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]

Scanner report: Bridge sections are being brought into NO. Like I said before, the adults are in charge.

[Heatseeker]

One failure whose 'ownership' I'm curious about: the decision to tell people who supposedly could not evacuate (BTW, when did public transport stop running?) to congregate at the Superdome.

Identifying a single place like that for the whole city to focus on practically guaranteed overcrowding and unrest. Why not simply specify which regions of the city were above sea/lake level and thus unlikely to flood?

[bonfire]

"Everyone who is reading this thread is noticing how your 'conversation' is going and how you are both trying to instigate some kind of bigoted hysteria on the FR"


You are projecting your fears. Sorry. I won't take responsibility for your feelings or your comprehension skills. If you can't understand that BAD BAD people are causing quite alot of trouble in N.O. killing, looting, raping and MAY be arriving in a city near you, then I can't help you.

[hoosiermama]

WHO IS "RUNNING" this show??

UH! NO ONE?

[rolling_stone]

Can't they cancel the NHL season again? No one seemed to mind that.

How about a new Hurricane Basketball League, that will help a lot of displaced person get good employment..players, coaches, vendors, ticket takers, security, ambulance drivers, etc...

[PhiKapMom]

That's neat! Small towns are great places to live.

[DrewsMum]

There are working atms in Mobile. I have eyewitness accts.

again--no gas, then no water.

[LikeLight]

chet, you had two brilliant ideas in the span of just a minute or two . . . you're on a roll . . .

The Great Society, the NHL . . . things that definitely belong in the dustbin of history . . .

[bonfire]

Good lord. Like a check point would stop me. They certainly weren't using guns on the looters, doubt they'd bother with someone trying to get off the bridge.

[txhurl]

WHO IS "RUNNING" this show??

The leadfoots.

[Texasforever]

I am afraid that the Astrodome is going to become the Superdome in a very short time. That building is pushing 50 years old and it is far from up the the challenge. The plumbing, electrical and airconditiong systems are designed for peak use for one event and then maintenance between events. There are 84 showers and toilets in the building to accommodate the 15,000 people that are now full time in the building. Unless these folks take responsibility for keeping that 50 year old plumbing clear they will have a sanitation problem in short order. I don't see how the air handling system can keep up with 24 hour demand for long without major downtime for maintenance. I have been to many events in the Dome and I can tell you that you do not want to enter the bathroom area after the first 2 hours because, by then most toilets are clogged and overflowing.

[chet_in_ny]

Better yet, round up the looters and put them on an island. Pay-per-view survivor.

[txdoda]

PS, even the little town of Athens TX down the way from us, is taking in 250.

CHEERS for East Texas !!

[DrewsMum]

Mobile is about as screwed as Biloxi.


There are also people in Mobile with power. It's not near as bad as biloxi, although it is bad. My sis-in-law lives there.

[bonfire]

Thanks, Spktyr.

[John Jamieson]

You see .....

If we had elected Gore, no 9/11, no Iraq, no hurricanes ....

Yeah, right!

BTW 2000 and 2001 only two years we didn't have any hurricanes!

[NautiNurse]

The firemen thread

[Texasforever]

Nah, mainly because they know I would start swinging. LOL

[Arizona Carolyn]

Heck, we don't take a trip anywhere in the summer without a gallon of water in the car.

[buickmackane]

http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS05/50902031

The bus which overturned in Opelousas must have had no escort. According to the link above, the crash was most likely caused by the same passenger who was killed. He wanted to get off the bus and struggled with the bus driver while the bus was heading up I-49.