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

[Peach]

Europe on standby to send oil to the US.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475457/posts

[mhking]

this woman is having a curled-up-on-the-couch-eating-ice-cream moment.

Yeah. Cookie Dough Ben & Jerry's while watching Oxygen (as my oldest daughter puts it).

[tiredoflaundry]

They mock Bush for the so-called 7 minutes during 9/11, and this woman is having a curled-up-on-the-couch-eating-ice-cream moment.

Good point.

[AFPhys]

Yeah: I just found that. Maybe nothing has changed, but they better make explicit "shoot to kill" soon, if they want it to change (my studied and not so humble opinion).

[over3Owithabrain]

I do think there is some media exaggeration going on. The press is at places saying "no one can get here". Well how did THEY get there? And how are THEY able to leave?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Here's something that may be of no importance to most but of great importance to the few who later visit the areas. A few months after Hurricane Hugo, the darnedest minor news item came up. It seems that the highway department replaced most all of the road signs they were going to. Small neighborhoods and places in the "middle of nowhere" would never get signs again. Route markers, speed limit signs, directional signs, etc that were there before the storm were never coming back. Interstates and major arteries got most of them back, but many back roads were left unmarked for good.

They took up a collection to buy street signs for our neighborhood, 16 years later. We didn't need them for a while, as we knew where we lived.

The important thing is that if you plan on visiting the Katrina area later, you'd better know exactly where you're going as there may not be road signs to help, and it may not be a temporary condition.

[Trust but Verify]

I would agree with using the base in Arkansas, especially if they could set it up so that family units would be together and have some privacy by having their own living quarters, but I think concentrating too many people in one area would be a mistake. It would put too much of a strain on the local infrastructure.

[PigRigger]

Don't know if it's been reported on this thread, but the Mayor of NO gave an interview and says he ordered Martial Law days ago and doesn't know why Blanco didn't enforce it.....

Good Lord, if this is true, this women has to be relieved of her duties....How can she watch what is going on and not do all that has to be done to save those that are innocent and trapped?

How does she sleep at night?

[Types_with_Fist]

I have to wonder if the FEMA guy truly knows what he is talking about or whether he's got his head in his rectal orifice?

That's what I was saying earlier. All the FEMA guy did yesterday was television interviews. I mean... one right after the other on all networks and radio shows. Fine. Give an interview or two. But I'd like to know just when he does his job. I heard him say this morning they had been getting help to those at the convention Center "for days." Total BS.

[NautiNurse]

they better make explicit "shoot to kill" soon, if they want it to change

When I heard "use necessary force," I wondered if there was a subtle difference between that and shoot to kill.

[AFPhys]

By the way, thanks for letting me know she said that during yesterday's press conference. Did anybody press her as to whether that meant "shoot to kill looters"?

[txrangerette]

Did you see Soledad O'Brien's interview with Mike Brown of FEMA? Right before Blanco?

Never, ever, have I wanted to slap anyone through my TV as badly as I wanted to slap her. I turned it off before the Blanco appearance, but I have not seen anyone treated as despicably as Ms. O'Brien treated Mr. Brown.

I would like to lift her up in a helicopter and dump her in the bowels of N.O. right now and say, ok, go to it, babe, this is your job, YOU fix it. Now bye byeeeee!!!! Oh, and BTW, babe, Mike Brown and President Bush send regards.

So I say to you, this is ambush journalism morning on CNN, but I would be surprised if the newsguy's interview with Blanco was a fraction as bad as what O'Brien did to Mike Brown.

[WxMan2000]

Blanco needs to put down the ice cream, turn off The Golden Girls, and lead. I doubt she's capable of it.

[WoodstockCat]

great insight. People are comparing this to the Thailand Tsunami. It's much worse.
The Tsumani made it's landfall, pushed the water and everything else out of the way and receeded somewhat.
There were no storm clouds, there were no 180+ mph wind gusts, there were no spawned tornadoes 200 miles and further inland.
Trying to get our minds around the enormity of the logistics of this is going to take some time.

[spectre]

Thank you, mhking.

We seem to be in the minority here on the forum wrt the BS coming out of the FEMA director's mouth.

I didn't believe a word he said. Still don't.

TWF..when I heard the nurse from the Charity Hospital, I broke down. It's getting worse in New Orleans.

sw

[bwteim]

MHKING

THANKS again for these GREAT links.
Pariculary the WWL radio link,
http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wskr_am.asf

The live feeds are great.


NN, thanks again for the all of the threads.

Mods, am not forgetting today, thanks for the hard work.

JR and tech staff, thanks for keeping the servers up and humming.

[Cboldt]

... he said he was going to strap an oar to the side of his truck and drive north until someone asked him what it was ... that would be his new home.

LOL. Thanks. I needed that.

This media hand wringing is getting on my nerves. Rescuer and rescued, GOP or DEM, we should all act like we are in the same boat for awhile. Anger stems from disappointed expectations, and we have a society that just flat out expects too much.

[AFPhys]

I guess the answer to the question I asked 12 seconds later is no... LOL

[Peach]

France to send humanitarian aid.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1475464/posts?page=1

We've now heard from Australia, France, Germany and Russia. Any word from the British?

[NautiNurse]

Not only are the road signes gone, buy also the landmarks. Fortunately, the relief staging areas are easily located.