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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.
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
Check the homepage. I have lived in So California my entire adult life. Half the city was burning. There were looting and fires as far as Pomona. 38 MILES EAST OF LOS ANGELES! About half the fires were caused by store owners torching their own stores. Hundreds of murders, some premeditated murders people hoped would be blamed on looters. It was an absolute madhouse. While this is bad it hasn't reached the level of man made chaos. Not even close.
New Orleans, however, reminds me of the movie Waterworld.
Gonzales is skirting the looters topic......
Thanks for your kind words.
Still, despite what KALB is reporting, I am NOT a rumormonger, I am a crime victim!!
Under these unusual circumstances, I was going to lay low on this and give the police department a little extra time to prepare their report for my insurance company. I've changed my mind, though. I'm going to the police station to ask for a copy and I'm going to send it to KALB in the interest of fair and balanced reporting.
I can understand that perhaps people in Alexandria are going overboard with rumors about gangs or whatever, and that it's important to quash speculation that isn't true in order to avoid unnecessary panic in our area. However, they shouldn't flat-out deny something that has already been documented.
I concentrated in investigative journalism back in my college days, so stuff like this really gets under my skin -- grrrr!!
Sure doesn't appear that way to anyone watching the live shots. Are the rescue ops back up?
But at least they got the evac buses rolling again. That's a good sign.
Exactly where is he?
You know what is really disturbing also, is that these criminals will likely never be brought to justice because of the chaos of the situation.
Not only will they be recovering dead bodies who died from the storm itself, but they will have to discern between those killed as a result of circumstances physically related to the storm, and those murdered after. NIGHTMARE!
Woo-Hoo!!!
KEVLAR VESTS ANYONE?
A staff member (nurse) at a NO hospital called in and is describing conditions there. The staff took their families there so they could stay and work, caring for the patients.
She is frightened and crying. Asking for help for her daughter with two children in a Wal Mart parking lot in Baton Rouge. Sleeping in car, having left NO.
She says they will come and airlift the patients but the staff with their families will have to stay there and fend for themselves.
TO get a flavor you would have to read the last few hundred posts. A freeper on the ground has painted a horrifying portrait of a city being lost.
Hundreds dying as I type because looters and SOBs are shooting at the 1,000 citizens who tried, with boats, to save people on roofs. Disagreement among freepers whether shooting to kill looters is a good thing or not.
Women and children being raped and murdered.
Big fire in NO off I-10; screams were heard from inside.
Briefing now by Justice Department and Homeland Security.
And still freepers complaining because the president hasn't sent in the military to quell the civil unrest.
Justice Department saying right now they are except from doing such a thing -- unless the Governor so mandates. And I can't tell yet if she has done so yet.
LOL!
If not, it is stupid to jump on the gov't for not doing it.
She also said once the medical patients are evacuated from the helipad 2 blocks away, the staff has been told they and their families are "on their own," meaning these first-responders will have left the hospital to help save the patients, then told they have to find their own way to safety. Unbelievable. I'm waiting for the NG or ANYONE!!!!! to go in there and help protect the first-responders.
I hope the news keeps the videos of those looters, though. Later on, when everything calms down, their pictures should be broadcast over the airwaves.
All the resources being applied to the Gulf states will be making it easier for illegal imms to enter our country.
Who knows if any of them will show up at the Astrodome pretending to be N.O. refugees...
How many of them will show up in Alabama which has removed all documentary requirements to enter their schools. No birth certificates, etc required at this time for the benefit of Louisiana and MS children...
I just got this in a ping
All government from NO have now moved to new headquarters in Baton Rouge.
4,339 posted on 09/01/2005 1:57:41 PM EDT by Conservababe
The feed just went down again. Its probably a server overload. Just keep retrying the link in your MP3 jukebox player every 5 minutes and it will come back eventually. I've been listening to it for almost 24 hours now and it has gone down several times, but it is still there.
am typing as he speaks....
When there is civil disturbance the president has legal authority...
there are things the DOD can do
more often than not
it is the NG rather than the military that is useful
NG is exempt from posse com
for this reason we have been planning very closely for possibility of coordinated effort of NG to augment LEOs
over the next 3 days, the NG... will be deploying into NOLA a force the size of the NOLA PD each day every day for the next 3 days
but remember one key difference with what you are describing in manhattan after 9-11:
- the construction workers, iron workers, transportation crews - they just showed up, no one asked them to come, signed contracts with them for the work - they went on their own right away.
- same thing with the hospitals, even though there were few survivors, those staffs didn't wait for anyone to tell them to mobilize, they just went to work.
- same thing with the ferry operators - every single boat capable of carrying passengers just headed for lower manhattan on their own to take people out.
so yes, there were big differences.
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