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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
"Rescue workers from Vancouver, Canada, try to convince a resident of Chalmette, a community 7 miles (11 km) east of New Orleans, to evacuate his home, September 3, 2005. Rescuers from Canada are scouring the community for the first time Saturday for survivors of Hurricane Katrina which devastated the New Orleans area August 29."
Excellent. Some Canadians doing great work. I've seen a photo of a Canadian picking up stray pets too. Might be the same bunch.
"I wonder if rescuers are using/can use police and army helicopters using infra-red radar, the type that are used to pick out the heat from human beings? Our police helicopters use them to pick up the image of thieves hiding in bushes etc. I wonder if this can show if people are alive in attics?? Does anybody know if this would work through metal roofs?"
Heard a bit on CNN about the CIA (?) spy Sats. And yes they can pick up heat signatures.
But the person (a lady) didn't want to give too much info on it.
safe travels for amom. Tell us more.
Except for that, she wrote a moving tribute to NO. Her books are great, if you like vampire stories. I do, and have purchased several different ones. I wish I had her email, because I would like to direct her to these threads. She is very misinformed about NO's official incompetence. Her question has an answer, but will she listen?
Excellent. Hope whatever technology they use (spy or not-spy) will get them quicker to those trapped in attics.
LINK: June 3, 2004: IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana
Excerpt:
IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane season which runs through November. National weather experts are predicting an above normal Atlantic hurricane season with six to eight hurricanes, of which three could be categorized as major.
As was said on the other thread, that 500,000 hurricane evac plan didn't work out too well. So their response is to RE-HIRE him??
How can they not refund the tickets? I'm sure considerations will be made for next season, but will the Saints use this opportunity to set up in Los Angeles permanently?
Mexico keeps 10 days worth of provisions in it's emergency hurricane shelters. MEXICO! We should adopt those standards as the folks in NO were told to bring their own supplies.
Could people still be actually on roofs? With the amount of choppers in the air (media, medical, searchandrescue), how could this be? And with the glut of choppers, why not post a five hundred cash reward for every person brought in?
Does it show again? What happened?
"Excellent. Hope whatever technology they use (spy or not-spy) will get them quicker to those trapped in attics."
"will get them quicker to those trapped in attics"
Shaking my ole head here and laughing a sick laugh of dispair.
They can get precription meds to some NG in less than 12hrs (he/she) forgot to bring enough BP meds before being deployed), but they can't with all the high tech stuff that BB has now, to be able to rescue and feed and medicate and transport out of there in over 120hrs? (5 days)
I'm just at a lost for words.
Heard (not confirmed, but maybe never will be, due to the news black-out) that several babies Died in the S-Dome while waiting to be evac'd out due to HEat Stroke, no fluids, nothing to keep them cool.
Never mind (re: Landrieu). Found it in Breaking News, LOL.
Don't know bout NO but we live in NW AR. we have a food bank here W/food stacked to the ceiling do all these cities have these do you have on just wondering hopefully our food bank is sending the bulk to shelters or NO directly
also this just our city all others have one too!
Supposedly, they were all closed before the storm hit because the winds exceeded safety limits.
That said, and given the now-obvious inability of LA authorities, there probably were people on them when they were destroyed.
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