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

[Exit148]

I haven't read the whole thread. Has anything been said about Jeff Goldblatt, Fox reporter, who was covering the story from inside N.O., on Canal street? When he was on the air last night, he mentioned the roaming gangs. Today there was no report from him from anywhere.

Anyone know anything?

[popdonnelly]

"Paula Zahn carrying water for the DNC this evening as usual..."

She has to suck up a lot to make up for Anderson Cooper's grilling Mary Landrieu.

[oceanview]

as long as governor Blanco issues the order to do it, its fine with me.

[sfimom]

LOL where is RandallFlag when we need him eh? (disclaimer: we have a FReeper by that name)

[Brytani]

Thanks for the ping

[bwteim]

Sorry, no, a poor guy who lost his house, quitting the fishing business, and is moving back to Texas.

[Brytani]

Fox pulled Humes show?!?!? What!!!!!!!!!!!! He's the only one worth watching on there anymore!

[TXBubba]

I didn't deny there were bad ones in there. I said not to condemn everyone there because of them. The ones they showed are decent human beings who are helping each other out as best they can while watching their backs.

[AFPhys]

This is AT LEAST a factor of ten worse than the situation after all of those hurricanes, at least in N.O.

Many of these people are stranded in the middle of a huge cesspool, with no way to depart the area, with zero electricity, food ten feet underwater, and death all around them.

[Cboldt]

so do we tell these people in the hotel, that they can just go to hell and die? they had the initiative and resources to save themselves.

If my specualtion is accurate (that FEMA authority is the source of commanderring their convoy), the choice is betweenn letting them and the hotel manage their own evacuation, or submitting to the duly constituted authorities.

My vote is to let them handle it themselves, assuming there was a roadway out - FEMA should be biased to get people out of the city, not trying to hold 'em in.

[Doohickey]

I owe you an apology from the last thread. Another FReeper was kind enough to point out the sarcasm tag that accompanied your photo of the President's visit commemorate V-J Day, which I overlooked in my haste to catch up on recent events. I'm sorry.

[gpapa]

If they can lift 5000 to 20000 sand bags they can try. That and roadway concrete barriers are what they are using to plug the breaches.

[SE Mom]

MRE's...are better than canned food.

I know there's a LOT of sensationalism on the cables right now...but I'm really beginning to wonder ..where are the buses?

[NCC-1701]

Thanks for the article about Memphis. We are expecting 20k to 30k more. They are all welcome. An aside, the Bishop for the Diocese of Memphis, Terry J. Steib, was in Bay St. Louis when all hell broke loose. He, along with several other bishops, were trapped at Divine World Seminary until yesterday. They got to Baton Rouge and are trying to get a flight out. My wife works at the diocesan office and told me he called and told them that there is no way to convey in words how bad it is. The photos and video is hard enough to view. There is no way to imagine what those poor souls are going through.

Prayers and support to those that was in harms way.

[oceanview]

Rita Cosby is just bubbling with excitement on MSNBC!

[samantha]

That is none of your Business. I am through babysitting your butt. This is a thread about really important human matters. Freepers are having a hard time looking at this horror, and there are ways we have here of helping each other cope. You are not helping.

[NautiNurse]

RummyChick, you made your point several times - every single person I have talked to who lost everything (and a tad less) in Mississippi has, indeed, expressed gratitude they are not experiencing the nightmare in NOLA.

However, to summarily write-off the complete and utter devastation that occurred to residents of Mississippi and Alabama is tunnel vision, and frankly, an insult.

[rineaux]

I agree. they are gang lords running the streets and the centers. they must be dealt with.

[BagCamAddict]

Please help spread the word:

This rumor is circulating because the water began to rise before the hurricane actually hit. So the assumption was the levee was blown.

Here is what likely happened (it happened in my town a decade ago):

If the height of the water at the discharge point of the river is higher than the river, the river has no place to discharge TO. When that happens, the river begins to BACK UP, and it floods from the mouth BACKWARDS. So when the storm surge was building in the ocean, the Mississippi had no place to discharge to, so it began to back up... causing flooding to move UPRIVER. Most flooding due to storms moves DOWNRIVER, which is why they talk about the "crest" of the flood moving downriver.

Flooding that moves upriver is rarely predicted so it catches everyone off guard. And if water was rising in NO before the hurricane hit, it would be easy to see why someone thought the levee had been breached prematurely/intentionally.

[NautiNurse]

yer welcome