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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
September 4, 2005
Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans?
By ANNE RICE
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/opinion/04rice.html?ei=5090&en=ce2f33f8719dba9c&ex=1283486400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print
That is ok, CNN can do all they want to cover up the messup by the Dems in charge,but even as we speak there are Archivists working to document the whole screwup and the eventual takeover of the Feds to get the job done. MSM will never rule the roost again.
lol thanks, don't blame me, but it's true, Wes Clark and one other, I didn't catch the name, too stunned when I heard Clark's name!
Yes. They are having a hard time working westward from Mobile the destruction is so massive. Slidell is in a bad place. And, of course, they can't work eastward from NO. Also... the destruction is two miles and more inland all through that swath from Slidell to Biloxi. Massive undertaking.
I am so glad to see your post about the barges. We saw very early on pics of a barge in the industrial canal that had gone through the levee. Some reporter saw it and the thing had gone thru to the other side. Then I never heard about it. The barge was being worked on.
Yep - like the mayor's screeching about needing boots on the ground NOW appears in this special to have been on Tuesday, not Thursday or Friday (which is when I think he made his "bleeping" speech.)
And no misery is attributed to thugs but rather to a sudden, late, unexpected turn of the storm.
NautiNurse, I ditto what someone wrote way up thread about making a book out of all the Katrina threads. Once you eliminate the sniping it might be a thin book, LOL.
why is violence, or the threat of violence, always a perceived solution to problems like this? what are they going to do, start shooting their neighboors, starting looting and burning. what the hell for?
They may know what "shame" means, but they don't know what it is.
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What a true statement. That is why they are quick to point out failings of a conservative, and do not feel in the least hypocritical when doing so.
We here in Vicksburg, have at least one police car at all gas stations to control the lines and maintain order, but even with their presence, tempers are flaring.
You are right, I had forgotten Bob Sheets - good guy, too. I just remember more clearly the "gyrations" and the messages Neil Frank was trying to get across before he got the hook.
Do you want to finish NO off? Clark? Good grief!
Tucker Carlson FINALLY brings up how corrupt the city and state officials are. Lib Harry Shearer agrees totally.
Someone mentioned it, but it hasn't been confirmed. If true, the MSM has had better things to do. Try to take down the President and whitewash the failure of Nagin and Blanco.
Yes, I had read that - tragic.
I don't understand the violence. I waited in gas lines twice on Wednesday for a total of 5 hours and both times the gas station pumps ran dry before I got to them. I was very aggravated, to say the least, but violence never crossed my mind. However, it is happening regularly here in the gas lines. The schools are closed indefinitely because the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency has commandeered all of the gas set aside for school buses. People are being told that they must come to work or lose their jobs, but there is no public transportation in the metro area outside the city limits of Jackson and many people commute 40-50 miles a day to go to work. I guess people are just stressed out. Still, that is no excuse for running over a police officer's foot or beating a woman with a tire iron simply because her car ran out of gas in a gas line and blocked the people behind her, allowing others to break in line.
Who's achieving all evidence? I'd like to thank them. Also curious what they are archiving specifically.
yall won't believe what the local Baton Rouge anchor just said on the local news.
He was covering people rushing out buying handguns and how it just amazed him that people were buying 9 mm guns. He said if you really needed a gun against those guys in NO that ou needed an AK or something big.
I was amazed. Where can we get AK's??
I can't beleive how the tone has changed on Fox. They act like they're in the winning locker room at the super bowl. It IS quite heartening.
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