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

[fatima]

Night luckystarmom.

[John Jamieson]

Great news. Tommorrow will be a better day!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Did you see the tracks? I can't imagine amtrack is running already.

[Miss Behave]

I imagine that some didn't have an ax, some at the last minute couldn't get to their ax, some didn't anticipate, and some never got word.

And I pray for them all.

[fatima]

WooHoo.

[John Jamieson]

Somebody been hustling today.

Must be Bush's fault.

[jeffers]

Well then, at least it wasn't a total loss for you.

You've cheered me up a bit too.

I don't mind helping people, in fact I like it.

But I'm not exactly the guy who's going to spend very long trying to help when the recipient is shooting, be it bullets or barbs, at me.

I'm going to sign off for the night, be back tomorrow. It looks like the evac is moving along well, but I wish the numbers being reported at the shelters was rising faster. Hopefully the media is 48 hours behind on that too.

Have a good one.

[fatima]

Night Beautiful.

[xVIer]

I agree...maybe this will eventually change some peoples lives for the better if they can settle into small town life...Right now the scope of it is just...surreal. Prayers for all of those poor people in NO, and for our country...may kindness and love prevail.
On that note, goodnight all...

[Miss Behave]

Or Jenna's.

Are you wheels-up yet? ;-)

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

This really has me PO'd. Listening to the MSM, you could swear that the only damage is to New Orleans and a small percentage of southern Mississippi. The damage to the periphery is extreme and vast. Major efforts requiring tons of hard work above and beyond normal like repairing the train tracks and roads, getting the power back on, and water systems working again go completely unnoticed by the MSM. It will probably take years to get the worst areas of NO livable.

Prediction;

Due to political incompetence, completely destroyed areas of Mississippi will be be rebuilt and back to "normal" while many somewhat damaged areas of New Orleans will still be uninhabitable.

[John Jamieson]

Haven't left yet, but I did sit in a B52 pilot seat at an aircraft museum on the way into Chicago a couple years ago. My son was with me. He's now at the AirForce language school in Monterey studying Dari. He's soon to graduate and go to the B52 base in Montana.

[John Jamieson]

Barksdale, LA is also a B52 base!

[Mo1]

Oh yes, and let me add to that list:

And all done in just 4 days

Yep ... the Feds are doing squat for the people .. / sarcasm >

[Miss Behave]

You must be SO proud of him, John.

[Miss Behave]

Yes! Right in the hood.

[John Jamieson]

I am. He's got a great future.

[John Jamieson]

Interesting lines from another thread:

"Dressed in a white T-shirt and slacks, his bald head beaded with sweat, Nagin told reporters at the hotel that Bush was "very attentive, very serious, very determined to make sure this city gets what it needs."

He said Bush acknowledged that he too was dissatisfied with the progress of assistance to the beleaguered city.

He said he told Bush that if he and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco did not "get on the same page as far as chain of command is concerned," New Orleans would continue to slide into anarchy."

[AmericanVictory]

Wasn't he the classic poverty pimp, trying to shoehorn himself into this tragedy somehow to keep his gravy train going, without, obviously, any real concern for the victims of this disaster at all? BOR chewed him up pretty well.