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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/
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Between the FEMA tankers and the restored TX-LA-MS-AL-FL pipelines, fuel should be back to the SE shortly.
This may be another stupid question but hey, I'll bite..
Has anyone else experienced Post Office trouble? In Mich, that's pretty far away but some important mail, not related to that area, didn't arrive today. Just wondering if that could be hurrican related. I have no idea how the PO runs.
WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
02:12 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet
2:09 P.M. - PHOENIX (AP): One thousand or more refugees of Hurricane Katrina could begin arriving in Arizona as early as Sunday morning, said a spokeswoman for Gov. Janet Napolitano.
Some of the evacuees would likely be brought to Phoenix's Veterans Memorial Coliseum, where they would remain for a few weeks until other housing arrangements could be made, said Napolitano spokeswoman Jeanine L'Ecuyer.
"We will be working with people to transition them to other shelters," L'Ecuyer said.
Another possible location for temporarily housing refugees is the Tucson Convention Center, said Michael Carson, a spokesman for the city of Tucson.
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Just on Fox - the Astrodome is allowing 13,000 more after all. Amazing that the fire marshall had enough authority to turn all of those people away. Codes are one thing, but this is an exceptional situation, and anyway the place is huge. Someone trumped his arse.
Dept. of Education (Feds) may set up schools at the Astrodome per Fox News
Seems they should follow orders of fire marshalls. Geesh, they'd know the limits don't ya think?
All we need is another tragedy.
First responders are now to be provided by federal forces. No more delays because Louisiana State Police or what's left of the NOPD aren't available. I would think that the Fire Department is in pretty good shape, provided it gets good cover against the thugs that take rifle pot-shots at the fire fighters.
Per MSNBC Pensacola, Fla. is helping Pass Christian, MS with emergency personnel.
BTTT for Arizona!
Good point, one with a suitcase could do much damage.
Newman took a day off.
Al Sharpton has called for a day of prayer tomorrow. Now this really burns me considering the way he acts. I shouldn't judge but his and JJ are busy running around telling everybody this is a black/white thing and then tells us to turn to God. I doubt God would be happy the way he's been. IMHO
LOL! you got that right!
Just think about how big that place is - and the tens of thousands that come there for a sold out game.
I was reading a blurb a day or 2 ago that a lot of thier Midwest cross-country trucks were hauling relief supplies...
Frist is a surgeon and he takes his oaths, ALL his oaths seriously. From what I saw, it wasn't a photo-op. Looks like he did what he could in Congress and then came down to the front lines to aid people in distress. Some of us remember the last prominent TN representative to take this course of action.
His name was Davy Crockett, and he died at the Alamo in 1836.
Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe nothing in terms of NG or LE assets.
There is a possibility, though, that this may be a ploy by the Clintons to try to get Bush to react by federalizing the state NG, which he can certainly do, but which their media allies will then spin as Bush playing politics during a disaster.
I doubt it will work though; Bush does not think and work on these things politically; he just does his job and make sure people under him do theirs.
Therefore, I think the play by the Clintons will be to have their shill Witt manouver the Louisiana Guard and LEOs and the media in such a way as to reinforce the meme that the federal government has failed and the local and state Democrats will saving the day.
How about "displaced Gulfies" or "Katrina vics"?
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