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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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You are probably correct.
What surprises me is that later in that article it mentions that NO didn't want to federalize the project because if something went wrong, they'd be blamed.
That doesn't make sense, of course, because if something went wrong and the project was federalized, it's the feds who would take the brunt of criticism.
She would lose control of the money, like the paltry sum she spent hiring Clinton's FEMA goon James Lee Witt.
When are the folks in LA gonna get fed up with this excrement?
who's=whose
When I first read it last night, there appeared to be good info buried amid emotional hyperbole. That seems to be the case again this morning.
Did ya'll see Andrew Young's interview on CNN? He is from New Orleans and a former UN Ambassador and mayor of Atlanta. It was great.
The interviewer asked him if he felt there was racism involved and were blacks the ones that suffered most. He said you know you kept seeing pictures of the inner city which is mostly black. He said the outer edges of the city were mostly poor white people and that they were hit hard because they were on low ground. He said that he talked to a white girl at a shelter that was in the water for 48 hours before she was rescued and watched bodies of her neighbors floating by which were mostly white. He said he didn't believe that the deaths would be mostly black, but more likely an equal number between the races. The interviewer said so you think there is no racism involved? And Mr. Young said, 'No. I don't think so.'
He said positive things about the government response and the interview asked in what I thought was an incredulous tone, 'So you think the government response was good?' Mr. Young said, 'Yes.'
The Superdome evac is complete. There are still problems with some people refusing to leave their flooded homes. Zero reports of violence.
Yes, Chief Justice Rehnquist has passed on.
"While President Bush eventually cut his vacation short by two days, the others did not deem the crisis significant enough to return to work."
I'm so sick and tired of these idiots harping on the Pres being on 'vacation' for a month or 4 or 5 weeks. First, he's never really on vacation, 2nd - if they'd bother to check out his August schedule (link below to WH Press site) they'd see that on Monday he was in AZ discussing Medicare and on Tues he was in CA commemorating the 60th Anniversary of VJ Day. The rest of the month he was working on a variety of items/issues.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/
Our local newspaper has these stories on Katrina. Click on "Trail of a Killer" and you will read about Bush calling Nagin several times to force him to issue a mandatory evacuation order.
Here is the url:
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/
New Orleans left to the dead and dying
As the last weary refugees from the Superdome and convention center headed to shelters, New Orleans drew closer to dealing with its dead, a gruesome landscape of corpses expected to number in the thousands. Knight Ridder | Trail of a Killer (interactive timeline) | Latest photos | More photos | Coverage from the Gulf Coast | Map: Katrina's impact | More coverage
Your post about the barge
I saw a film of Chalmette done by locals on tv last night. And there was that barge! And the big broken levee. The local said that barge appeared to break a concrete levee. It was near the lock in Chalmette. I don't know the area at all but it looked as if the barge made St Bernard flood.
Anyone know the area?
Whoa. No I didn't see that. Well good for Young for not being a race baiter.
It is convoluted and if anyone knows how to reach WaPo so I can ask questions of the reporters, involved, please ping me.
Off topic BUT -
I just heard Schumer tell George Steph that Pres Bush should ask O'Connor to stay on and become Chief Justice for a year or so
Good info. I take back some of my rant about the Bradenton Herald just sent to you via FRmail.
My husband swears that the talks way back when on the "plan" for a levee breach assumed that it would be massive and fast and tens of thousand would die.
He says the problem is the breech didn't occur as fast as they thought it would. So people had time to get up high, to get to the dome, etc.
So the problem was the leak happened over time. If it had happened faster, there would be no survivors on the order of what we have here. Just bodies. And everyone would be in funeral mode. Not rescue mode.
The plan was not to rescue at all assuming very few survivors.
does this make sense?
Seriously? Oh yes, "seriously" coming from Schumer.
Yes.
Tim Russert pounding, absolutely pounding, Chertoff. It's beyond ugly.
Mary and Kathy wanted to deny the feds control and then blame them for a bad outcome.
LOcal reporter asked Blanco why she was hiring Witt, didn't she have people to meet with FEMA. She flared and in a self rightous tone said that she was known for hiring the best consultants and she wasn't going to stop now. She looked so self congratulatory and everyone clapped. I woulda thown up but decided to wait till later.
She is a scared woman, I see it on her face.
ALERT. ALERT. ALERT.
While few of us are able to deal with FEMA at this time, this is VERY valuable information once we return home. THANKS JUDY
Mike
IMPORTANT NOTICE
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2nd
SITUATION
FEMA uniforms, badges, insignias and official letterhead forms have been stolen in the metro New Orleans area. These items are now being unlawfully used in seizures of personal property, vehicles, gasoline, etc. These individuals are representing themselves as “FEMA Procurement Officers”.
BE AWARE
- There are no FEMA Procurement Officials in the New Orleans or surrounding areas at this time.
- Legitimate FEMA officials DO NOT carry any firearms.
PRECAUTIONARY STEPS TO TAKE
Should you be approached by someone wearing FEMA uniforms, please take the following precautions:
1) Request a photo ID from the individual. All FEMA representatives are required to have a photo ID.
2) DO NOT give any questionable FEMA representative any vehicles, gasoline or other supplies.
3) Report any questionable FEMA contacts to your supervisor AND the Gulf Ops EOC in Baton Rouge at tel. # 225-296-3421 or 225-296-3335
4) If a questionable FEMA representative is armed, take no chances. Give the individual what he is asking for.
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