Katrina Live Threads, Part XV

Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

[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

[nopardons]

She was a RED DIAPER BABY, a for real, card carrying, stinking Commie, and it's impolite ( not to mention DEADLY ), to ask the age of a woman of a certain age. LOOL

Let's just say that it was rather a long time ago and leave it at that. :-)

Pleasant dreams.................

[Rokke]

(I'm not looking up pictures of dust)

But I did learn how to change font size today too.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Ahhhhhhhh, but can you do THIS?

:)

Good night all!

[nopardons]

Hearty CONGRATS on the font size learning! That makes you light years ahead of my rather pathetic knowledge of HTML. I can make paragraphs, do bold and italics and that's it. LOL

[Miss Behave]

NO SHE DID NOT. SHE KEPT DIGGING, AS ARE YOU.

Get lost. NOW.

[Miss Behave]

OMG.

[Rokke]

"I can make paragraphs, do bold and italics and that's it. LOL"

Hey, that was exactly where I was until I found this...Link to HTML thread

Now I'm am HTML proficient. Sort of.

[nopardons]

Look, pet, you're damned dead wrong and being snippy to boot.

Just WHEN exactly, was it, that you managed to BUY/TAKE OVER FR? Could you remind me of the date? Ohhhhhhhhh, you did neither? THEN STOP TELLING POSTERS TO "get lost" AND MORE!

[Rokke]

Dammit. Just when I thought I was somebody.

[nopardons]

Thanks for the link. You are very kind and thoughtful!

[Miss Behave]

Look, just please go away. Thanks.

[Brad’s Gramma]

I'm sorry. Honest. S-O-R-R-Y!

This is the truth and you may take it to the bank! :)

You are somebody! You are WAY ahead of the game and WHY am I not in bed?

WHY am I up, messing around with a computer PROGRAM? :)

[Brad’s Gramma]

Check your FRmail, OK?

:)

[nopardons]

I actually was.......going to leave, but now, NOW, you're stuck with me. I really don't take kindly to lying horse dust beating n00bs prancing around, arrogantly telling others what to do.

Soooooooooooo, MB, how's about you go dig through your pings. look up what Howlin actually DID post you, and then come back here and apologize to the entire thread? Elsewise, I'm afraid that I shall have to do a wee bit of scut work, come back here and blow you to kingdom comes, with the post# and stuff that,by now, cold, putrefying crow down your gullet.

[buickmackane]

Before I turn in for the night, I thought I'd show you something that made me feel very sad. I wonder what happened to these two women?

http://forum.virtualtourist.com/2/discussion-184066-1-1-Travel-1-793014-New_Orleans-discussion.html?wosid=E6aqbPBuELiKm1ESDmnFNM

New Orleans:2 New Yawk Girls in N'awlins Looking for 2 Cute Guides
Posted: Tue August 23 22:28:06 2005 CDT
We're two gals from NYC who are going to be in New Orleans Sat. 8/25 - Tues. 8/30 and are looking for 2 handsome men between the ages of 25-39 who wouldn't mind showing us around. We're 28 & 32, cute, sassy and enjoy a good time.

Dinner, drinks, dancing... show us what New Orleans is about! Email us at nycnawlins05@yahoo.com instead of using the VT mail.

We hope to meet some cool locals to get a different take on the city than the typical tourist-view!

[Miss Behave]

I asked you to *please* go away and said thanks. Please PLEASE go away--you are now stalking me.

[nopardons]

Nope, I am NOT "stalking you" at all. You post to me, I reply. That's the way FR works. :-)

You quite clearly ORDERED me and at least one other poster to "get lost" and a few other things. Now, NOW, you are saying that because you said "please" and "thanks", in your last post to me, the other three or more posts you wrote, demanding I follow your commands don't count? REALLY? I don't think so, pet. :-)

[Miss Behave]

Administrative Moderator, please make this stop. I have asked twice for this person to PLEASE go away, and twice said thank you. At this point this person is stalking me. Please do something about it. Thank you.

[nopardons]

How is replying to your posts TO me, "stalking" ?

If you would stop posting to me, I would stop answering you.

[Miss Behave]

Jim, please do something here. It's bizarre.