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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
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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
Most of the gas tankers are busy in use fuelling the rescue and recovery efforts. You can hear them on the scanner sometimes.
It will take time to alleviate the MS gas shortages.
I seem to remember they flooded the poor and black areas to spare N.O. by dynamiting the levees on that side of the river.
Further, they did not evacuate the sharecroppers, but left them to live atop the eight-foot wide dykes, lest they not return to resume farming when the waters subsided.
And the rich never reimbursed those who were flooded out by the dynamiting of the dykes.
Oh, and I forgot. They need to make Americans feel shame so that Americans will get angry at Bush.
Not working with me, I'll feeling pretty good today about the effort. Plus I gave money to the Salvation Army.
I read a lot of stuff about how society can break down as y2k approached. Its amazing how much of this proved true.
Maybe justice in the Dome was better than outside the Dome. I assume the perp was caught in the act, and justice followed shortly thereafter.
At any rate, I brought this up with active-duty yesterday. I was informed that active-duty military may not fire upon American citizens. National Guard have a different charter.
But yes, the US Military may fire in self-defense. Oh Thank God!!! :)
Actually, the NG is Arnie's deal. The NG still isn't Federalized in this incident.
CA is *smaller* both in land mass and habitable land than TX. They're also smaller in all other respects. Except their ego and liberalism, those are huge.
Also, I hear that certain "executive protection and recovery" outfits have suddenly had a great influx of business....
Please explain? I'm having a hard time comprehending what you are alluding to.
tcrlaf wrote:
***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?"
Did you donate during NBC's telethon?
Me neither.
I suspect those who formulate NBC and CNN's agendas are out for the weekend.
We may be stuck with the current policy until Monday.
I believe that this is also calculated.
I believe that these diseased despots think they can just quietly change their tune after the crisis is past and no-one will ever notice or figure out what they did.
I believe that they think they can get away with setting precedent in America's mind, force a perception that Bush murdered New Orleans, and walk away clean afterwards.
They have miscalculated.
More additional MS info found at wlbt.com for those interested:
Below is a town-by-town summary of damage done by Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi gulf coast and northward.
Overall:
U.S. 90 buried under inches -- or feet -- of sand.
Communications down.
Transportation systems demolished.
Medical services crippled.
High-water marks set by Camille shattered.
Bay St. Louis:
Whole neighborhoods washed away.
Highway and railroad bridges to Biloxi demolished.
Biloxi:
Legacy Towers condos survive.
Ryans, Red Lobster, Olive Garden washed away along U.S. 90.
Lighthouse still standing.
Biloxi-Ocean Springs Bridge gone.
Bottom floor of the library and the home of Jefferson Davis home, Beauvoir, destroyed.
Sharkshead Souvenir City gone.
Edgewater Village strip shopping center gutted.
Also gone: the steeple of historic Hansboro Presbyterian Church; Waters Edge II apartments; Diamondhead Yacht Club, the old neon McDonald's sign on Pass Road.
Massive damage in east end of city.
Almost total devastation primarily south of the railroad tracks near Lee Street, Point Cadet and Casino Row.
Beau Rivage still stands.
Hard Rock Casino, originally scheduled to open this week, suffered 50 percent damages.
At least five casinos out of commission.
St. Thomas the Apostlic Catholic Church, which sits on U.S. 90, is gone.
D'Iberville:
New addition to Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church of D'Iberville destroyed, damage to sanctuary.
Structural damage to D'Iberville High School.
Hundreds of homes destroyed.
Gulfport:
Gulf Coast Medical Center lost power and evacuated patients to Alabama hospitals.
Mississippi State Port lost its lifting facilities and cranes.
Historical Grass Lawn building destroyed.
Fun Time USA left with only bumper boats, pool and go-cart track.
Numerous businesses and homes on Pass Road damaged or destroyed.
Dozens of homes missing on Beach Boulevard.
Fire chief estimates 75 percent of buildings have major roof damage, "if they have a roof left at all."
The storm surge crossed the CSX railroad tracks.
Heavy damage to Memorial Hospital.
First floor of the Armed Forces Retirement Home flooded.
3 of 4 walls have collapsed at Harrison Central 9th Grade School in North Gulfport.
At least three firehouses with significant damage.
Hancock County:
Emergency Operations Center swamped.
Back of the county courthouse gave way.
Harrison County:
Old courthouse building destroyed. Damage to virtually all shelters.
Lyman Elementary lost two buildings.
Woolmarket Elementary lost its roof.
West Wortham Elementary has significant roof damage.
Hattiesburg:
A number of businesses and homes damaged in the area.
U.S. 49 and Highway 11 shut down.
Wind speeds of 95 mph.
Jackson County:
Ocean Springs Hospital remained open for emergency treatment.
Roof peeled off Emergency Operations Center.
Long Beach:
Most buildings within 200 yards of U.S. 90 disappeared.
Stately homes and apartment complexes that lined the shore are gone.
First Baptist Church is leveled.
Moss Point:
Floodwater surrounded two hotels full of guests.
Much of downtown destroyed.
20 feet of water flooded most of the city.
Pascagoula:
Six blocks of Market Street destroyed.
Jackson County Emergency Management Agency had to relocate to the courthouse after the roof came off their building downtown.
Roof came off the gym at St. Martin High School.
Reports of flooding in the Chipley area.
Pass Christian:
Bridge to Bay St. Louis destroyed, along with several other bridges.
Harbor and beachfront community gone.
In eastern part of city, water rose to more than 20 feet above ground level.
Flooding on Beatline Road at the 90-degree turn.
House in the middle of the road on Second Street.
This is true.
As for the euphemism - think Blackwater Security. :)
look at this man on FNC, they are dropping bottled water to him. the next phase of this rescue needs to be boat rescues in those parts of the flooded city people cannot walk out of, but I wonder is the security situation in those areas will permit that.
Peyton Manning and Eli ?, two sports stars, came to visit the Astrodome. Looks like people were cheered up by their visit. (WLL)
(Can you tell I don't follow sports much?)
Now that's what I call the right to a speedy trial!
Gotta check out now, Mrs Heatseeker's 4 cats were supposed to have been fed an hour ago and are beginning to sound like Democrats....
I was at Kent State in 71 when Gov Rhodes sent in the NG - same policy then as now
My cat is a Republican, he attempts to get his own food.
OMAHA, Neb. -- Omaha-based Union Pacific Railroad will be hauling relief supplies into the hard-hit Gulf Coast, the company said Friday.
UP has an emergency contract to eventually move nearly 300 trailer loads of federal aid to Memphis, Tenn., said Kathryn Blackwell, assistant vice president of corporate communications.
From Memphis the supplies will be trucked to hurricane victims, continuing for an estimated three months.
As part of that effort, Blackwell said, the company initially plans to haul about 100 truckloads of bottled drinking water from Los Angeles to Louisiana. A Los Angeles-area company won the water contract from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The company has offered more trains to FEMA and offered to open its tracks to an Amtrak train that could carry refugees to points out of the area.
"There may be an opportunity to have an Amtrak train come down our tracks to pick up people to move to Houston," Blackwell said.
FEMA is working on the Amtrak logistics, but so far getting people to refugee buses is proving easier than getting people to a train station.
The influx of refugees to Houston has overloaded the Astrodome, but officials have opened two more giant centers.
Buses were temporarily turned away from the Astrodome, already packed with more than 15,000 people, because of safety and crowd concerns. The city is expected to receive at least 25,000 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
Mayor Bill White on Friday said the city's convention center and an exhibition hall at the Reliant Center would accept hurricane refugees, and conventions for the coming weeks would be canceled.
An Amtrak train that could carry 600-700 people is sitting at a UP yard in Livonia, La., awaiting a decision on its use, she said.
The company has cleared its tracks of power lines and other debris, Blackwell said.
A Katrina command center has been established at Omaha's Harriman Dispatching Center to coordinate the work and communications with government agencies and others responding to the disaster.
you better feed them, otherwise we will send Geraldo to your house!
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