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

[Blogger]

HEY!

[nuclady]

Is that Laura Ingle or Laura Ingraham?????

[Arizona Carolyn]

Thus the Rev's Al and Jessie, Black Caucus, Lee, Waters, etc... are desperate to turn this against the white man before it snowballs and the American public comes out of their slumber.

[lainie]

I consider myself news and Internet-savvy so it was really strange to be without both during the biggest story of the year. (perhaps? I dunno.) I feel like I was plopped here from a sensory deprivation tank.

I was just watching the Bill O'Reilly rerun. Does he really think people are acting on his word when he says things like, "we're gonna see buses in there" and "we need to get things done?" Or is he playing the role of the Average Joe. The guy sitting at home playing armchair quarterback on how to fix the world might buy into it. To the rest of us he's just a pompous windbag.

The racial thing has me most befuddled.

Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead.

[Shortstop7]

I saw it too. I couldn't believe the things the great "Rev" was saying. When I first saw the comments about inciting race riots, I didn't believe it. After hearing some of Al's comments, I'm beginning to wonder.

Tucker was giving it to him, though. Gotta give him credit for that.

[GOPrincess]

"Someone said he goes to and from Baton Rouge which means he he should have been bringing back water IMHO. I don't like phoneys especially as reporters and this is looking more and more like his whole story of the ramp was a story to get himself noticed."

Well...I've been assuming he's flown in once per day, and leaves at the end of the day. And I'm also assuming there's a lot of equipment in the chopper. I've also read about Shep and his crew giving water to some people.

I'm abivalent about Shep, sometimes I like him, sometimes he gets on my nerves (grin)...but I think expecting the media to be the ones to solve the problems hands-on, especially on such a scale, as opposed to solving them by publicizing them, may be rather unfair. JMHO.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Ingle!

[plushaye]

"Unfortunately, the civilized rule of "Women and children first" seems to have gone down with the Titanic."

That's what I was wondering about. I thought the best way was to go down the lines, pick out the women, children, sick, and elderly and load them on the buses first. Why are there still babies and children around? In the wartime, the British parents gave up their children to be taken by trains to safety in the countryside. Always get the women, children, sick, and elderly out first. When did this rule disappear for disaster scenarios???

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

those same men had any sense of decency they would volunteer on the spot to help rescue and get vunerable women, children and the elderly out of harms way.

Yep. A total lack of social mores in that group.

[OKIEDOC]

I sent this email in response to Al Racists Sharptons remarks.

Dear PMSNBC

Tucker is better tonight.

Please jettison the broad with far out radical views.

Also:

Please news organizations do we really need all of these self promoting race baiter's on television.

We have figured out that these expert hand out charlatans are looking for a buck.

However, we see them doing nothing but inciting people to riot against the government saving their butts.

Who does Sharpton and Jackson really speak for except that they make for good ratings no matter how many people they get killed or hurt.

[stlnative]

I just saw a group (12 people) that evac early - they went to the Astro Dome hoping they would be let in. They were turned away since they did not arrive on a bus. Some lady that lives in Texas said she just had to go down to the dome and help out in someway. That is when she heard about the group of 12 or ran into them on the parking lot. She and her husband took them in to their home. The neighbors in the area are helping feed and cloth the group of 12.

The 12 people are from 2 different families - including adults and children.

Yes I watch CNN sometimes - I flip through all the channels.

---

Thanks for the update on the baby and that the parents have reunited with him. There is picture out there of 3 children in the astro dome - 2 kids are eating MRE's and a 10 month old is using a MRE box as a bed (with a big blanket in it to make him comfortable) - he was soooo cute and was smiling away for the camera)

The children/babies and elderly are the ones that get to me the most.

The general who is now running this operation said it all. If it was an easy task no one would still be in NO at this time. (he said this mid-day today.)

Check your FR mail

[Iowa Granny]

He is B A D news.

I gathered that from my search.

[RushCrush]

Randall Robinson is an absolute fool and he's one of the main people behind the reparations movement.

I thought it was odd that BOR didn't counter even one of his crazy statements....but then again the fact that BOR said nothing, kind of made Robinson's insanity all the more evident.

[DrewsMum]

Will be sending $$$ to Salvation Army IN Mississippi. New Orleans HAS help.

Are there any other organizations that can assure us that $$$$ will be going to Mississippi or Alabama? Thanks.


I don't know,,,really, the small town that my family is from didn't hear from any outside sources until the national guard just showed up yesterday with some bags of ice,,,they haven't mentioned any other help that has made it there yet,,,but of course they are trying to help each other and aren't EXPECTING a grand rescue,,,,so I have no idea,,,I know as soon as they get gas things will be much better,,,,my hubby and i are so tempted to go buy 55 gallon drums and high tale over there with some gas,,,if that's even possible,,,,

[Born in a Rage]

I saw one man on television who escaped NO with 18 children to take care of. The mothers gave the kids to him so they could get to safety. Another man, I heard, helped a woman give birth on the overpass. There are many heroic stories coming out of NO.

[Txsleuth]

Hey---I would feel sorry for myself if I was in your position...we can always find people that are worse off than we are...

but, the fact is, your life got really hard, really fast..and by no fault of your own...you deserved a chance to vent...

I meant what I said..I hope that this will help you..and things will be getting better for you soon..

[ErnBatavia]

I don't want that happening in my country.

I don't either, my friend...that's why I'm livid about the inciteful way our media is handling itself.

[Shqipo]

A middle-aged guy with his wife and daughter stated the same sentiment (truth) so eloquently this morning on Fox and Friends. He said "New Orleans needed men to stand up and act like men in this crisis. I'm ashamed of what my neighbors have been doing instead.
I'm glad this guy made it out w/ his family. He knows what being a real man is about.

[McGavin999]

You're kidding, right? The entire town is flooded. They're getting there as fast as they can. Each city is responsible for having their own plan, FEMA can only get things started within days after an event. The roads in (the ones with the supplies) were covered with downed trees, there wasn't gas available due to the power being out. Roads were filled with cars that had been evacuating OUT. They got there as fast as they could.

[Spktyr]

Try out a good semiautomatic. A .45 ACP autoloader will have less felt recoil than your .357 Mag revolver.

My Browning 9mm has only slightly more felt recoil than my .22 LR revolver.