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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
"Standard talking points robotted by those led into the clueless-ness by Lib-Dems.... tsk tsk.
Don't let your blood pressure rise, stupidity has a way of sinking, and of sinking itself. Every time it is tried."
I just wish the networks would stop airing those idiotic interviews. I know, it's typical of the MSM to show us the negative views only. But many people are losing respect for the victims.
Boy I thought that is what I heard. It looked like Mike M. was so taken aback that he stuttered thru the first couple of lines.
Bill is right about Rudy! This southern boy is not used to
Yiddish but I think some Yankee said Rudy is a real mensch!
Well I don't care about racists, so Usher can take a flying leap of the levy!
They'll have to come back before reelection and register as Dems before she will pay attention to them. Either that or tell her Larry King is calling . . . .
You have got to be kidding me
The problem is that St. Tammany Parish didn't have a plan, either. They're trying to go catch as catch can.
FEMA (and the rest of us) have had quite enough of that from Louisiana. FEMA will be back when they can spare the time to deal with that - probably sometime tomorrow.
I have only been reading the posts, but I just received this email from a friend. I do not know if it is valid or not, but if it is then please
This email is being sent from Barbara Reese on behalf of Joel Smith:
The email below is from a very credible lawyer and dear friend from New Orleans. This email contains information beyond what is being reported on the news. However, she has asked us to get the word out and underscores the need for each of us to do what we feel we can.
They just found my brother's best friend, his wife and two children. They got into a boat when "the wave" came and managed to survive since Monday on their roof after the roof could be found. They were picked up today by firefighters who had worked with Eileen when she was Captain- the firefighters were determined to find them.. They are now in even more danger.
They are held up in a building with the rescue firefighters in Chalmette- they are surrounded by gangs with automatic weapons. Patrick said there are sheriff deputies dead on the street and as evacuees try to cross the Chalmette ferry, they are being picked off and killed. Before the parish officials left the parish, they deputized the firefighters and gave them all guns. Patrick is frightened on the phone with Al and Al is trying to get a helicopter to fly in and rescue them. Patrick says it is a war zone.
The situation is worsening every minute. It is a catastrophe beyond any we have seen as a nation on our soil. They are not showing the atrocities that are occurring- people are being murdered every hour- and there are tens of thousands that are dead and that many still in attics and on rooftops.
Please do whatever you can to make people realize what is going on and that there is no more time to debate who should ask for what or what should be done. Every available resource, private and public needs to be marshalled to respond to this unprecedented disaster. There is little time and corporate America, the profession, religious leaders, politicians, and the public needs their outcry to be heard. If it can happen here it can happen anywhere. Please, do whatever you can. It is imperative- it is to save our humanity as we know it.
Very smart move. I wish others would heed your superb idea. Why? People on the outside being "overwrought" only makes things worse for those inside, currently, "Hell's Kitchen (NO)".
You know---all that race talk can spread throughout the whole dang country...fast!
They need to zip it
When they were interviewing people entering the Superdome Sunday, they talked with a young Australian tourist. **Everything, of course, looked simple enough at the time, as he smiled.
I've wondered about him, so I googled "australian tourists." There are plenty of articles, but I made the mistake of reading this one:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/storm-of-anger-as-us-fails-its-own/2005/09/02/1125302738957.html
B/P is still rising!**
Oh for GOD'S SAKES!!!! Who wrote that article, the Black Caucus?
I need a drink. Join me?!!
But they were stranded in a HOTEL!
I watched much of that day. If anything Shep is understating how many streamed across the bridge, far more than 5000.
I'm sure we'll see a story on the web someplace that Karl Rove steeered Katrina towards NO to get black folk at the behest of Dick Cheney.
2 questions
1. Is it possible that if the levy were stronger that the eventual failure could have made the flooding faster and harder when the inevitable happened?
2. Why cannot the city/state etc fund the levy's if they are so critical? No one stopped them to my knowledge.
I don't know, it could be the theater is on fire already. Maybe something good will happen for it.
Yankee stadium clears out every night in 1 hr despite NYC traffic - whyis it taking 5 days to get rid of this spctacle one half the size.
Where would you like them to take the people? Their homes are underwater...Astrodome is full other arrangements are being made..it takes time..
National Guard couldnt find these firefighters....
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