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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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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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 dont have cable either...I am watchin wdsu tv online and its all taped stuff
On the taxpayers' dime, no doubt.
Bend over and grab your ankles again, LA.
What a state.
It's also a symptom of drug/alcohol abuse/withdrawl.
This is great info, we have to know where our donation dollars are going. That is total Horse doo doo if this is their protocal. It is no wonder they are always begging for volunteers. I have had little experience with the Red Cross except for CPR training. After Hurricane Andrew hit for the first few days we worked with the PBA in Dade County cooking and serving food for the thousands of Police that had to be in the area working 16 hour days. After that My friends and I volunteered with the Jaycees when we were off duty. We gutted buses and did pickups of planeloads of goods from the Jaycees all over America. We unloaded the Planes on the tarmack and loaded the donations into the buses, and then we took them down to the worst hit areas in Kendall,Perrine,South Dade and Homestead. We drove through neighborhoods standing up on the buses because all the donations took up the room. There was no lettering on any street signs because the wind blew them off. The people were tearful and very thankful,especially for the Diapers and water and Juices.
Stories told of lawlessness, violence
Late Thursday, an official from another parish, St Bernard's, said 100 people had died on a slipway from exhaustion, dehydration and heart attacks, as they waited for rescue.
Authorities had not even known they were in trouble, officials said, because communications were wiped out by the storm and subsequent flash tides.
"CNN Presents: Sudden Fury: In Katrina's Deadly Wake" is currently playing.
How many could have been evacuated from New Orleans?
Scroll down a bit as there is more than one pic of the buses that are now flooded. Bump the thread too if yall don't mind. It's a story that needs to be told!
Blanco will pay Witt out of the FEMA and congressional money sent to Louisiana. unreal, isn't it?
Well, the mayor of Waterworld doesn't really matter anymore. He's just reacting to the chewing out on top of feeling responsible for the deaths of thousands. Pray for him. He needs it.
rest mode from live programming
Mary "won" her first election in the senate by about 5,000 votes from Orleans parish, and it was alluded that she won on vote fraud. So on her reelection they just padded the votes from Orleans parish by about 45,000 votes.
FEMA is paying for this?!
'Waterworld'
Made me laugh - and I know it's not funny, but still, it was.
The recent fire image posted here, 4 residential dwellings involved, is about 1/10th to 1/20th the size of the fire NBC showed.
That fire is an industrial complex, alongside a RR tracks with numerous parked tank cars.
People see others suffering. A minute starts to feel like an hour. An hour like half a day. A day a week. It's the curse of 24-7 news. Perspective is lost.
I do not excuse them, I've been very angry at their hysteria actually. It isn't helpful to rescue/relief efforts. I do understand what drives it though.
3 Star Gen Honour will give him direction
Exactly. Check out my sig.
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