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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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Tropical Storm 12
When hate destroys property, its toxins are more long lasting than those in flood sludge.
Have to tease onyx about that being a loooonnnnngggggg nap.
Their leaders have a clue. They're giving us oil and gasoline so they can get the food they need ( we need to clear the MS Rvr so food shipments can get out)
Remember, Europe pays people not to make food, and they import more than they grow.
I am glad onyx is okay...I have been wondering.
Thanks for the information.
11:30 A.M. - MINNEAPOLIS (AP): Thousands of refugees from Hurricane Katrina could soon be arriving in Minnesota, where people may be asked to open their homes to victims of the devastating storm.
Gov. Tim Pawlenty announced Saturday on WCCO-AM that Minnesota has been asked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house up to 5,000 people displaced by the hurricane that ravaged the Gulf Coast.
The refugees could begin arriving in a "matter of days," Pawlenty said.
Pawlenty said the state is looking at National Guard armories and perhaps Camp Ripley in central Minnesota as an initial receiving station. Part of the plan might involve Minnesotans opening their homes to hurricane refugees, he said.
Pawlenty said Minnesota is happy to help.
"This is a national tragedy, and it really requires a national response," he said.
I have a few thoughts on this. I think the gulf and Lake P can handle all the polution from this mess without a real environmental disaster.
On the other hand, keeping a large non-moving area of water that is contaminated with feces, dead and decaying bodies, and other crud will be totally devastating. Mosquito born illnesses will certainly be on the rise.
Not to mention the stench that must be coming from that stagnant water.
Is onyx back up and reading? I'm damned anxious to hear news from the ground there.
I am thinking a lot of states have military bases that aren't being used ---
There is one here in the D/FW area, I believe.
Those would be good, because they could be flown in an out..
I think we should give the rebuilding job to the Corps Of Engineers. What they build will be very ugly and very expensive, but it'll be complete in six months, work very, very well, and will be about 50' above sea level.
Oh, did I mention that it would also last about 100 years before it needs maintenance? :)
If there are, per your post, 5,000 at the dome, 25,000 at the convention center, and according to other reports, 35,000 that have already been evac'ed from the dome and other areas, we have pulled a total of 65,000 people out of New Orleans.
Louisiana officials admitted that 100,000 were left in the city when the storm went through. At the other end of the probability window, the most pessimistic report I have seen was that 430,000 out of 1.2 million obeyed the mandatory evac order, which would mean that 770,000 stayed behind.
If my math is still any good, that means that currently, we have somewhere between 35,000 and 705,000 souls unaccounted for.
Soon according to Howlin on 3631.
Wasn't it the COE that has been in charge of the levy system up to now?
NAS Dallas is not usable for that purpose at the current time, alas. The City took it over and it's now a giant salvage yard of broken city equipment. It would take a week or more to clear. The other problem is that Voight has the other half of the field - and they make bombs there.
No local governing board were in charge of maintaining their own area...Given money to do so and not regulated.
Elaine Chao on Fox just said that there will be 10,000 jobs just for the clean-up phase...
Let's hope they go to Americans that have lost their jobs, due to this...and NOT illegals!!!
Of course, that is just the clean-up...then there will be road work, construction, restaurants, ---gosh, you name it..and there will be a need for it in those three states.
My numbers are coming from AP, whose articles I am checking periodically for news. Hopefully they are accurate.
I had heard those reports about Ham Radios too but I looked on snopes.com and couldn't find out either.
Okay. I don't know how the politics worked. But I do know I've been hearing reports on the Corp of Engineers regards the levys on New Orleans television since the 60s.
The breached levees were under local control. They were built by the COE, but the locals were responsible for them (especially since they didn't want to pay the matching funds needed to keep the COE involved).
That said, the levees that broke were not the incomplete or ill maintained ones - they were relatively new and were not slated for work anytime soon.
Watching live feed, The area at I10 and the causeway looks deserted. I guess they got all those people out there. :)
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