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

[Steve_Seattle]

Almost every time Shep was on, there was either a police car or some other official vehicle driving by. Check the video. Why didn't they bring food and water?

It's my impression that first responders got those people to the ramp and the convention center, and figured they'd done their part, that indeed those people were ALREADY RESCUED and that city officials, i.e., the mayor, would have developed a plan to take it from their and finish the job. That never happened.

[DrewsMum]

Well, you leave me no choice,,,and let's just keep the don't ask don't tell rule here and let me keep my sanity

[Shortstop7]

Let me ask you this. The super dome was at least shelter. There were literally 1000's of able bodied men in that shelter that could have at least organized themselves to keep the criminals from preying on the weak and protecting those that couldn't protect themselves. What did they do, the trashed the only shelter they had to the point of it being uninhabitable. Now we see able bodied MEN scrambling on to buses while women children and elderly are left behind. At this point there shouldn't be one damn male under the over the age of 18 in any of the shelters in Texas. They should all be in NO helping to get their wives kids and parents the hell out of NO. Bears repeating over and over. That has been something that has been ticking me off.

That is what is driving me nuts too. Everyone from the Mayor on down, just sat back and whined. I think my monetary donations will go to the Houston effort. They appear to be handling the situation very well. Shame on the State of LA and the City of NO for not being better prepared for this.

[va4me]

What would you have done differently?

A bunch of things such as havving a better evacuation plan, plans for communications, and pre-staged supplies, etc. We're now five days after the hurricane and significant federal aid just began arriving.

[gpapa]

Your very welcome. There are quite a few links posted by NautiNurse at the top of each of these threads, this being the XIVth. If you or others know the home location, especially the Parish, of your co-workers in the NO area, a link posted there has been invaluable to NO residents. Go to nola.com, and click on the Parish Forum of interest. You will find lots of folks are looking for and actually finding loved ones and friends on those forums. Many folks in the NO area on the ground are still communicating via the Web to get word out about conditions on the ground and folks in their neighborhoods.

[Txsleuth]

Mary Landrieu on WWL just talking about how she told President Bush that she wants a CABINET LEVEL position made just to deal with New Orleans and the surrounding parishes...the rebuilding and such...

EXCUSE ME....a cabinet level positions requires what? oh, yeah, Senate approval...and WHO doesn't approve Bush's nominees without filibusters and "holds" put on them for pet legislative projects...????

Why that would be Mary Landrieu's very own party...

She is looney-tunes!!!!

[Spktyr]

Blame NOW.

With their version of "equal rights to everything" comes equal responsibility, something that the feminists didn't think of. That was the end of "women and children first".

Equal rights under the law and in society? Great, I'm all for it - if it's truly equal. Persecuting men? Don't be surprised if that backfires - like it did here.

[Miztiki]

ping

[Blogger]

That's why I gave to Samaritan's Purse. Franklin Graham has had his people in constantly bombed Sudan helping people for years.

[epaul]

"{a little boy cried out "Snowball! Snowball!" "

I want that dog, and wish I could give him back to the boy, anyone know how I can adopt the dog temp?

[madison10]

That was on PBS tonight. All Bush's fault of course.

Heavy on the "BS" part. Story is twisted for the benefit of the ignorant who aren't on FR.

[StarFan]

little off topic, but am I alone in despising Sheppard Smith?

Wiseguy, LOL.

[DrewsMum]

I don't know about transporting gas, but you could tow a car full of gas and load up on supplies...bring it all down there and load the family in the other car and take them to your place.


Can't do that cause we might not be able to get enough gas to get back,,,,then we'd be stuck there using up what little resources they have,,,we have almost done that, believe me! Family down there says don't come, you won't get enough gas to get any of us out,,,

[va4me]

computer flood models don't include looting, police walking off the job, an incompetent governor, and a breakdown in civil order.

Actually it did: From the report:

It predicted that 200,000 people or more would be unwilling or unable to heed evacuation orders and thousands would die, that people would be housed in the Superdome, that aid workers would find it difficult to gain access to the city as roads became impassable, as well as many other of the consequences that actually unfolded after Katrina hit this week.

[Txsleuth]

Oh, hoosiermama, why did you go and get all "grateful"...

and ruin a perfectly good (at times) griping and whining thread?


LOL

[Born in a Rage]

I see. Maybe he did bring them some water and didn't mention it or maybe he couldn't get a hold of water to bring to anyone. The reporters have to survive too. I heard one report that people were trying to steal the gas tanks from on top of one of those satellite trucks. People get desperate. Also, I heard tonight that there are checkpoints set up and people aren't allowed to leave the city until they are told they can. Maybe they check what people are bringing in and want to control where the water gets taken to? I know FEMA took buses from people in a hotel who ordered and paid for them to give them to other people.

[spanalot]

"Well, there was a report that they hit a helicopter that was trying to service a hospital."

I heard that they pilot saw firearms and aborted a landing at a hospital.

[Steve_Seattle]

The Bush administration did reduce funding for NO flood control, but that had no bearing on this disaster. NO has had decades to solve this, and hasn't done it. There was a story reposted in FR from 2001, saying LA officials refused to buy into a major fed program to fortify the levees. They demanded 100% fed funding, didn't get it, so the improvements never happened. I believe this was in the 90s.

[conservative cat]

I don't mind Shep (but don't find him attractive). I do agree that he looks so much better without his makeup.

[popdonnelly]

I've heard numerous reports on TV of people being shot or being shot at, and of rescue attempts having to be suspended.