Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

28,000 National Guard troops are deployed to the disaster areas in Mississippi, Alabama, and to Louisiana, where SWAT teams are working to combat the looters and shooters in New Orleans. Additional 1400 National Guard troops are being deployed daily.

Shootings reported at a New Orleans hospital, rescue boats, and a military helicopter, while conditions continue to deteriorate at the SuperDome amid refugee deaths and chaos. Evacuation of New Orleans continues.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert has voiced serious doubts about rebuilding New Orleans with federal funds, while assuring the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS."

Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, "We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.

The Port of New Orleans is now open to shallow draft vessels. Congress is reconvening in an emergency session. International offers to assist the U.S. have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States.

Jesse Jackson has arrived in Louisiana...

Links to various news, local and state government websites:

WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends
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 (via CBS): WWLTV via CBS
WWL-TV Now via WFAA Dallas **NEW LINK**: http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&live=yes
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 Temporarily Not Live Streaming (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
Louisiana Statewide Katrina Network (WJBO-AM Baton Rouge): http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wjbo_am.asf
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Louisiana Scanner

Related FR Threads:

FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread FReeper Check In thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Looting Begins In New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread
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, and lines are busy
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.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association http://www.nbhera.org/

Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
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

[popdonnelly]

Nagin was pro Jindal, I'm sure there is no love lost b/t Blanco and Nagin.

I'd like to see a Congressional investigation into Louisiana's handling of this crisis.

[NormsRevenge]

Rose Bowl drive-thru campaign raises $100,000 for Katrina victims


http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5598689p-5575786c.html

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - A drive-through donation campaign at the Rose Bowl Thursday raised at least $100,000 to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross said.

The turnout was so overwhelming - more than 1,000 donors dropped off checks, some as large as $10,000 - organizers extended the event by more than two hours, to 9 p.m. Thursday, said spokesman Dereck Andrade.

"I've heard people say they are just numb, they can't believe it happened," Andrade said. "People feel frustrated, and the only way people in Southern California can help" is by making donations.

[nhoward14]

Don't you know.... Je$$e Jack$on has already decalred himself the pastor of the Astrodome and recommends people tithe 5% of their FEMA stipend to support God's son.. uh, er, work.

[Coldwater Creek]

I saw where a man rowed 18 small children out and there was no room for the mothers. He has been caring for the children since.

[ican'tbelieveit]

She is losing it. She was demanding an apology, and she better get it, etc, etc. She doesn't have much room to demand anything considering the billions of tax dollars that congress is going to "consider" in aid.

[bwteim]

And my apologies. I looked at #807 just nnow and quickly slapped my laptop monitor down. Scorcho. I had read that earlier and just ignored it due to heat.

Everybody is getting tired.

[LivFREEordie]

THANK YOU for this reminder - can we do it once per hour???

[Mjaye]

Is there a thread with a running list of who is known to be safe and who is still unheard from in the area? I think there was a check-in thread prior to the worst of the storm, but lost track of it.

[buccaneer81]

It just defies logic to build a large metropolitan city below sea level with water stacked above it on all sides.

Remember, this city was founded by the...French.

[mabelkitty]

On the upside, you have to look at this in a global context.
The rest of the world is blaming us and saying our poor folks were left to fend for themselves in a flood and hurricanes and dead bodies....
Pan to Shep greeting very angry black women with her baby on her hip coming out of the water:
"I've been in my attic with water up to my neck for three days, I've had no sleep, nothing to eat, I've lost all that I have except what is on my back, I had to fight off an alligator, I'm tired as hell, and where the hell is the Governor and the Mayor?? My baby needs diapers!"
Now I ask you - when fancy Euros see poor folks in a horrible natural disaster, they usually collapse upon themselves in tears and lament all that they have lost.
America's poor folks, who have decided to stay or couldn't leave, rise up out of the water and give the proverbial middle finger, and are fighting for their very lives. Add to that, after all that mess, there we are - shopping (looting).
Yes, it's safe to say, the rest of the world will just never understand us Americans.
But you have to admit - I'm sure all of these images are scaring the living hell out of the rest of the world right now.
France lost hundreds of folks because it was hot. BECAUSE IT WAS HOT.

[GOP_Proud]

I wish the thugs in NO could be so amenable.

((((Group hug))))

[sfimom]

NN: Go to bed! We need you! You are doing so much and we love you for it but you need sleep.

[Ovation_girl]

I agree. And to really get down to it, it is not the Feds role, to deal with evacuations and issuing such orders, nor to set up a grid of safe shelters, a REAL plan to be used in such an emergency as the one that occurred. Only if the local or state asks for help, will the Feds step in. FEMA is technically a post recovery org, so they would have nothing to do with initial shelter set-up. I think the entire picture was not accurately painted to the Feds once the local and state asked for help, and that they botched it.

Fox just now talking about how the evacuees do not want to be called refugees...a point made here several times...

[NormsRevenge]

Damn!
Good job!
Thanks for the links!

[CindyDawg]

What happened in Houston?

[gpapa]

Maybe the cop doesn't like the MSM. Neither do I.

[SunnySide]

Anyone watching the WWL feed? Where the governor of LA is demanding an apology because she is offended that someone suggested not rebuilding NO?
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No, anything the LA Gov and the leftist DO NOTHINGS say about this disaster from now on falls on my deaf ears. The Gov and her LA officials dropped the ball on this test from Mother Nature big time. I consider her a waste of energy. Her and her ilk don't deserve to breathe the air around them. The LA officials were given the ultimate test, they failed miserably. Their failure is unmeasurable.

[netmilsmom]

>>He said he wanted to give water to those asking for water, and it was tough, but hey, it was a matter of survival [meaning, he kept his water].<<

What uter BS.
Get any FOX traffic helicopter from any station within 100 miles and airdrop some water. Who is going to stop them?

Did you see NBC tonight? Harry Coniff Jr. (God bless him for the concert deal) telling the story of standing with hundreds of thirsty people.
He said, "I'll see what I can do, I'm only a singer."

A SINGER WITH A FRIKIN TOUR BUS AN $$$$ TO BUY WATER.
Stop talking to Brian Williams, get in your bus, drive to the nearest Walmart with water, even if it's a hundred miles away and get these people some damn water.

If the newsreporters can make it in, they can make it in with supplies.
Sean Hannity was the only one I have heard DOING anything. Those performers who did the last concert at Six Flags have donated their tour buses and water to go in them, They are heading down now.

I wish these people would get off their high horse, stop being horrified and do something.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Jeff reported early this morning that they had to leave the city last night. It was getting too dangerous. He describes someone in the motel giving him some blue lights, like police car lights. As they were leaving, a vehicle passed them with people hanging off carrying guns, cursing about police. A few minutes later they heard a gunshot, but he doesn't know if it came from that vehicle or somewhere else.

[writer wannabe]

"Speaking of fats, they rescued Fats Domino today..."

Do you have link to a story? The man's a cultural treasure and could help restore the soul after any rebuilding... This is my first FREEP question, BTW.

writer wannabe