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

[Spktyr]

He did have the buses go throughout the city, the only problem was that all of them were transporting people to the SuperDome.

[Heatseeker]

Congressional Black Caucus on WWL live!

"Members demanded that all black voters not be allowed to escape their current election districts". /sarc

[LadyBuzz]

she'll have to go into the Identity Protection Program now that she has sold her soul to the Clintons

[John Jamieson]

Yes

Texas is going to have a big talk with all those blue states a little later.

[NautiNurse]

Ray Nagin for president???

ROFLMAO!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Quick question
Just listening to Nagin on FOX. Currently he is the mayor. How long is his term? When is he up for re-election?

I can find the answers to those questions, but thinking of those led me to wonder this:

Cleanup will be a massive undertaking. I believe it will take longer than the mayor's term. The citizens will be scattered far and wide.

What happens to local government? Does he hold onto the "leadership" position? What happens when there is no population for the local government to represent?

[RDTF]

Maybe they should forced to change that. They do it to avoid certain restrictions. No more hall pass.

[tcrlaf]

Dallas gets 3 trains a day from Amtrack, plus the local commuter..

Lafayette said this morning that they are OUT of resources and will move refugees there on to Texas...

[Spktyr]

I've seen multiple Triad drops under real world conditions.

The packets went everywhere and none of them went anywhere near the target zone.

[LadyPilgrim]

I heard Gov. Pataki say yesterday on one of the stations that 9/11 was distruction of 16 square blocks. And that this was completely different!

[nairBResal]

CNN now playing the race card.

just played kanye west.

[John Jamieson]

Suspend the Wright amendment and we'll fly them to any blue state for free.

[bwteim]

From WWL
Note, the ** is my editorial marking. Am awaiting careful reader responses.

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From WWL

Updates as they come in on Katrina

02:33 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet

2:32 P.M. - The Hammond Daily Star: Farmers at the edge of the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina have to dump their milk because they've run out of room to store it, even as thousands of people go hungry and thirsty in and around New Orleans.

Many farms' storage tanks are just big enough to hold two milkings, and co-ops haven't been able to pick up the milk, Dee Simpson said Friday.

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Farmers also are having trouble finding feed for their 80 cows, numerous calves and 40 horses The plant where they buy it will be closed for four weeks.

"That's going to be the hardest part -- just trying to take care of these animals," Dee Simpson said.

2:30 P.M. - FORT CHAFFEE, AR (AP): New Orleans-area residents brought to Arkansas to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina arrived at Fort Smith on Saturday but the first wave was temporarily diverted because of worries that Fort Chaffee couldn't accommodate their wheelchairs.

**Fort Chaffee, a decades-old Army base in western Arkansas, does not fully comply with standards set under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Washington County emergency officials agreed to take them, but space later was found at Fort Chaffee.**

About 60 planes are expected to arrive over the next two or three days, bringing 4,000 or so evacuees removed from New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. The first plane, which arrived Saturday morning, had 60 passengers in wheelchairs.

Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday that as many as 50,000 refugees may already be in Arkansas, with as many as 20,000 still to come. He said plans also were being made to house thousands more at church camps, scout camps, and public housing apartments.

2:27 P.M. - The Minneapolis Star Tribune, (AP): Minnesota radio stations plan to team up to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina during a seven-hour radiothon Friday.

Most Twin Cities radio stations will gather for "Storm Aid: Minnesota's River of Relief," to be broadcast from 5 a.m. to noon from a still-to-be-determined location near the Mississippi River.

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2:21 P.M. - Video game development company Bungie is selling shirts to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

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2:18 P.M. - HOUSTON (AP): The triage line inside the Astrodome hasn't changed much since the buses began arriving from New Orleans two nights ago.

It's long with tired, ailing refugees, some in wheelchairs, some on crutches, some critical, some not, but every one of them waiting on a doctor.

This is the Astrodome, not the Superdome. It's smells a lot less here. It's cooler, and less chaotic. Still, it's a basin of folks with so many ills, where everyone lines up to be treated. And it's no short line.
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2:13 P.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): Governor Kathleen Blanco has declared a state of public health emergency.

The declaration allows doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to register with the Department of Health and Hospitals and go to work immediately in Louisiana. The medical professionals must be in good standing in their home states.

Blanco also is asking that school buses be used to help carry supplies and evacuate hurricane victims.

Superintendents in every Louisiana school district that is still up and running have been ordered to send a list of buses and drivers.

[LadyBuzz]

well let's see - he can't be the first black president because Clinton was

[ARealMothersSonForever]

"Federal officials are chartering three Carnival Cruise Lines ships for six months "
That was from the first paragraph of the post. Nothing is being "seized" or confiscated. Chartering implies scheduling and paying.

[Spktyr]

Good! Don't forget to add a crank/solar powered radio and a CB and/or FRS/GMRS radio to that kit - as well as extra magazines. The Glock 21 15 round mags fit and work just fine in the Glock 30.

[RDTF]

I seems it would be different. The hospitals were waiting but the people never came because they died. The only people displaced were in the immediate vacinity and that was mostly temporary until it was deemed safe.

[Heatseeker]

This is the first smart move this woman has made.

C'mon BK, this is the Clinton flack who patted himself on the back in 1993 for "reforming" FEMA, while parts of 9 states flooded!

[Uncle Ike]

"What happens to local government? Does he hold onto the "leadership" position? What happens when there is no population for the local government to represent? "

I was wondering that yesterday -- why are we listening to a Mayor whose city doesn't exist anymore?

(mental picture: king of the junkyard) :)

[nuclady]

Ok, I have suffered through enough of your posts. On FR, people with a lot of expertise are definitely welcome. You obviously have yours. However, your snarky replies to all that you disagree with does cloud the information you have.

If you have good data, just post it, without "you obviously don't know what you're talking about" attitude. If you keep this up, I WILL ask the Admin Moderator to give you a time off, either short-term or long-term will be up to you.

Now, shape up or ship out!