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

[Smogger]

Plenty of people have led their neighbors to safety.

I don't know what more they could do having arrived at an evacuation point commandeer a bus or some water?

[Pepper777]

""I have seen some wonderful human beings in some of those clips, people that I would love to sit down and get to know. Listening to some of the elderly women and their faith, the gentleman that was carrying out his neighbor's kids one at a time, these things give me hope.""
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Excellent post!

[Cedar]

I know we were here at FR discussing the breaks when it first happened....was that late Monday night or Tuesday night?

Things are a blur now.

[BurbankKarl]

Mike Kennedy, of St. Louis donates cash to a St. Louis Fire Department member as part of a hurricane Katrina relief fund the fire department is creating, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in St Louis.

[Arizona Carolyn]

They have been told what to do ever since we brought the first slave to this country... don't you think the collective we did the same thing to the American Indian... a once proud people that we reduced to handouts. I honestly don't blame them for that. We and our Government allowed it to happen each and every one of us bare a certain responsibility for this. Just like the people in Iraq who have to be told what to do because of what Saddam did to them. When you program people -- any people of any color -- not to think for themselves then you need to be prepared to care for them without complaint.

[tcrlaf]

Haven't got the whole response thing figured out here, yet...

there has been footage ALL DAY of trucks and helicopters unloading supplies, and taking people out!

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks

[doug from upland]

I was kidding about the arm shot. Does anyone know when the first attempt was undertaken to deliver water and food? When did the shooting start?

[Petronski]

Not sure you could know the superdome has food and water unless you're there, and I'm sure there's a lack of TP and disposal.

If the Superdome is ever reopened, they're going to need a bond issue to reclaim and refit it.

Fifty-thousand people, three-days, no water. I'll say no more.

[Smogger]

Dallas and San Antonio are offering to help. The great state of Texas has stepped up big time.

I second that. Of all of the states in the Union I would have to say that Texas has stepped up to the plate big-time.

[BurbankKarl]

I am sure they will spend it on the 200 shelters they are running, including the Astrodome, San Antonio and Dallas.

[Peach]

I think it was Monday night the levy broke; Monday late afternoon Shep was saying NO dodged a bullet.

[RoseyT]

"Because the government will want to keep the numbers as low as possible"

Uhh ok. So instead of (insert however many thousand) people dying in Hurricane Katrina it'll be (insert however many thousand) minus maybe a couple of hundred. Gotcha. Makes perfect sense.

[doug from upland]

You sure keep late hours. :)

[uncitizen]

they didn't want cloths etc.. his answer was they have the infrastructure in place to buy every thing that the people will need

Ahh. I get it now. It's easier for the Red Cross to line their own pockets with cash than with a used sweater.

Reminds me of an time a few years back when the kids and i were returning from the grocery and stopped at a stoplight. There stood a "homeless vet" looking for handouts. My son jumped out of the car to hand the man one bag of our groceries. The man declined the food.

[Deo volente]

Yeah, that big clump of 'hair' over his forehead is his trademark look!

And that stupid camera angle showing him from the back, looming large and looking at the screen where his guest appears.

I can't look at his show anymore. Haven't for years.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

Thanks for the frank and common sense asssesment. I was unaware that the Superdome was aequately supplied with water and food. I read the bizzare Nagin's cry for help saying supplies were running out and took that to mean at the SD.

But come to think of it, I saw a video where the people outside of a "Civic Center" I believe looked pretty healthy and laid back. Many sitting on their duffs. I would not at all be concerned about them. I thought there were thousands gathered without food and water.
I have very mixed feelings on what is going on there-(probably because I just don't know what IS going on down there.

[Ingtar]

Memphis, actually Millington, has an empty Navy base. Barracks, kitchens, fences around it. I would have thought it would be perfect.

[Peach]

The shooting started Tuesday. I don't remember looting being an issue Monday.

The hurricane happened Monday. Tuesday morning I woke up to madness and a whole new world. Looting. Water rising. Loss of control.

[CindyDawg]

You would THINK that SOMEONE in those groups would step up, take charge, and start to head them out in order...

Well, if all is as posted a 20 y/o and a bunch of teenagers did. They took a bus of women and children to Houston. It was reported that they pooled their money to buy gas and diapers along the way. Reading what he said, this wasn't a polished college student either.