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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
By the way, thanks for the information you posted on choice of gun for a small woman with little strength! I'll be buying a Glock 30 with .45ACP thanks to your advice to another poster. Living in a hurricane prone area and seeing the extent of civil unrest with this disaster has caused me to rethink my survival kit. Also added to the list is a (hands free) backpack and an air mattress.
Heheheh. Which would be relevant -IF- the governor had any role in managing the recovery and relief effort. She had, and blew her "chance" to do her job.
Blanco and Witt will be but a buzzing gnat to those who are managing the recovery and relief. Witt and Blaco can take over after the city has been fully evacuated.
Most American's, in flyover country, are not racists.
Certainly, if you knew anything about our President, you would know he is definitely not a racist.
I'm beginning to think the real racists are the LEADERS of the black caucus, NAACP, and our press.
I resent Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, Shiela Jackson Lee, Carol Mosley Braun, etc. for trying to make this disaster a racist issue. The Civil war and segregation are past; let sleeping dogs lie.
Lets move forward as Americans and help these people. They need everything to pull their lives back together.
A word of advice, the American People are the most generous in the world, but if people keep telling us we hate blacks and like to see them suffer they are going to feel a backlash from American generosity... and none of you will have anyone to blame but yourselves....
of course, you will try!
True, and the size, and scope, of this disaster are, if not, unprecedented then very close. It takes time to get the help in – sad but true. Good to see it is starting to come in faster.
Are you watching Fox? did you see that couple sitting on the bridge with an umbrella over them? They not only looked healthy, they look well fed and bathed. Just wondering how that could be. Maybe they had a generator?
So why are they sending them by train to Lafayette, only to be bussed later to Dallas??? Couldn't Lafayette find places for these people to stay? Or are they full up? If they're not full, seems like someone is trying to dump people on other states... Just an observation.
I have been repeatedly thankful that we have not had to face the situation of Al Gore handling this. Ugh!!
In all seriousness, I will be interested to see what California does. My fear is that the NIMBY mentality will dominate the major metropolitan ares.
ping to CANG 146th Wing, Channel Islands CA
Ray Nagin for president???
Someone on CNN just suggested this.
I wonder if the Superdome folks would vote for him.
You might want to tell the US Air Force that.
The HDRs were dropped from the air-planes via one-time-use,heavy-duty card-board containers called Tri-Wall Air De-livery Systems (TRIADs).
Each TRIAD contains 470–490 HDRs. As the planesapproach the drop zone, they are depressurized and the cargo doors are opened,then the pilots pull the aircraft nose upabout seven degrees,causing the contain-ers to roll out of the aircraft.
The containers are tied to a static line, or harness, that tightens and flips them over once they are clear of the aircraft,releasing the prepack-aged rations, which “float” down.
The empty cardboard container is then released, and the harness retracted. Thismethod eliminates the need to drop pallets of food via parachute, permits wide distribution of the rations, and prevents palletized loads from falling into enemy hands.
That's why we couldn't simply commandeer cruise ships to move out/house refugees - virtually all are flagged in other countries (Panama, Liberia, Bahamas, etc.), and seizing a ship of another nation is an act of war.
Congressional Black Caucus on WWL live!
Exactly. And for those that don't know, the Red River really IS red. It's not polluted, it just has a lot of natural iron oxide in it.
I couldn't believe it either, the first time I saw it.
Um, HDRs don't float so that's a NOGO for NOLA. Maybe Alabama and Mississippi.
If they would, they must be, or have the same mentality, of the people that put him there in the first place, and not learned a thing in the last few days.
Get them to a place with running water....
Staging area - Dallas does not have a significant passenger rail terminal. Certainly not one that can handle an entire trainload of evacuees.
They're also screening them in Lafayette, or they're supposed to be.
It is not dumping. It is like triage. First, get people out of the disaster area. Then determine physical, medical, mental issues. Relocate to *prepared* areas for short-term humanitarian care, get the kiddo's in school. Then develop interim accomodation. Texas volunteered. Each and every county that has any capability.
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