(to refresh our history, Jefferson send emissaries to buy New Orleans from France, to control the Mississippi River....they ended up buying the entire Louisiana Purchase, for 3 cents an acre....and funding Napolean's future wars)
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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
"Voodo ops, voodo ops. This is Eagle three, over." I have no idea what that means but it sounds cool...:-)
Hah! "Voodo Operations" is the call-sign for a local command-and-control center, and that call-sign was chosen by someone with a fine sense of humor.
they must be "new arrivals" at the convention center. people apparanently are still walking into the superdome and convention center areas for evac.
FOXNEWS reporter in Baton Rouge looks, moves and sounds exactly like Jim Carrey...has this been noticed already?
I saw that Jacques is in the Hospital for something. I don't know anymore than that.
Great find. Love the kid helping to push the granny. Kayne West and...hey where's Al Sharpton? Nevermind.
I mean, it must be just as easy to get 100s of tons of food and water, and buses and a fleet of choppers into NO - as it is to get a couple of reporters in a van with a camera and a mic - right?
Did you see Steve Harvey on some channel today complaining about adult evacuees having to ride in school buses?
>>I like Talbots and Chicos, too. But Coldwater Creek is my favorite<<
...All of the above plus J. Jill
Is that what he is?
He has been replaying clips from last night.
Yeah. I gathered something of that because the same voice also called "voodo base, voodo base." Forgive me. I'm ignorant as far as military jargon. I just find it incredible that we can listen over the Internet to this scanner. We can also decipher info from the exchanges. Fascinating stiff.
The general opinion was that this was no one's fault, it was a massive disaster, and that these people should get help. Several people had aleady donated hundreds to the Red Cross.
I was expecting a "blame Bush" fest, but that was not the case. I think that this effort by the leftists is not getting traction here in Indiana.
Do you know where to send them? I have boxloads of clothes, toys, and boooks.
From AP News
New Orleans Left to the Dead
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050904/D8CD42BO0.html
(to refresh our history, Jefferson send emissaries to buy New Orleans from France, to control the Mississippi River....they ended up buying the entire Louisiana Purchase, for 3 cents an acre....and funding Napolean's future wars)
well good. Your Dem friends have enough sense to know how the system really works.
If you heard some of the later transmissions, it was easy to figure out that Eagle 3 is a helicopter. They are not happy with their orders. Eagle 1 said to Eagle 3 "I don't understand it either. I guess we're supposed to just keep flying tired".
Yep that's one of the things from grade school I actually remember. Cool pic!
When asked if they will rebuild the city, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) just stated on Fox that the Spirit of the People of New Orleans is "TITANIC!"
She is so stupid its funny! Just thought a little humor in the midst of the suffering couldn't hurt.
sharpton on hannity. let's see if Hannity take him on.
already - "no one had food or water for 4 or 5 days". not really.
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