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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.


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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.

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: conservative cat

Tell your dad he's a smart man.


2,001 posted on 08/30/2005 6:29:26 PM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all in the path of Katrina)
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To: cajungirl
Actually this mayor is better than most, he came in and has done some good things I hear.

I don't mean to denigrate the mayor too much. I only know him from his performance in this saga. He was screwed beforehand. No good choices. Years of bad decisions and planning.

2,002 posted on 08/30/2005 6:29:52 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: Spktyr

Don't pay any attention to them. Some people just like to bitch. People bitched after Hugo; they bitched after Andrew; they bitched after Isabel and by golly they won't be denied the right to bitch after Katrina.


2,003 posted on 08/30/2005 6:29:53 PM PDT by Doohickey (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
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To: al baby

Thanks for the cinnamon toast advice/comic relief, al.


2,004 posted on 08/30/2005 6:29:56 PM PDT by sarasota
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To: Ramius

"Smarmy... yet ineffective. You're an engineer, aren't you?"

I'm not sure what your point is but given the hundreds of miles of levees that are imperiled by a couple 200' breeches, it is imperative they be repaired since they are not designed to be wet on both sides.

There is an incredible amount of infrastructure that is going to be obliterated for lack of a plan to plug a very finite distance.


2,005 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:07 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: spanalot
thelake never surged over the top - these dykes simply failed below their design level

that's "dikes". What you're talking about is different.

...and they DID top out. There's also groundwater surging up into the low spots. Is this the first thread on this that you've read today?

2,006 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:15 PM PDT by Ramius (Blades for war fighters: http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net)
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To: tcrlaf

Gov. and Mayor were both asleep at the switch, did not declare mandatory evac. until Sunday am, and now they want to blame everyone but themselves.


2,007 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:17 PM PDT by Enchante
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To: Dog Gone

your right, it is certainly going to get much worse... the next couple days are critical.


2,008 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:22 PM PDT by Battle Hymn of the Republic
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To: blam

Yo Bill you out there ?


2,009 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:22 PM PDT by al baby (Father of the beeber)
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To: spunkets

Oh, I have to go listen to something to get that so called music out of my head!


2,010 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:22 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: RobbyS
The bigots who voted against Jindal are getting exactly what they asked for.

Exactly. Me and my entire family voted Jindal, but apparently the bigots out numbered us. But we voted him in as Represenative.

2,011 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:29 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: Peach

Sure hope the Corps has been on duty checking the levees because I would sure hate to think it was anyone from the city Government checking. At least FEMA has taken charge according to the Sheriff.


2,012 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:35 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Dog Gone

You did a fine job in scraping all of the sugar off.


2,013 posted on 08/30/2005 6:30:54 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: texpat72; Ramius
If he did go right now, some people would be crying "photo op"!

Exactly!

2,014 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:13 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: LenS

that's an exaggeration. crews have already gotten to the offshore rigs today, where did they come from if "everyone is gone".


2,015 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:13 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: MEG33
He can be impeached over WHAT?

Pretty much anything, if you have the votes.

2,016 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:16 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: TADSLOS
I am quite sure that they are ramping up for another rotation. Problem is, I don't believe the President has an alternative but to use these two divisions. Or at least the 101. He might be able to leave 4th Mech out of it and simply make it a 101/2nd Marine Division operation. I don't see how he avoids using the 101, the 2nd, and possibly the 82nd in this situation. You simply have to flood the zone with Federal Troops.

This is as much a political necessity as anything else. Registered voters will demand it. "America first!" and all that. You will, in short order, hear demands from Red State southern senators and congressmen for Federal Troops and assistance to help maintain order. These are Red States we're talking about here. Bush isn't stupid, and he didn't get to be President by being politically tone deaf.

He may get around part of the problem by asking other state governors to call up their Guard units for duty in NO for short-duration TOD's.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

2,017 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:17 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Jesus is Coming. Everybody look busy...")
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To: madison10

The llama was not allowed in the house.

My sister is in BR,,Baton Rouge

I think you are teasing me! Everyone knows about the llama by now,,BTW his name is Louie La Llama after that writer whose name I cannot spell.


2,018 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:43 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: sassbox

What part of putting FEMA on the ground two days before the hurricane do you not understand?


2,019 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:43 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Warren_Piece; PhiKapMom
Mayor: They shouldn't go to the Superdome. It's quite unpleasant there right now. Better to go to a second floor. Me: He may have just killed some more people with that goofy advice.

Actually that is indeed the best advice. Those persons in apartments above the 1st or maybe 2nd floor are in a better situation, with their food, hopefully some liquids saved up, clean containers to catch the rainwater, better sanitary conditions, a place to lay down, and less chance for cross contamination from a mass of other people. The water shouldn't rise any higher than the water in the lake (equilibrium), which has been stated will be about 3' above sea level. 30% of the city is above sea level, and the rest ranges from 0' to -12'. So the water shouldn't get up to more than a couple of feet of the 2nd floor of buildings, and not that high for most of the city. Usually a floor is 10'. So that advice may indeed save lives. The worst case flooding of 25' under water was based on storm surge, which is no longer a factor.

2,020 posted on 08/30/2005 6:31:51 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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