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Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

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.

NOLA.com

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

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

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.


Related FR Threads:

FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread

Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?

Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here

Looting Begins In New Orleans

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.

Previous Threads:

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aftermath; hurricane; hurricanekatrina; katrina
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To: livius

Amen... I can just see these morons now.

NG: "Do you have any personal belongings with you?"

Moron: "I've got my 10 gold chains, 3 TVs, and 6 VCRs."

NG: "You have receipts for all this stuff?"

Moron: "Nope. And which one of you guys has my (welfare) check? It was supposed to come in today!"


1,481 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:18 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: Lauretij2

Welcome to FR.


1,482 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:19 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: Will_Zurmacht
1000+ prisoners being guarded by less than 10 guys with shotguns

They should have used their shotguns.

1,483 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:24 PM PDT by Snoopers-868th
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To: bonfire

I saw one looter with a big package of toilet paper. Now that is one guy that I probably could overlook.


1,484 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:32 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: PhiKapMom

It's awful....awful.

now, see this, too:

hipaatwo, post 1,457

A local official tells an ABC News affiliate in Baton Rouge, La., that inmates at Orleans Parish Prison are rioting and have taken hostages -- including children -- using homemade weapons.

http://abcnews.go.com/


1,485 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:34 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: livius

Actually any grocery store should be opened. There's no hope for salvaging the stuff anyway with all the water.

Just my 2 cents.

If "survival" looting is going on, then let it.

If they're breaking windows and stealing watches, like the CNN reporter said, that's another story. (P.S. when she told the story, all I could think was, "Hope they're stealing waterproof watches"...just kidding.)


1,486 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:39 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: PhiKapMom

The river leevee has been breeched?


1,487 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:42 PM PDT by Dog
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To: hipaatwo

A deputy's family being held hostage.... between looters and rioting prisoners, the Mayor and/or Governor needs to put the hammer down NOW.... make it clear that it is "take no prisoners" with criminals taking advantage of one of the most extreme emergencies in US history.

TO THE PRISONERS: message must be, release all hostages unharmed, and BEHAVE, or none of you will be alive in the morning....


1,488 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:44 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: gidget7

Choppers and boats to nearest high ground highway. Buses to 3 dozen major cities. Get everyone out, while the thinking is going on.


1,489 posted on 08/30/2005 5:25:57 PM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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To: RummyChick
have seen people predicting a media blackout - as an order. Why would they do that? When is the last time there was a media blackout.

During the Clinton years!!!

1,490 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:22 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: RDTF
Pleeeease . . .

ya may as well have painted a target on that one    8^)

1,491 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:27 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: cajungirl

WWL is broadcasting and just said the Mississippi River has breeched the levees and holes all over the levees.

Guy speaking said all they can do now is rescue as many people as they can.

You are right about their faces.


1,492 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:28 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: cajungirl

I don't suppose those farm animals are ok? I happen to have goats and like them.


1,493 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:29 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: PhiKapMom
Mississippi River has breeched the levees -- that is why so much water.

I heard that but I think they were talking about Plaqueminnes Parish farther down river near the mouth and not the city... yet.

1,494 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:33 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Lauretij2

he spoke earlier today, but i don't think they planned on the US Army taking over from local authorities, unless locals proved incapable...which seems likely at this point

plus, FEMA, et all have some say, in any event its a friggin mess


1,495 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:47 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Alissa
It won't stop with looting. The looting is just the first stage in people running amuck. Next, there will be rapes and killings as the animal side of people takes over. That's why you stop looting as soon as you see it.

In the Rodney King riots, the LAPD backed off in those first crucial hours and a n easily controlled situation flared up into a disaster. But in some of those other small cities embedded in LA, the police immediately jumped on troublemakers as soon they did something. As a result, they'd had only a fraction of the problems that LA had.

You can't have decent rescue or recovery operations in an atmosphere of chaos. That's why maintaining a semblance of order is job one in a disaster. Lose that veneer of civilization and a disaster turns into something ten times worse.

1,496 posted on 08/30/2005 5:26:54 PM PDT by LenS
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To: tomkat

Updates as they come in on Katrina

07:06 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Tom Planchet

6:41 P.M. - Efforts to stop the levee break at the 17th Street Canal have ended unsuccessfully and the water is expected to soon overwhelm the pumps in that area, allowing water to pour into the east bank of Metairie and Orleans to an expected height of 12-15 feet.

6:39 P.M. - JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Senator Trent Lott is urging President Bush to visit Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling the president -- quote -- "the people of Mississippi are flat on their backs. They're going to need your help."

6:05 P.M. - Thomas: Saw at least three dead bodies during his rescues. Whole families were among those rescued.

6:04 P.M. - Thomas: Most sobering moment - being told to leave the dead bodies, because there are people to rescue.

6:03 P.M. - N.O. Councilman Oliver Thomas: "What you see on TV, you have no idea what the level of devastation and frustration is on the street."

5:57 P.M. - Jeff Parish schools chief Dianne Roussel says two months is probably "optimistic" to get schools back and functioning.

5:49 P.M. - (AP) WASHINGTON -- The Navy is sending three ships to the Gulf Coast with water and other supplies for those hit by Hurricane Katrina, but officials are urging service members not to try to return to their military bases in New Orleans.

5:46 P.M. - Four confirmed dead in St. Tammany. One died in traffic accident, one died after he stayed and a tree fell and trapped him in his home. Two others died by unknown reasons.

1,497 posted on 08/30/2005 5:27:07 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: Enchante

"A deputy's family being held hostage.... between looters and rioting prisoners, the Mayor and/or Governor needs to put the hammer down NOW..."

They'll all be drowned soon...

While engineers scratching their heads.


1,498 posted on 08/30/2005 5:27:10 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Lauretij2

He has been, why haven't you been listening? Where were you?
Why are you posting this? Welcome to FR, btw.


1,499 posted on 08/30/2005 5:27:10 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: Enchante

makes me think of that movie - help me out - Kurt Russell - Gangs of Ny?


1,500 posted on 08/30/2005 5:27:11 PM PDT by RDTF
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