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

[smug]

If you check out the Flood of 1927 you'll see that's what happened then. Up until then Blacks were predominately southern and Republican. The flood caused a massive black migration north. Hoover was elected on promises to fix their plight and found he did not have the resources he promised. The black community turned it's allegiance almost entirely to democRats ever since.

[BurbankKarl]

Geraldo just created a story last night...what a shame.

[tomkat]

'criminally negligent homicide' would prolly be an easier sell to a grand jury.

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[Howlin]

No. As far as I can tell, the only thing he has done is issue press releases blaming Bush.

[Aliska]

Thanks much. That is a little cheaper than buying the more expensive unit I found. Guess I'll trot over to Radio Shack ASAP. Hope they're still where they were. Businesses are relocating so fast I can't keep track any more.

[tcrlaf]

***some folks refusing
to continue to give $ to the needed charities" ***

I've YET to see anything about NBC parroting the success of last nights telethon. I wonder if the racist remarks last night had a negative effect?

[BlackRain]

I know. I told folks about it in this thread but was informed that it couldn't possibly be because it was deemed too dangerous.

I was just fixing the date/time NG arrived on scene with supplies via land route.

[Uncle Ike]

""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."

Lots of people developing severe cases of "foot-in-mouth disease" lately. At least Hastert hasn't hit the kool-aid jug like Vitter and some other RINO's.

[Spktyr]

Austin is sending cops, medics, and 50 city buses to NOLA to evacuate people. Yes, that's right, they're sending city buses. Don't be surprised to see buses that say "Capital Metro" on them showing up in NOLA shots soon.

The mayor of Austin gave a presser about his city's relief effort preparations that was carried on TXCN. It was an educational exercise to compare and contrast that session with the pressers the Mayor of Mudville gave before the disaster. The Austin mayor only had his city manager (a blonde woman dressed in denim shirt and jeans, who looked like she'd been working personally on the setup of the shelters) there and no additional entourage. The mayor himself was in shirtsleeves with loosened tie and open top button. He also appeared to actually have been working.

Anyone remember what Nagin looked like? :-D

[malia]

"OMG!!! Livingston is blasting the Gov and the liberals! I love it! He is pulling no punches"

That is great and I want to hear more of this talking --- but ---- Even tho it was a FoxNews interview ---- FoxNews ----- will continue to play up the negative talk regarding President Bush ----- ya know what I mean---

[BurbankKarl]

That guy is keeping webservers up....

[Chuck54]

Geraldo said one person was shot in the head at the superdome. The guy was in the process of raping a 13 year old.

I wonder how the guy had the energy to rape anyone. Those people had been there 6 days (Geraldo's count, not mine) and had been w/o food and water the entire time.

This was just before he picked up the 15 month old baby, who by the way, looked pretty happy, and started screaming like Moses in The Ten Commandments, "Let these people go".

The 15 month old of course started screaming and crying. The absolutely poorest display of reporting I have ever seen.

Oh yeah, I saw Shep just before this and he was running a very close second to poorest reporting. His answer to any legit question, "I just don't know".

[McGavin999]

Perhaps that's the reason for the improved coverage. The first day or so I couldn't even watch FOX. Re-runs of a pre-taped O'Reilly Factor? Good grief!

And on top of that you would think the only area in NO that was in trouble is that darned overpass and the Super Dome.

[Warren_Piece]

I'm sorry to be the go-zillionth person to ask this, but could somebody please post the link for the disaster readiness kit? I'm about to make a run to Wal Mart and might as well get it started while it's fresh in my mind.

Perhaps Nauti could add it to the links in the header?

And yes, I did do a search, but I'm pretty crappy at it - my searches on FR always turn up empty.

[Spktyr]

They actually heaved them out of a helicopter, not out of an airplane. Unfortunately, the drop was quickly mobbed.

[Patriot from Philly]

Yes, CNN was doing good reporting the first few days. I suspect that the "memo" went out from their new leftist chief producer to politicize this, Bush bad, blah, blah blah.

I'm back with Fox and they must have also gotten a memo because their reporting has improved greatly today.

Bye, bye CNN

[roses of sharon]

LOL, that would make a great commercial against the DNC and their PR firms.

At this point I want to destroy them, reporter by reporter, corp, by corp, I want to ruin their reputations, lives, and livelihoods, as they do to others with impunity.

For the last 40 years.

[LadyBuzz]

A ten gallon crock comes to mind - actually I think I have one in the basement - but I'll need the the hubby to bring it up & then I'll have more splainin' to do

[Jim Noble]

Members demanded that all black voters not be allowed to escape their current election districts

Gotta give 'em credit - they've copped on very fast to the fact that every bus crossing into Orange TX is carrying 80 slave voters who they may never see again at the polls in Louisiana.

Delete 500 000 slave plantation voters and a RAT won't be able to get a cup of coffee in Louisiana, much less get elected to anything.

[debg]

Order online and save yourself the hassle! Make it real quick before UPS ups their rates due to gas!