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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/
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
jveritas, have you read the post by FerkFick giving links to several articles? I thought it was interesting. Here's the post:
Posted by FerkFick to Mark17
On News/Activism ^ 09/04/2005 9:32:55 AM CDT · 82 of 1,004 ^
Yeah, look at this...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Nine stockpiles of fire-and-rescue equipment strategically placed around the country to be used in the event of a catastrophe still have not been pressed into service in New Orleans, five days after Hurricane Katrina, CNN has learned.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/03/katrina.unusedgear/index.html
Tribune staff reports
Published September 2, 2005, 10:24 PM CDT
Frustration about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina has reached Chicago City Hall, as Mayor Richard Daley today noted a tepid response by federal officials to the city's offers of disaster aid.
The city is willing to send hundreds of personnel, including firefighters and police, and dozens of vehicles to assist on the storm-battered Gulf Coast, but so far the Federal Emergency Management Agency has requested only a single tank truck, Daley said.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,0,6429273.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Yahoo: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state's National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/katrina_national_guard
Louisiana begged for federal help on Sunday in a formal request
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf
Preparing America
In the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster or other large-scale emergency, the Department of Homeland Security will assume primary responsibility on March 1st for ensuring that emergency response professionals are prepared for any situation. This will entail providing a coordinated, comprehensive federal response to any large-scale crisis and mounting a swift and effective recovery effort. The new Department will also prioritize the important issue of citizen preparedness. Educating America's families on how best to prepare their homes for a disaster and tips for citizens on how to respond in a crisis will be given special attention at DHS.
http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/theme_home2.jsp
The Gov of La did request FEMA to assist prior to land fall and Bush said the response was unacceptable.
If by "early on" you mean before the storm, yes, there was lots of coverage. After that, it was a blackout until the Dome was cleared.
You can bet your bottom dollar there will be lawsuits against the city of NOLA for wrongful death, based on failure to provide security. Don't know that the plaintiffs will win, but some will sue.
It sounds like you're insinuating that the state of Texas did this for money. Please tell me you aren't.
For two weeks - until Sept 14.
Don't forget that on Tuesday morning Katrina was still at tropical-storm strength and the eye was just then crossing the Mississippi/Tennessee border. The storm strength winds still extended out several hundred miles to where the pre-positioned material and personnel were at that point.
As an aside, in Florida we have a grape named Blanc du Bois. Have them growing on the vine here. It wins all sorts of wine awards too. Perhaps I shall rename my little vineyard here...
Please see my post at #481. Interesting links.
Again, I just want to get it clear in my own mind that the Federal gov't. did do things right.
Thanks for your replies.
Wrong.
I have a great idea on how to save time and money. Why doesn't ABC and SEARS just start a new tv show called "EXTREME MAKEOVER NEW ORLEANS".
They would have that city back up and running in 2 months.
you know, i was thinking the same thing 2 days ago, i googled extreme makeover and katrina and got nothing. I can't believe they haven't pounced on this yet, but they will!
"Inspect the refugees?"
Mayor Nagin is a lying chicken piece of crap!!!
He was asked on Nightline what he would change...did he say using the buses to evacuate people?
NO>>>> he said he would have started CUSSING sooner to get the attention of the White House!!!!
He is blaming everyone in the world but himself...
re: race...he said it for sure is a "class" issue..
He said this wouldn't have happened in Orange County, Ca., or Manhattan, New York...because they are upper class...
I KNEW I shouldn't watch this...I am gonna need my anxiety medicine tonight!!!
Something is going to have to be done about Joe Scarborough.
Thanks so much for this Snowball update. I hope it's the right dog. I felt such pain for that little boy who had the dog taken away, it kind of "personalized" the losses for me that so many thousands of people are experiencing.
He was not saying that on 60 Minutes.
He just may be bipolar.
We have a particularly noxious leftist columnist based in TX - I won't befoul this thread with her name. But I did read one of her columns that had a lot of truth in one statement. Talking about gabbing with other political writers on trips, she said "When it comes to telling stories, the only people who can compete with me are from IL and LA."
Your source?
It is all Bush's fault. I just saw a sign on the news basically insulting the President. Like he could have done anymore. And with so much damage, how do you have that much time to make a worthless sign?
You've only seen that the media has shown. Which is not very much.
Each State has been receiving money from the Department of Homeland Security for emergency preparedness -- which includes Satellite RADIOS for police and fire to communicate with one-another.
What happened to all the money that went to New Orleans?
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