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

[GOP_Proud]

Where's Gates.

[RummyChick]

Someone should call in and ask JJ if he plans on going to the Superdome to lead the group on prayer.

[NonValueAdded]

Are you sure it was the convention center mentioned those many times and not the superdome? They are not the same place.

[tiki]

Don't you wish there really was a Bruce Willis type character in there ready to take action?

[Friend of thunder]

It has crossed my mind that given the choice of being homeless in biloxi or nola, there is NO WAY under almost any circumstances I would choose nola, especially if i had a family to protect.

So would I. I would also rather be homeless in nola than North Korea, but I don’t think I would make the statement that people in New Orleans should be THANKING GOD that they did not live in north Korea.

[WestCoastGal]

"FEMA did get some airlifts in there today. but that clip of the police officer tells the true story about what is going on there regarding restoring civil order."

I don't know if you saw the clip yesterday of Shep Smith asking a police office on the I-10 overpass where those people could go to get help or who was coming to tell them where to get help. The guy who appeared to be taking videos with his own camera wouldn't even answer, he just walked away from Shep. I was amazed by that. I always thought the police were there to help.

I realize now that we all need to have our own emergency preparations on hand because if there is a big emergency we are on our own!!!

[kenth]

"Remember, we live in a country where people riot when their basketball team wins."

Yep. I can understand it if your team loses, but when they win?

[NautiNurse]

Please ping or FRmail me to hospital situation updates...tia

[dawn53]

Heard on TV earlier, they tried to bring food/water in on a helicopter, but they were met on the helipad with mobs of men with guns, and the helicopter pilot thought it best not to land.

[Howlin]

I heard him.

I heard him say that Iraq we didn't let a little sniper fire stop us from our mission.

Do you think he'd be okay with it if we handled it the same way in NO as we do in Iraq?

[Thud]

Not to mention that the whole site will become the No. 1 Superfund Toxic Waste Site. The federal government doesn't have the money to decontaminate what had been New Orleans when the water is finally all pumped out. The French Quarter maybe, but not the large long-term flooded areas of the greater New Orleans Metropolitan Area.

IF New Orleans is rebuilt, most of it will have to be on some new location where the ground isn't contaminated which, given that the toxic contamination is caused by flooding, can only be on higher ground. Right now the law is that federal funds may not be used, even for loans, for building on toxic contaminated sites. Only the federal government itself is exempt from that requirement, and then only for some projects.

[EverOnward]

"When they say the National Guard is not there, they are lying."

The National Guard may be "there" -- but clearly, more National Guard are being sent because there are more "theres" that need them desperately.

[TonyInOhio]

Some MREs suck, some are ok

Where do you purchase yours?

This week has convinced me to add to my tornado kit, and MREs are on the list.

Thanks,

Tony

[RummyChick]

Then stop lecturing me and interjecting YOUR assumptions into my posts.

[Betteboop]

Jesse Jackson has arrived in Louisiana...


that should help alot!!

[steveegg]

Actually, I just heard Frist on CNN say that only a few would actually be in the Senate. They just are going to pass the bill unanimously...already have consent from all members of the Senate...without the actual Senators being in the Capital. They do not need a quorem.

After all, we can't disturb the vacation plans of the majority of the Senate, can we? </sarcasm>

[GOP_Proud]

umm ...A week before it was a Cat 1 in Fla.

[oceanview]

I saw that.

[metmom]

That makes sense about the pumping and water levels. The article clearly said seep though. If you go to FOXNews.com and click on the headline "We Don't Have Help" it will take you to that article. Since I am computer challenged, I have trouble with taking parts of articles and sticking them in here.