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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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Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here

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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.

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: Jeff Head
I pray the NG and needed equipement to evacuate people and to establish and maintain order during it, gets in there within the next 12-18 hours.

Ditto, and amen.

2,061 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:05 PM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: bjs1779

King is reading reports that are 1+ hours old.


2,062 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:06 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: LenS
And to expand on that analogy, how much aid would come if the entire NJ, Connecticut, Long Island and Rhode Island coasts were smashed up also? And a tropical storm was still flooding and dropping tornadoes on upstate NY, Massachusetts and PA?

This is a vastly different logistical situation.

Of course, if the city had evacuated a day sooner, if they'd actually planned for removing tourists and the 100,000 or so without cars (hello, are there no school buses or municipal buses in southern LA? Trains? The lines were still clear on Saturday), if the Mayor and Governor had any clue about presenting a calm face in a disaster (heck, Sen. Landrieu is making Senators Schumer and Clinton seem like great leaders), and if they'd made it clear that force would be used to maintain order, then we wouldn't be in as bad a mess.

2,063 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:09 PM PDT by LenS
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To: Txsleuth

Someone tried to steal the gas from CNN truck ...said reporter Tuckman.


2,064 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:18 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Warren_Piece

I would agree with that -- useless is definitely a word for this Mayor.


2,065 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:24 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
The person who designed Amsterdam's pumping system way back when then worked on New Orleans' system (no doubt modified as time went on, but there is that connection....)

Baldwin Wood was his name.

His sailboat, the Nidia, used to be displayed outside Tulane's Student Center...Maybe it's there still...

2,066 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:24 PM PDT by Molly Pitcher (We are Americans...the sons and daughters of liberty...*.from FReeper the Real fifi*))
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To: sassbox
Sassbox,

A speech is only a speech. Why in the world would that reflect on his oath of office or rise to a high crime? If you don't like Bush, simply express yourself and the true reasons why.

It was for Rudy to lead in New York, and it is for Barbour, these two in LA and the Governor of Alabama to lead here now. The President can contibute most by opening Federal resources, which he has.

You have seen all this in management meetings and the like, if he steps in to manage, others will step back and it will become a National Administration trying to run a local infastructure -- no communication, chain-of-command or real useful tool-to-task relationship.

I want to be uplifted, but it is for Heaven to choose the vessel. And even then, my needs don't count here, people need their neigbors boats, the drinking water of the county north of them and the crib at their cousins and now Federal official can grant those balms.

2,067 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:40 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: MEG33; spanalot
I suggest you call the Corps of Engineers and lend your expertise..

I was thinkin' Skippy could just sail his butt right on down there and get the job done.

2,068 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:51 PM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: jeffers
"breech @"

The breach was 200ft long and looked like about 100yds from where the canal meets Lake P.

2,069 posted on 08/30/2005 6:37:51 PM PDT by spunkets
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To: Alissa

Ditto. GW has NO BUSINESS going to NO right now. He would just get in the way. Like you said: IDIOTS. (and that's being kind)


2,070 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:04 PM PDT by bonfire (dwindler)
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To: All

Does anyone have any info about the rumored press conference set for 10 p.m. CST, about an alleged NOLA prison riot where a deputy and four children are being held hostage? Read it on another forum, but nothing on TV as yet.


2,071 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:07 PM PDT by varina davis
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To: sassbox

So, you're all for politicizing this catastrophe.
That's pretty sick.
We don't have to do that.
We own all branches of government with no change in the near future.
Zero, ziltch, nada.
Census and demographics has laid this out for the next three election cycles at the very least.


2,072 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:09 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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To: steveegg

I should be more on top of this, there was talk of a special blend needed in metro Atlanta, I don't know if it has become a done deal yet.

Here is a link that is pretty current:

http://www.georgiagasprices.com/tax_info.aspx


2,073 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:12 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Ramius

listen to Blanco:

"we want to evacuate the superdome by providing buses - we have been working on a plan to do that all day".

its much like american industry has become - 3 people work, and 10 managers ask those 3 people for status all day long.


2,074 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:14 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: LenS
Well, the upper Missouri valley has been in a drought situation for a while now. So the biggest feeder into the Mississippi is way down at the moment.

the Ohio's pretty strong, especially with the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers flowing high at the west end. Lots of rain came up through western Tennessee, Kentucky, and up into Ohio before it worked its way out of the Mississippi watershed. That'll work its way down to NOLA soon enough. Hopkinsville, KY was flooded this morning, after having endured rain for the last couple of days from a stalled cold front that was being drawn together with Katrina.

I can't say that it's a huge total amount of water, but the Mississippi will flow a bit above average for a couple of days, IMHO.

2,075 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:20 PM PDT by meyer (Eastern Tennessee)
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To: Doe Eyes

You must get your information at DU..


2,076 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:20 PM PDT by MEG33 (GOD BLESS OUR ARMED FORCES)
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To: spanalot

OK, I concede that as a short order fix.


2,077 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:22 PM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: tscislaw

Yep. They would be two days behind where they are now. But now they have things setting up yesterday and today, instead of Wednesday and Thursday.


2,078 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:29 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Ramius

"...and they DID top out"

I have been on this from 6:00 pm sunday.

Do you have a link for above? NO did dodge the bullet until the levees failed and where is the outrage.


2,079 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:33 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: cajungirl

LOL----compared to LSU, UNT is sort of a "podunk school", but WE TRY HARD!!!


2,080 posted on 08/30/2005 6:38:43 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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