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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
That was uncalled for and you owe her an apology.
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You got it backwards. This person does not know my background and called me an armchair quarterback.
This person said that this option was considered and deemed too dangerous.
This is a false, as it is being done as we speak.
Knock it off! You owe NautiNurse an apology, she has done a wonderful job keeping this thread going for days!
Gulf Coast Storm Network (Clear Channel Radio) - Clear Channel offers radio listeners across the gulf coast access to a simulcast emergency radio service. This service seems primarily focused on Alabama and Mississippi, but does cover Louisiana to some degree.
New Orleans Police Department & National Guard Operations: Several volunteers are pitching in to help relay these "scanner broadcasts." You can now listen for extended periods of time. The service now also includes broadcasts from the National Guard operating in southern Louisiana.
(capacity 300 listeners) http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3uGulf Coast ARES Emergency Network: These are amateur radio operators providing assistance and coordination via high frequency (shortwave) links. The audio feed for this will be subject to interference and sound anomalies due to the transmission mode and frequency.
(capacity 250 listeners) http://216.22.26.45:8002/listen.pls
(capacity 160 listeners) http://66.255.148.51:8000/listen.pls
(capacity 100 listeners) http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/louisiana.m3u
(capacity 20 listeners) http://joem.scare.org:8025/
(unknown capacity) http://radio.scannerbuff.net:8008/hurricane.m3u
(unknown capacity) http://www.radioreference.com:8080/lspbtr.m3u
Thank you!!
Don't call other posters names..
They had "110 dead confirmend in Mississippi" up on the screen for days, well after it was obvious the toll would be in the thousands, and well after authorities had refused giving out numbers to reporters.
How clear was that??
It was like "You're sending my JOB away!!"
Gov Blanco presser:
"More than 12 tousand guard troops here". "Task Force Pelican". "I have instructed the national guard to maintain a secure environment". "My goal is um, um, um."
"We are using every resource available." "Mr James Witt has been hired by me to advise and assist me on the recovery and other operations."
No good deed ever goes unpunished, does it?
That is not who is going to be on those cruise ships. The workers for the vital industries will be located there.
I have been wondering the same thing....
Maybe the networks have been asked not to speculate..in order to keep everyone "calmer"...
I can't imagine the networks agreeing to being "censored" on anything...especially as "juicy" as death numbers...they usually start off every report about Iraq with the death toll of US troops everyday!!!
Dropping supplies to TWO GUYS who are pushing them to people who need them.
You really don't see the difference between this and dropping stuff into a crowd of thousands?
calling me bozo does not enhance your credibility around here.
Take a break, please.
I don't understand this. in 2002 I lost everything I had in a house fire. The trauma of this eventually subsided (although sometimes I get up in the middle of the night in a panic and check every room), but the response from neighbors and strangers was life-changing for me.
The (used) donated clothes no longer fit me, some of them never did, but I refuse to throw them out. They hang in a "place of honor" in my closet next to my finest Sunday suits.
There was money collected, too, and it was a life saver. But I will NEVER forget when a family at our church had us over for a hot cooked meal and prayers. It was the best meal I ever had, although I can't remember what we ate. I was exhausted and at the end of my rope trying to "be the man" and hold the pieces of my family together while spending 10 hours a day in our burned out house clearing debris and doing an inventory for insurance. You have no idea how much a simple hot meal can mean to a person at that moment!
The baskets of toys for my kids, a perfect stranger gave us a microwave, those wonderful second-hand clothes. I cannot speak of that time without tears in my eyes; not because of the tragedy, but because for the first time in my life, I SAW the Holy Spirit with my own eyes. It is indeed glorious.
I cannot comment on the ingratitude you posted about. Such a thing is incomprehensible to me.
Did anyone see the shot on FNC of the family in the backyard inflatable pool? They were splashing around, waving at the helo, and having a good time. The irony was that it was a split screen with the FEMA spokesman talking about the horrible suffering of everyone in NO.
Surreal.
Your information is in error.
Your manners are nowhere to be found.
Please apologize to Nauti Nurse.
Because, bozo, the military has arrived. Before they got there to protect the helicopters from being SHOT at, it was too dangerous for the helos to fly low enough to drop supplies. The bozos on the ground with stolen guns refused to let helos land to transport patients out of hospitals. Yesterday, the bozos were sniping at firemen trying to put out fires. Trucks delivered supplies under heavy military guard. Get it?
What crime was committed against you?
If you dont mind me asking..
I dont think it takes much tinfoil to believe that crime will increase around the area Katrina hit and beyond as some who are hoodlums fan out over the south.
I also believe there are plenty of decent Evacs who would do no harm. But the crime issue should not be swept under a blanket, or exaggerrated.
Here is a 40+ year old news account that may be of interest today.
Excerpt on Account of the Flood in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1961
Citizens of the southern United States are well aware of flood hazards, and they, too, react in predictable and unpredictable ways. Major floods used to sweep into Savannah every fifteen or twenty years. The Mississippi, since DeSoto's time, has had at least fifty outstanding floods. In the winter of 1961, heavy rains in the Deep South swelled many a river, particularly the Leaf and Bouie. At the confluence of these two sits the town of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, where, in the raging silt-laden waters, children were drowned, homes swept away, and business ruined.
But it was the spirit of the people, their reaction to disaster, their unity, that seemed most impressive to Hattiesburg citizens and to rescuers. A Red Cross official wished afterwards that there were some way to recapture that spirit. It was something he could not describe.
Everyone within miles plunged in to assist. The Red Cross came; the National Guard organized an evacuation team; a boat pool of Coast Guard auxiliary personnel and volunteers was made up; schools, churches, and motels were filled with refugees; and businessmen, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Salvation Army volunteers, and many other helper pitched in.
Side by side they worked and side by side they crowded into temporary shelters. Everything led to a demonstration of the "true soul of our people," as a high school principal stated it. There was no color line whatsoever, the mayor said; Negroes and whites "sweated it out together," as one woman described the work ; "it's something I won't forget."
Neither would the survivors forget how, in the aftermath, they would be given a new start in life by the rescue agencies that had come to help them.
"The most important help I can get," said one old man to a Red Cross case worker, "is a home for my mule, Ella. Ella had a real nice home in a shed next to my house, but I haven't seen that since the water came through.... it just plain floated away."
"Now, old Ella is getting on in years and can't stand the night cold like she used to."
The request was approved.
Source: Nature On the Rampage, A Natural History of the Elements, Ann and Myron Sutton, J.B. Lippincott, 1962, p. 186.
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