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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
< Sorry this is so long.....and maybe not the thread to post it on.....forgive me, I just wanted to tell what it is like. :-) >
Don't apologize. This is wonderful.
Beautiful account. Please share lots more.
People like you and other FReepers volunteering at shelters and opening their homes to the evacuees are what makes America great.
This is the perfect place to post it- and I agree- share more!
A flooded house in New Orleans is worth zero. It was totalled before the fire, so no coverage.
Your story is so wonderful to read. Thank you for volunteering and for telling your story!
thanks and do share more.
Yes, Kathleen, in honor of the esteemed Gov. Blanco!
Ya'll reporting on MSNBC and CNN have much stronger stomachs than I do.
I've sworn off their coverage for the duration..as Michael Corleone would say "you're dead to me now".
Sure like to hear more of HER stories. Not just "Katrina" ones, either.
Entergy to move corporate office to Miss.
9/4/2005, 5:53 p.m. CT
The Associated Press
CLINTON, Miss. (AP) — Entergy Corporation announced Sunday that it will move its corporate offices to Mississippi during the cleanup from Hurricane Katrina
"New Orleans is Entergy's home and we are absolutely dedicated to the city's reconstruction and resurrection," J. Wayne Leonard, the company's chief executive officer, said in a statement. "We intend to return home. Our ability to do that depends, of course, on a number of factors over which we do not have complete control."
Leonard said those include restoration of New Orleans' infrastructure, any repairs that may be necessary to the buildings Entergy occupied before Hurricane Katrina crippled much of the city on Aug. 29 and a return to order in the city after a week of violence and civil unrest.
The corporate offices will be located in an office complex in Clinton, located west of Jackson.
"Although we deeply regret the circumstances, Mississippi is proud to host Entergy's corporate headquarters, even if only temporarily," Gov. Haley Barbour said in a statement.
Leonard said Entergy employees who normally work in downtown New Orleans — including those on the corporate and transmission staffs — will either work in Clinton or in facilities around the New Orleans suburbs and company locations in Little Rock, Houston, Texas and Beaumont, Texas.
Entergy's utility-parent division includes the company's regulated utilities in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.
No power, and the generator broke after a few hours (valve or something). But they have canned goods and a spring on the property (if the purchased water runs out).
They have a fan hooked up to a car battery for my ailing aunt to make her more comfortable. They're able to get into town, but gas is hardly available (wait in line to find out there's no more).
Main thing is they're alive and ok.
It's intended to humiliate the Bush administration, as it keeps the time elapsed since Katrina landfall, and therefore the extent of relief since then.
Mayor Orders Evacuation Of New Orleans As Katrina Approaches
"Mayor Ray Nagin ordered an immediate evacuation Sunday for all of New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants, as Hurricane Katrina bore down with wind revved up to nearly 175 mph and a threat of a massive storm surge.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave before the eye of the storm strikes land sometime Monday morning, the city set up 10 places of last resort including the Superdome arena.
President Bush urged people living in the path of Katrina to take the storm extremely seriously and follow orders to evacuate to higher ground.
A day after declaring an emergency for Louisiana, Bush declared an emergency for the state of Mississippi.
"We cannot stress enough the danger this hurricane poses to Gulf Coast communities," Bush told reporters on his ranch in Crawford, Texas."
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Please continue to share your stories. I need to hear the good stuff once in awhile. I'm becoming frustrated with all the MSM bashing.
Insurance does not cover "civil unrest"
Arson, theft, looting etc during a declared state of emergency are not covered by insurance.
Remember the businesses in LA during the Rodney King riots? They were SOL.
There are insurance companies that will personalize P&C coverage for you but your run of the mill insurance company offers generic coverage. Read the fine print before you sign.
Reuters hired their latest reporters straight off DU.
ah, thanks...BTW..see you on the threads Tuesday..have you seen any schedule for the CJ funeral?
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