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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
Read about the 1927 New Orleans floods. It destroyed and propelled the political careers of many, including one Huey P. Long.
What Day/Time Did Supplies Get to the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center ?
Answer: Noon Friday 2 September 2005.
"Five days after Hurricane Katrina devastated this city, help was finally making its way Friday to Convention Center Boulevard."
National Guard Lt. Col. Jerry Crooks said troops had served more than 70,000 meals outside the convention center and had 130,000 more on hand.
"The National Guard arrived at the center en masse shortly after noon Friday."
Within minutes of the soldiers' arrival at the convention center, they set up six food and water lines. The crowd was for the most part orderly and grateful.
Reference:
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/090305/new_rescuers001.shtml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5253390,00.html
My hubby is a big LIB (long story) & he said what Hastert said before Hastert said it
Why do they not take them and house and feed them for the next 6 months in their own homes?
Funny, two threads ago there were pictures of supplies that had been dropped by chopper late Thursday.
Governor George Pataki (NY) presented a $2.5 million donation to the Red Cross during a benefit concert Friday night for Hurricane Katrina relief, while tons of supplies and city workers head to the Gulf Coast from the New York area this weekend.
The governor is sending a group of response and recovery specialists and a dozen disaster management specialists to the devastated area.
A huge group of city workers are on their way to help evacuees along the Gulf Coast. The Port Authority is also sending teams to New Orleans. The New York Air National Guard, the FDNY, NYPD and Office of Emergency Management are also helping out.
Seventy buses left from police headquarters Saturday, bound for New Orleans and 30 more will leave Sunday from Staten Island. The convoy includes more than 200 MTA personnel and 170 NYPD officers along with dozens of vehicles including highway cars, supply and communication vehicles. Police officers will provide security and help board the evacuees, once they reach New Orleans. The buses will then move residents to Texas and Arkansas.
The convoy of bus operators and police officers, all volunteered to go.
“All these people in the United States decided to come and help us on 9/11, so now it's our turn to them," said NYPD officer Drew Palmer.
"To go down there and lend a hand, try to bring some people up to safety, get them to some where they can get some medical help and, places to sleep, shower, maybe eat," said MTA bus operator Peter Cabrera.
The task force is also bringing food, water and other supplies. They will be deployed for about a week.
... gonna need a bigger cuss jar...
"and that they'd only found guns at the places where shooting had been coming from."
They ran off, cowards. Melted back into the crowds to catch a bus to new potential victims?
I was hoping they would die.
The cuss jar accepts paypal also! ;-)
Ironically, I mistook one of the fires reported yesterday for the awesome Riverwalk -and mhking corrected me. Now it may be true.
They would never do that
"Re Hastert: It's not what you say, it's when you say it."
Talk about bad timing, you would think a man in his position wouldnt be as foolish.
AMEN!!!!
absolutely. they would have helicopter footage of all those flooded school buses that were not moved out before the hurricane hit, over and over again, like the Rodney King video.
I just found this story about the hijacking of gas tankers on the way to Mississippi and the possibility of having to have armed escorts. I have heard rumors about this since yesterday, but it's not really being reported widely. I guess this is why the gas lines are still so long and there is still so much anger and violence in the gas lines.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=3802127&nav=2CSfe6Nr
They're not worried.
In a generation or two, Texas will vote for them.
I think he feels responsibility for all the companies whose websites he provides, who might lose their shirts if he goes?
FNC announced a little while ago that there will be a Katrina special on at 5 eastern - Hannity & What's his name, Greta, and 1 or 2 others.
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