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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
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Where are the voices defending Bush...?...
I saw his dramatics last night on O'Reilly's. JMJ, beyond drama queen into the realm of psychotic freaks.
""Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - black and white, rich and poor, young and old - deserve far better from their national government," Landrieu said. "
Welcome back. I understand you got some serious initiation into 'cane country. Glad to hear all is well, and everyone is safe.
$0.01
Full load. 71. (40 + 30 + pipe)
But no one seems to be defending him...attack after attack...CNN is doing a 3 hour Bush bash tonight...with Belafonte, Carville and Sharpton for Christ Sakes...
she is toast. Senator or not. Maybe SHE should be the one looking over her shoulder for the CIA.
Katrina continues to point out an obvious thing: What you believe and how you behave before a crisis is a pretty good indicator of what you'd believe and how you'd behave during a crisis.
Libs have gone hysterical. And they are hysterical during non-crisis times.
The Same analogy applies to cyber. Of course this also means that the MSM giving "uber" air time to liberals "during an event" must also be supporting liberals during no event times.
In either case, he who is faithful in small is faithful in large is very true, IMHO.
My mood has lifted.
My husband just made me die laughing. He got out clothes for the, well, Hurricane people since I can't say refugees.
He brought out like 10 Brooks Bros dress shirts and four fabulous suits. I was laughing so hard I couldn't stand up. We are gonnna have upscale refugees for sure. And some unworn cole Haan loafers with tassels.
I told him our refugees would probably go for something a little more cutting edge.
That man just slays me.
Landrieu. That... that (nevermind). Am I out of line here in thinking Bush should jail her for the duration of this thing?
One of the guests on Fox this morning detailed how the New Orleans Levee Board misspent money for decades, buying things like casinos, hotels, powerboats, etc. That would be a good angle for the archivists. :-)
well, talk radio began the counter attack yesterday. they realized this "drop the politics" theme wasn't going to work. the Dems started it, its time for the counter attack. It will take time to get some voices out there, the MSM will focus on using Vitters as the "Chuck Hagle" for Katrina. we just have to keep battling. and Bush needs to do a daily briefing, like the one he did today, he has to do that every day and focus on the positive things being done.
I saw a report of a guy at the Astrodome that got some clothes for a job interview, and it was stolen overnight.
I'm gonna watch America's Most Wanted for the next hour and concentrate on watching out for the bad guys.
Gee do you think we'll see a 60 Minutes expose on this?
Naah, me neither.
Perhaps a more pertainent question is:
How is our republic going to withstand this onslaught? The president is a big boy. Not all of our Americans are. Dispair does not help. Nor does political polarization.
Only my 2 cents.
Do you know anybody you can give them to...they will never be worn by any of the refugees, trust me!
Bob Livingston on Fox now.
My husband wants to know where you go for target practice?
He is intrigued. We don't even have a gun except for his bee bee gun from childhood. He sent me to learn to shoot when we came down here. My daughter and I went and took lessons. I was okay but she was very good. She grew up in the east and said she loved to shoot but felt guilty about it. She said her friends up north would be shocked. She really could hit things.
the red thing on the right? it could be.
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