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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

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



TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aftermath; hurricane; katrina; tropical
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To: untenured
I just listened on a national trucking radio show to a driver who is at a staging area some distance away from NO, on contract with FEMA. He says that they keep trying to send convoys in with supplies, and once they get close the convoys keep getting shot at, forcing them to turn around

Want to email that infor to Joe Scarborough ?

He's on TV bashing the Government for not sending the trucks with supplies in

2,581 posted on 09/01/2005 11:47:41 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Yaelle

That is serious weaponry. Looks like a Russian sniper rifle. Maybe FedEx can use that picture in a new ad.


2,582 posted on 09/01/2005 11:47:47 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Ramius

Oh, boy.

You'd better not run for public office.

You think too clearly.


2,583 posted on 09/01/2005 11:47:48 PM PDT by Deo volente
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To: BurbankKarl

Nite everyone.


2,584 posted on 09/01/2005 11:47:51 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Lord, we need a Logan miracle for Simcha7 and Cowboy. Please.)
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To: MarMema

Oh, my G-d, please reunite this mama and baby. I can't take these stories... and people are LIVING them right now.


2,585 posted on 09/01/2005 11:47:52 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Howlin

I can tell!!


2,586 posted on 09/01/2005 11:47:57 PM PDT by AggieMom x 3
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To: lawdog
The governor was overwhelmed and is apparently adrift.

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco addresses a news conference at the command center in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Baton Rouge, Louisiana September 1, 2005. Blanco called for as many as 40,000 National Guard troops to help in law enforcement and relief for people affected by the hurricane. At left is Louisiana State Police Superintendent Henry Whitehorn. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith


Patty Duke look-alike?

2,587 posted on 09/01/2005 11:48:00 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: Howlin

Count me in. I've been listening to him on a constant anti-Bush, anti-Republican rant. What is his problem? Every story has a dig at the Administration. I know he is taking this very personally but didn't he call it the "Republicans" something right as he went to commercial? I was walking through the room and missed the last word....did you hear him?


2,588 posted on 09/01/2005 11:48:19 PM PDT by Bubbette
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To: Brad's Gramma

see 2550

:)


2,589 posted on 09/01/2005 11:48:41 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: Ramius

There was a shot on WWL...of the Miss. coast, one of those towns that was gone....and a guy and his wife were standing on what looked like giant matchsticks with nothing recognizeable. He turned to the helicopter, and just extended his arms and held out his American flag.


2,590 posted on 09/01/2005 11:48:50 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: Ramius

"In Mississippi there was a story about a man, standing in front of his totally wiped out house. He'd come there from Vietnam. He said "I came here thirty years ago with nothing, and now I have nothing again. But I will rebuild it."

But in New Orleans, we see masses of able-bodied people sitting around waiting to be spoon-fed."

You nailed it good.


2,591 posted on 09/01/2005 11:49:17 PM PDT by No Blue States
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To: BurbankKarl

That happened a lot after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Most of the City burned so doctors & nurses set up makeshift medical centers in parks and scrounged for drugs, bandages and equipment in the few pharmacies which hadn't been totally destroyed by earth movement or fire. Vigilantes shot some of them as looters.


2,592 posted on 09/01/2005 11:49:19 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Ramius
Maybe we should just back off from support

What support would that be? Like here?

2,593 posted on 09/01/2005 11:49:24 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Krodg

Shot and killed, or just shot at?


2,594 posted on 09/01/2005 11:50:47 PM PDT by Thud
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To: hummingbird
Who would do this kind of thing? Why? I guess I'm naive. I know this is incredibly sad.

Evil is always with us.

2,595 posted on 09/01/2005 11:50:48 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: NormsRevenge

Who elected this PC clueless wimp...oh never mind Im sure she promised them more government "free" cheese.


2,596 posted on 09/01/2005 11:51:07 PM PDT by lawdog
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To: Howlin
Reports I heard said that the police had virtually no orders from headquarters and that the things they did, they banded together and did on their own.

Same here. Just incredible how no one is in charge in NO.

2,597 posted on 09/01/2005 11:51:23 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: BurbankKarl

That sounds like a great shot.


2,598 posted on 09/01/2005 11:52:00 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: NormsRevenge

Good for them! I wish I lived closer.


2,599 posted on 09/01/2005 11:52:04 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: Howlin
Does anybody besides me want to smack the ever living CRAP out of Joe Scarborough?

YES!

2,600 posted on 09/01/2005 11:52:07 PM PDT by Mo1
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