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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.
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
Oh, great. Just what we need. Activists. Calling Randall Robinson.
Oh, I don't doubt. A number of Libs can be really funny, sweet and caring excepting the hard core in the ditch loons. But their policies are dangerous in real practice. Mean well, but it just does't work in real life.
re: the press conference w/ activists
*that* is racism if they dont' include the white people that lost everything too,,,,in their little people's committee plan,,,,
If you do call, you'll make more sense than he ever does.
I do dare Alan to say that to barbara's face.
This is my favorite part:
1. Demand to oversee FEMA, the Red Cross, and other organizations collecting resources on behalf of the black community of New Orleans
LOL!
OMG----
THEY are demanding, they want control over Red Cross money and all that...huh...well, dream on racists....dream on.
I saw a presser on that WWL on Saturday, I think, and it was a LA Black Caucus or something...and it was a group of VERY angry black people...one by one, getting on the microphone and telling "how it WILL be"...and how they "demand respect for the black people"...
I turned if off, shaking my head thinking they are young,..they don't know that one doesn't DEMAND respect, one EARNS it.
It seems that this Curtis Muhammed needs to learn the same lesson. I just wonder if Jesse Jackson or Louis Farrakhan or Sharpton is heading some of these groups.
As far as I am concerned, this is a HUGH slap in the face of all of the people in Texas and other states that have extended a helping hand without expectation of anything in return.
Have you not seen the NO Evacuation plans?
A poster, early on, noted the many buses just sitting there in the water, and said: "There was no plan to get the people on buses out of the city."
I take it that was your comment; I wouldn't own up to it either since you were most definitely wrong.
Now take your petty little grudge somewhere else.
Don't worry, I don't encourage her to vote or anything. As a matter of fact I try to keep her occupied on election so she'll forget,,,,hehehhehehe,,,,,so she's not a danger to anyone,,,, ;)
Then I was mistaken in saying city buses to take them out of the city.
But they certainly PLANNED for it, which was the not what the original statement said.
Monday, September 05, 2005
St. Tammany residents starting over in Midwest
By PAUL BARTELS
St. Tammany bureau
Almost 50 Slidell and Pearl River area residents made homeless by Hurricane Katrina’s devastation were evacuated over the weekend on two big tour buses with the promise of a new start in the Midwest.
The promise – guaranteed jobs and free apartments for up to six months – was made by Ed Blinn, a Marion, Ind., businessman who owns three used car lots and almost 100 apartments.
Some 47 people who had spent much of the week in five crowded, squalid school gymnasiums took him up on it the offer and boarded one of the buses Blinn hired to journey down the nation’s midsection and back.
They arrived at their new home, temporary or otherwise, late Monday afternoon and Blinn put them all up at a local hotel, he said in a telephone interview.
With his help and that of Red Cross volunteers and social service agencies, the displaced persons are settling into some of his vacant apartments and others – and into their new lives.
So, why did Blinn, 39, safe and sound with his family 900 miles away take it upon himself to embark upon this mission of mercy?
Blinn was aware from the numerous televised news accounts of the devastation and the plight of so many thousands of men, women and children driven from their homes in the New Orleans area.
But he also has a friend in Slidell, Roper Construction Co. owner Jimmy Roper. He’s the uncle of Dr. Mike Roper, a close friend of Blinn’s. For the past few years, the Blinns and Ropers have gone hunting together every year in South Dakota.
“I have a friend in Slidell – so that’s why I decided to go,” he said. “Hell, we’re like family.”
Blinn also was impatient with the slow pace of a hurricane relief effort that city officials and others in the Marion area were talking about to help the stricken area far to the south.
That group met late Friday and spent a lot of time talking without coming to a firm decision on what to do, he said.
“I just felt that with the bureaucracy, it wasn’t going to get done,” he said. “They said their next meeting was Tuesday and I knew I could make it happen, or thought I could and so I did.”
Accompanied by his 14-year-old son, Evan, Blinn hired a driver for each of the two buses capable of holding 30 to 35 passengers. The buses left Marion at about 8 p.m. Saturday and arrived in Slidell at mid-afternoon Sunday.
They then went shelter by shelter to John Slidell Park, three schools the names of which he couldn’t remember and ultimately to Creekside Junior High School near Pearl River.
At each stop, he told those stranded at the sweltering facilities about his proposal and his six-month “guarantee” of jobs and a place to live rent-free and gave them 20 minutes or so to make up their minds.
Not surprisingly, despite their desperate situations, many didn’t want to leave behind what had been their home for many years.
However, travelers ultimately included a family of three that initially wanted to stay, then changed their mind and chased down one of the buses after it began driving off and jumped on, Blinn said.
“I would have liked to stay a little longer and get a few more people,” he said. “I could’ve spent another day.”
But time was running out, the rescue group was informed of an 8 p.m. curfew, “and these people were weary enough” and faced a long drive back to Indiana.
Blinn said he didn’t know how many of his temporary charges eventually would decide to return to Louisiana or stay in their new homes.
“I don’t know if any of them will (want to return),” she said. “But if they do, I’ll help them get back. We’re friends now.”
Ouch! Sounds like one Homeland advisor slammed Timmy pretty good. I like it.
Is this curtis muhammed a black man?? I'm NOT racist but a black man with the last name muhammed already has me suspicious,,,
"Collecting" would be the keyword there, eh?
Great story...thanks for sharing..
It doesn't say what color they were...but if they are black, then Jesse Jackson would say that this person is mean and unfeeling by taking these people out of Louisiana.
Oh, they planned for it. They just tossed that part of the plan out the window (or forgot it) because it wasn't convenient. Bottom line:
1. They used city buses to move people to "shelters of last resort" which were NOT prepared ahead of time as opposed to collection centers where they would transfer to other buses and get out of the city.
2. No attempt was ever made to use any mass transit system to get people out of the way.
3. The buses which were supposed to be used to move people were left to flood in marshalling yards and service lots.
4. The city buses which could also have been used were left to flood.
5. When the "shelters" filled up, the people were diverted to other places that were NOT on the shelter possibility lists.
6. Through incompetence, stupidity, and laziness, the Democrats left 250,000 people to die.
Look who Curtis keeps company with:
January 30&31: DEMOCRACY AND US POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
A FORUM Featuring CONGRESSWOMAN CYNTHIA MCKINNEY. TWO EVENTS:
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 2004 - 6:00PM, DILLARD UNIVERSITY and SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2004 - 11:00AM at UNO DOWNTOWN THEATRE
619 Carondelet St. Introductions by former New Orleans Black Panther and housing and prison activist MALIK RAHIM (Saturday); Community-Labor Organizer CURTIS MUHAMMED (Friday); Loyola Professor Nabil Al-Tikriti; former political prisoner King Wilkerson. Mc'ed by NOLAPS members Sandra and Jessica.
This was posted on a blog called NOLA Palestine Solidarity
http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=%22Curtis+Muhammed%22+louisiana&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&n=10&fl=0&u=www.nolapalestinesolidarity.org/Actions/actions.htm&w=%22curtis+muhammed%22+louisiana&d=0B02D6402D&icp=1&.intl=us
check out post 3336. I'm trying to reasearch Curtis.
Im guessing, just guessing, that he is black and a Farakkan disciple...
Remember this post from this week?
I did a little research. New Orleans has spent 673 million over the last 10 years on: New basketball arena, New Vintage Trolley Care system and just recently appropriated 315 million for the convention center expansion. Seems they had the money, but chose to spend it on pork projects rather than the poor and helpless citizens of New Orleans. Google search New Orleans basketball arena and trolley rail system.
I'd be interested in seeing where their Homeland Security money was spent, too.
my point exactly
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