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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
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've been watching the journal of someone who lives in New Orleans. A friend is posting for him as he journies out of the city. Apparently there are still payphones working in the city (???), he had a meal this evening, and does not feel overly concerned for his safety and he is at the convention center.
I wish Shep would elaborate or we could get some confirmation of this.
Nope, you're not the only one.
They did release the prisoners, I didn't hear anything about doing so inside the SuperDome.
http://205.252.89.181:8000/live
http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=scanner&numresult=25
I'm not hearing much traffic this past hour..
It's a horrible situation and I don't believe they could have done everything mistake free. Seems they would have at least had emergency supplies and relocation areas more readily available.
I believe it may be a different BellSouth building that the firemen may be holed up in.
Works for me...
FEMA *is* in MS and AL, the media just isn't covering it. They're certainly in Biloxi.
Drewsmum: I am telling you what the people there (small towns) have told me,,,,they haven't seen FEMA,,understandibly, FEMA is overwhelmed. Media can't cover it if they aren't there,,,the small rural areas.
There is also plenty of gas in the ground iin tanks n parts of MS - but they have to get power going to run gas station pumps. FEMA is bringing in generators to help with that and ALL the utility companies have sent people. It will take time. People will die.
Drewsmum: Is that what YOU want to hear when it's your family's life on the line. People will die. Wow, what a great bedside manner you have.
Gas alone will not save people
Drewsmum: I beg to differ, please follow:
1. you have gas you can run generator and therefor a/c.
2. you have gas you can drive to closest city (for them Mobile AL) and buy water/ice
3. you have gas you can drive to closest city to working atm and withdraw CASH, to purchase such goods.
4. Seeing as how most of these people will die of dehydration/heat stroke, I think a little a/c and water/food will save people. Do you get it? If you have gas, you have water, food, cash, a/c and the list goes on. Therefore, GAS ALONE will save people right now. THAT my friend, does not take a rocket scientist to figure out.
Are we sure this report about the firemen is true? I didn't hear one thing mentioned about it tonight and I was switching channels.
What channel were you watching that reported that?
I pretty much have stuck to Fox...
I cannot tolerate MSNBC OR CNN...
Everywhere in TX but Houston, as of yesterday, we have concealed carry in cars without permits now. :-D
Excellant points!
you know, prisoners on the run...if that were the case that might explain the reluctance of some folks to any help....they know they're going back to the big house if caught...find a gun, shoot a cop is probably their mentality
still don't know for sure, but i find it hard to believe they'd let prisoners go, but wouldn't be suprised if some made a run either...
It was a Fox Alert and CNN Alert earlier today.
Yet nothing tonight. Now THAT is odd.
Well from what I've heard they can bus them out but there is no where to take them. That's not being prepared and they've had years to plan on where to relocate if the levy breaks.
OSHA and the EPA have been told to take a hike by the President for the duration.
And, surprisingly, they're taking the hike.
the water is going back into the lake, its would be physically impossible to take it out with tanker trucks.
I think those comments showed more about that man than Bush.
Saw the video on CNN. Mike Myers who was next to him looked like "What the hell are you doing?"
Truth hurts -- how is it bigoted to talk about the crimes being committed in Orleans Parish compared to the rest of the area. I resent your accusation. If you cannot see the truth, then you have my sympathy but I don't believe in coddling hoodlums and drug addicts which we are seeing plenty of on the TV.
I feel for the children and the elderly/handicapped who are in this terrible situation. I feel nothing for the able bodied people that looted TV's, jewelry, tried to break into hospitals, stole guns, etc. If that makes me a bigot then I have a lot of company. The 9th Ward in Orleans is someplace I wouldn't have wanted to be in at night on a good day. Why don't you read all about Orleans Parish and all their problems long before the hurricane?
FYI, we had a basketball player here at OU that comes out of that hellhole of the 9th Ward. Great kid who was raised by his grandparents and talked about how unsafe it was for anyone to be out at night in the 9th Ward. His Mother was a drug addict and could care less. Hollis made something of himself because of his grandparents in spite of the thugs/hoodlums surrounding him.
If the men of Orleans had half the gumption of some of these Grandmothers, it would have been a better city to live. For every Hollis Price, there are tens of thugs/drug addicts in Orleans Parish. That's a fact not spin. I have heard him talk about the city he came from and how bad it was when he was growing up. His grandparents evacuated to Houston before being told which speaks volumes for them.
Next time you decide to try and paint us into a corner, think again.
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