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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
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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
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Asman is on now.. .isn't he fairly conservative?
Yes, this is alo more than just NO. My in-laws reported in from Hattiesburg, MS this morning (80 miles inland from the coast).
Things could get worse there very quickly. My in-laws live in a suburb of Hattiesburg and there have been generators stolen left and right from people's garages.
No lie, someone started a lawnmower in one of their neighbor's garages and left that running so they would think the generator was stil there. They have to chain the generator to the door frame every night then barricade the garage door.
People have drilled holes in the gas pumps to siphon gas.
One thing that needs to be done fairly quickly is to get some fly-over planes with banners for messages about supply and gas arrival, no one knows when things are coming in. It seems like perhaps some private pilots could get involved in this effort and coordinate with FEMA..just a suggestion.
What you just posted should be the PROOF of how ill-prepared the "powers that be" were in New Orleans...
Instead of telling them to get their pets, and get the heck out of there....they are threatening them with punishment...
What did these people think was going to happen? Just a summer thunderstorm, and all would be well? For at least 2-3 days the weather people were warning them...
Uh it tells you how to leave them at home(3 choices)...but it also tells the mayor of NO he has authority to command a mandatory evacuation, apparently something he did not read..
Leaving your pet at home
• Confine your pet to a safe, high-area inside your home, away from windows and outside walls.
• Leave water in a sturdy no spill container
• Give them a three-day supply of dry food
• Post a notice outside your home listing what animals are inside and where they are located
• Never leave pets together during a disaster
• Never leave pets chained or loose outside
Lord save us from liberals!
I don't know how anyone could post a link to a television ad, but I'd love to see some newspaper commentary about this matter which, imo, discourages people from leaving.
< Just turned FOX back on and no TONY.
Britt disappeared without notice or explanation, and now Tony.
Where, oh where have all the conservatives gone? >
Well, it is Labor Day Weekend. Vacation, maybe?
AND they continue to race bait with nearly every interview
"Now that the feds have taken over she's going to crawl back out to speak? Gimme a break"
I wonder if she'll be teary-eyed again. I thought she was going to break down when the President was speaking yesterday!
It depends on what channel you watch. Sky News and ITV News are actually showing the devastation - Sky News had a reporter wandering among the ruins this morning with a cameraman (2 AM your time).
The TV channels are reporting what the Democrats and the Mayor of New Orleans said about President Bush, however. So their shrill screeching is reaching our ears.
Regards, Ivan
My imagination? Or is CNN trying DESPERATELY to make this a race thing??
Why is no one on CNN crying about all the WHITE PEOPLE in the other Parishes going through the same thing??
I see politics here beyond what I ever thought possible, being done on the bodies of the dead...
Typical DNC...
I'm taking pain medication for a bad back yesterday and today and my comprehension skills aren't terribly good right now :-)
However, if the reports of the ads are correct, then people got conflicting information at best.
And I would be my car that more people heard what was on television regarding this matter than went on the internet or read about the care and handling of pets during a natural disaster.
Arghhh, wet bed! They need to get people out to the other parishes and let us know what's going on there. It's not just NO, there are 3 states affected by Katrina.
That's why I'm checking this thread for the last week, because I'll get better info here, than the lamestream media. I can only take small doses of Shep and Geraldo before I'm craving a tall beer :/
Sounds like an extraordinarily satisfying experience!
Long line of buses shown driving through NOLA to the convention center.
"Asman is on now.. .isn't he fairly conservative?"
Yeah -- thank you.
And thank God for that -- after Shep and Geraldo last nite, and F&F this morning, I was starting to feel a little shell-shocked.
Sounds like some of the military that Bush is ordering into New Orleans needs to be spread around to other communities that are having problem with people that just DO NOT know how to act....
The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and all of the complaining is coming from New Orleans (I know, it IS the worse off), but people in Miss. and Alabama need help also.
Just like those Vietnamese mentioned in above posts...they are waiting patiently for their turns...so no one knew of their plight...
It is the people that are doing their best, and being aware of what is going on around them, that I want to help.
Incredible. The Vietnamese have been great citizens there. Of course, they're hated by the local population, but what else would you expect?
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