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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
U.S. commercial air carriers continue transporting tens of thousands of evacuees from the New Orleans airport to destinations throughout the nation.
Rooftop air rescue efforts continue. One rescue chopper crashed late today. Crew members are reported safe. Gunmen who fired upon bridge repair contractors were killed by law enforcement.
To date, an estimated 70 countries and U.S. businesses have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars, supplies, food and equipment to assist the United States' efforts in Katrina's aftermath. Lt. General Honore described the damage to Mississippi today, "all infrastructure south of Jackson, MS is either damaged or destroyed." Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited the devastated areas, and attended Sunday church services in Mobile, Alabama.
Elsewhere, Sean Penn's rescue boat, sans plug and full of his personal entourage,reportedly sank during launch in New Orleans. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) threatened to punch President Bush, and Jefferson Parish President Broussard decried that the bureaucracy of FEMA has committed murder.
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
New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002
Streaming Video:
All information is subject to change. Many stations are relying on their corporate parents to configure and maintain Internet streaming. Because of the intense interest in the feeds, they may be unavailable at times because of network congestion or a problem feeding the video to the streaming servers.
WWL-TV New Orleans - 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. They have a secondary stream from Yahoo. WWL-TV is also offering a special low-bandwidth audio-only stream for dial-up users.
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).
WFAA-TV Dallas, TX - WFAA-TV is here because Dallas is one of the evacuation cities.
United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM (Clear Channel & Entercom) who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.
Gulf Coast Storm Network (Clear Channel Radio) - Clear Channel offers radio listeners across the gulf coast access to a simulcast emergency radio service. This service seems primarily focused on Alabama and Mississippi, but does cover Louisiana to some degree.
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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 XIV
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
Shortsighted plans are no excuse for shortsighted leadership.
#1 The idea that the plan had no provision for a levee-breach contingency is ludicrous.
#2 The idea that NO ONE ELSE (upon reading the plan) was able to make the observation in #1 is profoundly surreal.
Database search doesn't turn them up the Mosly's, but
Costs - costs a lot more to put it on a roof and arrange for proper exhaust than to put it in the basement and vent it outside.
Me, I'd put it on the roof and say the heck with the expense.
Costs - costs a lot more to put it on a roof and arrange for proper exhaust than to put it in the basement and vent it outside.
Me, I'd put it on the roof and say the heck with the expense.
I know Haiball is a no-no for you...but I have to post something I just saw on there...I do closed-captioning so I don't have to listen to Chrissy squeal...
Anyway, he is interviewing the Mayor of Kenner over the phone, and the mayor was complaining (of course) about not enough help...yada yada...then he said "There needs to be someone in charge, we need one person to step up and take charge and that person hasn't shown up"....
I guess he hasn't had a personal encounter with Lt. Gen. HONORE yet!!!! LOL
The arena was running on generator power before the storm really hit...
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There is yet another "why" question! --- power grid down before the storm?
Nope.
they were headed to St. Charles, the sister of Hale and the grandmother are in BR Shelter with amom
I would certainly like to see Landrieu out on her patootie. After the sham election that got her in last time. I have never watched such an OBVIOUS cheat machine in my life.
The SuperDome had generator lights, but no air conditioning during the storm.
That's what WWL-TV reported (among other sources). The power grid started having problems right before Katrina made landfall and went down hard right before the storm hit, IRRC.
My paraphrase, but not made up. That was his response.
Thanks, who else has lists, is the Red Cross the only one? I checked that one too, but had no luck, the grandmother is FRANTIC
I thought the same.
I can tell you from someone who lives at the south shore of long island, there is no plan to evacuate long island. its impossible to do. the best plan I have seen is that everyone north of sunrise highway "evacuates in place", and everyone south of it simply "goes north". where they go, I have no idea. for those that don't have friends and family, we have one coliseum that holds maybe 20K people, other parts of the plan say that people should drive to the shopping malls and park in the concrete parking structures and ride it out there in their cars.
After the storm though, during the flooding, the lights failed too. Or am I mistaken?
LOL!
One thing some people seem to keep forgetting is that THERE WAS A HURRICANE! You can't send the military into 150 mile an hour winds, posse comatatus or not, and you can't send them into raging floodwaters.
This whole discussion is getting ridiculous! There was no 'slowness' of response on the President's or the government's part.
THERE WAS A HURRICANE!!!
"Be sure to read his explaination about the phrase "good ole white boys""
I thought you might have been joking about that, but sure enough, it's in there. Thanks for the link.
I've been trying to find links about levee funding. So far it looks like the feds only supply a fraction of the levee boards income. So much for blaming it all on the feds. Other funding comes from gambling revenues as well as funding from the state.
Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor, has been on TV and radio trying to get out the message about massive support for employment insurance payouts - even for self-employed on some kind of basis. She mentioned going to the Dept of Labor website. dol.org
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