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

[StarFan]

Harrigan has him beat by a mile with class, integrity, and ability to report the truth. He is what I call a journalist.

Precisely what I told foxnews and I hope others echo my sentiments and let fox hear from them.

[Abigail Adams]

I've been thinking. We keep hearing people say, "I can't believe this is happening in America," and, "Where is the help?"

This is such a huge natural disaster, I think it is hard to believe this is happening here because we've never seen anything like it here before. I think as Americans we all feel "entitled" to some degree, because we are used to living relatively comfortable lives and because we are a wealthy nation.

I do think people are desperate and in great need. But take any of us out of our comfy homes with electricity and easy access to food, and we will all be pretty whiney. Destroy our homes and the lives we know and we will all be a bit hysterical.

I think things will continue to calm down as each day passes. This is a huge disaster that has taken many lives. And yet many lives have been saved. Those who are still alive will get over their initial shock and will hopefully come to realize they are blessed to be alive.

[toldyou]

"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."


I think it all disappeared with womens lib.

[PhiKapMom]

That might explain why people just didn't walk out.

[Texasforever]

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.

5 days to get the largest relief effort in our history assembled, and deployed is an amazing feat. Communications in New York were completely disrupted for 3 days when 2 buildings fell. You are expecting a response that our present technology cannot provide. There are 92,000 square miles of devastation that you appear to be forgetting about. If anyone has a reason to gripe it is the 2 million people outside of New Orleans that are taking a backseat because of the race politics going on in NO.

[madison10]

She is looney-tunes!!!!

She is full of herself! What about the other states hit by Katrina? A cabinet level postion? I suppose she wants to fill it herself.

[NautiNurse]

I just heard on the local news that the gas lines should be history by next week because we'll have plenty of gas.

Great news!

...and the road to recovery begins...

[Krodg]

We should be praising God!

Amen.

[toldyou]

Good for you!

[higgmeister]

Everyone is losing sight of something as folk here argue about the number of days, whether Shep or Geraldo said this or that. What you are missing is that this is now a national disgrace to have people dying in the streets of an AMERICAN city. I cannot stomach the thought of children dying or being raped. Let stop talking about whether or not these reporters are grandstanding or not. The important thing is the people who are DYING before our eyes. Get it?

NO! This is not as national disgrace. It is a Natural Disaster.
Hurricane Camile hit Biloxi in 1969 and caused lethal floods
in the Shenandoah Vally in Virginia. I helped clean up after it.
My brother saw a locomotive that had been carried over a
hundred yards off it's track. Mountains fell into valleys.

Katrina is much worse. And it is still ongoing with water
still flowing into the city. Only persons that think with
their brains will be part of the solution. Cool heads will
prevail.

[smug]

"She really needs a smaller gun---"

Rossi makes a 5 shot 38 spl. It is perfect for a small hand, and packs one H@ll of a punch.

[Eva]

I just sent him the email, I said pretty much what I said earlier, following it with, We know Hillary is just playing partisan politics, what's your excuse? Get a clue!

My husband has volunteered, but the administration is so slow because there is just no leadership coming from the states, themselves and no housing available for the volunteers. They are awaiting Navy transports to house the personnel.

[DrewsMum]

off subject a bit, but my husband seems to think that Harrigan's heroic rescue of the white college student stuck on that wall was really a set up and was part of his crew. I disagree,,,,did any one else catch that???

[bonfire]

You nailed it. And all the other states that aren't whining. God bless Gov. Barber.

[Spktyr]

WWL coverage over the last few days. See past few threads.

WFAA reported that their copter came under fire yesterday while covering the disaster.

[conservative cat]

Lott had outstanding answers. Thanks for posting that. I have been away from the tv for hours now.

[Dolphy]

They just collapsed without ANY resistance after making many stupid decisions and filing the plan in the back of some dusty file cabinets, leaving FEMA wondering what the hell happened.

This is absolutely true and there's no excuse. Major municipalities all should be drilling their emergency/disaster plans on a regular basis, particularly after 9/11. But these folks couldn't even get out of the gate right.

Irresponsible prigs like Scarborough, who I read here is bashing Bush, make me ill. He, who has criticized Bush endlessly about spending in Washington, is now screaming about how the Federal Government was slow to respond? Does he have any idea at what it would cost for the Federal Government to become responsible for these local plans?

[spanalot]

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

Don't forget there are alot of private citizens shooting warning shots.

[StarFan]

I thought BOR was weird with that too..? What was up with that? He acted like he was in charge of the National Guard and the White House.

So did Whorealdo who said "Bill if anyone can get these people help, you and I can". So much ego filling one little screen.

[Born in a Rage]

There are probably other ways to haul gas down there but it would, of course, be very dangerous and you're not going to be able to help anyone if you get hurt yourself.