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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; livehurricanekatrina
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To: Shermy
I doesn't really matter. When all the looted potable liquids have been drunk, anyone remaining in the city will have a choice of drinking the toxic floodwaters or drinking nothing at all.

How long will that be? A few days, I'd guess. With no AC, it's going to be hot and sweaty out there and it doesn't look like getting water tanker trucks in there will be an option.

It seems to me like these people have only a couple of options. Hope to flag down a chopper or walk and swim their way out of town.

Am I looking at this too pessimistically?

1,661 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:05 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: cajungirl

here are the projected levels for the Mississippi river for the next 5 days

http://www.riverwatch.noaa.gov/forecasts/ORNRVAORN.shtml


1,662 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:09 PM PDT by stlnative
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To: Wacka
GPS can work, unlike stated in your post. As long as the batteries in the hand held receivers are working, they will work. The signals come from satellites. There might not be any landmarks, but the coordinates don't change.

Amen to that. In fact, that is when it really shines. It showed its usefulness during Op Desert Storm when troops went barreling through the desert with only GPS to guide them.

1,663 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:13 PM PDT by SlowBoat407 (A living affront to Islam since 1959)
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To: hole_n_one
Howdy. I keep hoping I'll wake up from this nightmare. NO is (was) my favorite city in the whole world. Proposed to my wife there in Galatoire's.

I can't imagine that it won't be there.

1,664 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:14 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: NonValueAdded

"Mom, the water coming into NO is from Lake Ponchatrain to the north via a 200 and now 300 ft breach in the levee coning down the 17th street canal. That has been the case for at least the last 6 hours."

That F'in canal is 75' wide - That can be plugged in hours!!What the F is going on?


1,665 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:27 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: cajungirl

The river levees are built much better and to withstand a 600 year storm while the lake levees are built to withstand a 100 or 200 year storm..


"The city is exposed to as much as four times the risk of hurricane flooding as it is to river flooding . . . that's always been an odd issue to me. Why would the government think that water from the lake is less dangerous than water from the river?"


JOSEPH SUHAYDA
LSU engineering professor

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/risk_1.html

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/nolalevees_jpg.html


1,666 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:34 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: cajungirl

Don't be sorry - we all owe you for telling the pig story that will surely scare AlQeida from FR. Many thanks. :)


1,667 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:34 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: Types_with_Fist

Doesn't it stand to reason if levees are having trouble downriver that the ones in NO are having just as much trouble? Not to mention all that water coming down from rainfall north of NO.

How long can the earthen levees stand? I don't think we are getting the whole story on the Mississippi River levees but that is just my opinion.


1,668 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:53 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Enchante

Was that her that was on earlier this afternoon almost crying? If it was, real leadership there.


1,669 posted on 08/30/2005 5:46:59 PM PDT by queenkathy (Dear God, I have a problem; it's me.)
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To: The Pastor

They have to get them there first. Lets not forget the information needed is moving from the ground up, not the ground down.


1,670 posted on 08/30/2005 5:47:03 PM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks


1,671 posted on 08/30/2005 5:47:16 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: cajungirl

Understatement. I guess people are litterally gropping in the dark. Fog of war.


1,672 posted on 08/30/2005 5:47:19 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: NonValueAdded

6 hours? try atleast 17 hours!


1,673 posted on 08/30/2005 5:47:28 PM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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Heroic efforts made at Charity hospital to save patients

07:14 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWL083005charity.d037f7f.html

As floodwaters rose around Charity Hospital, nurses hand-pumped ventilators for patients who couldn't breathe. Helicopters landed on the garage to airlift critically ill babies. Doctors canoed supplies to and from Charity and three nearby hospitals.


"It's like being in a Third World country. We're trying to work without power. Everyone knows we're all in this together. We're just trying to stay alive," said Mitch Handrich, a registered nurse manager at the state's biggest public hospital. (excerpt)


1,674 posted on 08/30/2005 5:47:44 PM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: KakaduDreamer

right - that's what we were saying - especially if the prisoners get loose - 'Escape from NY'


1,675 posted on 08/30/2005 5:47:59 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: PhiKapMom
Doesn't it stand to reason if levees are having trouble downriver that the ones in NO are having just as much trouble?

It sounds reasonable. But IT'S NOT WHAT THEY SAID on WWL.

1,676 posted on 08/30/2005 5:48:07 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: queenkathy

well sure, optimisitic is the word. if all the levees were sealed, and all the pumps were working, and all the people were gone and being taken care of - we could pump out the city in 10 days.

now how exactly is that going to happen?


1,677 posted on 08/30/2005 5:48:07 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: July 4th

Are you serious? Where are prices under these conditions?


1,678 posted on 08/30/2005 5:48:07 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: spanalot

They tried and failed. I suppose if the flow is strong enough what gets dropped in flushes out before the next batch can be put in. Maybe that's why they were looking for 3,000 lb sand bags,


1,679 posted on 08/30/2005 5:48:21 PM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: oceanview

Superdome.


1,680 posted on 08/30/2005 5:48:30 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (The constitution is not in exile, it's in a nice safe deposit box in the Cayman Islands - Lileks)
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