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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
WWL: There is a fear in Baton Rouge that the crime from NOLA is being transferred there.
News woman mentions failure at state and local level.
Belgium sending 32 doctors and nurses, 150 countries have offered aid. Half a billion from Kuwait.
Lets hope more survived than we thought.
Those evacs looked to be in good shape for a 7 day strand.
"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."
Excellent. That's what I was asking about earlier in the thread. Someone said they were only good at night (and that made sense to me). It sounds like they also have infrared machines that work in the day too.
My guess is that the ones they're still picking up were prepared for disaster but could not get out for one reason or another (car died, no fuel, no cash to get alternate transport).
WWL-TV: Treasury Department in DC is sending 30 US Mint Police to help restore order and defend what's left of Federal buildings.
I was listening to the scanner link two nights ago and the officials said all critical patients were being evacuated to Baton Rouge.
Rick Perry just announced he's moving evacuees OUT of Texas to other states.
That was me. They're not useless during the day, but they're of much reduced effectiveness when your ambient air temp is about human body temp. However, if I ID'd the pod correctly, it also includes a powerful optical camera, which is most likely what they're using to survey roofs carefully.
This is from a current Reuters article:
"At St. Aloysius Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, several hundred local parishioners and storm survivors attended Sunday service. "I wish we could take your broken hearts and give you ours," Rev. Donald Blanchard told the gathering.
In addition to consoling storm victims, the church's lead pastor, Jerald Burns, said Katrina's tragedy needed to be a rallying cry for parishioners, church leaders and government leaders to help the needy.
"It's not what God is asking of us," Burns said. "It is what God is demanding of us.
Some people walked out of the church in tears in mid-service. "
Does anyone see anything in what this pastor said that would cause people to walk out in mid-service?? If he had said it was all President Bush's fault, I would understand, but sounds like he just called people to help others in Christian service.
The whole article is at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050904/ts_nm/church_dc
"Some evacuees see religious message in Katrina"
I am getting sick of seeing Jesse Jackson squawking on every channel.
Yup. Not surprised. We're not quite full up yet, but we ended up being the national triage area. We have a certain minimum care level, and we can't take too many more without compromising that. We're not Louisiana and we don't treat people like cattle unless we don't have another choice.
That said, we can send some on to other places now that they've been stabilized and cared for. I suspect Oklahoma and New Mexico are next up.
Oddly enough, WWL-TV doesn't seem to be showing him. At all.
"Authorities assert that any increase is just rumors, and to just exercise normal care. Everything is under control."
Good idea on the mint, imagine the money stored there.
I hope they locked up before they evacuated!
Under the circumstances could they be expected to say otherwise? I dont know either way, hope its all calm.
They are greeted by uniformed police personal.......all wearing blue rubber gloves!!!!!!!
WELCOME to Lubbock.........what a sight!
For some odd reason, nobody in Louisiana trusts anyone in state or local government there... I can't imagine why on earth that would be....
(/sarc)
WWL giving first death count...26 bodies morgue, 22 others from I-10, Jefferson 10, Bernard 100.
True. We had only planned on 150k. We expanded to 220k, and the buses and planes are still coming. Looks like we can process another 20-30k, and get them firstline support, but they will need to be relocated for the medium and longterm assistance. We are not sending all of them away.
That's standard issue - was here in the DFW area as well. Nobody is offended, it's just prudent precautions against some of the *nasty* diseases that these people may have been picked up. Especially in this era of nasty, bloodborne killer diseases.
None of the interviewed refugees seemed to have a problem with it.
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