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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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Those are the light scout copters that cannot pick up people (like the Miami Dade chopper that I mentioned earlier). They don't have the lift or equipment like a winch and they don't have the space to evac people. What's going on is classic military doctrine, adapted to SAR. Light scout craft locate the targets and move around quickly to locate all of them so people can plan, heavier and larger (and notably slower) craft move in to take care of them.
FEMA leased three. They are going to various locations, and more likely for relief workers than for evacuees.
Various locations, IIRC, includes Mobile, NOLA, and one other.
They're being enrolled, but they haven't entered classes yet. From what I've read, they're going to get a full set of vaccinations right before they are allowed into classes if they cannot produce records.
Will vaccinations help if they already have a disease,,,doesn them having the vaccine mean they can't spread it?? Just wondering...
Relief workers...that's gonna play well with the MSM....(s)
Condi praising state officials for doing what they need to do at the Alabama shelter. (Dig, Dig)
Now getting a question from idiot reporterette about the lack of response. Condi saying Fed response is coming and depth of the disaster is overwhelming. Again saying that locals have first responsibility til the feds arrive. Asking to pull together now -- time to evaluate faults later.
Give them the benefit of the doubt - anyone still alive and unmolested by the looters and thugs at this point would likely have been armed as well. Remember, the evac is on the condition that you give up all your weapons and that applies to the law abiding, too.
At this point, nobody in TX trusts what the LA authorities say - we've been screening refugees since day 1 anyway.
Yesterday I heard TX was also declared a disaster area by Prez in order we receive federal funds.
Will it really hurt kids to miss another week or so of school? I know as a kid, I would have liked the break...
Some schools in MS have said they won't be back in session until November
Okay, that makes sense. I was wondering why I kept hearing about the stranded folks so quickly. I figured it must be overlapping teams. So, if you're spotted and logged, about how long til the rescue might be attempted? Tomorrow?
Condi addressing the race card issue head on here. good for her. in time, CNN will try to convince their viewers that Condi is actually white.
Condi stare at reporter who asked if blacks getting shunned in the rescue operation. Says that is not true, she is African-American and it is not about race. It is all about all Americans of all colors coming together in response.
"Condi praising state officials for doing what they need to do at the Alabama shelter. (Dig, Dig) "
Whats that about? :)
Depends on the disease. For the most part, the incubation period of most diseases is long enough that giving a vaccine at this point will probably abort it.
Also, remember that the vaccinations of the other kids (mandatory, remember?) are going to protect them. Nonetheless, school nurses in TX are being provided with training and the local public health officers will keep on top of this.
We're NOT Louisiana.
Good point---and I am relieved to hear that about the incubation period
At the very least, if you've been spotted, a chopper will come over and drop supplies to you by the end of today. Most of these people will be lifted out today, few of those spotted today (if any) will be forced to wait until tonight or tomorrow. Those visibly in medical distress will be gotten to as a first priority (as no doubt you can hear over the scanners).
If I had to hazard a guess, the median time between identification and pickup is probably no more than a couple of hours in most cases, at most.
It's a lot better now that the adults are in charge.
"Condi stare at reporter who asked if blacks getting shunned in the rescue operation."
Is that the killer Condi stare? Is the reporter now a pile of smouldering ashes?
Condi: 60 countries offering support.
"Also, remember that the vaccinations of the other kids (mandatory, remember?) "
Are they routinely innoculating schoolkids for typhoid, typhus, and cholera, now?
I didn't get those shots until my inducdtion into the military, but that was many years ago.
Now RAT commentator saying that it is about the Feds not doing what was needed. Then lost the feed. LOL. Comes back and agrees locals have some responsibililty. Name is Doug Shume(?)
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