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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
They plan on taking over the military bases...
BUT, who is going to provide food, water, medical help, job placement..
THAT is what Texas and others are providing..as well as schooling..
Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!!!!
BAh!
"their" people - don't ya love it? Who's the "Master" know - just when you think it couldn't get worse - this race baiting is beyond belief
You mean they didn't PLAN to use those bases ahead of time?
They PLANNED to use Houston and Dallas?
Oops, sounds like it's out of their hands now.
He may as well run for president. The Mayor of the Mudpuddle runs for pres.
Am seething: CNN just had some idiot from a foreign country saying something to the effect that the USA thinks it's so powerful and now that are--can't remember the exact word--but something like finished. GOOD GRIEF! CNN went from race-baiting to Hate-America. They are reprehensible!
(shrug) They're Yankees and Blue Staters. How would you expect me to know? :-P
*I'm* still wondering why they haven't figured out that armored underground electrical cables don't get knocked down by snow and wind and that they could heat their homes with *reliable* electricity.
"Black Caucus claiming more people starved that from the storm and flood."
Not yet, but that may eventually turn out to be the case -- house-to-house rooftop and/or boat rescues is a time-consuming process, and we might as well get used to the fact that we're not going to get to a lot of people in time.
As far as I know, nobody's called an all-clear, yet, for the possibility of epidemics and diseases among the evacuees.
I'm not exactly agreeing with the Black Caucus -- I'm not trying to make cheap political points.
I've already got a crank sw radio. Cranked it for Katrina (took out the batteries) just to see it work. Pretty cool.
So, because we suffered we are finished? Is that what they were trying to say?
He also said the military needed tents, not guns.
And they are taking busloads of people to England Airpark, a former Air Force Base near Alexandria....without anything set up yet.
Nobody of any significance as of Friday.
I see the potential for more significant race problems if the baiters keep it up.
As a Texan I would prefer LA house their Katrina survivors though. The survivors might also prefer to be in their own state.
This is going to be all about race now, when what it was is a big assed hurricane hit a major city.
If people were jailed for spreading rumors, everyone I know would be in jail right now. Sometimes the only way to learn anything is to talk to people. With widespread power outages, a fuel crisis, and a national disaster, the local news media has neither the time nor the inclination to report on matters that might be of vital interest to local residents. Of course, you have to be careful about what to believe, and not get panicky. But still, I'm glad neighbors have told me about their experiences with violence in gas lines and gas and generator thefts, etc. It has reinforced my decision to stay at home for a few days until things settle down a bit.
Yet the people who won't be laughing are the poor African-American people-who-cannot-be-called-refugees - all they want is to get somewhere decent and clean with water and food and medical care - but NOOOOOOOOOO, their legislators fear their votes might not come back, so they will now be used as pawns in a ridiculous political hissy-fit.
Yes, they are waterproof.
They still do not float.
"Meals-Ready-to-Bat are based on American recipes..."
What branch of the service were you in? Or was this an innocent typo?
Still pretty funny!
What's a continuation clause?
***Talk about looking a gift horse in the mouth!!!! **
These people could CARE LESS about that. All they are concerned about is thier voting base going away...
They would rather these people live in SQUALOR, than give up a Democrat seat...
PEOPLE! We are seeing the DNC reaction, playing the Race-card to the storm, and frankly, it's making my BLOOD BOIL!
"WWL Black Caucus: We have responsibilty to take care of people in our own state, thats what were going to do."
"I agree"
I agree, too - then why didn't the Black Mayor of NO do it with his people???? Sorry, I guess I need to start a cuss jar - why don't they just STFU and do something instead of babbling and blaming the wrong parties. I'll tell you why, because they NEVER DO anything except babble and blame. Idiots! <rant off
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