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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/
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
< He should be able to win the next race for governor, I would think. His district is wiped out, he'd be running against Blanco (if she isn't strung up) and the voter base in NO is somewhat... um... hampered. >
Looks like he'll be campaigning in Texas.
From AP:
At Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, thousands of people remained in a triage center, many of them dying for lack of medical care.
"The hallways are filled, the floors are filled. There are thousands of people there," said Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., who was at the airport. "A lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day. It's a distribution problem. The doctors are doing a great job, the nurses are doing a great job."
Bill Frist is at the airport?? And he can't get evacuation happening there??
A most remarkable sight just now on FOX at the Convention Center (Geraldo reporting this)
An enormous group of Vietnamese-Americans (from a parish I don't know)- sitting together in a group- quietly. They have told authorities they will wait til everyone else has been taken out...as they "don't want to get in the way"...
"but, earlier this morning, I unfortunately turned on MSNBC, and they were talking to someone in London and asked him how the people their and other Europe cities are reacting..
First, he said that is all that is being talked about..but then said that Europe, from the leaders to the media, to the citizens ALL are saying what a lousy job Bush has done..."
Part of the problem is that people in the rest of the world and many in this country don't understand or forget that this country is a REPUBLIC made up of 50 states. Every state has a Governor, which is the state's CEO. The state is supposed to be prepared and do the initial work and coordination and protect its citizens. The Federal gov't cannot step in unless and until they're asked to by the Gov.
That's basically what the mayor of Baton Rouge (who is black) also said. No racism involved, just acknowledgement that there are criminal aspects to some of those that may be leaving NO.
I would imagine that this is why the transport was halted at the Dome and started up at the Convention Center. They've identified the hard cases and made sure they didn't get loaded up to go to the shelters. The 5,000 that are remaining at the Dome will be among the last out of NO. There is some crude pre-screening going on (perhaps identified by the people in the Dome). I think the same will happen elsewhere. One of the good things about the looting footage is that those people will be identified and put in places that won't be too pleasant for them with an awful lot of security.
Well, I'm not sure you can really call Anderson Cooper a "man"...
Also from AP about the evacuations picking up:
NEW ORLEANS - Planes, trains and buses delivered refugees to safety on Saturday as the evacuation of this ruined city finally appeared to pick up steam.
Buses had evacuated most people from the frightening confines of the Superdome by early morning. At the equally squalid convention center, thousands of people began pushing and dragging their belongings up the street to more than a dozen air-conditioned buses, the mood more numb than jubilant.
More than 50,000 people had been trapped for days at the two filthy, sweltering buildings, suffering from a lack of food, water or medical attention. Help came too late for a number of them — dead bodies were a common sight, in wheelchairs, wrapped in blankets or just abandoned."
All you can do is follow evac orders, but that doesn't mean you'll miss the fury of the storm.
True but New Orleans is the worst place to be as proven..it was only set up to survive a cat 3 most deaths will be from the surge and flooding not the winds...
Those people at the Convention Center, who were told to assemble there and then forgotten and abandoned by local government, lined up, old and infirm at the head of the line, in a desperate attempt to show that they weren't thugs, hoping to get buses, helicopters, or even more drops of food and water.
I can only tell you what was reported on another thread as it relates to ads on television in the days before the hurricane.
I also saw an interview (replay) with Jesse Jackson..and he was talking some jibberish about slave ships landing in New Orleans, and that the black people were kept "down" right off the slave ships...
and that is why they are looting in New Orleans, NOW...blah, blah...it didn't make sense...but he managed to get every bit of racist blame in one or two paragraphs, that he could.
Oh, and I should have responded: Nowhere in what you listed does it detail that pets can be left behind.
Freepers in the area said the ads on television made it clear that anyone who abandoned animals would be charged with animal endangerment.
Thanks. Your calculations were useful to see that.
Carol Mosely Braun is RANTING on CNN
Doesn't that just tick you off? Well hopefully the truth will be told and that impression will leave them. This President has been thrown just about everything possible, and like FDR (that made many bad choices and was not a perfect man) Bush will go down in history as a great leader that led us through so much.
Thank you for reminding us all of this. I was thinking today how close we are to the people in New Orleans, with a liberal idiot in the governor's seat. Then I was thinking how much I had better stock up (again) because in a natural disaster here, we would be just as likely to be assisted as the people in NO were. Before anyone castigates me, the primary disaster here would be an earthquake and there are not advance warnings for those, so our family could and may be in need of help after one.
They know what it's like, and they know that they're a large and cohesive enough group to survive until everyone else is gone. As I said in a prior thread, these people make me proud that they chose to stay here in the US.
"An enormous group of Vietnamese-Americans (from a parish I don't know)- sitting together in a group- quietly. They have told authorities they will wait til everyone else has been taken out...as they "don't want to get in the way"...
Wow, I want to donate to them specifically.
off topic but I love the commercial that's on FNC now showing Biden and Ginsberg and asking for a fair up or done vote for Roberts.
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