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

[overtaxed_canadian]

National Guard scanner says that the industrial explosion/fire is just burning off used oil. "not toxic".

[pending]

Bush takes a massive hit for this now. This is a historic failure at all levels. A moment in time lost, a moment that could have cemented the US back together, instead converted into a war, at home. Koolaid Kids better reach for the prozac, it is time for conservative, real ones, to stand up and retake the party from this fellow. Re-educate the people about what a real conservative because by the time Bush is done, a republican wont be electable as dogcatcher. Haley Barbour got it done. Minimal issues.
***** This gets worse, as the troops move in commencing a war to retake the city. Coming: innocent ones caught in the coming crossfire, the Big D "nobody cared because they are Black".

Count on it.
Bush has failed me, he has utterly lost me at this point. Worst case scenario, is a bitter split along the lines of Taft/Roosevelt, splitting the vote, handing it to Hillary. Perhaps Buchanan. Envision this, seperate yourself from Mr Bush, take back this party, or it will be done. I cannot overstate this. Bush is history. A sinking ship. Time to start putting it back together. Got to go to my job. Be glad to fight this out with you later.

[eternity]

Mayor Nagin giving Hell to Washington, the governor for lies,lies and more lies.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Can't be on Chartres then. It doesn't run south of the Quarter, it goes to the north.

Maybe down on Tchopitoulas?

[pending]

To God Bless America, that rant was not directe3d at you, my apology for that.

I really am ready to fight. got to go to work though.

Bush really really dropped this.
Utter failure.
Historic, legacy type, always remarked on forever type failure. Its over for him.

[IndyTiger]

FOX news: hundreds of people sleeping on highway overpass...no food or water...FEMA goal is to totally evac city by Saturday night...plaza outside Superdome packed with people waiting to get out of city.

[LikeLight]

There is blame to go around - but utter moral breakdown amongst the people is the cause - Americans are a free people, and when we can't take care of ourselves, when we turn on each other in the worst times of crisis - then no one can govern us well.

[jimbo123]

Looks like you're in the minority in blaming our President for the anarchy in New Orleans.


CBS Poll: 54% Approve, 12% Disapprove of Bush's Handling of Hurricane Katrina

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475420/posts

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Dang. To think we live in an age where if you can't get instant solid fixes after a major distaster on a scale that we've never had before, it's the president's fault.

Dang. At the best it takes three to four days to get set up to deal with anything this big. But we're geared to instant fixes, so the reality of logistics doesn't count.

Dang. Because the governor of the state is stupid about using authority, it's now a republican failure.

Dang. Go back and look at past catastrophes in the US. But no, the MSM would rather push the country to civil war and use the backs of people who chose poorly and got stuck in a hellhole of city in part because they were afraid if they'd left people would steal their stuff (and with good reason), to do it on.

Just dang.

[Dysart]

This isn't the time to debate this.

[IndyTiger]

CNN...police having problems dealing with fire due to security concerns...now saying it is at warehouse near RR yard...shots fired in area.

[livius]

we turn on each other in the worst times of crisis - then no one can govern us well

Very well said.

[LikeLight]

What we gonna do with the street thugs who don't want to leave - this is gonna get ugly whether we leave them there or let them out somewhere else - and already the buses are wandering full of dying refugees with the shelters in Houston at capacity - how many will die on the buses - the buses are sitting on the Astrodome parking lot full of desperate people - they are going to start dumping them on the streets . . .

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I am reaching the point where I would tell people to get on their feet, and start walking if they want to get out, and then just cordon off the place, water and all, until the looters self-destruct.

[Uncle Ike]

"What we gonna do with the street thugs who don't want to leave "

I wouldn't worry about them -- dysentery, typhus, cholera, and other diseases will take care of them all in time.

[MEG33]

PIFFLE..Get a Grip!

[Miss Marple]

Myself, I would have been walking two days ago.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Send'em to all the major blue cities, and let them care for them. Send extra loads to Berkeley, San Francisco and LA while you're at it. And don't forget New York and Detroit while you're at it.

[IndyTiger]

What we gonna do with the street thugs who don't want to leave -

Disease (typhoid, cholera, dysentery) will take care of any who don't want to leave sooner or later.

[bwteim]

LOL.
Good Morning.