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

[Will_Zurmacht]

i know it's late and i'm cranky, but i'm wondering why we are going to be forced to rebuild the place that should by all common sense be underwater?....

I know we will, it's the American way and all, but I can just see this turning into a massive boondoggle, a Marshall Plan for New Orleans, fake sincerity concerts, donation scams/drives, slick attorney fueled lawsuit bonanzas, dim-bulb celebs "feeling" peoples pain on Oprah, The MSM tracing the cause of the problem to George W. Bush, the whole friggin mess.....
and it will all end up a movie of the week and we will be back to that Aruban kid....or the "Next Big Story"

Also, the thuggery has soured me on the whole mess, and thats sad because the vast majority of folks down work hard and play by the rules and they have lost everything.

they are victims twice over, once by the hurricane, secondly by the thug elements in our midsts.
And I have no doubt that similar devestation visited on any other major US city would likely produce the same results....hell, a certain segment of society wants to burn the city down when the "team" wins the "big game", so why am I so suprised at all of this?

sorry, venting, simply disgusted...man i'm getting cranky

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Reminds me of a song. B I N G O, and Bingo was his name-O

[Thud]

The most effective short-term Japanese-generated relief effort for the Kobe survivors was organized by the Yakuza.

[Howlin]

I think I got it.......LOL.

[lawdog]

...and she won't. Her ineptitude and timidity are apparent.

[AggieMom x 3]

One glimmer of hope is that most people from South Louisiana are attached to that region with an umbilical cord that will not easily be cut. I guarantee you that most of them will choose to return there to live under whatever conditions necessary. Especially those of the criminal class. Laws in Texas are way tougher.

[Deo volente]

Well, it's getting late here.

Are there any "Blame Bush" polls that need FReeping tonight?

I got a brand new eMac just raring to go!

[PureSolace]

Did they quit letting y'all buy guns in SD?

actually, on a serious note... I taked to my brother today. (He's in Baton Rouge.) Said he went to top off his supply of shotgun shells... but Wal-Mart stopped selling ammo and guns because of the situation. And he said the pawn shops in the area had been broken into and robbed. Looks like the problems of New Orleans is spilling over into the neighboring cities.

I'm getting tired of this culture of poverty and violence. When will it end?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Speaking of the Astrodome....someone is set up a web blog from there. I think Freepers might find this a good site to bookmark... make some interesting reading:

http://blogs.chron.com/domeblog/

[BurbankKarl]

those were the pictures you posted....he took them

[Ramius]

I won't deny that the local leadership has been weak. But that shouldn't matter as much as is has.

I can't really fathom being in such a catastrophe without jumping in and doing *something* to get involved to help, if I had any ability at all to do so.

But what we have is THOUSANDS of people that are *perfectly* able to be part of the SOLUTION instead of just another part of the problem. But yet they don't.

I'm not so much angry about it as I am baffled.

Where are the MEN?

[Krodg]

I believe my daughter said killed, but I won't be able to verify until morning. She was scared and asking for prayers...I got a little emotional.

I'll get clarification from her and the name of the trucking company in the morning.

[Bubbette]

Yes, and who was Governor? Oh, yeah a Bush! This might have been mentioned before but I'm playing catch-up. After watching Scarborough and the other shows showing the horrid conditions at the Convention Center and screaming why wasn't the government there, where was Bush.....Michael Brown of FEMA told the accusing Paula Zahn that the government did not even know those people were there until TODAY! He was indignant and upset and repeated that until she would listen to him. This highlights the difficulty with communication, or PERHAPS, the lack of communication from local officials.

On another subject, CNN is saying the Astrodome is full and they are redirecting the buses to Huntsville, Dallas and San Antonio. We here in Dallas are wondering what we will do with these poor souls but are mobilizing private and charitable resources. Has there been any discussion on the thread about using empty military bases.....thought I saw mention of one in Memphis. Our state and schools will be absorbing a lot of people, they have nothing to go home to.

[BurbankKarl]

Looting....

[No Blue States]

thanks for the link.

" few minutes ago Eric observed a long line of cops who went charging out the front. He reports that ample police and security officers are guarding the stadium. When he tried to follow the action, he was stopped at the door.

They wouldn't let anyone out.

Later he heard horrifying rumors of a child being raped, and no one could verify the event or if the child was male or female.

The problem Eric said is that everyone is free to move around and it's impossible to monitor everyone's movements.

[BurbankKarl]

Oil and gasoline prices dipped on Friday as the U.S. government moved to avert a fuel shortage and some Gulf Coast oil operations resumed, but losses were limited by fears it may take months to recover from Katrina's rampage.

[Howlin]

This radio show is D E P R E S S I N G.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Quick Will, drive up to Boston. Tell those SOB's watching the Big Dig to give you and me (ONLY) our money back. My goodwill ran out on that crap 4 years ago. And there are NO thugs in Boston. No sir. We all get to "take one" for the team :)

[BurbankKarl]

There are reports that gas sales dropped big time after Bush asked people to conserve, and not top their fuel tanks.