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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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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/
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I felt the same way, sort of!
But I am so furious about the lies upon lies upon lies, I canceled a trip to the beach yesterday because I didn't want to be in the same room with my in-laws. It would not have been pretty.
That's true. The plans were evacuate citizens by bus, but the mayor chucked those plans out the window as recently as July of 2005. Stating in a Times-Picayune article 'You're On Your Own'.
But he doesn't have that power does he?? these i'm talking about are the state of Louisiana ordinances not city of NO,,,,it gives the mayors, head of parishes instructions, so he can't just speak words and declare it void,,,,
But SNCC is something other than the Black Panthers, though some membership overlapped.
Medical teams efforts thwarted by lack of government organization
By TESSIE BORDEN
Cox News Service
Monday, September 05, 2005
DALLAS — The volunteer medical team from Georgia showed up ready — almost desperate — to see patients Sunday, and were told they weren't needed.
Again.
After nearly a week spent waiting or driving from city to city chasing victims of Hurricane Katrina, the 31 doctors, nurses and paramedics arrived Sunday at Reunion Arena here expecting to find a shelter full of patients clamoring for care.
What they found instead were medical facilities already in place that were better than anything they could provide.
"They don't need us here," said Cari Spradlin, deputy commander the Georgia-3 Disaster Medical Assistance Team activated after the storm hit the Gulf Coast.
Other volunteer physicians from across the country have poured into the South in week since Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, but many are finding roadblocks keeping them from caring for survivors.
A team of 100 surgeons and paramedics from North Carolina in a state-of-the-art mobile hospital is marooned in rural Mississippi.
''The bell was rung, the e-mails were sent off. ... We all got off work and deployed,'' said Dr. Preston Rich, one of the frustrated surgeons from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
''We have tried so hard to do the right thing. It took us 30 hours to get here,'' he said.
That government officials can't straighten out the mess and get them assigned to a relief effort now that they're just a few miles away ''is just mind-boggling,'' Rich said.
Other doctors have complained that their offers of help also were turned away.
A primary care physician from Ohio called and e-mailed the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services after seeing a notice on the American Medical Association's Web site about volunteer doctors being needed.
An e-mail reply told him to watch CNN that night where U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt was to announce a Web address for doctors to enter their names in a database.
''How crazy is that?'' he complained in an e-mail to his daughter.
The Georgia team deployed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is a convoy with enough supplies, medicines, equipment and food to set up a field hospital.
Since the storm hit Sunday they have gone from a staging area in Alabama to Biloxi, Miss., to Dallas, and have yet to be put to work.
They came to Texas after a call from Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, who was pleading for medical backup as soon as she got word that Katrina evacuees were headed in her direction.
Mary Hudac, spokeswoman for FEMA in Atlanta, said Sunday that the Georgia team and others have been caught in a situation where needs changed.
Either local resources have become available, the need has diminished or some other outside group has arrived such as private groups of doctors and nurses who work outside of the government's coordination, Hudac said.
"We know that the Georgia medical professionals desperately want to contribute. ... There is still tremendous requirement for the resources that the Georgia team brings and we are sure there will be a venue for their expertise," Hudac said.
Georgia Team Commander Judy Edwards had been told by FEMA officials to expect between 10,000 and 14,000 refugees at Reunion Arena that had not seen a doctor, nurse or pharmacist for days.
What she found on Sunday morning was about 300 evacuees at Reunion and about 4,000 evacuees at the nearby Convention Center.
And at the Convention Center, county officials, along with local hospitals, had set up a state-of-the-art medical facility with separate areas for pediatrics and emergency care.
"It was beautiful in there," said Mark Spradlin, who is in charge of logistics and planning for the Georgia team. "If they had shut down and we had moved in, the level of medical care would have gone down."
Late Sunday night, they awaited a FEMA official to come and survey the medical needs situation in Dallas himself, to determine if they should go elsewhere.
Well, you should run for mayor of NO,,,,I'm sure the job will be vacant soon ;) Of course there is nothing to be mayor right now,,,,
Most of them headed north towards Alexandria. The first few days they were here, they were spending money freely like tourists, thinking this was only a 4-day trip to ride out the storm. You couldn't get a table at places like Applebee's. Then reality set in and they were evicted from their rooms at nice places like the LaQuinta on the date their reservations expired, and they ended up in Rapides Parish shelters because they have no homes, no jobs and no schools to go back to.
Then someone came up with the idea that they should leave the small shelters set up by the local churches and combine all into one building in a Pineville shopping center that used to be a Wal-Mart, rubbing shoulders with the new arrivals from the Superdome (200 of whom were personally brought in by Jesse Jackson in the middle of the night on Saturday). This scared the daylights out of these families, and many of the churches agreed that it wasn't safe. The small churches were told that they would lose their subsidy from the Red Cross if they didn't cooperate, but they seceded anyway and have continued to shelter these families at their own expense.
You can spot these people a mile away around town, because they're still managing to keep a decent personal appearance while paying with credit cards that are probably already maxed-out. They offer a sincere, sympathetic smile to everyone they see, assuming you're in the same boat with them. To be honest, I pray more for them than the people who were already in the welfare system before they got here. It's easier to empathize with them, sort of "the bigger they come, the harder they fall." As new shelters pop up in towns all over the country, I'm afraid these people -- the ones who were smart enough to get out of harm's way in the first place -- will be quickly overlooked and it's a shame.
Done. :)
Perhaps what takes its place would be more liberal, but we already know that the existing party is perfectly willing to commit crimes against humanity and sacrifice hundreds of thousands rather than take necessary but unpopular action.
This cannot be allowed to continue.
wow you work fast,,,thanks
It's not that hard to follow. You couldn't be more wrong. I give up--don't care what you think.
Funny, I didn't realize one could get more liberal,,,
I dunno if he has power. For all I know, he didn't know that he can evacuate his own citizenry without the nod of the White House. NOLA's mayor is as incompetent as all get-out, but I think that feeds off his corruption.
Right, but if I'm not mistaken, Katrina wasn't declared a Cat 3 storm until 5 AM on Saturday. That meant they only had maybe 42 hours at most to get everyone out, according to the plan. And the plan said to let the lower parishes out first, so the city of New Orleans really didn't have much time at all.
I'm not sure a pre-hurricane bus evacuation was at all feasible. They MAY have been able to get ONE round of buses out, IF there was somewhere for them to go. So I can't really criticize Nagin for not mounting a pre-hurricane evacuation.
But some thought should have been given to keeping the buses and drivers in safe shelter, so they could get going as soon as the roads were clear.
I wouldn't touch that cesspool with a 90 meter pole.
It took me since 1985, but I have finally figured out what the Talking Heads As The Days Go BY song was about.....The Evacuation of New Orleans!
And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
And you may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful
Wife
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!
Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
Into the blue again/after the money’s gone
Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground.
Check out the Green Party in Europe.
You were looking for a local organization that needs help, so here's an interesting phone call I just received. The hospital that caters to our local poor and uninsured is preparing so many meals for the refugee patients that it doesn't have enough kitchen utensils or seasonings. They urgently need large slotted spoons and ladles right away:
Huey P. Long Medical Center
PO Box 5352
Pineville, LA 71361-5352
(318) 448-0811
Oh, gee, thanks; now I'll have that song in my head for days......and won't be able to hear the words "New Orleans" without thinking about it.
As I have said on a previous occasion, remind me not to cross swords with you ... [Big Grin}
Hmmmm, I've wondered the same thing. Now, can you explain what those arm chopping moves meant in his video for this song?
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