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

[ShellieGOP]

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

How many is Chappequa taking in?

Boston?

Vermont?

Martha's Vineyard?

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[Gideon7]

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...

It would explain the incongruity between Shep/Geraldo's statements and the NG.. but who knows?

[bonfire]

Some folks can't take the truth and are WORSE than the MSM.

Better to sugar coat everything for the sensitive fairy tale lovers.

[Cedar]

Yeah, maybe since the liberals seem to have all the "answers," let's send them the thugs to house and rehabilitate.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yep, they were just waiting for the world's attention to be diverted to something else. Wonder how many more girls they will drug and rape now?

[Howlin]

He's dreadful.

My list is getting longer and longer.

[BurbankKarl]

Same guy in a 2002 PBS Special on a Cat 5 hurricane drill....complaining about FEMAs response....

http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcript_neworleans.html

WALTER MAESTRI: A couple of days ago we actually had an exercise where we brought a fictitious Category Five hurricane--

WALTER MAESTRI: Well, when the exercise was completed it was evident that we were going to lose a lot of people we changed the name of the storm from Delaney to K-Y-A-G-B... kiss your ass goodbye... because anybody who was here as that Category Five storm came across... was gone.


WALTER MAESTRI: It's going to look like a massive shipwreck. There's going to be-- there's going to be, you know-- everything that that the water has carried in is going to be there. Alligators, moccasins, you know every kind of rodent that you could think of.

All of your sewage treatment plants are under water. And of course the material is flowing free in the community. Disease becomes a distinct possibility now. The petrochemicals that are produced all up and down the Mississippi River --much of that has floated into this bowl. I mean this has become, you know, the biggest toxic waste dump in the world now. Is the city of New Orleans because of what has happened.

WALTER MAESTRI: The hurricane is spinning counter-clockwise. It's been pushing in front of it water from the Gulf of Mexico for days. It's now got a wall of water in front of it some 30, 40 feet high. As it approaches the levies of the-- the-- that surround the city, it tops those levees. As the storm continues to pass over. Now Lake Ponchetrain, that water from Lake Ponchartrain is now pushed on to that - those population which has been fleeing from the western side and everybody's caught in the middle. The bowl now completely fills. And we've now got the entire community underwater some 20, 30 feet underwater. Everything is lost.

WALTER MAESTRI: It's going to look like a massive shipwreck. There's going to be-- there's going to be, you know-- everything that that the water has carried in is going to be there. Alligators, moccasins, you know every kind of rodent that you could think of.

All of your sewage treatment plants are under water. And of course the material is flowing free in the community. Disease becomes a distinct possibility now. The petrochemicals that are produced all up and down the Mississippi River --much of that has floated into this bowl. I mean this has become, you know, the biggest toxic waste dump in the world now. Is the city of New Orleans because of what has happened.

WALTER MAESTRI: I think they know that, I think that they've been told that. I don't know that anybody, though, psychologically, you know has come to grips with that as-- as a-- a potential real situation. Just like none of us could possibly come to grips with the loss of the World Trade Center. And it's still hard for me to envision that it's gone. You know and it's impossible for someone like me to think that the French Quarter of New Orleans could be gone.

[OKIEDOC]

Lots of people seem to have short memories.

I have more confidence in Bush right now than I ever will with any non common sense Hellary or Kerry in charge.

Louisiana is suffering under what many voters get when they vote emotions over common sense.

Jindal has show much more back bone than any of the Democrats at any level of government and that includes Blanco and Landrieu.

[md2576]

Now I wonder what we would do if Hoover breaks. I bet there's no plan for that yet either. Like its not inevitable.

[NautiNurse]

Please read post #1.

[DrewsMum]

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

How many is Chappequa taking in?

Boston?

Vermont?

Martha's Vineyard?

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The Hamptons??? Heheheheheheh,,,,,,,

[John Jamieson]

Somebody early suggested using hill, nadler, kennedy, etc as plug material.

[Mo1]

I've had it with them ..

[Tiger Smack]

Is it possible that people are still showing up in the 10's of thousands?

there was never a official count of how many stayed, only guessses that 80% left. obviously 80% meant 80% of the suburban areas and not the city dwellers. FEMA now has to relocate a entire CITY before people start starving to death.

[LikeLight]

Your warning is well-taken . . . I have compassion for the Homeless - I helped in supporting our Church's homeless shelter last winter . . . and every single pro we talked to said individual police clearance checks on each person and on-site security were absolutely essential . . . the cops love what we're doing (takes a problem off their hands) and they don't want us hurt and they insist we do the police check before admitting anyone to the shelter . . .

[Texasforever]

Now I wonder what we would do if Hoover breaks. I bet there's no plan for that yet either. Like its not inevitable.

Ok ya got me. LOL. I must say I have never been trolled this well. You are good.

[md2576]

LOL Good haven't been here for awhile. Nice to see you still around. Did you hear about the sniper in NO? LOL

[GOPrincess]

"And no way for them to find the authorities and tell them where they were?"

Ummm, weren't they doing that via the TV?

[PhiKapMom]

Thought you would enjoy reading that sad commentary on the projects of NO after what we were told. That's scarey to think some of those thugs are being sent around the Country.

[PA Engineer]

These people are amazing. The NG and FEMA coordinating multiple efforts of this magnitude and yet all people can do is attack them.

A little rant coming.

The finger pointing should be at the Mayor, Governor, city corruption and NO citizens who ignored for 40 years an impending disaster. Few had BOBs (bug-out-bags) with even a minimum of 3 days of food and some water. Even fewer had a simple battery operating AM radio to get a warning of the impending flood.

NOLA committed suicide and few want to face that reality. This was the end stage of a "socialist utopia".