. As individuals I think He will give us strength to endure what He will have us endure. As a nation we have been very blessed and as strong as the blessing so will the wrath be. As I said I fear for this nation. Ms. Casey's Daughter

2,385 posted on 09/01/2005 2:17:49 AM PDT by MSCASEY (Our God is an Awesome God! Please come soon Lord.)
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To: LibertyRocks

That article made me angry

The Mayor should be forced to stay in that Dome along with the other folks

Good Lord .. it's a mess down there


2,386 posted on 09/01/2005 2:19:41 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: LibertyRocks

That is the most dreadful article I've read in ages.


2,387 posted on 09/01/2005 2:20:01 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
Thanks, I think it's time for Jeff to get out of there.

He did get out

I watched his earlier reports and I thought it was odd .. whenever someone would ask how he was doing

He would pause and just say .. we're doing ok and wouldn't say anything else

2,388 posted on 09/01/2005 2:21:32 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Arizona Carolyn
"A child raped during the night... blood on the walls..."

Sounds like lyrics from Jim Morrison.

This whole thing seems like one long twisted Door's song. Time to go to bed and see if I can't get this lousy tune out of my head.

Prayers for all the good and decent people affected by the hurricane. I know I'm supposed to pray for my enemies as well, so I pray that the child rapists and cop shooters and looters all be brought to justice.
2,389 posted on 09/01/2005 2:21:55 AM PDT by geopyg ("It's not that liberals don't know much, it's just that what they know just ain't so." (~ R. Reagan))
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To: All

CNN: 5 offshore oil rigs missing, two adrift.


2,390 posted on 09/01/2005 2:23:23 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: geopyg
Prayers for all the good and decent people affected by the hurricane. I know I'm supposed to pray for my enemies as well, so I pray that the child rapists and cop shooters and looters all be brought to justice.

Amen to all of that! Well prayed!

2,391 posted on 09/01/2005 2:25:09 AM PDT by easonc52
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To: advance_copy
It's not only disgusting that some of the looters have turned violent and killed people but that due to their lawlessness and the police having to stop rescue efforts to take care of the looters, they are costing other people their lives.

Those people need to get some pride and realize that this is not how Americans act.

2,392 posted on 09/01/2005 2:29:15 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn; Howlin

My God. People on this thread have made excuses, said the number of thugs is teensy, that people are just hungry and poor.

What we are reading about is people who have gone feral. People who have abdicated being members of the human race. People who look human outside but within have the hearts of animals. Worse than animals.

Lest anyone think I am painting all with the same brush, I am not. No doubt there are many - tens of thousands - of unfortunate residents (former residents) of NO who are virtuous, normal people.

But the percentage of subhuman scum is not tiny. The sooner "shoot to kill" starts happening, the better.

And I could give a **** what color any of them are. I don't have a TV, all I know is words on FR, and the occasional picture. People who steal, loot, rape, shoot at rescue workers, prevent the rescue of the sick, the elderly, the starving - need to be removed from the face of the earth.

The natural disaster administered by water and wind is not the tragedy here. It is human malfeasance and human evil that is the real tragedy.


2,393 posted on 09/01/2005 2:30:13 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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To: Mo1

Jeff Goldblum, the actor in Jurassic Park?


2,394 posted on 09/01/2005 2:33:03 AM PDT by bd476
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To: bd476

*L* ... got his last name wrong?


2,395 posted on 09/01/2005 2:39:21 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: LibertyRocks

"hellhole"

Barely describes the conditions...


2,396 posted on 09/01/2005 2:43:25 AM PDT by txdoda ("Navy Brat")
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To: wolficatZ
Cool, Thank you, I missed that; I'm listening/watching/reading to 4 different things at once ;-0

You're welcome

2,397 posted on 09/01/2005 2:46:00 AM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: bd476

I think it's Jeff Goldblatt.


2,398 posted on 09/01/2005 2:46:07 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult ("Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: All

I am listening to the scanner - the bus convoy has just started rolling. I would imagine that we will see some video of this today - it sounds like they have 500 buses ready to go in one by one.


2,399 posted on 09/01/2005 2:49:27 AM PDT by stlnative
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To: txdoda

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou050831_cd_dometransfer.ff2c9e0.html

Many Superdome evacuees had reached breaking point

05:48 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2005


Associated Press



Click to watch video


NEW ORLEANS -- At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina’s refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, are traveling in a bus convoy to Houston and will be sheltered at the Astrodome, which hasn’t been used for professional sporting events in years.

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2,400 posted on 09/01/2005 2:50:05 AM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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