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

[Soul Seeker]

Reid, to his credit, didn't politicize it too much other than making sure Byrd got special recognition on the legislation for his '06 campaign. I can live with that.

Schumer, on the other hand, let it be known a full scale blame game against Bush would be launched once the immediate aftermath was dealt with.

[STARWISE]

God be with you and those with whom you've lost touch. Have you tried posting the names at www.gulfcoastnews.com?

[BurbankKarl]

the scanner link is hard to get...too many people listening across North America, and Iraq.

[Pepper777]

You're probably right. Or maybe another state will offer a facility.

[jveritas]

How many people watch this jerk Koppel?

[Tarheel]

Good, the idea of that many people in one place who have so many problems is scary. I feel bad about those who must go somewhere else but we cannot have another SuperDome situation evolve.

[SunnySide]

You forgot his $200 haircut.

Nice rant, though. I couldn't agree more with you about the obnoxious Koppel.

.........

$200 dollar hair cut? On Ted Koppel?....LOL, that's a pricey rug(toupee') on Koppels "dome". That's the type of thing that gets me fired up, when fluffy, poofy, coifed and manicured individuals presume to tell others how it's gonna be or should be, when they are too worried about chipping their finger nail in the comfy air conditioned office environs. Ugh, vile creatures, they are so vile and contemptable.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Not to worry. We have more county commisions engaged on this now. We will not turn our neighbors away. Guaranteed.
The naysaying nitwits generally have too many arrests and drug convictions to be allowed onto a military installation in the state of Texas.

[BurbankKarl]

The FDNY and NYPD STILL ARENT Communicating!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" All these people that are saying that it's been FOUR DAYS and no help has arrived, listen up:

IIRC- Scarborough said tonight, that it's been Five days ...

[eternity]

They can put the refugees anywhere they want. Didn't the Supreme Court just rule that your land is now our land.

[kingu]

http://www.illwillpress.com/kat.html

Not family oriented, but I just want to have this play in Kopel's ear over and over for the next 23 hours.

[jbstrick]

http://66.209.70.155:8008/hurricane

i lost the connection....

[ClancyJ]

Look, I don't mean to be tacky here BUT......the rescue plan is for first to save those in danger of dying and to fix the levee if possible. Those people at the SB are alive, have food and water. They may not be comfortable, they may not be happy but they are not dying.

We are falling right into the trap of the media. Lament the status of the poor people waiting for someone to get them out. Blame the people helping for not doing a better job.

Of course, they have had tragedy but they seem to have enough strength to run into the stores and loot so they are not in too bad a shape.

The priority is for rescuing those in the attics in danger of drowning, those injured and ill and getting them to a safer place.

If those in the SB and elsewhere are sincere about wanting help and to get out - they would not be shooting at the rescue people and preventing help from coming.

These people can do something for themselves - such as devise shade, clean up their area as best as possible, collect the trash and move it aside and move any dead bodies as far away as possible. They could also collect the delivered food/water and distribute it, advise others where to go for the help they need and organize teams to clean, to care for the children while others sleep, etc.

But - no, the media reports on them and furthers their whining about how they are getting no help. They sit and wait and complain because the worker bees are not moving heaven and earth fast enough to get them the appropriate luxuries.

We might remember that many have lived in concentration camps and managed to survive with far less.

Now - I expect those people to set about helping each other, identifying those that need care, provide work teams until they can be moved. They are humans afterall - not cattle.

[Jrabbit]

What are you babbling about? Are you calling the Texas Astrodome people buffoons?

[Cedar]

I think the official name is SuperDorm.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Because the government will want to keep the numbers as low as possible... they do it all the time with all sorts of illnesses.. like HIV/Aids... the patient has the disease and dies from pneumonia (caused by a weakened immune system) the cause of death: pneumonia not HIV/Aids so we keep the "official" numbers down and it makes the government look good.

[Howlin]

This "it's been three/four days" thing has really been bothering me, so I went back and looked it up.

Heck, I bet NO was still having high winds then.

And -- and check me on this -- I believe it was late Tuesday night when the levee first breached, am I wrong about that?

[Ovation_girl]

I agree on the time factor...However local emergency officials, whose job it is to know all there is to know about preparing for hurricanes and floods, should have known from study of prior hurricanes, that even in a mandatory evacuation, a good portion of people do not leave, especially the poor and the elderly, as well as those who own small businesses and stay to protect them. Given that, they would have known that more would need the shelter of last resort and even more would need to be rescued if a worse case scenario occurred. But they didn't ask for help, or at the very least they asked for very little help. The intial number of troops ordered in were 2,000(per a FOX interview), not enough for this type of operation.

Another excuse being offered by local officials is the lack of communication tools such as phones available. Once again a good emergency operations plan includes contingency plans for this. Obviously we now know that theirs was not a good one...

[Pyro7480]

The FDNY and NYPD STILL ARENT Communicating!

"You can never underestimate the predictability of stupidity." Bullet-tooth Tony, from the movie "Snatch"