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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
Of COURSE he is! He and Rev. Sharpton are going to run themselves ragged trying to track down all these people and convince them that HE is the one who saved them... gotta keep those democratic votes at all costs. They will most likely keep the names on the voter rolls and have someone vote for them in '06 and '08 -- even if they are all still living in Texas, Utah, Minnesota, Mass.. etc.
He says "we" are going to be reconstructing the city. The people in other states not willing to accept folks from NO. What a hack!
Is this the woman who called in earlier today?
Yes, they announced that Geraldo rescued Floritta Greve, the 71-year-old lady who phoned in to Fox.
Yes. Fox sent in the calvary (er Geraldo).
Therefore, people learn to spend everything that comes in because they have no reason not to, and never learn to save money by purchasing food they cook themselves or shopping at cheaper stores because they have no reason to do so.
Now, JJ is sucking up to Chavez because we refused to accept aid that this commie thug offered. Unbelievable!!
You know if it wasn't for that little lady Geraldo just rescued, I'd say leave that whole state to the crooks, Jackson and Sharpton and give it back to the French and then spend our money on fixing Mississippi, Alabama and Florida....
I don't think they will be able to on the same site.
Not true. (in most cases). Some people save money in a jar instead of a bank.Father left the family so that he could work and save the money to get his family off welfare but had he tried to do so while in the home they never would have made it. That same father saved enough to buy a house which that family will be moving into soon. And BTW you are allowed to stockpile food. I personally do anyway. Ever hear of Save-a Lot foods? It's my favorite store ;)
I made two offers for Floritta via Fox. One, a cash gift to help support her wherever they put her and two, an offer to put her up in my home in Miami. She's a survivor...she knew what to do in preparation and she did it. She took responsibility for herself (and her dog) and that's a good thing. She doesn't have any family left and neither do I. I hope Fox gets the message through. If they do, I don't know what offer she'll choose. I'll let you all know.
Here's a sad story from a current AP article:
'In New Orleans' Garden District, a woman's body lay at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Magazine Street — a business area with antique shops on the edge of blighted housing. The body had been there since at least Wednesday. As days passed, people covered the corpse with blankets or plastic.
By Sunday, a short wall of bricks had been built around the body, holding down a plastic tarpaulin. On it, someone had spray-painted a cross and the words, "Here lies Vera. God help us." '
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina
I was sickened by Sharpton's demand on TV this morning that the victims should each have a funeral in New Orleans. If that's the case then he and Jesse, Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco and the members of the Levee boards should personally have to dig the graves.
The grandstanding by the poverty pimps is disgusting.
But he really needed to settle down after this week, and maybe now that he's saved someone he will..(and I'm not being a smartalek..:)
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Only someone living under a rock didn't see the army running evacuations all day yesterday. Not a sign of JJ there; Geraldo, yes, JJ, no.
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come on Florita this will make a great human story! >
Don't forget Dusty.
Something else from the same article:
'Amid the tragedy, about two dozen people gathered in the French Quarter for the Decadence Parade, an annual Labor Day gay celebration. Matt Menold, 23, a street musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung over his back, said: "It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate."'
Major Cunningham with Salvation Army in New Orleans related a story on Fox about a little boy who walked up to him with a jar of pennies and said his home was destroyed but he wanted to give him the pennies to help other people because he loved Jesus. He said the spirit of America lives on.
Maybe it's time for the IRS to finally take a HARD look at JJ.... O'Reilly has been pushing for that for a long, long time... up to now JJ has walked a pretty wide berth around President Bush, now if he gets in his face maybe that will change. Same with the Landrieu's, too..
How cool is that? I hope they get your message, you are one generous, thoughtful person. Keep us posted!
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