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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
I hate the President Bush bashing also, but It might be tough for some of the southerners to survive in some of the northern states.
A whole different world of atmosphere and temperature etc.
Does anyone have a link to any article that confirms prisoners were released from NO jails because there was not evacuation plan? Thanks.
AMEN
Yes the Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is a great organization to give. They get in there and get the work done without worrying about who gets the credit.
Add me to the ping list please if you make one.
Doctors fear dysentery in Mississippi shelter
Last Updated Sat, 03 Sep 2005 22:43:08 EDT
CBC News
Officials closed a shelter in Biloxi, Miss., on Saturday because doctors think more than 20 ill people there may be sick with dysentery from tainted water.
An additional 20 people in Biloxi, not staying in the shelter, were treated for vomiting and diarrhea.
The shelter, at a Biloxi school, has had no water or power since Katrina hit on Monday. About 400 people had been staying there, and doctors said some may have ignored warnings to stay away from water.
Some running water came back on late Friday, but it was not safe to drink or even to use to wash with, said Dr. Jason Dees, a volunteer working at the Biloxi Regional Medical Center.
Most of the patients were treated with antibiotics. About 30 were taken to a hospital in Mobile, Ala., while the rest were bused to a shelter in Thomasville, Ga.
Biloxi police Cpl. Kayla Robert said she had no idea what caused the illnesses.
"Who knows what they swallowed before they got here," she said. "Half of them were swimming in stuff that we don't even know what it was."
We're tough here. They can teach those northern states how to cook. I used to live in the midwest for a while, they could use the infusion of flavor. ;)
The next phase of this disaster is beginning. I pray that they can contain this.
I don't think they were released anywhere on purpose. They were evacuated/rescued.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/APN/509030751
In our Sunday School class today was a young woman who grew up in our church. She is retired Air Force, her husband is Firefighter in Biloxi. She said that she teaches now at some military base, and she tells her students to NEVER go to NO because it's not safe. Before the hurricane.
I saw Florida is setting up a tent city in the Panhandle and 2 hospitals as well. Source: (WESH.com). I think many states are getting involved to absorb the evacuees.
I once worked for a woman in northern Virginia for whom mild taco sauce was too spicy for her palate. I told her we used to joke about 'you know you're a yankee if...Heinz ketchup is SPICY!' and she pondered, then said, "you know, it is kinda."
:)
That is one of the benefits for us here in Texas. The culinary prowess of Cajuns is welcomed. We will see a fusion of food. Chili con Gator and mudbug taco salad actually sound good!
It's even worse than dysentery. There may be tens of thousands dead in the Greater New Orleans Area. 90+ degree heat with stagnant, chemical water. Potential disease is a problem while the bodies remain in the water and afterward when they pump that filth out (which could take up to two months). Since they cannot bury in New Orleans -- even with mass graves -- they have to remove them for burial elsewhere. I imagine there have been few greater breeding areas for a variety of deadly diseases in the history of the world.
I stand amended - lol
WWL-TV - showing footage of an old USAF UH-1 SAR chopper performing rescue, Miami-Dade Police Aerospatiale copter with a VERY large infrared/camera pod on its nose flying around surveying.
Live feed just showed a helicopter rescue of 2 males and their dog from a rooftop.
Now they are trying to lift out another man nearby.
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