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

[AmericanVictory]

When the media is not throwing them softballs, these professional race baiters can really reveal their stupidity and arrogance. They only have one dead horse to beat, and, in this crisis, they have not the slightest clue as to any live horse.

[AmericanVictory]

Exactly my thought; the interview with him truly highlighted the obsolescence of the whole schtick of him and his fellow race baiters. This crisis is illustrating how we truly don't need to hear any more from him and his kind.

[AmericanVictory]

Is there any rationale at all for giving these poverty pimps and race baiters air time in the present crisis?

[AmericanVictory]

Don't you know the white liberal gospel: black people must have a Lying-fraud-in-chief whom we can look to as their "spokesman?" It saves us the trouble of actually listening to them and learning truly what they're trying to say.

[AmericanVictory]

The results in New Orleans today, in this crisis, are the direct product of a black political machine that has risen to power in the city and proved utterly unable to manage it, to prevent its decline and to plan for and cope with crisis. It has all been graft and corruption replacing graft and corruption (See A.J. Liebling "The Earl of Louisiana"), only now the sport has gone out of it and it is far more racist (only in the reverse direction) than it has ever been. It is only the charm, unique culture and the strength of NO as the most vital port connecting the river system to the sea that has prevented it from becoming Detroit south.

[AmericanVictory]

Gosh, I wonder how Holland came to be before they knew how to do all that expensive stuff. And those polders are so productive. It's a good thing for them they didn't know about environmentalism and its dogma or they wouldn't have half their country.

[Patriot from Philly]

I think Anderson, Geraldo, and Shep are all trying to out drama each other. The problem is the hype is so bad and we could use some real good factual reporting.

The best reporting right now is from the Weather Channel.

CNN was excellent the first few days but has since gone full hog to editorialize, hype, and blame Bush.

Jean Mansur on Monday night was the best reporting. She showed professionalism and emotion at the same time. None of the silly hype and setup pieces.

[AmericanVictory]

Nagin won on a promise to fight the endemic corruption, which really is almost impossible for someone who has not lived there to grasp in its ubiquity, but he seems to have spent all his thinking and energy on fighting the corruption and none on actually leading the city and planning for the future.

[AmericanVictory]

Hope that's true, been trying to reach some NO friends who fled to Hattiesburg yesterday but couldn't get the phone at the house where they'd gone to answer; think it was because portable phones there requiring power. Will try again later today.

[AmericanVictory]

I think that if you think the liberal, race-baiting, government is the be all and end all Dem machine politics that gave us the "Great" society disaster and cities like present day Detroit can create anything like a bright future for the devestated Gulf South you're nuts. Wealth is not created by that approach, poverty is.

[Alia]

Thanks! ....great advice. I had a lot of things planned for today, and instead, I've been here reading all day and watching reports on TV...not good. Tomorrow's another day.....gettin' outta here. Have a good one!

You too! Stay strong!

[Alia]

lol. Yes, you are right -- I would have evac'd BEFORE Katrina Hit. No different from what I would tell my teen-aged children when they were going to be home alone for a bit of time -- If someone enters this home, you grab the cell and SPLIT immediately -- there is nothing I own or possess more valuable than YOU.

[Alia]

Yours is a lovely post, Siobhan. Anyone who has been devasted by fire, earthquake, etc., having survived is glad to have survived; but are always surprised by what made it through the catastrophe. And those things have often giving great introspective meaning to the survivors.

[Alia]

No. I just asked why they were celebrating at this time. After the people have been evacuated is the time to look for landmarks.

Have you ever wished you were a congressman, a newscaster, and editorialist so you could tell lots of people what they should think?

[Coldwater Creek]

You know! I had not thought of these people alike to the depression era "Okies", but you are exactly right. At that point in time they did not have the Fed's as a safety net.

In the early forties, my father was a farmer, the war was on and we were litterly starving to death. He had to go elsewhere to find a way to support us.

[Coldwater Creek]

Whoever said that the media was rational??????

[E.G.C.]

BTT!!!!!!

[beyond the sea]

I think Anderson, Geraldo, and Shep are all trying to out drama each other. The problem is the hype is so bad and we could use some real good factual reporting.

They all were very emotional, but I really think most of that was really coming from their hearts. I don't think any of them had seen anything quite like this before.

You want reporting.........stay HERE at FR!

FR is the greatest NEWS and INSIGHT site in the world. If you study here about three hours a day, no one will slide anything by you.

:-)

Go Eagles (and Steelers)......did you know that the two teams together used to be called the "Steagles"?

[Patriot from Philly]

that whole Fox episode staged.

That's exactly what I thought. You can no longer trust the media. They are a disgrace, Hype, agenda,

[Uncle Ike]

"that whole Fox episode staged"

In the midst of all this (well-deserved) media criticism, I want to point out that there was one reporter on FOX that deserves props.

Phil Keating gave factual reports, with the hyped-up emotionalism kept to a minimum. He stayed on duty 24/7 in the early days, and dusk-to-dawn afterwards, while the prima-donnas were sleeping in outside the city.

For a "B-team" reporter, he did a fantastic job, especially in comparison to the "Headliners".

Otherwise -- see my new tagline.