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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
Amen.
And the rest of us, too.
and the number rises.
Thanks for that update.
Sorry, I can't agree with you that it's a "national disgrace." This is a disaster. No more could have been done than what is being done. This could happen again in our nation as a result of an earthquake, another hurricane, or a terrorist attack. Certainly we will learn from it. I pray this isn't practice for the next big whatever.
My heart and prayers go out to everyone who is aiding in the rescue mission. The MSM must give encouragement at this vital time. They shouldn't fall apart, panic or point fingers. The world is watching.
I agree they should get the hell out.
However, that is between that reporter and FNC. I think we will see them getting out in the next couple days too.
That said, we shouldn't be criticizing them. Nor ripping them, nor making fun of them. it's childish. And if what they are doing is wrong, then what people on FR are saying isn't any more right.
This place looks like DU tonight.
We Texans don't concern ourselves with the likes of Jesse.
Did anyone hear what the guy on Greta said about Governors sending something to La...NG? or were they saying they are taking people in. I heard him say Gov. Granholm..Mich is sending or taking something.
ACLU
I am with you.
The discussion of Geraldo and Shep is pointless.
People disagree. Can we pleas leave it at that for crying out loud.
I am perplexed about the number of people in the conv center,,I initially heard 3000 and now hearing multiples of that. Does anyone know?
"Meanwhile other areas have been evacuated, and if the Convention center had been evacuated instead of the other areas you'd be calling that a disgrace."
Yes, that's right.
Plan #1 should have been to evacuate the Superbowl.
Plan #2 should have been to evacuate the second place people where the most people are congregating.
As for everything else, we're just gonna have to agree to disagree. I don't think Shep or Geraldo were hysterical.
Don't underestimate us. That's not nice.
... nor wise.
Blanco on listing the specific help she has requested. Looks like she had to learn how to request help. Said that she knows the President will meet their needs.
There are times when watching Shep that I've seen a really nasty combination of anger and arrogance in him. I consider him a jerk and a mere "newsreader." What has he ever done of substance? Broken anything?
indeed, Blanco is the #1 cause of this. I've been saying for 2 days now, was it on purpose? did the DNC tell her to hold back on maintaining civil order, so FEMAs job would be harder and they could turn it on Bush? the DNC is certainly capable of this.
"...can he become the only human being to get kicked out of Afghanistan and NOLA?"
LOL!
let's pause
for a poetry break
suppose Life is an old man carrying flowers on his head.
young death sits in a cafe smiling, a piece of money held between his thumb and first finger
(i say "will he buy flowers" to you and "Death is young life wears velour trousers life totters, life has a beard" i
say to you who are silent.--"Do you see Life? he is there and here, or that, or this or nothing or an old man 3 thirds asleep, on his head flowers, always crying to nobody something about les roses les bluets yes, will He buy? Les belles bottes--oh hear , pas chères")
and my love slowly answered I think so. But I think I see someone else
there is a lady, whose name is Afterwards she is sitting beside young death, is slender; likes flowers.
Are you saying power didn't go out in New Orleans until 11:30 EST or later on Monday? That's 10:30 central time. I live in Central Mississippi, and our power went off at about 12:30 central time. I don't think it stayed on that long in New Orleans, or at least not in most places. At least not according to what I have heard from people who were there.
He spoke of it as a check point where people were turned back.
And with this Fort fumble operation I wouldn't put anything past the authorities.
I think it might be a political tiff between her and the mayor of NO. After reading his bio, and learning that he supported the republican candidate over her in the governor's race.
Michigan is taking 10,000 evacuees.
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