Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[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

[spectre]

I don't watch him either.

sw

[mystery-ak]

Is Brinkley writing a bio on Penn?....that would be my guess..

[Ellesu]

Did you hear Blanco at one of her pressers last week. A reporter asked her about the toxic soup water condition and she blankly looked at him and said "It's just water, from the storm and rain, what do you mean"?

I think back to all those debates I watched of her and Jindal and how stupid she was and am still so amazed she got elected.

[buickmackane]

Oh nooooooo, I hadn't even stopped to think about Saturday Night Live parodies because it's all reruns lately. OMG, the mind boggles...

[grey_whiskers]

Anti-Sean-Penn Sarcasm Torpedo ARMED...FIRE!!

Nice Going, F.A.G. !

Hey, look, he's sinking! :-)

[LA Woman3]

The White House has repeatedly asked the Times Picayunne to racant, but they have not.


Just exactly where is the Times Picayunne now? I thought there were evacuated from New Orleans. Guess they can print lies anywhere.....

[Mo1]

That's nothing...I read earlier that Oprah is headed to NO..Nagin is going to give her a helicopter tour....I guess he doesn't have anything to do..

These Hollywood Nit Wits are making mockery of this whole rescue

They are using this tragedy to boost their ratings ..

This is SICK!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

A cup! A freakin' cup!!!!! OMG they are stupid!

[spectre]

You are SO on the ball, Kcvl..I was thinking about that one..:)

sw

[kcvl]

Isn't Celine from Canada? France?

Celine Dion was born into a large French-Canadian family in 1968, the youngest of fourteen children.

[buickmackane]

I'm familiar with those amphibious "Moby Duck" tours -- they have them where I used to live in Massachusetts. I wondered why they didn't try to use them in the rescue effort, hmm...

[little jeremiah]

I have an idea.

What about a thread dedicated to first hand accounts and maybe second hand (such as accounts of relatives and friends) of freepers who have been personally affected by the hurricane and its aftermath?

I know that some of these stories have been posted here and there. But a thread dedicated to first and reliable second hand accounts would be a virtual memorial, a place to read personal stories, and for those affected, a kind of catharsis maybe.

Just an idea.

[rollo tomasi]

"I think back to all those debates I watched of her and Jindal and how stupid she was and am still so amazed she got elected."

Cemeteries have a way of electing even the biggest dopes.

[OKIEDOC]

He is really impressive.

He is the Patton of the disaster.

I like how that man deflects Geraldos questions.

[Mo1]

That's not a very big boat .. if it hadn't sprung a leak .. how many kids did he expect to save?

1??

[CedarDave]

Dr. Phil is going to the AstroDome on LKL! This is UNSEEMLY

On the other hand, for folks that watch TV all day, Oprah and Dr. Phil are the people they relate to. They'd much rather see them and sports and entertainment figures then any politician including the President.

[montanus]

That's nothing...I read earlier that Oprah is headed to NO..Nagin is going to give her a helicopter tour....I guess he doesn't have anything to do..

Another nail in the coffin. Most Americans can clearly see the contrast between Bush's activity and the circus being thrown by Nagin, Blanco, and Landrieu. Really, Jesse Jackson's arrival on the scene told the American public all they needed to know about who to blame.

[oceanview]

he likes Geraldo I think, but he was not hesitant in the least to put down his assertions about "delays".

[rolling_stone]

this General Honore is a great guy.

Absolutely..about the only thing Nagin got right the
General is a John Wayne type...

[little jeremiah]

I just love that picture. Thanks for posting it.