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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/
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I agree completely. I say feed these terrorist thugs to the gators, snakes, bears, etc out in the bayous.
Geraldo and O'Riley are showing live footage from hell holes that have had no relief for 4 days. Why do you ridicule this important information.
Sheila Jackson Lee on MSNBC Tucker Carlson - she tried to play the race card too & Tucker stopped her in her tracks
"Finally! Someone else noticed Shep does not have a beard and his face is clean shaven!"
Ive been noticing, and the clean change of clothes too.
Im sure FNC is airdropping the razors and clothes.
Good luck.
Right now I'm watching the Oreilly rerun. The Police Chief is saying these things. THe police chief is being loud and angry. If they don't have their facts straight, its because this is what they are being told. The chief said no people have been evacuated. No buses. No food. No water. This is the police chief saying this. The people at the Convention center are on the street. Not sure where the parking lot is. I know some water and food was distributed. But from the sound of the cop, nothing has happened.
No, she's not a talk show host. She did traffic and stuff for KFI in Los Angeles forever. Then when the VanDam trial came up she covered that for John & Ken's afternoon show, then they sent her to do the Peterson thing and Fox had her as one of the coorespondents for them at the same time. She and Gretta became really good friends through this and she covered Jackson trial for Fox (probably KFI, too).... so, now Gretta probably got her a job with Fox and she is on board now,.
I imagine I would think that anyone getting out before me was simply better off than me.
You see somebody in Hell with a Pop-cicle you gonna ask the Devil, "Whas' up with that?"
HAH! Very good.
Both armchair generals. Well, at least Geraldo gets out of the chair and goes on the scene now and then.
O'Reilly is just a lazy buffoon who loves the sound of his own voice. And falafels.
Wasn't he just the greatest! I love people that think on their feet, take charge and not sit around and say what is the gov't going to do for me. Maybe they should elect him the next Mayor!
Or do you think that because the poster did not include a usual "liberal PC-standard Caveat" that the poster doesn't care about people?
No. I just asked why they were celebrating at this time. After the people have been evacuated is the time to look for landmarks.
I mean.. c'mon.. should the poster have said: "Some of my best friends are evacuees, and I'm so glad to see some great buildings and places in NO made it through" ? ?
Whatever???
Kathy, The only good solution for "off grid" internet is Satellite.
I became aware of it in the months following 9/11.
I was fishing in Baja California that fateful day, and stayed abouty five extra days due to the airline shut-down.
About a month later, hurricane Josephine slammed the tip of the Baja Pennensula.
There was a Baja BBS regular in Todos Santos that had a generator and Starband Satellite Internet. Bajabus posted conditions hourly, while Josephine stalled off shore and lashed southern Baja for three days!
Let me tell you, this was the most gripping stuff I've ever seen online, till Katrina.
I've been looking into it for Beach Camping in Baja. The satellite modems run on 120 VAC, so a good generator and power conditioner are in order.
Starband and Direcway are the two big players/providers. There's also Dustyfoot a portable tripod based solution.
Solar panels would do the trick too, though you'd need storage (battery bank), and an inverter.
The only weak link is the uplink site for the satellite service.
going on and on about a "foundation she has set up for people to send money. Says today was a good day for us, we are all feeling a lot better"...
This woman needs to resign now.
Hahhahahha... yeah, right... you'd never miss a Bush-Bash. You'd be funny if you weren't so predictable.
airdrop? that part of NO is accessible by vehicle.
It's got to be done right or he'll never recover from this, they will blame him no matter what.
Plus, it's just basic humanity to help those people, food, water, information - precious commodities for life.
He didn't lay blame. Never once.
That Police Chief is absurd. No people evacuated? Then how did all those thousands get to Houston? What a total waste of skin he is.
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