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

[dawn53]

Even Chrissy Matthews noted this on his show tonight.

They had a story from NO and a story from Biloxi.

The NO people were angry, the Biloxi people were grateful.

That being said, Biloxi has been easier to get aid into than NO, so that might account for the difference in attitude.

[Rokke]

"I sourced my last "made up" assertion with regard to Thailand"

So you say the following..."Within four days, Boyce said, U.S. officials had set up a combined support force with 1,500 people from numerous government and nongovernmental organizations" supports your claim that "We got aid to thailand faster than this." And a single article claiming we secured 80% of Fallujah within 5 days (we were still taking casualties weeks later) supports your claim that it took less than 4 days to secure Fallujah? Are you kidding me? By your line of thinking a person could easily claim the rescue effort in New Orleans is nearly complete. I mean, we've got 20 times more men and equipment than we had in Thailand, and probably more than 90% of the city is free from violence. Sorry, but your logic and facts just don't hold much water.

[Lessismore]

No, I disagree...because we have seen much worse human disasters such as in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, or Kobe Japan, Hiroshima, Japan etc. where far more people died and far more destruction and chaos was visited, and the people did not turn on each other in this cruel way or freak out due to lack of a value system and social structure in place before their disaster.

The stone-aged types in the Indian Ocean islands acted in a far more civilized fashion.

[BlackRain]

Scanner Update

Still confusion about the helo to rescue 4 state troopers and 6 EMT's at Cabrini. Still don't know if helo is large enough.

[DouglasKC]

Thirty? The lady I saw looked like a little old lady. Nonetheless, I think you are reading way too much into it. They probably haven't had any meals or were asked what they had been eating and she said "no hot meals" or something. Give people the benefit of the doubt.

We're obviously talking about two different people. My whiner said that she had nothing to eat for three days except for food from the Salvation Army.

[Willie Green]

DING, DING, DING! We have a winner! Willie Green will be the next Governor of Louisiana!

Cool! Louisiana could use a true conservative governor.
That would certainly piss off your friends at the Sierra Club, wouldn't it?
Now go peddle your toxic waste hysteria somewhere else.
Just stay out of the way and let the grownups clean up the mess.

[madison10]

Yes the MSM and the DNC got together for huge planning session on how to help in this national crisis and have formulated a new and improved plan to lead the country out of this mess!

They have decided to Blame Bush for everything.

Ain't that the truth.

[sfimom]

I totally agree about people first. However if there are groups already down there or planning to go I think it reasonable that we alert them to this case. I think we are all feeling so helpless at this point that we will grasp at any tiny thing we can do to help.We certainly can't save them all but maybe we can save this one...

[Born in a Rage]

I know, it's very disturbing...it has been a constant issue.

[livius]

The SD did hold up during the hurricane - but if they had planned on it in advance, why wasn't it stocked? Even if people had only been there a couple of days (normal in a hurricane without flooding), they would have needed water and food and lots of Porta-Potties.

The judge who is running things in Houston was asked today how they had been able to get things set up so quickly, and he said "we had a plan." Obviously, NO didn't.

[mabelkitty]

Why?
So they can sing a song about her like they did for the Kent State shootings?
Believe me - this is what she's thinking in her Blank head.

[XEHRpa]

Living below sea level is something you can get away with for awhile - maybe even a couple hundred years, until the weather turns around and bites you. But you always know it's not going to last, and to refuse to consider this possibility amounts, IMHO, to criminal negligence.

Like the crazed gambler who keeps winning and going double for nothing.

[bwteim]

"You people need to chill out. I saw this lady on TV that you are all trash talking and she was just a sweet talking, nice old lady about 85 years old who was just talking like any old grandmother...please. God help us."

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You need to chill. The woman I was referring to was in Houston, about 50+ years old, being interviewed at the Astrodome, about her narrow survivable experience at the Superdome and her cracker only unheated meal at the Superdome. Guess there could be more than one such person, maybe...?

[MNlurker]

They're going to be shocked when they get into Texas...

[samantha]

It is a very sad thing,but most people have to have the hell scared out of them to convince them to get out. If Blanco and the Mayor had started getting people scared Friday night this would be a whole different ballgame. There are people that still would not leave,but a lot more would be alive if they have been more Alert and responsible. I heard many people say they thought they could weather this like they did the others,and they named all the ones they survived.

[MEG33]

Please quote my offensive statement...

[Kryptonite]

Thanks for the chuckle! A bit of (almost) gallows humor:)

[conservativebabe]

Well, that's comforting- NOT!

I'm sure you're right though.

[CindyDawg]

I'm sorry. I feel I ought to know but what is LNO & LSP?

[Txsleuth]

Well, I read a couple of months ago that New York still has many, many millions of $$$$$ left in it's 9/11 emergency fund....and the US Govt. is asking for it back...

But, of course Sens. Clinton and Schumer say they need it "in case" some people get sick years from now of some disease we don't know about yet...that they can attribute to 9/11....IOW..they ain't givin' it back!!!!