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

[MarMema]

I think our president must have been going nuts at the incompetence of the local "leadership" and is amazing to be so graceful and kind in public. God Bless him!

[stlnative]

New thread

Status Reports of... Gulf Ports - Waterways - Rivers - Highways - Etc
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476522/posts?

[maryz]

It is the state our President is most familiar with. He obviously got the infrastructure into place before he felt comfortable enough to leave his office and get a firsthand view of the damage.

I thought the guy who was on O'Reilly said they were basically pressing into service TX's long-standing plans for evacuation of Galveston for the next time it was hit.

[ClancyJ]

I can never get those meat thermometers to work right in cooking steaks or burgers. It will not stand up but falls over.

[queenkathy]

BTW, you moved to La recently? Can I ask what brought you to La?

[bonfire]

And with the race baiting going on by the Black Leaders, we REALLY need to be careful. They are inciting and should be arrested and thrown in jail, IMO.

[No Blue States]

Has it occurred to anyone else that if we have sleeper cells waiting to strike the US, that they would have in the last few days? Im not saying they dont exist, only that this seems to prove their capabilities arent much.

Surely if they could have, they would have before we started turning this corner. Just a thought.

[samantha]

You will always have some so-called looting, but not the level of lawlessness that we saw in NO. In Miami after Andrew there was a National Guardsman that murdered someone while he was deployed. It had nothing to do with the assignment he just randomly murdered someone while away from his Guard duties.

[bvw]

I just stick it in and hold it a few seconds.

[norton]

Or, assuming you'd won the bet, it would be

Pallet of Chicken Salad

[nuclady]

Get an instant read thermometer. Works great.

[Types_with_Fist]

I really think life has changed for the whole nation in one way or another.

Amen. Many ramifications. Most in the country don't see it yet. I think they might when the first real fatality numbers start to come in. As for the rest of the ramifications... they'll become evident over the coming months. We are in for tough times.

[luckystarmom]

I'm just quoting what my friend said.

[Ellesu]

http://www.weatherunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?num=6&scale=1&delay=15&noclutter=1&showstorms=0&showlabels=1&ID=LIX&lat=30.40861511&lon=-91.08337402&label=Baton+Rouge%2C+LA&type=N0R&zoommode=pan&map.x=400&map.y=240&centerx=400&centery=240&prevzoom=zoom

Slidell weather radar stuck on this image since power went out

[queenkathy]

Ive had to totally shut the TV down, gonna watch a movie this afternoon to get my mind off all of this. Feel bad that I can do that and others are suffering so. Can't just turn something off.

MSNBC and CNN are sickening. JJ all over the news slamming Bush and caustic remarks about race being the reason for this...CNN is just plain ignorant all the way around.

[BlackRain]

MRE, Water, and HDR supplies are now designed to be rolled off the back of a C17, C130, or large helo and break into small 1 foot long card board boxes.

So (1) do such things naturally disperse as they fall, and (2) is their terminal velocity and construction such as to limit personal injury if they hit?

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Whoa. Still thinking too heavy.

The TRIAD breaks open and the MRE/WATER/HDR's packages 'float' to the ground and weigh about 40 oz. This permits WIDE distribution of food and prevents clustering of people 'rioting' for a traditional single air dropped pallet.

Mark my words. This will come up in the future.

[ClancyJ]

Mine don't seem to work that fast. But, maybe I'm putting them in too early.

[Heatseeker]

Witt & Geraldo will be able to write a book on how they saved The South

LOL! Then maybe Jamie Lee can help Geraldo find that treasure of Al Capone's. ;)

[Strategerist]

Has it occurred to anyone else that if we have sleeper cells waiting to strike the US, that they would have in the last few days? Im not saying they dont exist, only that this seems to prove their capabilities arent much.

It's been pretty clear for years there simply aren't the really enormous numbers of sleeper cell terrorists in this country that a lot of people around here like to believe...certainly not thousands, and really almost certainly not hundreds. Certainly we've learned a handful of people can be incredibly dangerous, though.

Ready to be flamed by the Threat Matrixers, of course.

[MarMema]

Exactly the point. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.