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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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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
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
Apparently Shep Smith exaggerated/misreported. Imagine!
Not touching that one. :-) Thanks for your service, Mike.
Dang, Laz left us? (His profile page says he has...boohoo!)
I don't have any more info. I pray they hurry.
Is the goat ok too?
It's a shame that, even with martial law in force, we don't shoot looters. That is the standard treatment the world over and is pretty effective.
http://www.wwltv.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad
Crank it up...they're talking about the looters, etc.
They aren't real Americans
RE Confederate Museum. I visited it last winter. IIRC it is on relatively high ground, probably higher than the nearby D Day museum, and the displayed exhibits are all in one rome on the upper floor of the building. There was a lower level, closed to the public where they may have more stuff in storage but at least most of their stuff (which was interesting) should stay dry.
One comment in a prior thread claimed the D Day museum was near Jackson square. That's not at all true. Jackson square is on east end of the French Quarter (which starts east of Canal street.) D Day museum is west of the warehouse district, probably further west of Canal street than Jackson Square is east of it.
The big NO casino is at southern end of Canal Street, near the Mississippi levee.
IF the Corps can plug the canal and/or levee breaches and stop the ongoing flooding with airdropped sandbags somebody needs to note when they started dropping them. I've yet to see or hear any reports that they have started. Reports of the breaches were first reported early this AM. I know I posted on them before 2AM and they'd been reported, at least as rumors, well before then. How many hours did it take to start the attempted plugging? Breeches were a predictable risk, by far the most severe risk whenever a hurricane threatens NO. In the 1993 upper Mississippi river flood nearly every levee between Davenport and St. Louis was breached, but some took days to go. Those in charge of the levees, which a Corps officer was quick to stress just after the storm passed was NOT the Corps, but rather local officials, should have been monitoring the levees as the highest priority. There should have been plans to reinforce any threatened levees at the first sign of trouble that took into account the likelihood of trouble getting around town. They should have been ready to try air drops and started them as soon as the breech was localized. Delaying in plugging the leak will greatly delay restoring the city to normal. I'm afraid NO's emergency "plans" had no breeches! If they did identify and evaluate the breech promptly and determined there was not chance of fixing it before the water reached equilibrium than they should have announced the inevitable worse right then and started evacuating everyone.
CNN had a short piece on teh "Colonial" pipeline that runs from Houston to the east coast. It carries refined products, and it is also out of commission.
From the report, I surmise that a pumping station, or a few of them, have no power. The report was that power was expected to be restored in about a week.
Some "serious" ripples are yet to be felt. I put scare quoutes around "serious" because nothing is a serious as loss of life, and shortage of fuel and economic hits are pale in comparison to the loss of life.
LOL! Excellent.
Signing off to go catch my train. Continued prayers to all still impacted by the storm...
Whew! I sure am glad that you cleared that up. I came in on this late and from reading a few posts, I thought you had lost it and was claiming that you had a sister who was a llama. LOL
But the river is not up to the levee is it?
I don't know anything anymore other than NO seems lost to me.
http://www.ussalabama.com/ Looks to be a
museum now......
As for decommissioned ships, the typical procedure once they get beyond a certain age is to strip certain things from it and secure all the openings. In essence, nothing Really Big has been decommissioned in the past year, so it would not be a viable option to try to use them for people storage (CV 64 Constellation is already far advanced in the post-decommissioning process).
For the long term, since CV 67 Kennedy was on the path to decommissioning and not in Navy's main game plans any more, that might be used as a backup, but IMO it would be more likely that once the military ships find a safe channel for passage, the Comfort might move ((as an MSC ship, it uses much less crew)).
I doubt that. Assigning normal standards of human decency to liberals will usually get you burned. I have little doubt that your average Massachusetts leftist thinks that his house is heated by the Oil Fairy and that nobody has any good reason for living on the Gulf Coast.
-Dan
He earned himself yet another time out yesterday. You back old bean?
It has a good beat, but I can't dance to it.
From the Hurricane City live stream: some reports (not confirmed at this point) of rioting at prison in/near New Orleans.
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