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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
"I've been listening all afternoon to an online relay of NOPD scanner. They speak to each other in "north" and "west" GPS coordinates only. They say things like "two male, one elderly" "two females/one male, one dog" because they're describing the rooftop occupants. Then, I guess there must be faster pluck'em choppers, and then medical rescue choppers, which clearly take longer. The scanner has also been discussing an oil leak somewhere that's been ongoing for hours."
I was listening in the wee morning hours and heard about a chemical leak that everyone was being ordered to stay a mile away from. Another call in which an officer was at what sounded like a senior's home. Apparently, he had stumbled onto a job that was bigger than he could handle. It sounded like there was at least 50 people in the building, with nearly half in wheelchairs and unable to get out and be loaded onto the buses that were on the way. The last call I heard before taking a much needed power nap was about 2 officers surrounded and in need of assistance...I never heard the end of that call, it was going on for a bit and there was some confusion as to whether they were surrounded by people or water.
Witt was never happy that FEMA was put under the HS umbrella.
Blanco brough him in to cover HER a$$.
Some facts about Jamie Witt:
IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana June 3, 2004
IEM, Inc., the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
In making the announcement today on behalf of teaming partners Dewberry, URS Corporation and James Lee Witt Associates, IEM Director of Homeland Security Wayne Thomas explained that the development of a base catastrophic hurricane disaster plan has urgency due to the recent start of the annual hurricane season which runs through November. National weather experts are predicting an above normal Atlantic hurricane season with six to eight hurricanes, of which three could be categorized as major.
She is coming up next with Geraldo (after the commercial) she looks amazing and her dog is adorable!
I know..paid 500,000 or so huh?
Well... notice Florita (coming up) she is WHITE! I think they are going to find the last one's out are going to be WHITE! So much for racism.
Coming up on Fox. Geraldo with Florita and Dusty. She looks great; doesn't look 71!
Man, those CNN people are FIXATED on trying to get somebody, anybody to say somebody did something wrong.
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Thanks. Waiting.....
Who is that?
I was going to say, I dont think the ACoE are armed in this operation.
He probably stayed in Venezuela to wait out the storm; too bad Chavez didn't take HIM hostage.
I know they are all breathless in anticipation for the bad news to flow.
Navy personal direct a hovercraft as it comes ashore along Beach Boulevard Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005 in Biloxi, Miss. Various branches of the armed forces are arriving in the area to help with the distribution of food and clean-up of the area after Hurricane Katrina.
No, the media should not report anything until they have all the facts. Just think of what they just put the families of those contractors through unnecessarily.
No she certainly does not.
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050904/NEWS01/509040335/1002
Here's what gets me about Jesse Jackson bringing buses to England Airpark and demanding that the refugees (whether Jesse likes that word or not, sorry, it's what the people call themselves because I've heard them do it) be there. This article states that the plan was already in place, but the barracks aren't exactly habitable, to quote:
"Jon Grafton, authority executive director, had said Friday that the authority has approached the Federal Emergency Management Agency about upgrading the barracks to use for housing refugees from natural disasters such as a hurricane, but never got a response. He said the buildings have toxic mold, asbestos, nonworking heating and air conditioning systems and are generally uninhabitable."
Likewise, an Alexandria housing project called Wooddale Park is also under consideration for refugee housing. Why is it available? Because they deemed the complex uninhabitable for Alexandria residents due to asbestos.
Again, I don't understand why Jesse Jackson targeted Rapides Parish for his demands for "family-friendly, livable" housing. We're already doing all we can!
She sounds like a New Yorker!
She's a doll!
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If you are listening to the online scanners, you arent hearing NOPD.
You are hearing the State Trunking system, which includes State Patrol, National Guard, the EOCs etc.
NOPD is now operating on FEMA 1 and 2....which was a radio system delivered and installed for them. These are the frequencies that police responders in the city from other states will also be on.
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