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

[MamaB]

That is what I was halfway listening to.

[CedarDave]

Said total disconnect between the Governor and reality...

CNN said that?!

[ncpatriot]

American citizens in America are NOT "refugees

I'm so glad you said that. I needed to hear it.

[mware]

Thanks for the good one sentence summary. Most people reporting under those circumstances would find it hard not to experience empathy and joy for the two parents amidst all the crap.

Ahhh but I had tears in my eyes while typing it.

[Thud]

I've been trying to explain why New Orleans is effectively a write-off, and that total rebuilding will be necessary. IMO we have to SLOWLY explain that several months of no maintenance or power in that climate means that abandoned property will rot given the slightest water damage. Most people seem to think that abandoned property in that climate enters some sort of magic stasis which ends with the property being as intact as it was when abandoned.

"For many homeowners, the expense and effort may not even be worth it. The median home in New Orleans costs about $87,000 -- by the time you figure in debris removal, demolition, drying and rebuilding, it may be cheaper simply to knock the whole house down and build a new one on its foundation."

[Age of Reason]

I think they need to separate the men from the women to different shelters... this coed thing is asking for trouble as well as traumatizing a whole generation of children.

Whatever happened to women and children first?

Oh, I remember: equal rights for women.

[BagCamAddict]

I live in a northern state... Oregon... unfortunately, living this far away, it's difficult to do anything other than send money. I can handle a family at my house, but how do they get here? And by the time a truckload of (anything important, such as water/food) arrived, it would be days from now. People need clean drinking water and food NOW, not days from now.

So please don't think "northern states" don't want to help, we do. It's just not as easy as it is for Texas, since y'all are neighbors.

[pamlet]

The Saints are possible coming to San Antonio.. at least for their first home game.

Of course now that San Antonio's slated to take on 25,000 from New Orleans - maybe they'll stay? I know that would make my husband and son happy..

[Howlin]

I have a few things to say.

Ahem.

I stopped posting and just watched the nightly news.

The cables are ONLY concentrating on the bad stuff; mostly in New Orleans.

They like it. They are stirring the pot, playing the race card, and, IMO, inciting this hatred and blame game.

If you watch the regular news, the NG is there, the water and food IS getting there; they ARE moving people out on buses to Houston.

In the outlying areas, help IS there. The people are NOT rioting; the people are NOT standing around waiting for somebody to help them; they are helping each other and working together; they are THANKFUL to be alive and thankful for the help they are getting.

If you watched the nightly news, you would have seen the story about the OTHER people in NO who have stayed in ther homes (or have found other places to stay, even squatting) and who have banded together to await help and rescue; they said that they think they could make it five more days WITH water they are finding. Yes, they are going through other homes for food and water, but they are NOT in the streets; they are living on the roofs of buildings, sleeping inside at night, because THEY are scared of the people in the street.

My point? We're WAY too hung up on the crap CNN, MSNBC, and NBC are feeding us. People in outer areas are COPING, people; they know this was a storm of gigantic proportions.

Now, two other personal opinions of mine (and scream if you want to, I'm beyond caring now)

First, as a prediction: when the buses arrive in Houston, Dallas, wherever, we are going to see the SAME things going on there that we are seeing in NO right now.

And, secondly, I am so furious about the reporters and the ingrates who are screaming on TV and who are driving this HATEFUL "Who is to blame" that I wanted to hire the Goodyear blimp and fly it over New Orleans and scream to them all

WE ARE COMING AS FAST AS WE CAN; WE ARE DOING AS MUCH AS WE CAN DO.

[Howlin]

She is fine.

[don-o]

How can that be all of Bush's fault?

Will this EVER be over - the lameass "Bush's fault" that shows up on every single friggin' thread.

Just stop it, I am begging you all. Please, on my knees, I am begging you.

[easonc52]

I love the last sentence. Jesse Jackson has arived....You forgot the reverand.... LOL:>)

He heard a looter may get shot, and wants to seem as preemptive as President Bush on handling crisis.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I missed it. Just saw the one with the miniature horses, though and it was so sad those little ponies so many were picked up and killed.

[mware]

Only guessing because I turned it near the end of the segment but I think the baby was just born and had some medical problems.

[tomkat]

Request just made over military net scanner for Lt.Gen. Honore (sp?) to meet w/Nagin.

[Dog]

I just heard it also..

[hipaatwo]

BTW .. weren't you suppose to send me a freepmail earlier?


Check it now

[NautiNurse]

In the Homestead Tent City following Hurricane Andrew, there were two families per tent, or all women in one tent, all men in another. That was the official designation, anyway.

[bwteim]

Thanks for the story. That's quite a description.

""They've got the impression that we have everything and they have nothing," said [NG] Sergeant John Jewell. "I tell them, 'We're all in the same boat. We're living like you're living.' Some of them understand. Some of them have lost their senses."