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

[John Jamieson]

You are kidding???? Only 4 days late to save thousands of lives. I first brought it up about 48 hours ago and was called stupid.

[bonfire]

Sure wish Condi would get married and have some babies. We need more "little Condi's".

And yes, black babies are the MOST beautiful. Make our kids pale in comparison.........pun intended.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I agree..

[Spktyr]

Insufficient explosives on hand and no permission from the gov to do so.

At this point, apparently, she's just said "yes, yes, do whatever you want," so nobodys asking her permission any more...

[supercat]

In fact the Corps now intends to blow new holes in the levees to let more water out.

Won't this make it harder to pump things out below sea level? Or are they planning to rebuild the levees before they do that anyway [which may be a good idea, since I have no idea if they'd ever be able to withstand a pressure differential again].

[John Jamieson]

B52 70 750# bombs each. Use as many as you need.

[Thud]

It wasn't socialist. New Orleans was ruined by corrupt local elites who had zero sense of responsibility. It was always "me first" for them, and they taught that to everyone else. See my No. 135 in this thread.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Screw that levee system. They need to go to bedrock and build a dam.... sort of like the huge dam on the Brazil/Paraguay border.

[GOPrincess]

Weren't the governor and others in Baton Rouge by that time? Was there absolutely no command center anywhere that had emergency power and news reception, or were emergency services working in a total and complete news vacuum? (If the latter, I suggest that's part of the emergency management problem we've been seeing this week.) I have a hard time believing that there wasn't anyone outside the scene who had access to TV coverage and the ability to communicate with those on scene, but stranger things have happened.

I have my own complaints with TV coverage at times, but I simply feel the criticism in this particular area may be a bit on the "histrionic" side itself. Anger at members of the media for not providing extensive emergency relief services might perhaps be better aimed at others, such as the government of Louisiana. This is JMHO, of course.

[Uncle Ike]

Good Morning

I just got up and back online after some necessary sleep. ;)

Would someone post a brief recap of overnite developments, so I can catch up?

Turned on the tube for this purpose, but they're in "All blame all the time" mode (Geraldo on H&C crying his crocodile tears for chrissake!) and I turned it off.

TIA

[grey_whiskers]

Think our lists would be shorter if we wrote down who we like

HGTV ... there's my list!

The Weather Channel.

Especially Stephanie Abrams :-)

Full Disclosure: My wife is still better looking, though. :-)

[Spktyr]

I was thinking along those lines, too, but the permission thing was probably the problem.

As it has been all along - getting the Governette to do *anything* without taking a poll a la Klinton is apparently all but impossible.

[John Jamieson]

Getting the water down to sea level naturally, while you fix the pumps would be a big help.

[Miss Behave]

"You are kidding???? Only 4 days late to save thousands of lives. I first brought it up about 48 hours ago and was called stupid."

Yep, John. I was SO hoping that someone Large And In Charge was reading your AWESOME posts.

And the clock keeps ticking....

[Flamenco Lady]

Thanks to all who told me where Kelly and the Levi sites must be. The scanner feed was labled LAPD and NG, but I was pretty sure it was mislabled.

Those Texans don't mess around! The "unruly passengers" were being escorted to jail almost before the planes hit the tarmack. A couple of "brothers that were scuffling with eachother" were also getting the same type of escort.

[twntaipan]

She's another of those incredibly competent incompetent Louisiana demonRATs.

[jeffers]

Gotta tell you...it's working like a charm on my climbing sites.

Silenced 'em.

Not a peep.

[REDWOOD99]

"I'll go back and wait- Just send a few doctors, a truck of water, some ambulances and some guardsmen with me!" 20-30 men together could go to the barricade, Geraldo in tow, and get what they need.

[John Jamieson]

Thanks Miss!

[grey_whiskers]

A New Orleans police officer tells the crowd that MRE's will be passed out in front of the New Orleans Convention Center, Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, in downtown New Orleans. IS THIS THE SAME OFFICER THAT WAS ON GERALDO RIVERA'S BROADCAST LATER IN THE DAY SAYING NO FOOD WAS DELIVERED!!!!

E-mail to Fox News and cc: CNN calling Fox incompetent.
Or e-mail Shep and call Jerry Rivers (Geraldo) incompetent.
Then make some popcorn and watch...
Continued PRAYERS!