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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/
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
I saw that segment & it didn't look like a setup to me then, but I'm afraid I've grown more cynical in the past few days
OK, this is a legitmate issue you have posted. I don't know what is going on really at this convention center. there is food and water there, the photos are on this thread. but the evacuation effort, I don't know what's up with that.
one fair criticism of FEMA, that I also have, is why they don't have regular press conferences every 4 hours to detail to the media what is going on at which locations: "we are moving food and water here, buses here, hospital X evacuated to the airport, etc" - so someone could ask them "what is the plan for the convention center". there are enough media members at the key locations around town so that if they got this information out, people could be informed.
Span, I chose my words carefully. I said shot, not killed. The soldier was shot in the upper leg. I heard the call for medivac over the scanner. I posted it, as did many other FReepers. 10 hours later Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff specifically mentioned that incident in his presser. I assume this soldier lived. I never heard any follow up on the other two officers shot and medivac-ed (call for medivac also came over the command scanner). I hope they lived also. But just because these guys did not die (which I hope is true) does not mean there are not real snipers.
No, why? Actually, I never listen -- on too late.
Shepherd Smith needs to be taken OUT of NO.
Because....Getting away for a day...praying alot as I drove gave me a change of heart. Just suddenly realized when I first looked at dad's TV and all those people in need...they were alive and could have easily been mountains of body bags......
BTW radio said this evening one out of six people in NOLA do NOT own a car.....What was the population of NO ?
That would be fine if that was where the trucks were coming from. I guess they should have asked you where to stage the supplies, then they could have avoided all the traffic.
I'm just frustrated cause we have plenty of gas here. I don't understand why someone with a tanker or whatever kind of truck needs to do it can't fill on up here, even from one of the gas stations,,,,,and take it,,,how come some agencies haven't done that i wonder,,,,there have been no gas lines here that i have seen,,,,
it doesn't say anything there about the breakdown in civil order.
IMO ... The media is trying to divided this country
The media is salivating for a story like that. They just can't wait. How I despise them all.
I'd like to read that. Ping me, if you would. In exchange, here's a little goodie I found, aimed at professional disaster planners. It opens up with a discussion of a PlayStation game that simulates uprising and crowd control. THere is also a critical review of a film "Cyclone," including speculation of disaster in NOLA. The piece was published in Feb 2003.
http://muweb.millersville.edu/~cdr/cdrissue1.1.pdf
The film wraps up with a mini-case-study of New Orleans's vulnerability to hurricanes, noting the paradox that its protective levees, if overtopped, will simply allow water to fill the city to their height. Perhaps 100,000 people might be trapped in the city, including a large number of tourists unfamiliar with the hazard. Meanwhile, over one million people will have to evacuate on narrow bridges and causeways.Cyclone!'s observations about New Orleans are certainly apposite, as seen in the city's near miss in October, 2002. Because the film is principally a survey, it skips rapidly from topic to topic, and no particular theme emerges strongly, though one emphasis comes disappointingly close to being a unifying element: coping with persistent exposure to hazard.
Early in the film, the narrator (actor Peter Coyote) comments in response to the tornado's destruction: "Wounds are healed, neighborhoods rise from the rubble...The human spirit endures. Such is life in Tornado Alley, USA." In the film's closing oration, he says, "It is only a matter of time before another great storm exacts its toll. Nature has given us fair warning...Our home is a planet perpetually in the making, forever new. The same awesome powers that sustain life can also wreak destruction. It is up to us to be prepared. There lies the challenge and the delight of living on this dynamic earth."
I wish, and I may simply be exposing a personal bias, that the film had taken these points a little further. As it stands, they seem somewhat disconnected from the rest of the film. Their salience is implied, but not elaborated, and the filmmakers missed an opportunity to weave the plentiful spectacular images into a more directed narrative.
Certainly the narrator's observations are major concerns in the study of adjustment and adaptation to hazard. Everyone, to a greater or lesser extent, lives exposed to hazards: to uncertainty and ambiguity, to the possibility of sudden loss. Risk suffuses our lives, and awareness of risk guides, enables, and restricts our conduct. If "the human spirit endures," not just in the face of risk but in the face of disaster, how does it? What wisdom can those who experience the forces of a world remaking itself bring to those on the outskirts of such convulsions? If "it is up to us to be prepared," then how should we go about it?
At one point, the narrator observes that these storms are the result of heat-distributing atmospheric processes. In other words, they are merely the natural mixings of the air. There is a corollary to that statement--a concept that is accepted in most thinking about hazards: it is human uses in tandem with natural processes that create hazards. Some discussion of how that happens, the land-use decisions over many years, the alternatives, trade-offs and conundrums that work to place people at greater or lesser risk, would certainly have enhanced this documentary, and could have done so without sacrificing any of the eye-catching cinematography.
The film identified the precariousness of New Orleans, but what should be done, in New Orleans or elsewhere? The film flirts with the great question of how people live and cope under threat. Yet ultimately the film shies away from tackling it, content to show us the pain of disaster victims but not examining the antecedents or possible remedial strategies.
Of course no single work--certainly not a 60-minute film--can be conclusive on such matters, but some speculation would have been welcome. Cyclone! does justice to the awesome consequences of natural disaster, but the willingness to take on difficult questions about preparation, disaster response, and land use would be a greater celebration of the "endurance of the human spirit." And the film unfortunately missed a good opportunity to suggest some of the prudent steps people can take when suddenly exposed to these hazards.
Nevertheless, the footage of actual storms is dramatic and memorable, and the careful explanations and illustrations of technical concepts make the film valuable for classroom use.
Call it a hunch that two and two are not adding up to four with a lot of these media reporters. The one guy from CNN makes my skin crawl with his reports.
I will take Harrigan reports as fact -- not a lot of the others.
People chose not to leave, even when they had free travel. so much for that part of your plan.
plans for communications,
Wiped out. Next part of your plan, please?
and pre-staged supplies, etc.
They were there, and hundreds of thousands of people have been eating and drinking *since day one* because of them.
We're now five days after the hurricane and significant federal aid just began arriving.
That's just simply a lie. 250 shelter sites have been up and running even *during* the hurricane and since... and are taking pretty good care of anybody that isn't shooting at them.
It's never enough.
No doubt in mind that when this is all over we will know:
1. This was the worst or almost worst disaster in US history.
2. Affected the neediest most helpless population mix.
3. And, was meet with fastest, most massive relieve effort in US history.
4. Had the most ridiculous press coverage in history.
Thanks W, you and your team have risen to the occasion once again!
Shooting warning shots AT HELICOPTERS? FROM A HOSPITAL ROOF???
At Guardsmen from rooftops around where looters are looting?
At boat crews trying to rescue people????
For crissake, they SHOT the pilot of a ferryboat that was shuttling supplies and Guardsmen into the city! I heard the whole thing over the scanners!
I may be naive, but why aren't military A-130's airdropping supplies?
They are spinning it that is the primary cause. No mention was made of people disregarding the evacuation order nor of the lack of planning by the city and state to evacuate those unable to do so themselves.
BBC just had part of the interview by the mayor (it's not MY fault) one as well as footage of the frustrated people still there. They are showing footage of the Astro Dome though which shows some positive actions, and did have the tapes of the President earlier today in MS and Alabama.
Actually, this seems more fair reporting than most American television IMHO.
Hubby seems to think that guy was probably part of their crew
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