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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by 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
When Texas has Jessee Jackson on site for a few weeks demanding constant things, accusing Texans of being racists, shaking down the state of Texas,,,you might be sorry.
Scanner Update 10:10 AM
- Request for 10 firefighters at the Dome.
- Staging needs lighting at shower areas.
- Command to Operations - ACOG lights need to be sent to staging
- Ops to Squad 35 - Tells them to go pick up lights to bring to Staging
- 6 Fire Companies ordered still have not been dispatched.
Then why mention it if you won't speculate?
Shep, and several reporters have seen the same.
Well this is the largest disaster in our history and Shep has no business reporting on it if one floating body is going to send him into hysterics.
Noticed one man who commented that this was a disaster of Biblical proportions. It is that. I've also been seeing testimonies from survivors and taking notes. Seems a large percentage of them are re-evaluating their lives. Who knows what changes God will have wrought by the time these people get settled in a "new" life? I pray that they all find a renewed meaning in their lives.
The evacuation plan seems to have been that those in a position of responsibility hoped it would turn out fine, and if not, they'd find someone to blame.
We're all frazzled... upset, angry, and compassionate (honest, Blogger)
Here's one of my WWL updates, and it is good news in terms of normalcy
Updates as they come in on Katrina
09:05 PM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
9:03 P.M. - (AP): Tulane has canceled its fall semester and students are encouraged to enroll elsewhere for classes.
7:49 P.M. - (AP): They haven't quite figured out how yet, but Tulane is going to play football this season.
Students are being allowed to enroll in "nine of the leading higher education associations," according to a statement from Tulane president Scott Cowen. That means the school's athletes will also be able to play sports this fall.
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"We're playing ball," said Scott Sidwell, Tulane's associate athletic director. "Now it's up to us to make it happen."
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Athletic director Rick Dickson and Conference USA commissioner Britton Banowsky began discussing contingency plans for Tulane after the team forced to leave New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. The duo flew to Houston on Friday and met with Cowen.
"Until 4 p.m. on Friday," Dickson said, "we didn't know the answer if we could compete in our sports programs."
But a decision was made to get Tulane students in classrooms, and that meant football players, too. The team is currently in Dallas, as guests of Southern Methodist University.
It's ok. I realized right after posting my reply that that was sarcasm.
But i do wonder what the DUmmies are saying. Probably nothing.
How can anyone conjure up an excuse for thinking that it is preferable for these people to stand in a foot of human excrement rather than get on a bus with no toilets.
I'm surprised that the mayor didn't say that the school buses were insufficient because they don't have seat belts.
What I find absolutely unbelievable is that people would defend journalists losing it on air. It is NOT defensible. Their role is to report the news which IS being monitored so that help can be sent. Not to potential gin the crowd into more hysteria.
And that doesn't make me inhuman for stating so. If I'm in a crisis I do NOT want someone screaming, crying or incoherant in charge. AND NO ONE HERE WOULD!
Blanco is being deservedly ripped for crying. The Mayor for cursing on radio. I am not going to exempt journalists because some people here want to "feel" want the people there "feel". This isn't some damn reality show.
Cool heads are the only thing I find acceptable because cool heads prevent stampedes and get the help necessary.
Apparently not. And yes, he said 6 days. He's wrong on that.
Nope, Shep saw a body in the water and has been harping on it for days. Guess what, there are going to be a hell of a lot of bodies before this is over and we need adults reporting the news not trying to be the news.
... from several different locations. Also Steve Harrigan was in yet another place saying the same thing. But they are all "hysterical" and making things more "dangerous."
Amen, sister.
I am listening to WDSU. Guy on works for WDSU and was stranded during the flood. He tells of getting out and not understanding the stories about no food & water. He said that when he got to a pickup point, the helicopters kicked out boxes and boxes of water & mre's. He said they had so much water they could wash mud off.
Handgun: Glock(if you know how to be safe), Kimber, S&W, etc.
Rifle: Any semi-auto. AK47 clones are cheap, reliable, and have cheap ammo.
Take safety & marksmanship & concealed carry training. Memorize the MAIN safety rules and train your trigger finger to stay OUT of there unless you intend to destroy what's in your sights.
Shepr and geraldo are hysterical. If they weren't, they would be aware of good things happening and report as is their job to do. And no one can state there are not good things amongst the bad. that isn't pollyanna, it's reality.
Reality is not screaming they are all alone and no one cares.
Brit Hume where are you? We need you.
who is to say he hasn't been seeing bodies in the water the entire time and just isn't saying it?
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