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

[RummyChick]

Greta is bringing up some interestings points. Many of these people don't have IDs that are in the astrodome.

So how do they collect their welfare checks. How do they get 'identified'.

There should be pictures on file with drivers license and that might help some.

I think there will be a lot of identity fraud .

[oceanview]

FEMA is the only agency doing anything. I'll admit, there are problems, but the security situation is hampering this.

the decision to dismiss the governor from her responsibility to maintain civil order, is not one to be taken lightly. once Bush federalizes this, the albatross is around his neck.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/USNSAHome.htm

A $100 donation to The Salvation Army will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit, containing brooms, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies

To donate by mail, send checks, earmarked 'disaster relief,' to

Salvation Army

Disaster Relief

PO BOX 4857
JACKSON, MS
39296-4857

[nhoward14]

OK... these idiots on WWL are totally missing the point... acting like there is no difference between living on a fault line and living in New Orleans.

Unless they want to build levees 40 feet high, there is no way to put N.O. out of danger.

[Cedar]

Hey, that was funny.

[ican'tbelieveit]

They are infuriating me. Time to find a new feed.

[MarMema]

It's a natural disaster. We are ineffectual against an event of this magnitude.

Some of us spend entire weeks each year in disaster response training for events just like this.

There are entire companies that exist just to do training for horrible, horrible disasters.

Here in Seattle about 2-3 times a year all the hospitals and LE participate in a citywide disaster drill. We do the whole kit and kaboodle on pretending. and we endlessly rehearse.

What happened in NO is beyond belief to some of us, who know what we have been taught about how to handle a disaster.

[metmom]

Re: 1067 If these MRE's are or are like the freeze dried stuff used for camping the spaghetti and meat sauce is good, too. It's my kids favorite when they go backpacking.

[jwalsh07]

It doesn't matter Douglas, if in the end they save 99.9% of the survivors who chose to stay in New Orleans despite being told to evac, it won't be good enough.

[Tuxedo]

I firmly believe now that plans may have been set for protecting the city against a Cat Three storm, and for evacuations. But NO plans at all for dealing with the aftermath of the flooded city. They had to know the inordinately large population of poor in this city could not leave, and had to be aware of the significant criminal element in the city looting and killing in the wake of a disaster. Where is the plan? Never before have I seen such ineptness on a local level.

[netmilsmom]

>>Oh...they can't share their meager rations with the suffering masses? Then get their sorry news crew butts out of there.<<

Amen!

[sfimom]

God bless him.

[GOP_Proud]

< We got aid to thailand faster than this. Inexcusable.

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Particularly inexcusable because, as I just posted to another freeper, we have in-depth training for these kinds of events in this country.

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Remember the WORLD responded to the tsunami. I don't see anybody but Americans in NO. I've heard pledges from other countries, but haven't seen THEM.

I'm not complaining. Just an observation.

[SunnySide]

God tests our faith by trials and tribulations. We are all witnesses. Be ready, be faithful.

[kenth]

She doesn't have any room to demand any apologies from anyone considering the absolute and utter incompetence she's shown since before this disaster even occurred.

[MarMema]

Good post. I have been thinking the same thing.

[LikeLight]

I don't think FEMA was aware that the Superdome was a complete disaster because no one locally had bothered to tell them.

No one bothered to tell them, because all the locals were in CYA mode, just waiting to hand off responsibility to FEMA . . .

[SE Mom]

I couldn't believe that segment- and don't understand a comment he made- the police at that station said they've "lost" about 20% of their manpower. It wasn't clear if they were dead from the hurricane- or the anarchy.

Anyone hearing about this on the scanners or press reports?

[Ovation_girl]

"And why, if Sheppard Smith and NBC news can get on the streets, why didn't they bring some water with them?? /rant off/"

Shep answered this one on Hannity and Colmes' radio show today, he said so many would come up to them and ask for food or water, but if you give to one and then another, soon you have no food or water yourself and that he is sleeping out there on the interstate with the people(which may explain some of the behavior people here were questioning today) Many reporters who spend time intensely covering a situation like this, say that it changes them forever. (Living through as a victim changes one too, I mark Hurricane Andrew as a huge point of change in my life)

[Will_Zurmacht]

i donated to the SA today...always there for people.

One of the few Charities I have confidence in.