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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by 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
Bus overturned. Must be Bush's fault. :(
And THEN hopefully the military folks have nightvision stuff to see pathogens more clearly....
Calling John Edwards. Calling Al Sharpton. Calling the ACLU.
What exactly HAS the state and local government done in La ?
I'm not talking about the old, the sick or the children, but I've never seen such a helpless, do-nothing group of people in my entire life. There are many able-bodied people in that group.
I live in Tn and I guarantee you that if women were being raped, and people killed in a large complex like that, there would be men defending them with their lives. They showed some tourists at the airport that were badly beaten by men in the superdome. One of their friends had been beaten to death. Are there no decent people in that mass of people who would come to their aid? I saw big muscular men in the crowd. I don't understand.
Where is the massive amounts of food that was looted? Put back for a "rainy" day?
I was thinking about all the rich leftists... Hollywood, east coast, west coast, people with multiple residences.Many in the liberal media have vacation homes. Many even have guest homes on their properties. I wonder how many will offer these to the "refugees?" I can tell you.
None. All they will do is use this horrible NATURAL disaster to blame W. For the Dems, Sunday was the kickoff to campaign season for the the 2006 elections. I see Harold Ford Jr got a jumpstart.
I'll be firing off a multitude of letters to Blitzer, O'Brien, and
the gleeful Chris Matthews. Won't do any good, but it will get rid of some anger.
HEADS UP
FNC ALERT
Bus accident of NO refugees .. Bus over turned
1 reported dead
woman on CNN, evacuated from the Ritz-Carlton, FEMA agreed to allow their charter buses to take them out (that dovetails in the OReilly story from last night). they walked through the raw sewage to get to the buses, they all took antibiotics, they had armed security. they were taken to a hotel in Baton Rouge, then flew out of Houston.
Golly, the NYSlimes got it wrong? I'm shocked, SHOCKED!
Supposedly this one was the big one, Lambert said. This bridge took it.
It helped that the stronger winds appear to have blown from one end of the Causeway to the other, unlike the I-10 twin-spans, which took both a crosswind and a surge.
Oh no... God have mercy.
well said.
Marine 1 must have flown too close
I think you are foolish to suggest that the workers need someone who can do nothing for them but pat them on the back to show up to make things miraculously better. It is better that those who can make decisions on the ground be there than a figure head who can only hold their hands and console them.
You know what made a difference today, not the President landing his helicopter to view the destruction, it was the NG showing up with relief supplies and guns. The President didn't make that happen by showing up, it has been in the works for days. Some of the NG drove from CA to bring supplies; they have been on the road for days.
The reality is, in a disaster, things take time. Everything has to be moved out or you won't have a response at all. After that assessments have to happen. I think it is miraculous the number of coast guard and other rescues that have happened as quickly as they have.
If you want to lay blame at the feet of anyone, it needs to be at the feet of those in charge that did not provide a complete evacuation of the city for those that wanted it. Once a local government forces a population to rely on it for everything from food to transportation, it then has an overwhelming responsibility to provide for that same population support during a disaster.
No, Laura. She was in Lafayette, today.
I know, but what is MSM concentrating on? The President and saying he is behind the ball on this... where is the Governor today??? WHY isn;t she there with the President and Nagin and WHY isn't the MSM asking that question???
There was a tremendous amount of confusion on FR over this as well, as people repeatedly put up pics of the Ponchartrain causeway and incorrectly said they were pics of the I-10 bridge.
placemark.
Yes, Ivan knocked out the power for 3 days.
Didn't lose my phone that time.
Thank the Lord!
We, personally don't get the tornadoes but a lot around the city do.
We live half way up a mountain and get lots of wind, doubling our trees. None have been lost as of yet, though.
During Opal we had hurricane force winds and tropical winds with Katrina.
Our neighbor across the street lost a large maple the other night.
We have lots of limbs and leaves, but no damage. PTL!
Good lord, what's next. I can't wait to hear what caused it to flip. How many lawsuits are going to be filed over that!
These people can't catch a break.
150 busses x 50 seats = 7,500 left?
Is that the number?
90,000 square miles
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