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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by 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
What was the name or link of that blogger guy who is holed up for the count in a downtown NO highrise? I forgot to save the link. Thanks.
Totally off topic, but what did Fox just say about Sen. Robert K-K-K Byrd?
C-130 air-drop isn't the answer in this situation. If the supplies aren't on pallets, they will scatter along the path of the aircraft for a mile or so. If they are on pallets, the pallets will kill anyone they land on.
Helicopers are the answer in this situation, and they have been sent to the Super Dome several times, but the mob wouldn't open up enough for them to land so they had to drop the supplies from about 10 feet.
Those barcoded cards are sure a smart way to keep track of everyone. Thanks for posting this account of the preparations at the Astrodome.
Great article there. Too bad it seems that none of the New Orleans officials ever read it.
Loved these points on the evacuation for Ivan:
"The fact that 600,000 residents evacuated means an equal number did not. Recent evacuation surveys show that two thirds of nonevacuees with the means to evacuate chose not to leave because they felt safe in their homes. Other nonevacuees with means relied on a cultural tradition of not leaving or were discouraged by negative experiences with past evacuations."
"For those without means, the medically challenged, residents without personal transportation, and the homeless, evacuation requires significant assistance.....Approximately 120,000 residents (51,000 housing units x 2.4 persons/unit) do not have cars. A proposal made after the evacuation for Hurricane Georges to use public transit buses to assist in their evacuation out of the city was not implemented for Ivan. If Ivan had struck New Orleans directly it is estimated that 40-60,000 residents of the area would have perished."
USS BATAAN, Gulf of Mexico (NNS) -- The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) was tasked Aug. 30 to assist with Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts.
Two MH-60 search and rescue helicopters from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HC) 28, based out of Norfolk, Va., launched at 5 p.m. CST Aug. 30 to assist in the search and rescue efforts that are currently ongoing in and around the New Orleans area.
At 6:30 p.m. CST, two MH-53 helicopters from Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron (HM) 15, based out of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, also flew off Bataan to assist with efforts in the New Orleans area.
Bataan is currently underway in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 100 miles South of New Orleans. The ship’s involvement in humanitarian assistance operations is an effort by the Department of Defense in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
That might be who is doing the evacuating...they mentioned some unique boat name....but I heard it on the scanner
"Totally off topic, but what did Fox just say about Sen. Robert K-K-K Byrd?"
He is donating bedsheets to the victims. Some of the sheets may have holes.
Maybe if the people had been told that LE had jurisdiction over all goods and that no one was going to go hungry and a show of force had been done up front, a lot of this could have been avoided and supplies could have been handed out accordingly.
"I'm in no way defending her but just because a woman is crying, it doesn't make her weak. It's a physical thing. We can cry and get the job done(sometimes better)"
Right. I know you aren't defending her. I would simply say that in a time when these poor people need someone with strength of leadership in a crisis...the get Blank. Then again it's New Orleans. I bet 90% of them voted for her.
I believe some of the strong FR ladies, yourself included could be doing a heck of a lot better job than this waste of carbon and oxygen.
"Totally off topic, but what did Fox just say about Sen. Robert K-K-K Byrd?"
Beat me. My wife and I decided years ago to pull the plug on the TV so to speak. Nearly all my news comes via the intenet now--FR, Drudge, and Newsmax mainly.
Byrd to Run for Ninth Term in US Senate
"And no one in the Superdome has shot at anything."
Didn't Michael Chertoff verify this morning that a soldier was shot in the leg in the Superdome overnight?
Well...if you want to analyze the "plan"...I think you have to start with the levee decision...good to Cat 3, fails at Cat 4.
That puts hard limits on everything a plan must encompass.
With that in mind, no, the city wasn't ready, even on paper for a cat 4. Cat 3?
Not so clear.
Today, Jesse said "When we went into I-raq we didn't let snipers stop us then."
And I wondered how he would feel if we actually handled NO snipers the way we handled the I-raq snipers.
So, the police calls and the statement on national tv by the DHS were all lies...just because the governor said so?
Instant Haiti.
I have been praying for him to show up for the last two days.
Now give him a police flashlight and send him into the darkness of NO to negotiate us out of this hostage situation.
dumbass
Yes, it's quite dumb. But unlike you, I don't use it for my thinking, ao it's okay.
The dirty little secret no one is mentioning is we are still in the middle of hurricane season. They get these people evacuated and another hurricane hits. Are they STILL going to say rebuild?
Speaking of Newsmax, they report six murders and twelve rapes over the past couple of days in the SD. http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/1/230732.shtml
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