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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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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
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IIRC, the rioting and disorder in NO stopped the search and rescue efforts as troops were diverted. Also, the media did create the perception that all the white in town left, while poor blacks stayed behind.
"Voodo ops, voodo ops. This is Eagle three, over." I have no idea what that means but it sounds cool...:-)
My sister is wild about chicos. But nothing looks right on me from there,,it just doesn't.
That's funny that they named whatever their op is that.
The clothes from Chicos are not 'fitted'
This started because Shep spent days on that bridge screaming that no one was getting food and water to those people and implying that nobody cared about them. It could have been taken care of the first day if he would have gone to the hotel that was right behind him in most of those shots and told the mayor to either get some aid to those people or he'd start naming names. Instead, he just kept ragging on "the government" which was the equivalent of loading a gun, aiming it at the Bush administration, and handing it to the DNC. He basically accomplished NOTHING constructive and in fact did manage to accomplish something quite DESTRUCTIVE.
Now, we'll find out just what kind of man he is by how he fixes the mess that he made.
As a "newsman" he of all people should have known the hierarchy. He went through 9-11 and saw for himself how the city and the state were responsible for the first response, so he can't plead ignorance.
I know but they look funny on me. Maybe I am not built for them or something but I look frumpy in them. Now that I think about it I am frumpy.
No - you probably aren't! That's why you don't like them. That's how I feel.
He is probably talking about when the French owned New Orleans!
And we are supposed to rebuild this foul place, pay for its decadent citizens with money taken from our paychecks by our feckless govenment, and not question the sanity of recreating a city below sea level with a gigantic lake on one side, the Mississippi River on the other and the Gulf of Mexico on its doorstep? Are we really as stupid as the Frenchman who foolishly established the city where it should never have been built?
Omg! That pic just invalidates all the crappy racist rants. We will come together and take care of our neighbors.
JJ and Al need to pick up the white courtesy phone. Btw, where did you find that photo?
I like Talbots and Chicos, too. But Coldwater Creek is my favorite. They sent me an e-mail today about what they are going to do in the hurricane relief effort.
Thanks to a freeper message I spent 2 hours today unloading vehicles in Roswell, GA for a 50-foot trailer that was being sent with relief supplies.
It was great mix of good people who acted like they didn't care about race.
I'm holding my fire to see how bad the AJC is tomorrow so I can fire both barrels with the make up of this group and the willingness to help any American citizen.
http://www.radioreference.com/wiki/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina
I recommend people listen to some of the GREAT AMERICANS helping these people. I have been listening to the San Antonio Feed for the past half hour. Ambulances on the tarmac waiting for the planes to land, Code 3 rolls to the hospitals, Trailers of supplies arriving donating by local business owners.
In any case, the Red Cross can direct you to where the need is greatest, be it high-profile shelters like Houston or Baton Rouge or in the small towns of West Texas or West Virginia.
We're talking about a couple of million displaced people (when you include the ones that heeded the warnings to evacuate and didn't need to be rescued...yet still lost everything they own), not just from New Orleans but from 92,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast. Yes, they'll need the clothes, and the toys! (And bless you and your kids for your generosity.)
Off topic....is it me or does anyone else get a weird feeling seeing Islamic Relief Fund splashed on the screen?
I was in the car and turned to Air America for a minute and there was a black host taking phone calls...
The only phone call I lasted long enough for was from a black lady complaining about the use of the word "refugee" to describe the victims of the hurricane...which is the "talking point" of the day...I even heard Kiran Chetry on Fox say refugee and then correct herself to evacuee..
Anyway...she was complaining about how degrading that word is...and then said, "they aren't refugees, they are homeless!!"
Whoa...did I laugh out loud----so I guess in her mind, calling them "homeless" is more respectful than "refugee"..
On the Thursday the Loudon County VA Sheriff's office sent a search and rescue team to Louisianna. They were forced to turn around and come home after FEMA denied their request to assist in the recovery effort.
FEMA chief Chertoff in a press conference today tried to discount the idea that it was reasonable for FEMA to have planned in advance for something on the magnitude of what we're seeing.
There are also reports that FEMA initially rejected the assistance of a private flotilla of 500 boats due to communications snafus.
I'd that for 50 years we've known what it would take to protect New Orleans, yet nobody thought it worthwhile to do it.
Government, at all levels, democrat, republican, whig, you name it, has failed.
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