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

[RDTF]

go away

[maryz]

I'm sick of EVERYONE at FR acting like this was ever manageable, by anyone.

It's not "everyone" at FR (it might be "everyone" at DU, though).

I agree. Whatever anyone had done -- even if the levee breach had been foreseen -- it would have been an ungodly mess. I have a feeling lots of cities are going to be seriously re-evaluating their own evacuation plans. (Personally, I'm not sure an entire city can be effectively evacuated under any circumstances, but I tend to pessimism.)

[SE Mom]

Thank GOD..for the zillionth time this morning...for the Armed Forces of the United States of America.

HOOAH to the good General Honore.

[Txsleuth]

How about something in between letting them die of thirst and creating a riot...I think that is what the people in charge were trying..

I heard yesterday that at one point they did drop water at the Convention Center and a 2 year old little girl was trampled to death by the people rushing to get it.

Did you see any of the footage from the Tsunami relief? I remember seeing our troops in helicopters trying to land and bring food, but the people would run out and overrun the helicopters and create very dangerous conditions for them and the troops...

THEN, they tried just hovering low enough to drop the water without it breaking, but not landing, and people were grabbing onto the parts of the helicopter they could reach and just hanging there...

NONE of this is easy...but complaining about it IS easy.

[Elyse]

I'm about to puke listening to morons compare the response to this disaster to 9/11. Would someone give these people a clue? They have no idea of the magnitude of the destruction here. I've heard that the area of destruction can be compared to the size of Great Britain. The destruction in 9/11 was only a section of the city in proximity to the Twin Towers.

I keep hearing about the response time and it seems that people keep counting the first day that Katrina made landfall into the calculation of when the response should have begun. No one could do anything that day because, HEY, there was hurricane passing through the city! How long after Katrina made landfall was it really feasible for any response to actually begin?

[Uncle Ike]

"Fox has been improving significantly"....."They even broke a story yesterday."

Let's see -- the last story they "broke" was Tuesday morning, wasn't it?

Something like: "NO dodged a bullet, and everything's fine"?

[LadyBuzz]

Geraldo is on tv crying again - he needs to put his BIG GIRL pants on

[Howlin]

bump bump bump bump bump bump.

One thing I just posted on another thread, these "experts," both here and other places, who are claiming this could have been done better/faster/more efficient/whatever, seem to be from states that never had had a hurricane.

We here in NC don't even LOOK for the president or FEMA until AFTER a storm.

[SE Mom]

Someone ought to explain to the complaining media DOLTS that the AFFECTED area is the size of Great Britain.

[maryz]

Are we still going with the reports that 80% of NOLA was evac'd before the hurricane?

I have no idea and I'm not sure anyone does. I heard someone on last night (maybe he was NG) that the numbers they were given didn't seem to be accurate -- they kept finding more people than they were expecting.

[LadyBuzz]

you can thank Shep for that

[debg]

It's not bizarre logic. Postponing a day to develop massive relief and infrastructure is sound logic. More people would be killed in a stampede/fight for a few items than would die without food/water for an additional day.

[Ellesu]

No, I'm watching local news, she is supposed to give a figure of how many dead. Reporters last night told her FEMA requires that. She said she didn't know it was a law that she had to tell press how many were dead and would have that number for them today.

[BlackRain]

Not at all, and they have plenty more experience than arm chair captains.

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Listen Nauti, I have 'been there - done that'. Apparently, the NOPD and LSP havent.

[LadyBuzz]

the peter priniciple playing itself out

[Heatseeker]

Check out WWL-TV now! There is a LA State representative practically going crazy!

[bonfire]

Um.....I think it was YOU that posted to me. lol!

[mystery-ak]

Thanks....I thought the the presser had already happened..

[Jrabbit]

What's he/she going crazy about.

[tiredoflaundry]

he needs to put his BIG GIRL pants on

taking his pants off always got Geraldo in trouble!