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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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The president is the one who got this lousy SOB of a mayor off the dime to order a mandatory evacuation of NO and I think he is PROVING that the feds had best step in and take it from here.
Both of those would drive up the price of gas compared to elsewhere.
No. They don't have hurricanes.
But the storm actually turned out to be much less powerful than predicted. Meteorologists say a puff of dry air coming out of the Midwest weakened Katrina just before it reached land, transforming a Category 5 monster into a less-threatening Category 3 storm.
The last-minute gust also pushed Katrina slightly to the east of its Big Easy-bound trajectory, sparing New Orleans a direct hit _ though not horrendous harm.
"It was kind of an amazing sequence of events," said Peter Black, a meteorologist at the Hurricane Research Division of the federal government's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory.
I see Notre Dame de Prompte Secour all over it.
You need to write a book. That is such a great story.
Me too...and I'm a woman.
He's definitely trying to move the blame game along...away from his administration.
Michigan gas was 2.74. Up a nickel since yesterday
I had 28 years to get the feel of it.
have you checked your FReepmail?
We knew about the breach WELL before daybreak.
They screwed up bigtime.
NCAA is gonna ban him!
A section? Looks like a whole bevy of sections to me!
>He's definitely trying to move the blame game along...away from his administration.<
You said it. Poor guy's a living example of the Peter Principle if there ever was one.
I heard on WWL radio early early this moring that the choppers HAD been flying all night Monday night into Tuesday morning.
As for freeways as landing strips - get real. It's a city. Not a Nebraska interstate.
I think those looters may soon drown.
What an assinine statement to make -- the President is flying on AF One on the way back to the WH to coordinate efforts. You want to impeach him for not making a statement to the Nation? Give me a break!
Why don't you impeach the LA Governor and the Mayor for starters if you want to impeach someone?
Having lived in New Orleans many years, I coulda told you to expect it. My dad used to call people like that Ragoonas. Don't know why.
Did you know he's the only President to authorize funds with a storm 2 days out?
Did you know that or do you just have another agenda?
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