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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
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How many did we take?
Brilliant. Just dance on the memories of the dead & dying, creep. I won't even ASK if he has any shame.
Was she white or black?
"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."
That's the Holy Spirit. Beautiful story.
Florita was thrilled. Couldn't believe Geraldo was standing in her house -- and he said he would make certain her dog was safe. Something we know not everyone is doing -- remember snowball!
< Yes. Fox sent in the calvary (er Geraldo). >
I think you mean "cavalry".
Don't you know that Geraldo gets super powers from his mustache. The longer it grows, the more impervious his skin becomes to bacteria and toxins.
After a couple more days, he will be able to personally walk into water of any depth and carry people out with one hand, a microphone in the other, and a single tear coming out of his left eye.
"It's New Orleans, man. We're going to celebrate."
'Brilliant. Just dance on the memories of the dead & dying, creep. I won't even ASK if he has any shame.'
It's either 'eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow you die' or 'Nero fiddles while Rome burns'. Either way it's sick.
What will happen to the US representatives of those people?
They were supposed to get 1000 and put them in the Memorial Coliseum....but they must have miscounted how many they could fit in there.
I note that Flagstaff said they couldnt help....
Tucson Convention Center was the other spot that was going to be set up
< What will happen to the US representatives of those people? >
They'll have to campaign in Texas.
Now AP saying Army contractors were shot on a bridge. Is it possible that the NO police were trigger-happy and shot the wrong people? I would think Army Corps contractors would likely be armed.
Karl, the Army Corps of Engineers is saying that those six guys killed were THEIRS! Contractors!
I posted here late last night about my visit to the Pineville Wal-Mart. Based on what I observed at the checkout lines, it seems to me that there are two classes of people being sheltered in Rapides Parish. First, there were middle-class people who had could afford to leave and travel in style for what they assumed would be a 4-day unplanned vacation. They never realized they would never see their homes, jobs or schools again and weren't prepared for such a catastrophe. Eventually they got evicted from their motel rooms and they're living in the shelters and maxing out their credit cards. Second, there are later arrivals of urban poor from New Orleans who are actually better prepared than the first group because they were already enrolled in the welfare system before the tragedy struck. Put these two socioeconomic classes of people under the same roof and you KNOW it's a recipe for disaster.
Originally, the plan was to get everyone out of the smaller shelters and consolidate them in one spot; i.e., the former Wal-Mart building mentioned in the Jackson article. However, many churches have deliberately pulled out of the Red Cross network because, even though they'll lose their subsidy, they don't want to subject their current occupants to whatever powderkeg might be waiting for them at that larger shelter.
I've heard about the Pentecostal campground in Pineville, but only in the context that its capacity isn't large enough to hold all the church members who want to attend their annual gatherings, so they have difficulty finding hotel rooms during that period.
Most people don't understand that there are only two places to stay in Pineville -- a really dumpy Days Inn next door to a very upscale Sleep Inn & Suites -- and usually those inns are sold out to begin with, because they're already full of military personnel for Camp Beauregard across the street. Anytime there's any sort of troop movement, you can't get a room anywhere near Alexandria. So just imagine what sort of chaos this influx has created here!
Jesse Jacka$$ STFU.
How many families will he support during this transition? How much money has he given to help out?
Good for you. Did you call Fox? You might make certain to get your offer to her if you call and speak to Brian Williams or one of the other anchors.
I totally agree! Thank you for sharing!
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