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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.
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
Katrina Link Archives Nice work by backhoe
Mary Landrieu-"I'll Punch Bush"
Sean Penn's Rescue Bid Sinks
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 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
Well then! As long as the juice stays on, looks like YOU'RE all set!
:)
Need a new pair of contact lenses. The enormity of this disaster is stunning!
Oh my, again! Oh my, Dear Lord help us all.
Ooohh......are we trashing Joe?
Have we brought up Gary Condit yet?
I posted to Madivan earlier. He said that the press in GB said that politically, no one was going to come out unscathed. He also relayed that they are seeing some terrible images and that they are seeing a lot of what happened to MS.
LOL. So my Dad said. :)
Things will get better here, it's just been a rough week.
In fact, I think it's better all over the region. I just don't understand the people who blame President Bush. It's totally disgusting.
She's sporting suitcases under her eyes. I had no idea that she, Bill, and Chelsea were vacationing in Hawaii. She looked like she's been sleepless for about a week.
We'll know for sure if she's involved. There will be Arkancides.
N.O. Levee Board overhaul complete -
Blanco delayed shift by nearly a year
Times-Picayune, The (New Orleans, LA)
November 1, 2004
Author: Frank Donze
Staff writer
Estimated printed pages: 3
Excerpts:
http://www.nola.com
...Jim Huey, an Algiers businessman named to the board in 1992 by former Gov. Edwin Edwards and retained by Foster in 1996, is the lone gubernatorial appointee asked to stay on by Blanco. While six of the board's eight members serve at the governor's pleasure, Blanco has no control over City Hall's two representatives.
Huey, an ally of state Sen. Francis Heitmeier of Algiers, a strong Blanco supporter, has been the board's president since June 1996. He will retain the post on the reconfigured board, Blanco advisers say.
Blanco's new choices, all Democrats, include some familiar political names.
The first Blanco appointee to be sworn in was former Orleans Parish Recorder of Mortgages Mike McCrossen, who took his oath last week before the board's October meeting.
McCrossen replaces businessman and retired Marine Corps Maj. Gen. James Livingston, a Republican Party activist who resigned recently to retire to South Carolina.
Four others who received Oct. 21 letters of appointment from Blanco are former Orleans Parish Civil Court Clerk Dan Foley; business consultant Darrel Saizan Jr., who served on the Levee Board from 1992-94 while an aide to former Mayor Sidney Barthelemy; Eugene Green, president of the New Orleans Business & Industrial District; and lawyer Allen Borne.
All of the new board members have influential sponsors.
Foley is a political mentor to his successor as civil court clerk, Dale Atkins, who is a close adviser to Blanco. McCrossen is a Heitmeier supporter. Saizan is an ally of state Sen. Lambert Boissiere Jr. And Green was a top campaign adviser to state Sen. Ann Duplessis, who ousted longtime incumbent Jon Johnson last fall.
Borne, a supporter of Blanco, is the former elected representative of the yacht club membership at South Shore Marina, which is owned and operated by the board.
Plans call for Borne, Foley, Green and Saizan to be sworn in at the board's November meeting.
City Hall's current representatives on the board are City Councilwoman Cynthia Willard-Lewis and Charles Rice, the chief administrative officer in Mayor Ray Nagin's administration.
Responsible for building and maintaining the flood walls and embankments that make up local flood control networks, the state's levee boards historically have provided governors with an easy way to reward financial supporters.
In New Orleans, there is the added benefit of overseeing a police department and an expansive inventory of real estate that includes an airport, two marinas, a riverboat casino complex, dozens of parcels of commercial property and hundreds of acres of park land along Lake Pontchartrain.
Typically, legislators who represent areas near the lakefront lobby the governor on behalf of favored candidates in an effort to better monitor what goes on in their districts and to gain input into the awarding of contracts.
WHAT???????
Wouldn't it be wonderful if this horrific disaster became, for those displaced, a new lease on life? A positive, wondrous new lease where each was treated as if he or she was worthy of high expectations and, well, the world suddenly opens up for them.
Nothing could cause the chains of liberal oppression to fall away faster.
The Dome is, well, a dome, but in principle, the physics works the same as an arch. The keystone of an arch transfers the load to the adjacent stones, and these carry the load to the footings.
The steel roof plates in the dome act like individual stones in an arch.
The "stones" in the Dome were flopping up and down when the eyewall passed.
Not a good sign for long term stability.
:) I sure hope so. It's very discouraging.
The best I can hope for out of all this is perhaps we'll get a few good New Orleans style restaurants out of the deal. :)
Then too, the NEW New Orleans might be a very good place to live. Lord knows they've transported the bulk of their problems to other places. :)
Or as we like to say here in Texas, "You've been messin' with the bull, now here come the horns."
The dome and roof dwellers probably did have to live through some ugly things, but the key words there are "live through".
If they want to complain, well I expect that, but the bottom line is that they are alive. If any complain to me, I intend to point out the sole alternative.
Now wouldn't THAT be nice?
I am familiar with hospitals in this context where we had emergency power (generator)which was able to power our equipment but no AC and if that failed we had very large wall mounted battery powered lamps, which gave enough light to be able see so you d/n trip over stuff.
Gary Condit brought me to Free Republic. I found a thread about him on FR when that story was big and have been here since.
I like your way better.
Lots of locals I know are giving money to David Toms' Foundation.
http://www.davidtomsfoundation.com/
LOL. It would indeed. In fact, I might consider it myself. I know I'm thinking of going somewhere, long term. :)
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