Katrina Live Thread XII

To: WoodstockCat; cajungirl

Thursday, September 01, 2005

B.R. airport openThe Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport is open, said Bill Profita, spokesman for the airport. It has not been shut down to accommodate relief efforts, as some sources have reported, he said.

Updates as they come in on Katrina

11:59 AM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005

Tom Planchet

11:58 A.M. - SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Utah's religious congregations are working with national relief organizations to help ship relief supplies to victims of Hurricane Katrina. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints finished loading the last of fourteen trucks headed for the area yesterday. Pallets of sleeping bags, tents and other relief supplies were transferred from the Mormon church's central storehouse to trucks headed to Louisiana and Mississippi.Church spokesman Dale Bills says several LDS church buildings in the area are being used as emergency shelters, as well.

11:44 A.M. - St. Bernard Parish official Walter Leger - thousands still trapped in St. Bernard. Thousands more are staying on the levee and are being taken by ferry to Algiers.

11:42 A.M. - Leger: For friends and family of people in St. Bernard - help is on the way.

11:42 A.M. - Leger: "We will rebuild."

11:41 A.M. - St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis: There is no gasoline in St. Tammany Parish. If you enter, you will be stranded if you run out of fuel. Do not attempt to cross St. Tammany to reach any areas on the south shore. ALL bridges are closed. Most have severe structural damage or are closed indefinitely for safety reasons. THERE IS NO ACCESS TO NEW ORLEANS OR ITS IMMEDIATE SUBURBS FROM ST. TAMMANY PARISH.

11:31 A.M. - (AP) BURBANK, Calif. -- A shaken and emotional Ellen DeGeneres says her 82-year-old aunt had to quickly evacuate her home in Pass Christian, Mississippi, as Hurricane Katrina headed toward the Gulf Coast.

DeGeneres, who was born in Metairie, says her childhood was filled with weekends at her aunt Helen Currie's home in Mississippi, just over the state line from New Orleans. DeGeneres told A-P Radio yesterday that her aunt lost everything.

11:26 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush will tour the hurricane devastated Gulf Coast region on Friday and has asked his father, former President George H.W. Bush, and former President Clinton to lead a private fund-raising campaign for victims, the White House said Thursday.

11:23 A.M. - (AP) Outside the New Orleans Convention Center, survivors are growing more frustrated with the lack of help after Hurricane Katrina.

One man says, "No one has thought enough of us to even bring us a cup of water."

Daniel Edwards says many people have gone days without food or water. He says tens of thousands of people are standing on the streets with no sign of emergency workers.

Several bodies lie scattered around. Edwards pointed to an elderly lady dead in a wheelchair and said, "I don't treat my dog like that." He says he buried his dog.

11:21 A.M. - (AP) Desperation continues mixing with random lawlessness inside some New Orleans stores.

The looting goes on, even after the city pulled some police officers off relief duty and ordered them to go after people who are ransacking shelves.

One woman was sobbing uncontrollably as she loaded children's clothing and snack food into bags to take to her kids in a shelter.

Another man approached a reporter with an armful of toothpaste and deodorant and said he was only taking personal hygiene products -- and not anything he could "get drunk or high with."

A woman on a bike played it safe -- riding up to a drug store and asking others if any arrests were being made. When she was told no, she said she's diabetic and needed to find test strips.

11:13 A.M. - WHITE HOUSE (AP) -- President Bush says while Nine-Eleven was a man-made attack and Hurricane Katrina natural, their aftermath is "just as serious."

Bush tells ABC "New Orleans is more devastated than New York was." But, he promises the city will rise again.

He says seeing the destruction from Air Force One was emotional. Bush plans to tour devastated areas tomorrow.

10:52 A.M. - Slidell Mayor Ben Morris said 15,000 people are now without a home in his city. Morris said incidents of looting have occurred.

3,961 posted on 09/01/2005 10:03:11 AM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)

Keep trying. I'm listening to it on Media Player 9, here in the UK. Sometimes it doesn't load straight away, keep clicking and it will do.

3,962 posted on 09/01/2005 10:03:23 AM PDT by insider_uk

Setting up feeder airbase at Belle Chase.

3,963 posted on 09/01/2005 10:03:42 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

Stay at home cajungirl - I am hearing same things. Officials in BR are saying some are rumors but as I said in an earlier post - I do know for a fact that the state capitol building is in lockdown and they have given people there the choice of going home.

3,964 posted on 09/01/2005 10:03:43 AM PDT by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)

To: floriduh voter

...mandatory should mean mandatory or pick a different word to express why people should evac.

LOL Guess they thought "mandatory" meant "we strongly suggest." Other than force, what would the authorities do? Not go back for rescues?

3,965 posted on 09/01/2005 10:03:47 AM PDT by madison10

To: conservativebabe

Anyone else hear that Carnival has offered up some boats for housing?

I'd heard that Carnival was asked (by FEMA?) to lend their ships to the effort. Not sure if that's true - haven't been working to obtain reliable corroboration of much of anything related to this catastrophe.

3,966 posted on 09/01/2005 10:03:48 AM PDT by Cboldt

"To: Abigail Adams

Now industrial buildings in flames a few hundred yards from Shep near Superdome - just when it seemed like maybe things were coming under control in that area - now we have heat, flames & smoke ..."

Most likely someone left the iron on....

3,967 posted on 09/01/2005 10:04:07 AM PDT by jeffers

Buildings on fire off I-10 in NOLA - big fire

3,969 posted on 09/01/2005 10:04:43 AM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)

To: Born in a Rage

"No danger at SuperDome" per scanner . . .

3,970 posted on 09/01/2005 10:04:47 AM PDT by LikeLight

Oh, no. Be VERY careful, cajungirl. How far are you from all this?

3,971 posted on 09/01/2005 10:04:58 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)

Hard rain. Mixed blessing at this point.

3,972 posted on 09/01/2005 10:04:59 AM PDT by oldleft

What is your suggestion for getting these people on their feet? Just giving them a never-ending handout is not going to help them.

I don't see why they can't be hired for the clean-up; much of that wouldn't take training. And there was that guy on Fox last night who wanted them to remind trucking companies to look to the refugees first if they needed drivers. And it struck me as odd that one group was going to train their own people to hand out food and supplies to the refugees.

3,973 posted on 09/01/2005 10:05:16 AM PDT by maryz

To: Abigail Adams

I don't know - it's live on FoxNews . . .

3,974 posted on 09/01/2005 10:05:17 AM PDT by LikeLight

Pelican JOC (not sure acronym): Choppers to return to evacuating critical needs people out of SuperDome - no threat at LZ any more.

3,975 posted on 09/01/2005 10:05:22 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)

Anyone watching Scott McCellan's White House press conference?

3,976 posted on 09/01/2005 10:05:23 AM PDT by Smogger

Good Lord in Heaven, just when you think it can't get worse, it does.

3,977 posted on 09/01/2005 10:05:39 AM PDT by conservativebabe (God Bless Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)

He clarified what he was talking about in a previous segment. There is another highway he has been on, not this one closer to the superdome, that has people without support.

3,978 posted on 09/01/2005 10:06:05 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit

>I agree. We need to open our homes to these people. <

An alternative might be for a group, a church, or rotary, elks club, etc., to adopt a family and pay their rent for a year, in an apartment in the local area. This would give the family a chance at a new start.

3,980 posted on 09/01/2005 10:06:19 AM PDT by Darnright ( Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before)

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