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

[BurbankKarl]

That Governor is a piece of work. Those troops arent even from her state.

[jeffers]

They read it.

[BurbankKarl]

$15 milllion from Wal Mart!

[BurbankKarl]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Twenty-four young patients from a hospital in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans have been brought to Kansas City, flown in Wednesday night on two Missouri Air National Guard transport planes.

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Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City agreed to take the patients, sending a team to New Orleans earlier Wednesday to start arranging the transfer from that city's Children's Hospital. The two hospitals are not affiliated, but Randall O'Donnell, chief executive officer of the Kansas City facility, is a longtime friend of his New Orleans counterpart and offered to do whatever was needed to help.

[Yaelle]

Do you remember that blogger who is in a highrise in downtown NO? What was his link or even his blogger site? I know you posted some of his webcam photos earlier today or yesterday. Curious to see how he fared the rest of today.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

This being the case, due to your statement of FACT, combined with an unwillingness on your part to support every state in the Federal union; compels me to determine that, despite your service to this great country (which is appreciated immensely), it is appropriate to say KMA.

[jeffers]

Keep track of this for later.

This is a big deal.

[GOPrincess]

""These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will," she said."

That's quite a quote, especially given the dithering of the last couple days. "More than willing to do so," it almost sounds like a backhanded slap at the military, as though they'd be pleased to shoot their fellow Americans. Of course, it's past time to restore order and deal with the thugs, but it just struck me as over-the-top wording.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

"I would not be surprised to see a lot less people waiting around tomorrow.....operations continuing all night long...."

I know at least one thing. The military is now going to bust their balls to see that they get the job done and their Commander in Chief is put in a good light.

[BurbankKarl]

'The looters, they're like cockroaches'

[jeffers]

Another hurricane is Act X.

We're still on Act IV.

I advise being mentally prepared for more...surprises, stemming from this storm.

[Giddyupgo]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

[Howlin]

The military is now going to bust their balls to see that they get the job done and their Commander in Chief is put in a good light.

And then we will start hearing about Bush denying people their civil liberties.

[AggieMom x 3]

This is so true! I keep thinking about all of the logistics it took for our family group of 21 to get to Galveston and climb onto a cruise ship. It took us months to get everything planned and even with planning it was a minor logistical nightmare to get everyone and their luggage from the hotel to the cruise ship!! And that was for a dang vacation!! I can't even imagine.

[Brad’s Gramma]

.......with all due respect to cockroaches, but of course.

[wolficatZ]

Thw cops turning in their badges and bugging out; didn't know about that.

[Krodg]

I thought earlier reports said that they had been evacuated today? Sorry, it's hard to keep up.

[Howlin]

I heard that somewhere tonight.

[Yaelle]

Thanks so much! This time I bookmarked it.

[BurbankKarl]

Elsewhere, Frans Coppers, 52, who has his own business investigating cargo damage claims for the shipping industry, fled his Garden District home Wednesday after two nights of scaring off thieves with a borrowed handgun.

"I had to leave," he said Thursday. "The last two or three days, the things I've seen, it's absolutely terrifying that people can do the things they're doing. People are stealing things that are absolutely useless to their survival. I could never have imagined the absolute disregard for life or property that's going on."

The day after the hurricane, Coppers said, he drove to check on a friend's house and saw people driving through the streets with pickups full of appliances and electronic equipment. He spent the night on the balcony of his second-floor condominium with the handgun and shouted away thieves trying to break into a restaurant next door.

Coppers said he had no problem getting out of the city.

"There were some groups of people staring at me, but I just held the gun up, and they didn't bother me," he said.

"Can you imagine? I never thought I would have been able to kill someone. It's hard to even say it. But if you're to the point where you have to protect everything you have, your life, I don't know, I might have been able to shoot."