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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
Oh I am. First there was the snotty remark about not sitting home baking cookies, then there she was defending the husband who publicly humiliated her. I'm not even going into all her crimes, I'm just talking about her as a woman.
As for Witt, I honestly don't know who he/she is, but loyal Clinton apparatchik sums up how things will work. BAH!!!!!
Don't blame you.
East Texas too!
I just found out 50 evacuees are coming to my town tonight to be housed at the Salvation Army. (West Kentucky)I called and asked what I could do. They asked for pillows. Plenty of beds, no pillows. Got them and lots of paper supplies. My brother donated a big screen tv and I took a DVD player and lots of kid's movies. Also card and board games.
There are things we can all do to help. Let's all just pool resources and do what little we can. Whereever these poor people end up, it's not going to be short term. Many won't go back. Too much horror.
I finnally stopped crying and raging at my TV and did something to help. All of us can do something.
NO LEFT TO THE DEAD AND DYING:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina
yes, but to have an honest and productive process review - you have to come to terms with when and how the federal government shoud take over the civil order part of the problem. right away in every case? how long do you wait to make the judgement that a mayor and governor are inept? if Bush had done that within 8 hours of the incident let's say, the Dems would be screaming that he was a racist for declaring the mayor incompetent "too soon".
"I like my job in Naperville, but conservative women don't seem very abundant here, and most that do exist seem to be married."
OK you get a pass. I can relate. Not an abundance of single conservative men in the Seattle area either.
I'm sure the people DYING in the other Parrishes appreciate him right now...
Halliburton, For real? Or is this a joke?
Dang...a big screen TV? I know where to go if I get flooded out!!!
LOL--
You and your family sound like very caring and generous people..
God Bless you...and thanks for the tip..and helping out!!!
Pure evil.
I've already learned first-hand in real-time and cyber -- JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE, thanks to "PC education standards" haven't a clue as to how the US government works - federal and states. An investigation might be exactly what the population needs. I'd call the "education" investigation "No Adult Left Behind".
I hope there are some decent Dems in NOLA keeping all the pertinent Documents from being shredded and saving the hard drives from being destroyed from the computers. They can try and destroy all the records and claim that the flood got them. If the Clintonista's are in charge of this mess we all know that they are experts at destroying evidence.
Hell if I know. If we have a nuclear attack the fallout would be too deadly to enter, or so I would think.
That's why we take pre-emptory measures to prevent it's occurence. Too late at that point.
Just another cowardly opportunistic grandstanding politician that thinks he knows better than everybody else eager to get two cents of attention in the MSM. These people have no clue how every word they think advances them, diminishes them in the eyes of those that really count.
Oh, wonderful. Geraldo is back on. Apparently he's no longer holding up babies screaming on camera at least.
I'm one who has been as frustrated as Shep. This isn't easy. I'm from the area to boot and am heartbroken over all of this. All my memories as a young man are there.
I knew the effort was coming but it was frustrating to see people without water on television.
I'm not perfect. I've been emotional, as many here will certainly note. I can't blame Shep too much. He's from the area too. How he's reported hasn't really mattered in this tragedy that is bigger than the biggest of us. The rescue effort was coming all along.
I just keep hoping that when I wake up the next day this will all be some horrible nightmare. It still hasn't gotten through to me that this is real.
Good for you!
I agree that many of these people will stay, and the sooner they are integrated into each of the refugee destinations, the sooner that aspect of live will return to normal.
Too typical. Time for a good ol' "come to Jesus" meeting for the evacuees. I hate to sound like an opportunist, but this is the perfect time to illustrate to our fellow Americans, how bad they've been scammed. They're reading to hear the message....
I care what Newt thinks. He's a very bright man. Can be downright cagey when he needs to be.
But I fear my secret is out and the guys will start adding that to the lies they tell.
Just a joke fellas.
I am glad to know that. I signed up to volunteer, but was not given that info.
10,000 people airlifted today, largest evacuation in US History
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