Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

President Bush continues to assess the catastrophic damage by air and on the ground in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bush spent the day meeting with search and rescue personnel, relief commanders, and displaced residents in Mobile, Biloxi, and the New Orleans area. U.S. Congress passed a $10.5 billion relief package for the hurricane ravaged areas. First Lady Laura Bush issued a press statement from an evacuation shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Patient and staff evacuations continue from numerous New Orleans Hospitals. Thousands of patients are being airlifted to a field hospital at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport for triage, staging, and transport to hospitals throughout the United States.

The U.S. Coast Guard and civilian volunteers continue to evacuate thousands of survivors from their flooded homes in New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to repair the damaged levees.

The nation's airlines today began an operation intended to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans. The airlines are volunteering their aircraft and crews for the program. Long convoys loaded with relief supplies arrived throughout the day into New Orleans, while convoys of buses are moving survivors out of the city.

Several large fires are burning in the city and greater New Orleans area. Reports indicate snipers are holding down firefighters. Reports of shots fired with LEO down in the St. Bernard Parish area. Rescue operations are underway. A bus carrying NOLA evauees rolled over in Opelousa, LA.

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:

New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002

WWL-TV New Orleans (via WFAA Dallas) - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. Yahoo has also provided a relay.

WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.

WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.

WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.

WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.

WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).

United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.

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/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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

[steveegg]

Slashing tires is a 'RAT tactic.

[Ramius]

So many head should roll for this, and I can't believe George Bush can watch this and not be sick and angry about it.

How about the 250 shelters servicing, feeding, clothing and sheltering hundreds of thousands of evacuees? Should heads roll for that too?

Or should heads merely roll for the problems in New Orleans, caused not so much by the hurricane, but more now by the VERMIN in the city that are fighting against any aid effort?

Is that why heads should roll? Is that it?

[185JHP]

Shep's trying to "do a Rather." Rather's career took off after he was thought to have done yeoman "on the scene" work during a hurricane. Shep's hoping you'll think "What nobility! What sacrifice!" BTW and in passing, Shep's got poison in him. I won't speculate on the source/nature of it...

[mabelkitty]

Please go back to thread five and re-read.
Power did not go out until about 11:30 EST or later on Monday.
Anybody living in the Gulf Coast should understand their particular weather patterns.
And if Shep was such a "Coast Rat" as he claims, he should have as well.

[glock rocks]

Thanks. No, I hadn't seen the picture until tonight. It was just something I thought about today.

[BlackRain]

Scanner Update

- NG Reports Again that LSP Liason has disappeared again and has not been on seen for 'hours'.

- NG looking for escort for buses at Staging and Flight Line.

- EMS Ops getting requests for blankets.

- NG reports people milling around buses and its hampering loading. No PD help on scene to assist.

- Unoccupied NOLA counties vehicle sitting in loading/unloading area - need to be removed.

[milkncookies]

Stop with the petty arguments please. My God people.
If one wants hysterics all they have to do is read some of the
posters' comments on this thread. It becomes somewhat
disgusting after reading several dozen posts about how
the poster can or could do this or that better. Or how
this or that should have been done. Keep with the spirit
in which this thread was intended, please.

[exhaustedmomma]

The figure given, 80 percent of NO evacuated, does sound suspicious.

Texas has how many evacuated here? I think the Houston area alone has nearly 10% of the equation. Hope somebody is keeping tally of this figuring.

About those jammed roads... last I remember, I-10 and the Ponchratrain bridge (which I never saw opened to "one-way traffic only") were at a dead-pan stop. I have been looking for valid info stating/showing those roads were cleared by the time Katrina hit.

[A Citizen Reporter]

"People on FR do it all the time."

Yes, that is what we do on FR. We criticize the media. If I'm not mistaken that was one of the reasons for setting up this website in the first place. Because we were all sick and tired of the propaganda that has pervaded the news media for decades.

[Hattie]

imagine what 9-11 would have been like, if Rudy and Pataki and everybody else - fled the city right after the attack, and just started doing TV and radio interviews asking "where are the feds"?

We knew Rudy and Pataki were great back then, now we see they were even greater than we imagined.

[Blogger]

Yes, I saw Geraldo. And my comments were regarding Shep. I think Geraldo is a sincere drama queen. Shep is in hell on earth. If you aren't a bit passionate and frustrated in that situation, you are a robot.

[WoodstockCat]

sorry..I'm so blistered over the Kayne comment on NBC at a telethon to raise funds for people dying that I forgot the sarcasm tag.

[RushCrush]

In addition to what you said, I think everyone on this thread should be insensed that Shep and Geraldo COMPLETELY ignored any efforts being put out by our military/national guard. They act as if the ENTIRE WORLD is ignoring the problems in NO.

Meanwhile, there are thousands of military heroes who are performing rescues while Geraldo bawls his eyes out.

[TexKat]

Died before whose eyes?

I don't know if the man died while Shep was on the scene yesterday, but I do remember Shep reporting from a bridge yesterday where the dead body of a man was lying there on the bridge.

[Blogger]

Oreilly was being flippant and minimizing things. "Oh they'll rebuild. You know they will."

Shep: "I don't see how they can."

Both may be speaking reality. Shep's commentary actually shows what things are really like.

Big head in the $5000 suit is just a little too comfortable and too detached to speak to the situation.

[SandRat]

UPDATE

Navy Personnel and Family Member Helpline for Hurricane Katrina Relief Information
Active, Reserve and dependents: 1-877-414-5358
DoN Civilians and dependents: 1-877-689-2722

Navy Personnel Command has set up a 24-hour helpline for Navy members and their families to call for information regarding their loved ones. This line is staffed 24 hours by active-duty Navy volunteers and has connectivity with Navy, FEMA and other government agencies. They will try their very best to answer questions regarding the status of Navy members, but please be aware that communication in the region is still inconsistent.

[RummyChick]

What do you mean Shep has poison in him. Is this in general or are you saying that he is acting like something has medically happened to him?

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Meanwhile, there are thousands of military heroes who are performing rescues while Geraldo bawls his eyes out."

Precisely.

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

yeah so that was propaganda.

Right.

LOL

what a joke.

[Giddyupgo]

I saw Geraldo too....and he kept saying these people haven't had food or water for 6 days. The flooding didn't start till Tuesday. I could have sworn I saw the calvary bringing food and water to the convention center!!!