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

[Conservababe]

People lve on the coast and have no flood ins...I live in Il and have it...

May I ask how you have flood insurance? Is it incorporated through FEMA?

[nicmarlo]

Prez: Will call upon experts to decide how to rebuild NO, if in a diff location or higher.

that's what he said? local news radio isn't coming through or carrying...one of the two.... Yes, PR, very obvious there was no plan....how very tragic and sad.

[Rokke]

"but you're giving the media too much credit. "

Dammit. You're right. Anything more than "no credit" is way too much. I slipped.

[Types_with_Fist]

Pres. Bush promised to get "power to the people!"

I caught that too. He sure has a unigue way with words. LOL.

[steveegg]

It's "LeftStreamMedia presstitutes", not "MSM reporters".

[NormsRevenge]

Yup, just one of many tentacles of the leftist octopus that seeks to strangle us as a FRee people and seeks our destruction as a nation.

[SE Mom]

And the LAST words of the president in this press conf were: And I want to THANK the governor for his L E A D E R S H I P...

He made the point more than once- in subtle ways...that the LEADERSHIP in LA is VERY different than in MS and AL

[theophilusscribe]

To: Deo volente

Lisa Stark on ABC is now saying that the federal govt. can act only if the state requests help first, and this is one of the main reasons for the "slow" federal response.

Needs to be repeated. Thanks for posting.
4,517 posted on 09/02/2005 1:59:06 PM EDT by ncpatriot

I agree ncpatriot. Needs to be repeated early and often.

[Peach]

This is obscene. I do not understand how healthy people could be airlifted before those with life threatening illnesses.

[MNlurker]

Its a vulnerable time... ;)

[Tensgrrl]

"This is obscene. I do not understand how healthy people could be airlifted before those with life threatening illnesses"
Survival of the fittest?

[Peach]

Another freeper unearthed that lack of planning by New Orleans; I just linked it.

[L,TOWM]

If none of my NOLA office co-workers take me up on it, I have some room (a lot of room, actually) at my place in Allen. I have offered to my employer, first but I don;t know if anyone will NEED to take me up on it.

My company is doing the right thing: "You have a job. You have benefits. Don't worry about getting a check. Don't worry about your vacation or sick time; take as much time as you need. Can we help you find a place to live? Here is the contact for the EAP counselors." And so on.

Freepmail me if your Dad or if anyone else in your family needs a roof.

[CajunConservative]

Send them to Plaquemines! (We could call it Plaque-mo.)

Um, this *is* Louisiana, that's Plaque-MEAUX ;)

[TN4Liberty]

Not to dismiss this calamity as anything less than the disaster that it is... but on 9/11, politicians jumped all over themselves to get an average of over $1M per victim into the hands of the families. I wonder if anyone will dare to suggest something similar in this situation. I wonder if anyone else would have the nerve to say, "Bad idea."

[mystery-ak]

I just took a look at my policy...no flood ins....yikes....I do have earthquake coverage though...

[Borax Queen]

But what if a truck ran over us on the way to the brothel with our bushels?

[nicmarlo]

And I want to THANK the governor for his L E A D E R S H I P...He made the point more than once- in subtle ways...that the LEADERSHIP in LA is VERY different than in MS and AL Hey, BQ....even the President was condemning the LA Gov....albeit, subtly, but then again, he is the President and must be subtle at times; glad we don't have to be subtle about those who have made absolutely tragic mistakes of GRAVE CONSEQUENCE.

[popdonnelly]

Anyone seen Anderson Cooper? Did CNN yank him for not making nicey with Mary Landrieu?

[Peach]

That is a very nice offer.