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

[Not A Snowbird]

I agree completely. I say feed these terrorist thugs to the gators, snakes, bears, etc out in the bayous.

You left out fire ants. Big balls of fire ants.

[madison10]

Short term maybe. I don't understand what they will do when the snow flies. Big change between the weather in NO and the weather here in Michigan. They will have to adapt. We golf in the snow here.

Think I mentioned the cold on another thread. The cold would be a SHOCK to a Louisianan & it's only 8 or so weeks away. Heck, it shocks ME & I was born & raised here. IF they come they'll need lots of gear.

"Golf in the snow"? Do you play at the course in Madison?

[Tiger Smack]

Id like the head FEMA guy to be fired for starters. Everyone has some blame but FEMA should of had plans for this

[mabelkitty]

Let's be honest here - sitting on our asses bitchin online about the hurricane isn't helping either.
It's just what we do.
Chill out.

[Spktyr]

Yup. Unlike Louisiana, we have Texas Rangers. And I'm not talking about the baseball team.

How tough are they? "One riot, one Ranger." That's the truth - one Ranger put down a riot in Dallas in the 1930s pretty much single handedly. And they haven't gotten soft since.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

I never had a gun in my life until thugs broke into my son's apartment, help him up at gunpoint and beat him--just lucky he wasn't shot.

I bought a .357 Magnum the next day.

After witnessing the gangsters running wild in New Orleans, I will be buying a shotgun and, because my wife is petite and has trouble handling the .357, a .22 or something for her.

Riots could break out for any number of reasons. We see now what "Lord of the Flies" is really like. Even if you do not live in a big city, you need to arm yourselves. If ever you doubt that, play a tape of that New Orleans film footage over and over, and read about the rapes and the murders. Get that gun!

[queenkathy]

Thanks for the info. I will have to relate that to husband though. I can do the internet stuff but he does the other stuff...Together we make one person who knows something about computers...

[not_apathetic_anymore]

a phone call made by “Tad’s aunt’s boyfriend’s brother’s wife’s sister”

Wow... lots of caring extended friends and family trying to keep the lines of communication open.

[DrewsMum]

Joel Olsteen is on our local channel news here in Houston right now,,,,will be interesting to see how the race card plays with his very MIXED congregation here

[noblejones]

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That clown will be out of office (assuming NO still has a Mayor's office) after the next election.
<<

Nope. He'll be NO's greatest hero and they'll build a monument to him. Don't you know failure for demoRATS is success?

[RDTF]

They did this while it was occuring in this country?

[spanalot]

"The snipers are the bad guys. The snipers are what is keeping the firefighters trapped."

we have 10000 dead in NO and no reports of anyone getting hit by a sniper.

there are hours of footage of firemen and police at a french quarter fire - no snipers.

This sniper smoke and mirrors is delaying relief that can save hundreds of lives.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Did you just see the report on Aarob Brown about the family that just bought a new house and hadn't moved in yet. Adopted seven members of a family and moved them into the house. Friends and neighbors were helping with food, clothes, etc,

[popdonnelly]

I would just like to see Jesse actually do something for once in his life. I swear, the man has never worked a day. And he and his friends have made millions. Not to mention his dummy of a son, who's a Congressman.

[Blogger]

I'm just trying to defend the reporters. Don't think they are doing a bad job at all . It's just a sorry situation.

Donated to Samaritans Purse this afternoon. Will donate more later.

[CajunConservative]

:::So we are just seeing a tiny portion of the 900,000 acres that was damaged & the MSM is making it out to be the only city on the planet? One parish? If you ask me that's not even real reporting, it's just inciting people to riot.

Well excuse me while I go break something...the media frustrates me no end. :::

Yes, the Greater New Orleans area includes several parishes. The inner city crap you are witnessing is New Orleans Proper, the outlying areas are where the normal, educated people live. The rest of the city *is* worth salvaging. I lived there a while and the GNO area is great. There are lots of good, decent and hardworking people. It's not all ghetto slums.

[mabelkitty]

Oh, you are smooth.

[SunnyUsa]

I find him extremely unimpressive (the Fema Head Guy) - don't even know his name. He can't even answer a question without looking shifty.

[Soul Seeker]

Ah yes, Gregoire's first response to a natural disaster indeed would be to raise taxes. It seems to be all she is good for.

[Palladin]

Several different independent sources are reporting that there are dead bodies inside the Convention Center, including two infants who died of dehydration.