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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
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Can you email that to Rush?
The first bus was a twenty year old kid driving....His neighbors pooled their money for gas to get there.....Resourceful
Again, it's not about money to get the gas, it's that there is a major gas shortage,,,doesn't matter how resourceful you are, if there no gas, there is not gas. Plus, all he had to do was get to the Texas line and gas was plentiful,,,,,so if he had a half a tank when he started that would have gotten him to the line or at least close so he could fuel up again,,,
He's mine too and I get to adopt him first! You may have him every other weekend except if there is a disaster....then he stays with me!
I take that back. Not Quisling or Hitler. Chamberlain - another example of complete leadership failure.
I believe NO
I was always taught that you should have a 3 to 7 day disaster kit ready, because you may not have help for a period of time.
What we have going on in NO, is the failure to educate the public on what to do in emergencies.......
Came from NO area. Don't remember the parish.
Would be better to put them in one of the old military bases instead of in the inner-city, particularly an inner city like Los Angeles that is getting ready to blow because of problems between the blacks and hispanics and police department.
now that's the funniest thing i've heard all day,,,,,hehehhehe
I'm sure civil engineers will come up with something. I just wanted to point out (since it may not be obvious to everyone) that repairing a loaded levy is a non-trivial task.
Actually, at this point I suspect there are some real questions as to what the engineers should even try to be doing. At present, there's a really big bowl of rather nasty chemical soup in New Orleans. The pollution is at present somewhat contained; I don't know whether anyone is going to try to mitigate its spread, or if people are just going to hope that diluting it with the ocean will render it harmless.
One thing I've personally wondered about, though this is probably an absurd idea, is whether it would make sense to try to get some river water flowing through New Orleans (without increasing the depth) before the city is drained. I would think that might help clean up the city somewhat, but I have no idea whether it would do more harm than good, or whether any good that it might do would outweigh the extra time the city was under water.
Look, they were told over and over that a Cat 5 was coming straight at them and they STILL didn't leave. You think educating them on emergency supplies would have done the trick??
I know.
Nagin is of the NOLA mulatto ruling class I believe.
The name sounds Lebanese.
Then go to the damn barricade and raise a stink until you get the help you need. It's the difference between finding a job and waiting on gov't cheese.
The Royal Navy strongly denies that there is any cannibalism in New Orleans.
Absolutely None.
And when we say none, we do mean there is a little, but...
OK, But I get him for Christmas and Mother's day!
Right. Based on how fast he got there, I think he started much closer. Hard to imagine that he blazed the trail out of downtown.
For certain. Housing is tight nationwide so absorbing a million + is going to be interesting. I REALLY don't want to see these people moved from one ghetto and projects to another ghetto and projects. If they are going to start over, I'd like to see them start over with a chance in life for them and their children. Most of our large cities don't fit that bill.
Maybe she wasn't one of the starving / thirsty ones, just overwhelmed by the 90+ degree heat and "300 percent humidity".
I just read something that absolutely broke my heart.
Although I was delighted to learn that Fats Domino was rescued, I'm sorry to tell you that another incredible musician has passed away...
Holly Springs, Mississippi blues guitarist RL Burnside was elderly, but his recording career got a boost in recent years because he was willing to work with young producers and create an exciting fusion of blues and electronic music. If you watch HBO's "The Sopranos," then you've heard some of his songs in the show's soundtrack, especially the catchy "It's Bad You Know."
The server for Fat Possum Records in Mississippi appears to be down, so I cut and pasted the cached Google text:
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