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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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
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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
nice summary.
If I had my way, no money would go to Orleans Parish until they do a major clean-up and I don't mean from the hurricane.
My donations are going to MS/AL who have been totally ignored for the most part.
Department of the Bucket? No offense intended towards survivors and their family, but such concepts need to be mocked.
In Japan they used to call those "honey buckets"
Jefferson Parish is stopping them now. The bridge lets you off in Jeff Parish, at the mall where the police station was overrun and burned a couple of days ago by people who walked over the bridge. The sheriff and president of Jefferson Parish are not letting anybody else over. They have no water or power over there, either, and are dealing with their own rioting and looting situations without any help, apparently.
O2
Maybe the NO officials have issued orders to their people to keep the people pinned in the convention center and on the freeway ramp, because those two situations have provided an opportunity for so much Bush-bashing. (I know, I'm starting to sound like a conspiratorial DUmmy.)
Thread about Brits in NOLA......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475845/posts
And yes, I have cried and I have been sad
But I also didn't lose it .. I sucked it up and did what had to be done
The people down there need help and action
They don't need people to falling to pieces
His poll numbers may be at 30-35% by next week.
Why does Gretta keep saying they need volunteers? I just feel that these people need some mothering at a time like this.
I'm with you. I'm sending my money and a care package to my cousin who DID get out of Slidell.
I've should quit posting for tonight because I know I'll say something I shouldn't. I'm just so ANGRY.
Yes, she's the one who gave me goosebumps. Contrast that with the whiner who said the food she was given to eat was too cold. Had I been the interviewer, I'd have snatched it out of her hands!!
CNN's website front photo has the heading: "Military personnel distribute food and water Friday at the CONVENTION CENTER in New Orleans."
Was the Police Chief or someone else saying there was no food or water at the Convention Center still?
And that's the best news I've heard all day.
Remember, the media isn't covering everything. I've found that the national media has been pretty pathetic - watching the streaming feeds from the local stations online has proven much more informative.
Supply airdrops started Wednesday morning.
Unfortunately, the thug population tended to get to them first. Then it got messy.
I just saw Shep Smith SCREAMING at hannity and colmes that the police wouldn't let people walk out of the city, they were turning them back...
I just don't understand what's going on.
I saw a convoy 9 miles long drive right by that bridge around NOON today!
I heard earlier that 50-100 firefighters and their families were trapped inside the bell south building and were pinned down by groups of snipers !! WTF is with that ! I saw video from around noon with literally HUNDREDS of national guard troops standing RIGHT IN FRONT OF THAT BUILDING!
Something funny is going on.
Thanks.......can't say as I blame them. I'm sure they had their own situations to deal with.
Appreciate the info.
I don't know, I think at least food and water are being dropped in there now.
Probably tomorrow once it's light, there will be departures from there.
They also have to figure out where to put all those people.
Maybe that's part of the delay.
Wish somebody would realize what some have been saying, that the closed military bases would be perfect longer-term places to house 'em.
Maybe other parishes don't want those people in their parish. After what I am seeing with some of the Orleans Parish folks, I don't blame them. Did you see the report that people going in the Astrodome were dumping their weapons in the bushes before they were searched. Were they planning to pick them up and use them again?
The authorities in Jefferson Parish sent the mayor of NO a letter, demanding that the evacuees who came to their parish be rescreened for drugs and guns BEFORE the put them on the buses to evacuate them.
They also demanded that they be given showers.
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