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

[PA Engineer]

Bull! What is your agenda? Here is a scanner link so you can hear what is going on rather than pulling it elbow length out of your lower brain.

http://bellwouthpwp.net/k/d/kd5eis/

This is a very hot operational scanner link. In the past two (2) hours their have been reports of shootings, hostage situations (NOLA National Guard Commander held hostage by gang thugs), medical and other evacs, food and water distribution.

What type of troll are you?

[Will_Zurmacht]

i think it was on nightline....only lasts about 15 seconds, catch it if you can...its a classic!

[rolling_stone]

Someone posted earlier that the kid who commandeered the bus should be Mayor of NO.

Yeah and in a couple of years Governor of LA...

[Steve_Seattle]

"The Red Cross lady"

She also said that either NO or Louisiana officials told the RC NOT to come to NO before the hurricane.

[Arizona Carolyn]

That is soooooo going to speed things up, too. We are just getting into the season where they have to change over from Summer blend to winter blend fuel... that always puts a crimp in the supply. BTW, has China offered us any of their reserves?

[Cboldt]

If what I've heard from Col. Hunt is correct, how can the MSM continue to critize the President and his response time.

The media's function is emphatically NOT to deliver facts. It is to gather market share and audience, and as a sideline, to manipulate the public.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I will, thanks!

[PhiKapMom]

Sad commentary on some of the men of Orleans Parish who could have helped. Guess that the welfare handouts caught up this time with lack of personal responsibility and initiative to help. I saw the look on the faces of the looters -- they were as happy as could be. Disgusting.

[DrewsMum]

Estimates have 75% of the US interstate tanker truck fleet involved in this.

Remember, the whole East Coast now has to be supplied by truck until more pipelines can be certified - everone east of the Mississippi is now without an oil supply - and that has to be filled by the 25% that are uninvolved.

Oh, and until Wednesday, they couldn't do that anyway. It is illegal (or was) to sell the specially formulated gas for one market or city in another market or city. Go look up "boutique blends". Since Bush got the EPA to suspend the law, we now can just produce plain gasoline at refineries and send it around the country.


All greek to me,,,I wasn't talking about a fancy tanker,,just something that could safely transport gas,,,as far as the legality of one market to another, i could care less,,,people are dying for lack of resources,,,,really, what are they gonna do between texas and mississipp arrest me??? they have their hands full,,,,but I was trying to THINK of something,,,my cousin is down there and 9 months pregnant, grandmother just had open heart surgery, brother/aunt are both asthmatic and it's hot as all get out there,,,,desperate times call for desperate measures

[Not A Snowbird]

Take news reports with a grain of salt and a bucket of skepticism. The reporters are hysterical and I'm sure there's some serious misinformation and exaggeration going on.

[Txsleuth]

Yes---everytime Jeff went to her and asked her how she was doing...and was she getting tired of standing in line...

She would just smile, and start reeling off her "blessings" and say she has no complaints...

It would be awful if anything bad has happened to her..(not that I want anything bad to happen to anyone, but she just really got to me)

[LadyBuzz]

I think we better let Chris Matthews & Aaron Brown in on the coverup! LOL

[P.O.E.]

Sorry about the typo. I guess I was thinking of Zaire, Afghanistan, Bosnia, (and that's just recent history) of parachuting food in. Maybe I've seen too many WWII movies, but seems to be that would have been better than nothing.

Perhaps you're right - maybe that's an artifact of our age - imagine the news coverage if some pallets injured or killed some of the survivors.

[Spktyr]

Geez - Natl Guard Scanner - the idiot civilians in the EOC just don't have a clue....

[StarFan]

There was one good thing that came from Hurricane Katrina, it got Cindy Shi*head off the front pages.

Indeed but she held on until the end saying GWB was responsible for the hurricane, hoping that would make news.

[Cboldt]

My proof is that no one has been sniped

Just a minor change - your proof is that there have been no reports of people being sniped. You may be right.

[rolling_stone]

It may have been a lie, maybe an attempt to get more water. These are desperate times for those people - utter mass hysteria, confusion, panic, and chaos. Nobody knows what is going on.

True but it was the NO Chief of Police with 4 stars on his shoulders making the statement in a non-professional manner (almost screaming) he should have know what ws going on..he could have sent a patrol car or gone himself to talk to a general..he was with 1000 NG surely one had a radio...

[SE Mom]

I haven't heard anything about that since- hard to know at this point what's fact or fiction.

[onyx eyes]

I'm no fan of the media by a very long shot. But in this case they are also human and they are reacting like I would hope that most human beings would behave.

Or, how many times have you watched people cry and die in front of your very own eyes lately? Huh?

[Steve_Seattle]

shootings/looting/hostages

In the past couple of days, it almost seems as if there's a tacit understanding between the NO city officials and the media to give the criminals a subtle "thumbs up" to cause trouble so it can all be blamed on Bush. No, not a "conspiracy," just a subtle kind of nod and wink. And playing the race card is part of that.