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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
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
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
Agree. The syndrome you describe is best known as "microwave mentality".
"If you think watching TV is a priority to pulling people off rooftops, then, it's just absolutely beyond me to even attempt further explaination."
These are different functions. In a normal emergency command structure, you have people on the front lines doing the emergency work and rescues, and you also have a command structure coordinating the efforts, assessing incoming data from many sources and then sending out orders. This may well have broken down in this situation, and again, that is not a media problem. The LA government appears to have been caught completely flat-footed.
Nice chatting with you. Best wishes --
Maybe he should check with the Monroe, Louisiana family who took in a few evacuees from Katrina. They gave them a safe place to sleep, showers, hot food, clean clothes, etc. The thanks they got...they were murdered in their sleep."
I have not heard about that. Do you have the link to that story? Thanks.
I heard him.
I hope the Bush bashing freepers were listening and stop posting their nonsense.
Think his name is Herman Cain....
Anyone know who he is ??? (maybe he should be mayor ??)
As a casual but interested observer of New Orleans political history, I agree with the lady on Fox who just said if we start throwing money at New Orleans - we will just be throwing it at the same corrupt politicians who gave New Orleans this mess. (lot of paraphrasing here but that is the gist of what she was saying.) I am wondering if federally occupying NO for the next 10 years would clean out the cesspool.
Morning!
I wonder who really wrote that letter. Missus Blanco was an incoherent wreck, last time I saw her.
Speaking of morning, I woke up on the couch with Geraldo squawking on tv. Lovely way to start the day....
NO mayor said GWB sent down a "John Wayne **dude", that was gonna kick a$$, & get some things done.
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(smiling) I saw the very tall three star military General being goded by some silly female twit reporter bouncing along, trying to keep up with his walking pace. You could see the smirk on his face, it read, "oh honey, I could easily eat you for a snack" as he KEPT MARCHING FORWARD. She really made herself look stupid, like a bratty whiney child asking for a lollipop in the midst of a disaster and UNNECESSARILY distracting relief & rescue efforts. Most of those MSM reporters on location are a nuissance and deserve a strong backhanded slap.
I think he was on Larry King Live. Oh - you meant real snakes, not Al Sharpton. My mistake.
I suspect that young men will become a leader of some sort. He took initiative when it called for it.
You are so right about the dependency on government.
I have pondered the same thing. Especially watching those people trudge thru the streets.
Wow! Impressive bio!
Yes and she was the "salt of the Earth' type woman that so many of us knew growing up in a different America . These people are strong and right now they need some help,but in the future they will tell Welfare Agencies to take a hike.
The proverbial sh!t is going to hit the fan for the NO mayor and the governor. I can't wait to see it!
It's left over from the Cold War, when there were a lot of defense facilities in Texas. I'm sure there's more than one set of plans, but the one I saw involved Ft. Worth (Carswell AFB), Killeen (Ft. Hood), and Houston (petrochem) getting creamed by airburst nukes that for whatever reason only killed 10% of the populace in the cities - worst case scenario in terms of having to deal with evacuees, as a surface hit would leave none.
I'm sure that somewhere, someone keeps that updated.
AP says dome evacuations stopped in order to start convention center evacuations. There are 5000 in the dome and 25000 in the convention center. Good choice to go to the most desperate place but just wondering why they can't do both.
Anyway, any evacuations is great news, but I still can't believe that CNN is not carrying the pictures. I can't bear to watch them anymore.
I shouldn't be laughing, but that was funny! Barnes and Noble, lolol!
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