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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
Well-said.
I wonder if anyone remembers that on inauguration day, Jan 2000, President and Mrs Bush's limo was pelted with fruit as it made its way through Washington? From Day one, President Bush has been hated by the Dems and liberal media. He was supposed to be the lame-duck, 'accidental' president but, by God's grace, he rose above those and worse labels. President Bush will survive this crisis and more. We must continue to pray for God's leading and grace for this president, VP Cheney, and cabinet members.
or Still singing around the piano bar and not noticing what's happening in the "real" world.
Play it again Sam!
Not confirmed, no - hence my qualifier.
My personal prediction: No NFL season - they will end up dispersed into stadiums across the country and gradually assimilated into local populations over the next year or so . . . as I've been saying, these refugees are now the Dustbowl Okies of our generation . . . it's a much bigger challenge then any of us realize just yet . . .
You are correct. But there are poor people there too and they may have started out with only 50$ cash--which goes fast when you gas is $4 a gallon and you can actually get it. Remember, many of them had migrated a little farther north to get away from storm (a couple of counties) and came back home after the storm to check on their things. That costs money also. But this is not about MY preparedness. It wasn't me, it was family. My husband's and mine. I really have no idea exactly what they did/didn't have----as far as cash.
Anyone know where LBJ is buried? I have to use the facilities.
was thinking about that, too. Unless they reverse the decision to empty this city, all of them are going to have to be moved out one way or another. Exactly where are they going to send these urban terrorists? If they expect the rest of the country to keep up their enthusiasm for taking in the homeless, some really serious decisions need to be made about what to do with them.
Los Angeles can take them, just boot out a few 100k illegals, the crime rate will probably go down...
If you are concerned about bureaucracy, check with your local churches. I'd be willing to bet you could ship clothing items to "any hurricane shelter" in Biloxi, Gulfport, Baton Rouge or Lafayette.
I'm becoming most unstable with family, friends, coworkers, snarling at me 'YOUR president is KILLING off NEW ORLEANS' and I'm 'bout to start swingin. Even before the election I wasn't tempted to truly lay somebody out.
You running into this, too?
Grant's Tomb?
I am interested in any online radio feeds. I have a small list I've rotated through over the last few days, but all from the disaster area and none specifically from the Astrodome.
Can't they cancel the NHL season again? No one seemed to mind that.
I thought it was very well stated. Flowery language is nice in Hallmark cards and love songs. Your words were loud and clear.
I was just commenting what we were doing. I did hear that our Lt Governor (RAT Gov is always gone) had to declare an emergency so we could send Guard troops earlier in the week and put them under FEMA control because the moron LA Governor never asked OK for help.
Buses with evacs leave with no escort even though instructed to wait for police escort, show up at a checkpoint north on I-10, checkpoint doesn't know where to put 'em.
WHO IS "RUNNING" this show??
Again:WTF??
Is it possible that people are still showing up in the 10's of thousands?
NG gets there... buses most out, hands out food and water to the few remaining... leaves .... then thousands MORE show up?
I heard somewhere at one point something to that effect.. that people were showing up at the dome or wherever faster than they were busing them out... something like at that point 2 days ago they had bussed out 15K people but actually had 10K more people than when they started bussing them.
Heck I don't know.
The pictures of food and water at the convention center has a time stamp of 11 something this morning? The ladies Geraldo interviewed had some of what looked like the water they were handing out.
The nearest working ATM is in Florida or Tennessee.
Mobile is about as screwed as Biloxi.
Can't run an AC unit on a gas generator for very long without blowing up the generator.
Water will help more people than gas will. With water, you can survive.
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