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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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LOL!
Thanks... I really needed that laugh. :)
Medical patients are being sent to hospitals in Alabama (Birmingham and Huntsville) and here to Georgia (particularly several hospitals here in the Atlanta area). The Red Cross and FEMA are both staging some of their operations here.
Make it a community project for each city...the churches and other organizations in each city can take care of one family each and get them on their feet.
You are stuck in the '90's. For most of the American public, the days of idealistic utopianism are either over or ending as this disaster unfolds. The message being seen and heard by the public this morning is that there are enormous numbers of persons needing to be saved, but rescue efforts are being held up by lawless thugs and gangs. Any excuse-making we might have seen for the latter from the public has evaporated, they want rescues. Thus most want shoot to kill now, to get the rescues started again. No tears for 1000 thugs when 100,000 need to get out.
I am not second guessing, nor am I faulting the Bush Administration. My only comment is that the feds have apparently been one step behind any understanding of the level of incompetence of the state and local govt in Louisiana.
They are outstanding - always. In the Northridge quake they were the ones who gave my daughter and me water and blankets and a teddy bear when we couldn't go home yet.
Lots of precious evacuation time being lost today, due to the thugs of NOLA.
I knew it was a mistake for the LA governess to make the false dichotomy between "rescuing people" and "stopping looters." As someone from any developing nation will tell you, shooting or in some way detering the looters IS a vital and necessary part of "rescuing people." If you don't stop them forcibly the looters will begin to kill and you wind up exactly where NO is right now. Anarchy.
True, but New Orleans is not necessarily representative of most American cities, maybe of some large metropolitan areas, but not most cities.
I posted earlier, that I found a website that said NO was the 3rd most stressful city in America to live in because of violent crime...and this was before the hurricane.
Apparently the levees are the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers, and they are already whining that their budget has been cut so much by Bush that they did not perform any maintenance on the levees in the last year. The Corps is the most self-aggrandizing and wasteful agency in the entire government. By the time this is over, the Corps is going to be saying they have been operating with quill pens, abacuses, and candles for the last five years.
Most of the criminals and predators will stay behind. You can't get on a bus with guns and loot. I would like to add that these predators PLANNED to stay in the CITY and LOOT IT THE ENTIRE TIME. This isn't SPONTANEOUS looting. They should be shot on sight.
unfortunately, the governor doesn't share that view.
Years ago my husband told me to prepare for marauding bands of thugs if ever there were a major disaster. We are on a farm and he said we'd be a prime target. So, we are very prepared! Our Farm is like a fortress, yet looks like a pleasant, sleepy little farmstead from the outside, lol!
Thank Goodness, after seeing this mess.
10:49 AM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
10:48 A.M. - Davis: Schools will not open until at least October 1.
10:47 A.M. - Davis: Looting still prevelant.
10:46 A.M. - Davis: A couple thousand people still in shelters. More shelters may open up as times goes on.
10:45 A.M. - Davis: Water, food and ice available at the Target parking lot on Highway 21 in Covington, and the old Wal-Mart on Gause Blvd. in Slidell.
10:41 A.M. - Kevin Davis, St. Tammany Parish President: Cleco has 1,400 crew members working to establish power in some areas of the parish. Davis said he needs between 15,000 and 40,000 temporary housing units.
GMTA, but you were first.... ;-)
I was thinking the same...and I don't like feeling like this. So much despair...
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Urgent plea from St. Bernard ParishThursday, 10: |
Could your rant not also apply to every other government funded employee? Why are you not concerned about the lack of response by all the other government agencies. Combined, all other government employees outnumber the DOD by 10 to 1.
If you think Tyndall AFB or Eglin AFB have the type of resources that are required in this emergency, then you simply don't know what you are ranting about.
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