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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
The situation in New Orleans continues to deteriorate due to rising water levels and desperation. Search and rescue continues via boat and air. Authorities have announced the goal to evacuate all the remaining residents of NOLA. The New Orleans Mayor has reported numerous gas leaks throughout the city. Sporadic fires occurring. Attempts to evacuate hundreds of hospital patients from Charity Hospital and Tulane Medical Center are in process. Patients are being transported to other hospitals as far away as Florida.
The Army Corps of Engineers is at the NOLA levee breaks with current plans to drop 3000 lb sand bags in an effort to stop the flow of water. NOLA hospital evacuations continue for thousands of patients. Reports indicate all evacuees are being taken to the SuperDome, which is now surrounded by water. The generators at the Dome are now in jeopardy. The Governor of Louisiana has called for a day of prayer tomorrow...
Elsewhere, search and rescue continue in Mississippi and Alabama. Biloxi reports indicate catastrophic damage.
Links to various news and local government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends (very slow load)
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
Inside Houma Today needing boats, volunteers, lists gas station openings, water, etc.
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
Streaming Video:
WWL-TV (via KHOU/Houston): http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_khou&live=yes
WKRG/Mobile: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WDSU/New Orleans via WAPL/Jackson: mms://a842.l1291238841.c12912.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/842/12912/v0001/reflector:38841
All are Windows Media Player links.
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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
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.
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Tropical Storm 12
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What? Do we need to send some folks to Freeper Boot Camp or what?
Just damn
My sister, the llama is pouting having spent the nite in the storm. As did the goat.
The cruise ships change their ports of call very often during hurricane season , most are not American. No help will be coming from them.
Excellent news, cajungirl, thanks. Glad you're all safe.
Dare I say I'm happy the llama made it?
The Freeper Wolfie is still wondering why a Mod pinged him....:-)
Girls on trampolines?
Hey there! Haven't seen ya in a while...
I wouldn't have gotten that from your post. Nerves are just raw and this thread is moving so fast. By the time I get back I'll be pages behind...Now, stay out of trouble..LOL
Captain of Coast Guard has said he has never seen anything like this.
It's been that kind of day. :-)
LOL, good idea.
Waling a thin line there, ain't you?
Well, he is safe for now. But brother in law is guarding the homestead with no refrigeration, only the food in the pantry and his gun collection. So the llama could end up,well, I don't want to say it. There are deer on his property so I guess he could take a deer out.
Thanks a lot Admin Moderator. Do you know how many Wolf Blitzer hate mails I deleted off my system to insure that I wouldn't be kicked off FreeRepublic???
ohh I am, staying out of trouble that is....or trying too
They have some excellent logistics people just getting set up. I know the USDA is sending a whole slew of people that they use to coordinate wildland firefighting - their system is so good that the Army and people from other parts of the world come to study it.
So far this is what they are doing: HURRICANE KATRINA SUPPORT, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Emergency Support Function #4 is staffed at the Regional Response Coordination Centers in Atlanta, GA and Denton, TX. Two Type 1 Incident Management Teams have been assigned. One team (Custer) will establish a base camp at Port Allen, LA and the other team (Quesinberry) will be at the logistics staging area in Meridian, MS. A third Type 1 Incident Management Team (Pincha-Tulley) will establish a base camp at Stenis NASA site in MS. A Planning Team has been activated to the Long Term Recovery Center in Orlando, FL. Three Logistics Management Teams have been mobilized to Meridian, MS, Maxwell Air Force Base, AL, and Beauregard, LA. Two more Logistics Management Teams will be mobilized to Meridian, MS and Barksdale Air Force Base, LA.
But it takes at least a little bit of time. With no power, no potable water, spotty communication and massive damage and flood, it is HARD HARD HARD to get stuff together. Especially when you're walking around shellshocked at something your life never really prepared you to witness, knowing not only you but everybody you know has lost everything.
And New Orleans is such an island anyway. It's almost cut off.
God bless the emergency workers.
But they are working. And things will happen.
I said the afternoon the storm was arriving that before it arrived I'd run out and buy a canoe for a hundred bucks and keep it close by because a rubber dhingie or a canoe would be of more use after the storm than a car. Sadly, I've been proved right. In future, I'd have an inflatable craft and keep it nearby if I lived on the coast and had to fear flooding.
What does that make you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473615/posts?page=30#30
In that photo the lake is to the north, the river is to the south. The section that is being flooded, Arabi, has been flooded for at least 33 hours, and had the water up to the rooftops for almost that long. Reports for 30 hours have been that the there was an overtopping from the Mississippi River that was flooding this section of Arabi, including reports from the mayor's office and the Army Corp of Engineers.
The NG needs to be in there taking charge of this situation, restoring order and evacuating people. Until that starts to happen, the people themselves, store owners, home onwers, etc. are going to have to defend their own with the same type of force.
If someone is giving away their goods to help others...great. In fact, that is probably exactly what we would attempt with our own storage to help others. But I would be doing it with myself and sons holding loaded weapons to make sure someone didn't try to take it all for themselves.
Sadly...tragically, it may well require the use of force by the NG to restore order.
Those are the sad facts.
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