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In the meantime from WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
06:11 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
6:10 A.M. - (AP) Texas agreed to triple to 75,000 the number of evacuees being taken in from Louisiana. Houston officials temporarily stopped admitting people to the Astrodome late Thursday after accepting 11,325. Others will be housed in the adjacent Reliant Center, where the Houston Texans play football.
6:08 A.M. - St. Bernard Parish resident who was rescued after three days: "I love Chalmette, but I'm out. I'm not coming back."
6:07 A.M. - Jefferson Parish Emergency Operations Director Walter Maestri: Entergy is considering pulling out its crews trying to bring power back until there is some semblance of order. Entergy says some crew linemen have been shot at.
6:06 A.M. - James Hartman, St. Tammany Parish spokesman: The parish has had few problems with unrest. Some citizens are frustrated, but we've had little looting and mostly a spirit of cooperation.
6:05 A.M. - James Hartman, St. Tammany Parish spokesman: Gas leaks still rampant, needing to be repaired.
6:04 A.M. - Hartman: "We have no fuel. People are coming here and running out of gas."
6:02 A.M. - Hartman: We have taken over a radio station - AM 730, by authority of the parish president and trying to broadcast information to the Northshore.
6:00 A.M. - Hartman: People need to stay away and if they haven't left, they need to get away right now.
5:54 A.M. - (AP) An explosion in New Orleans jolted residents awake early this morning, illuminating the pre-dawn sky with red and orange flames over the city where corpses rotted along flooded sidewalks and bands of armed thugs thwarted fitful rescue efforts. The cause of the blasts or the extent of any possible damage is not known.
5:52 A.M. - NEW YORK (AP) -- Major League Baseball and the NBA have each pledged two million dollars to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and the Southeastern Conference is donating one million to disaster relief.
I worked offshore out of Venice Louisiana ("the end of the world") with a Cajun welder who lived in Buras. After Camille blew through in '69 he said he was going to strap an oar to the side of his truck and drive north until someone asked him what it was ... that would be his new home.