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

[Jim Noble]

what was required in this crisis (as in any crisis) was for someone to rise WAY above their limitations and perform heroically

Instead, as soon as the magnitude of the crisis became clear, we sent - a lawyer.

Oops.

[Vermonter]

Is it available in html, or can it be copied and converted to html?

Afraid I can't help you with that. I only found it after looking at the hard copy in Sunday's paper. The hardcopy has the daily activities shown on the same page as the map. The interactive was all I saw on the web page

[Uncle Ike]

Thanks for checking in, and welcome to FR."

Thank you for the welcome.

After 4 or 5 days of being immersed in this and other threads, I forget that I'm still a Newbie. :)

[easonc52]

If they don't have this knowledge, the won't be able to delegate authority appropriately! They won't know who is supposed to be doing what. And that IMHO is where the breakdown occurred in NO.

I think that's why I believe the wrong people were in office.

I tend to agree with this article posted earlier by dixiechick2 (from Men's News Daily):

Hurricane Katrina: Don’t Blame Bush for Local Corruption and Democrat Incompetence

[XEHRpa]

So when we notice that NO actually [had] no plan for people without resources we're now called Communists? LOL.

No, Peach, please don't take my comment the wrong way. I am merely saying that poor planning on the part of local NOLA government and poor geography of the city is no reason to penalize the residents of the NOLA suburbs, who are less hard hit.

[Patriot from Philly]

LOL! Maybe he should bring pictures next time.

[bwteim]

'morning, all.

First, an early morning report.... deserves its own post. Don't know if anyone posted this yet.

Bold type face added. RKBA Bump.

= = = = NOLA - WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina

4:15 A.M. - (AP) -- When night falls, Charlie Hackett climbs the steps to his boarded-up window, takes down the plywood, grabs his 12 gauge shotgun and waits.

He is waiting for looters and troublemakers, for anyone thinking his neighborhood has been abandoned like so many others across the city. Two doors down, John Carolan is doing the same on his screened-in porch, pistol by his side. They are not about to give up their homes to the lawlessness that has engulfed New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

" We kind of together decided we would defend what we have here and we would stay up and defend the neighborhood," says Hackett, an Army veteran with a snow-white beard and a business installing custom kitchens.

[NautiNurse]

Good morning - and best wishes for an enjoyable Labor Day to all.

[Peach]

Agreed.

[LadyPilgrim]

Good Morning to you too!

Hope you had a good nights rest! ;-)

God bless you!

[NautiNurse]

The stories of neighbors defending their property are becoming more prominent. Last year, following hurricane Charley, those stories and photos were circulating within 24 hours.

[jhny7]

account on Drudge says five killed were contractors working on levy.any news what started this gun battle?

[EBH]

That probably couldn't have hurt, but what was required in this crisis (as in any crisis) was for someone to rise WAY above their limitations and perform heroically.

Actually, we needed some people to just do what the heck they were supposed to do and that did not happen. There was no way we could have gotten all those people out of NO based upon the weakend time table of when the evac. was called, but it sure could have been minimized a lot more.

Reading the city and state plans has been very disturbing as they cover much of the pre-hurricane actions that needed to be taken and little to none of them occurred in the case of NO. Time after time, interview after interview it became abundantly clear that the First Responders on the ground had no idea what to do. I am tired of listening to people tell me this was a catostrophic event and no one would know what to do, and then turning to the Feds. and blaming them! Mayor G of New York on 9/11/01 had a major unplanned event of catastrophic proportions and by following the basic Incident Command Structure established in the city's ERP, he was able to guide New York through one of the darkest times. The ICS gives all responders at all levels a basic foundation to work from, it is evident in all that we're seeing that did not happen in NO. My question then becomes, WHY, as it is what we are all asking. If they don't know the plan and how to implement the plan, then you get Chaos. The breakdown of the entire city, police and fireman quitting is very telling. Either they were not being told what to do (as some claim) or they were not being allowed to do what they were trained to do (as some claim) or both. In any event we had/have American people dieing in the streets.

[NautiNurse]

the Plan is to allow nobody in without ID and proof of address, I hear.

That is the standard Hurricane Evacuation rule. If you leave, you must have proof of residence to return in the event of damage/destruction. It keeps out the gawking lookie loos.

[Uncle Ike]

"Actually, we needed some people to just do what the heck they were supposed to do"

I agree completely, and I don't think we're mutually exclusive, here -- sometimes "heroic" consists in nothing more (or less) than staying at your post and doing what needs to be done when everything is falling apart around you.

A parenthetic point that came to me after my original post is that it sure seems that politicians and bureaucrats, as a class, seem to have this ability (character?) bred out of them.

[CedarDave]

As Freepers wake up and check this thread for updates, not all go back and read the several hundred overnight posts. However, you all need to go back and read this admittedly lengthy post that reviews, dissects and lays out in plain English the history and steps taken by the various parties leading up to and responding to the Katrina disaster. Read it, bookmark it, print it out, have it ready to use in discussion when you talk to your liberal friends, and write your letters or emails to your newspaper and TV stations. Copy it and send it to Rush, Sean, Mark, Tony, Laura, etc.; in other words circulate it as widely as you can.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477440/posts?page=652#652

[NautiNurse]

The initial AP story was incorrect about contractors being killed. Drudge has an accurate story linked on his website.

[SE Mom]

If that's the account running on Drudge he's way behind - there were contractors on their way to work on the levy...THEY were shot at and then police moved in and took out several bad guys.

I also note that Drudge still had Bush "considering" nominating Roberts for Cheif Justice.

[jhny7]

thanks

[bwteim]

Yes, indeed.