| This thread has been locked, it will not receive new replies. |
| Locked on 09/04/2005 6:15:52 PM PDT by Admin Moderator, reason: |
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
You're not the only one. :(
Louisiana is Red, White and Blue -- American. In a tragedy like this I don't care which candidate received the electoral votes -- we need to save the victims, rebuild the area, wipe out criminals that are shooting at the innocent, and ignore the media clymers.
Good for you. Let me know what happens. I'm gonna do the same.
Drudge has up a blurb about a claim that black people are eating the dead.
There is no doubt in my mind we are going to have race riots. I just have a bad feeling about it.
Within two years of the Mariel Cuban boatlift about 40% were dead , mostly from killing each other..Miami had to rent freezers for their morgue at times...
JIMINY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!
I have been primitive camping since o'dark thirty Tuesday. I've been trying to get news on radio but it's been spotty. (Ironically, KFI and KNX came in better there at night than they do at my house. But by the time I was able to hear anything it's been punditry and weird reports that I can't quite wrap my head around being actually true.)
Anyway, the world seems to have gone nuts. It was somewhat charming to try and get news from such a remote place. In a nutshell can you explain the gist of what's happening now and why gas in this rural Utah town we passed today is nearing $3.25 for regular unleaded?
oh boy, here we go: Geraldo's on again
It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.
I am a sixty-four year old African-American.
New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.
I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.
This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.
My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.
But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.
Randall Robinson is a social
justice advocate and author
whose works include The Debt –
see my post #871
I would like to thank you once again for Free Republic. Many of us would be lost without this place to share our anger, frustrations, hopes, fears, and wishes.
Jim, I hope you and yours are well and happy as you are rich in friends and prayers.
Ya but I'm pouring a big ole iced diet coke instead. Too depressed to drink. It's bad for ya, ya know...
Unfortunately, most of the comments here are from the MSM!
All that does is get all of our blood pressure high and give them the ratings. I turned my TV off just now and it will STAY OFF. I'm not going to give these creeps any more ratings (and that includes Fox). From now on, my news will come only from AM radio and the net.
I've just got home after being gone for 36 hrs. When did Geraldo show up? He seems rather dramtic and it's all about him. I could be wrong but I've been away.
People were there for 6 days?? Huh?
Jumping in late on this thread, I'm watching FOX and Geraldo and Shep Smith seem to be hysterical. What they are saying does not make sense to me..... Shep unable to speak. Geraldo babbling, I think we need to get them out of there, they seem to be doing more harm than good, stirring folks up.
Just witness the early threads: Okay to loot for food: not okay to loot for anything else. These kinds of lines RESULT IN CHAOS FOR SOCIETY, especially one which or members have adopted "moral relativity".
ANOTHER blurred line in this catastrophe has been "why didn't they leave NO when they were ordered to" versus "They couldn't because of poverty, illness, etc.)
I think are brawling with each other there, and here in cyber -- over those two ambiguities. This then has led to this blame-game, while liberals, realizing many of their own "political party" failed in "disaster planning" -- went right on OFFENSE. Ergo, the "Bush's Fault", "Racism", etc.
The MSM thrives, ratings-wise, off of a blurry "lines." (and buyers eat it up).
Were I a major ad company, I'd being already making the ads for major corporations to air on MSM Channels: "Looking for clarity in your life, try Viox".. "Try our new "medical-alert" necklace", etc.
In the longrun, I think it will all sort out. Those who championed "Bush's Fault" are going to be exposed for being utterly ignorant and illiterate in how the Country operates, political-office wise. Those yammering on about "Meteor hits Earth, Women and Minorities Hit Hardest" are going to be shown for the cowards they are. Etc.
When you reach this point, as you've described right now? Go for a walk. Go watch an engaging movie. Do a chore you've put off doing but which needs to be done.
Get those MSM and Lib-Dem stresses out of your body, and your mind. Come back, refreshed. Strengthened.
it is. I think this Texas situation is going to get ugly in the next 2 weeks. I expect that what will happen, is that the people like Jackson and Sharpton will argue that these people should simply be given public assistance: housing, welfare, food stamps - and just be allowed to enter the regular texas populace in Houston, San Antonio, etc.
After having to correct people who believed there was only 24-36 hours warning I have to correct people that think there was 5 days or more of warning...
5 Days before it hit Louisiana, Katrina was a tropical depression in the Bahamas.
Some of the models at that time had Katrina going up the east coast and there was only one with a Louisiana hit. There should have been no reasonable expectation of any storm-specific prep at that time.
Louisiana reasonably had about 60 hours of warning for the storm.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.