Oprah's coming to New Orleans? Interesting, because for the past several days I've been asking myself where is her famous "Oprah's Wildest Dreams Bus" -- anyone know whether she offered this vehicle to help with the evacuation?
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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
***For some odd reason, nobody in Louisiana trusts anyone in state or local government there.***
Am I the only one seeing this??
Louisiana is only going to report "Storm Deaths"?
Not all Deaths and CRIME DEATHS??
Someone is ALREADY starting to spin Numbers in louisiana!
No, they couldn't. larger point being that it is unnecessarily risky to believe what one hears, instead thinking a bit independently, staying alert, and acting acordingly. THe government has been known to tell a white lie or two, and the media has been known to lie as well - not always white lies.
Prayers are still going up for your family. I know you all have a rough road ahead. It's a crying shame that some idiots are painting the entire police force with a broad brush. Anyone with a brain knows they weren't all looting and deserting their posts. I haven't noticed the media showing us any cops doing their jobs, but I'm not naive enough to believe they weren't. Some folks (even here) are still drinking the Kool-Aid served up by MSM.
Death totals being discussed now. The room is very quiet.
They will try to determine who drowned, who died of health problems, and who was murdered.
59 bodies in possession now.
I'm concerned about what's going to happen when people realize we're going to lose convention business, and our welfare queens and kings are going to have to compete with the newcomers for largesse.
I know it won't come true, but I wish the media would hold off on reporting the number of deaths until later - maybe two or three weeks from now. THey're gonna treat it like an election, with updated counts, etc. and that just makes me sick.
The rescue copters are working in pairs and much of the rescue footage you see is shot from them. One does the work, the other one is either a backup in case something goes wrong - or it's loaded with Marines and door gunners in case someone shoots at them.
The few newscopters that are up are *very* restricted as to fuel and are almost always of the Jetranger class without winches - short of landing on a house, they can't pick anyone up anyway. That said, in some of the news footage, I've seen private Jetrangers (and larger) doing exactly that and participating in the airlifts.
That pic is worth more than a thousand words. That's why I doubt most Americans will see it. It's not about race, but humanity. Wish I could send them some See's Candy, but it would melt : (
They spent a bunch of time showing him locally the past couple of days. He may have done his on location photo-op and returned to more fancy digs.
Watching the plane with refuges landing in Lubbock. They are treating them as if it is all the looters on the plane, which may not be a bad idea. Drug-sniffing dogs and a massive (and I mean massive) presence of local, state and federal LEO. Local channel says have 30 Lubbock police vehicles alone and they came with more than one officer. The only thing I can think of is there were a disturbance on one of the planes and they are guarding against more problems.
Thank you. I'm glad to hear that.
Your optimism and compassion are underwhelming.
Exactly - they're all still coming here, but once they're cared for, they must be moved on to where they can live on a more or less permanent basis. We're not turning anyone away.
So much for "there are only 100,000 people left in New Orleans and the surrounding area." Damn the Louisiana government that let this happen.
I think maybe some walked out in tears because they were overcome with emotion. It's a God thing maybe.
It's just a huge mess, now being spread across this country.
"I know it won't come true, but I wish the media would hold off on reporting the number of deaths until later - maybe two or three weeks from now. THey're gonna treat it like an election, with updated counts, etc. and that just makes me sick."
Well said Cboldt, they will be treated as another number to the tally instead of an individual life.
Oprah's coming to New Orleans? Interesting, because for the past several days I've been asking myself where is her famous "Oprah's Wildest Dreams Bus" -- anyone know whether she offered this vehicle to help with the evacuation?
In the update you posted about Hardy Jackson, there was a Wiki link to a photograph of his wife Tonette but it didn't work. Can you recheck your source and see if there's actually a way to see her photo? I gathered from the article that her body still hadn't been located by the time Hardy was offered shelter in Atlanta. By posting her photo, maybe it can be determined which morgue she actually went to, and give this heartbroken man some closure.
I am starting to think that an annexation is not a bad idea. If there can be a West Virginia, why not an East Texas? Or the Louisiana counties?
Since the media is calling this ReconstructionII, why not do a little re-districting now? Strike while the iron is hot, so to speak.
Well, there's that, but there's also the not-so-subtle message of "Welcome to Texas, we don't put up with any foolishness like the LA authorities do. If you are a law abiding citizen, we'll get along just fine. If you aren't, well, look around you. Find somewhere else to misbehave because doing *anything* like that here will get you a *really* nasty surprise."
A *heavy* police presence has been present (no pun intended) at every refugee disembarkation point in Texas. You should see the one at Big Town Mall in Mesquite. The only thing that's missing is the local police APC contingent and choppers flying overhead.
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