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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
I am watching for news here too. Let's hope. It sounds like they had a functional animal control in place and when NW got there, they were handed the animals. My guess is that a police officer removing a dog from a child would have handed it in to animal control. If so, the dog would have ended up with NW.
And that makes sense because the freeper who emailed them said that NW said they would look for the dog, perhaps knowing animal control was going to turn it all over to them when they got in.
Thus James Lee Clinton Clinton Witt rides in to the rescue today and claims credit for "turning things around".
Palestenian refugee?
The list would be a long one. All of the sudden they pull the racist definition out of their butts.
They see fresh meat. Or more acutately an new way to season the old meat.
Such complaints abot small things are a comfort to people, it can mean they feel out of danger and with hope and expectations again -- you can take credit for giving greatly distressed people the blessing of being able to complain about small things. It means you gave them enough comfort for them to have expectations of better things.
Understand.
Lines going East will take some time, extensive track and bridge damage.
Earlier I read that Amtrak was running North so can assume that the IC/CN lines are passable.
Now that lines West are open is very very encouraging.
Witt & Geraldo will be able to write a book on how they saved The South
Under the influence of MSM propaganda and spin.
Boy do you ever work 24-7 getting the goods on these useless bureaucrats. Kudos to you...
BTTT
Was I wrong in thinking that Witt was a Clinton hire that Bush should've asked to stay on?
That's a good way to look at it. I, however, wanted to take comfort knowing that I didn't discomfort them with e-coli!
My best friend in Texas just called, and her husband just got called up and is leaving this afternoon. He's in the Army reserves some sort of engineering unit. In civilian life, he has a Master's in Civil Engineering and is director of transportation for the city of Irving, Texas.
My friend is the director of public works for Addison, Texas, and she said that the city was planning an Octoberfest, but FEMA has confiscated the tents and porta-potties that were going to be for the festival.
chuck - i've only been on fr for a few months now & have been too embarassed to ask just bttt means - will you indulge me?
"Heh, I'd like to see the MSM try and eat Condi up. If anything, she'll eat THEM up. She won't put up with their s***!!!"
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No kidding!
Link to photo of "The Condi Death Stare":
http://im1.shutterfly.com/procserv/47b2d704b3127cce9ecbec07258400000016108AaOGLFk4bs3
Exactly. One big political game in place and people dying in the midst of it.
Latest entertainment: The media scrambling to use a term other than "refugee". "Evacuee" has been proposed but Houston radio is urging people to refer to the folks in the astrodome as "Our Gulf Coast Neighbors," saying that even evacuee is unacceptable.
Too many syllables for me, but I'll compromise on a catchy anacronym, How about "OGCoaNs?
"Was I wrong in thinking that Witt was a Clinton hire that Bush should've asked to stay on?"
Yeah -- all those other Clinton holdovers worked out so well.... /sarc
I was noticing today that the sound bites of survivors I heard on the radio were sometimes complaining, but the reporter's question wasn't aired, so you didn't know how much the person was nudged into it.
I think the nation needs to throw a big party for Texas once this is all over. They have gone above and beyond.
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