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

[theophilusscribe]

It was not Usher. It was Kanye West.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476067/posts

[toldyou]

"I need a drink. Join me?!!"

HA! With a drink and the B/P......oh heck, sure. Are you anywhere near NJ?

[Spktyr]

Um.. FEMA's been there for a while. THe press isn't covering it

[Mo1]

KANYE WEST ON NBC FUNDRAISER: 'GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE... They're saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food...they're giving the (Army) permission to shoot us'... Actor Mike Myers asked people to donate... then Kanye West went on a tirade about Iraq... MORE.

Kiss off Hollywood!

[ncpatriot]

By now they could have all WALKED out of NO don't ya think? Without water anyway and food so if they'd started walking they'd be ...well they'd be further north at least. Is that a crazy idea?

I've wondered about that everyday, and I have no answer. I do not know the layout of NO. It remains a mystery.

[twin2]

Telethon over...ending with "When the saints go marching in".

Overview...music good

rant by paranoid rapper, bad.

[oceanview]

we go through the same thing here along the south shore of long island. the army corps does nothing year after year except do more studies, hires consultants, writing reports. they don't plant a blade of sand grass or put a rock on a jetty. the local government is all about maximizing the salaries of public employees, they won't divert any money to beach projects because they think "its the federal governments job". so we have a stalemate, and nothing is done, and it goes on for decades.

[toldyou]

Oh, so frightening.

[bwteim]

We need to put up a running clock on FR main banner that shows the number of years/months/weeks/days/hours/minutes/seconds that majority of FReepers have stopped watching MSM.

I expect such a running clock would start somewhere by late eighties or early nineties with advent of cable and dish and thus be 20 years or so and running.

[RDTF]

He is a punk rapper. Most of us here don't buy his records anyway. Hope he doesn't incite a riot, the idiot.

[hipaatwo]

I got through. Told the woman I was going to make a donation but I stayed on the line to tell them I am withdrawing it. She already had heard about what was said. I told her I don't see black people down there or brown or purple I just see people. I will now donate to another charity. She apologized and I hung up.

[Flamenco Lady]

I agree medical attention and evacuation are what are needed there, but the MSM keeps complaining that they don't have food and water either. The picture seemed to indicate that the media has been "stretching the truth" just a bit.

Now that they are winding down with the SD where conditions were far worse than the convention center, I am sure medical assistance and evacuation assistance will start being shifted to the convention center.

These survivors are truly living in less than ideal conditions, and we all know that resources are stretched to their limits with so very many people effected by the hurricane.

I just don't think the media is helping matters by reporting that conditions are worse than they are. There is certainly enough tragedy for them to report, without "creative journalism".

[BlackRain]

They are held up in a building with the rescue firefighters in Chalmette- they are surrounded by gangs with automatic weapons.

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Helter Skelter has finally arrived.

[daybreakcoming]

There seem to be more people than anyone ever knew were there. I have to wonder when the last census was done in the projects.

[Coldwater Creek]

Why in this world, are you all having to take 100000 ? How can Texas absorbed all of these people? This is going to be a long term problem.

[Peach]

What an excellent idea!!

[Soul Seeker]

Yeah, the origianl person said Usher. But the sentiments remain the same and I direct to West.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

AND WHAT HAS FOX DONE WITH BRIT HUME?

I, too, want to know WHERE IS BRIT??????

Ping me please if you find out.

[McGruff]

Shep, got any water you can give those people?

[BurbankKarl]

U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. Burl Gulledge and Sgt. 1st Class James F. McLerd grab boxes of Meals, Ready-To-Eat that will be given to residents of Dauphin Island, Ala., on Sept. 1, 2005. Department of Defense units are mobilized as part of Joint Task Force Katrina to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster-relief efforts in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Gulledge and McLerd are assigned to the Army National Guard's 900th Maintenance Company, Brundidge, Ala. DoD photo by Master Sgt. James M. Bowman, U.S. Air Force. (Released)