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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
Can someone give me a link to a scanner feed? Anyone have one handy?
buh bye
There is a picture of that happening earlier in this thread. Post 120ish.
Yes.
The serious answer is that you're an utter knothead if you honestly believe the tripe you typed.
You need to read up on the protocols of emergency situations.
There'll be plenty of time for you to do so after the zot.
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Ok do we need to send you two to time out?
NN have you had any sleep yet?
Some places that is probably the best name for them.
just keep trying to connect. I have to do it .Sometimes it takes a bunch of tries.
Fats Domino has been found!
I've been keeping up with threads and TV and today was the first I'd heard about the Convention Center.
When Mr. Robinson broke the color barrier, White America, could no longer ignore Black America. Jackie Robinson was on the front page of section most American men went to read after a long day at work, whether it was in the office, the factory or the farm. Those in positions of power were faced with the reality of discrimination.
Ensuing events, Rosa Parks, the Supreme Court's "Brown Decision", Alabama National Guard blocking a school entrance. Then the Civil Rights Acts and the voter registration drives in the south and Democrats attempts to crush it. That failure to stop desegregation caused the various civil rights organizations to become radicalized, preventing constructive dialog between the parties and creating a polarized environment for the next 30 years. The nursery for the American Left was built and the teat nurtured anti-American values.
Now we have Hurricane Katerine, a natural event, a national disaster. The American public watched as an American city was washed away, the disintegration of their society. The American media sanitized the event, refusing to show the bodies of the victims, refusing to show thugs preying upon the weak and the infirm.
It became apparent there is the choice between liberty and lawlessness. Those who treasure their freedom. Those who wish it to endure for their children and grandchildren must make it their calling, their vocation, to stand up for law, for civility. We must let out leaders know the behavior of thugs must not go unpunished. We must remove those leaders in title alone from their positions. People will not flourish under the hand of a weak ruler.
We must make our voices clear, our hands steady, are stance firm; we will not accept attacks upon our military, those who are serve in our stead to defend our liberty and protect the weakest among us.
Too late. The President "botched" nothing. People were told to get out last Friday & Saturday, many did not budge. The President issued a mandatory evacuation Sunday morning...again people did not move, nor did the governor or mayor offer means for the people to get out. It was Landrieu & the mayors call, not the President's...it's a state's right thing.
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SIX!
DONE!
Exactly! In my last post you'll notice that I admit to be computer challenged. Whenever I have to do something I ask my kids. If they're asleep, I'm sunk.
I have felt that way as well, but I am beginning to realize the scope of this disaster. There is just so much to do. You can only put so many choppers in the air at one time.
http://pub.tv2.no/multimedia/na/archive/00205/Satellittbilde_fra__205774a.jpg
Don't know if this has been posted already, but here's a high resolution aerial photo of the city I found through National Review's The Corner. It looks like anything within 5 blocks of the River is dry. If that's the case, why aren't people walking from the Convention Center up to the Crescent City Connection and over to Algiers? The on-ramps look dry in this photo. Does anyone have any insight as to whether these ramps are now underwater?
"I heard the FEMA guy say that the people were literally coming out of the woodwork."
I was just thinking that it would probably be real easy to just show up at the astro dome and claim that you were From NO. Even people who are not involved in the hurricane. Not sure if anyone would want to do that or not, but They would probably be taken right in.
It will drop you out from time to time. you just have to click on the name over and over until it lets you back on.
I know, thanks just the same. It just flies faster when keep it short and sweet.
Oh well. I will swap and go to Firefox and use adblock.
Sigh...
sign me resigned and giving up speaking for the poor and lonely dial up users everywhere.... ;)
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