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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
Then why build a dyke? Just sink some barges. Easy Peezy.
Exactly. Why do I think no member of the CBC has a single displaced resident of the NO Ninth Ward living in their homes right now?
15% public transportation in NO.
The building in Akron that housed the blimp used to create it's own weather also. Clouds and rain. No one ever believed me when I told them that tidbit.
Thanks for the confirmation.
its not that simple, and Im kinda ticked that people keep saying this. Its a narow canal...not the lake and not the river. its not wide and if the barge, which you cant steer, goes off course and takes out more chunks of the wall then it only gets that much worse.
maybe they can drop cars into the hole to clow it enought o fill the rest with sandbags.
Water is a pretty mean adversary when you try to corral it up like a horse.
Best get it right the first time.
It doesn't take many walls of water to drop high rise buildings into their basements.
If you don't believe it, ask anyone from Gulfport, Mississippi.
Humidity just hung in the air that day -- it was terrible but the game was good.
Brother, you are on a roll like I've never seen . . .
CLUB GITMO!!!
Your hitting on all cylinders on your posts.
Hey, (not)millionnaire! Howsya!?!
Maybe they'll be shamed into pitching in.
I did see a couple & the man said he was ready to go to CA.
Then went on to reveal how unprepared they were for this 'big blow' (w/ days warning).
I've lived in CA there's NO warnings about the 'big shakes'.
As a NYer, and even though this is liberal lala land, it is composed of the useful idiots (i.e. limosine liberals)... not so much the "liberal exploited" as you see in New Orleans.
I am shocked at the poverty down there and the total lack of personal responsibility on the part of people. Sure NY has poverty problems but NY's "ghettos" are in the past 10 years or so overwhelmingly populated by hard-working latin america/carribean immigrants.
We are finally seeing the truth- that LBJ ruined generations of people.
Next time I turn on MSNBC and watch Joe Scarborough's show
Please smack me up side my STUPID head
Go to hell Joe!
You are doing a superb job with these threads. Thank you.
Great! It's only blocks from the Capitol:
http://maps.yahoo.com/py/maps.py?Pyt=Typ&name=US+Army+National+Guard+Armory&desc=(202)+433-5175&csz=Washington+DC+20003&country=us&cs=9&ed=Dl.Q3K160Sye0Xp2HGqT4RJhOvP5R_34deuayPyyVswk9LrTieHqmVzUlZVLCgybC_pDy04wtA--
The Congressional Black Caucus can go down there and take care of them!
Right now the water is flowing out.
Corps may soon blow many more levee holes.
The whole thing would drain even faster if they would blow out "bayou savage".
Sending these people to DC is worse than leaving them in NOLA....
You are doing a superb job with these threads. Thank you
Ditto, even though i continue to argue with you ;)
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