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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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Tropical Storm 12
Mike, you know anything about this (I'm up here in Milwaukee, where we have a very special blend of boutique gas that just hit $3/gallon)?
From the link you provided, add 4% to the price for a sales tax (which is somewhere around a dime at current prices).
I heard an interview on MSNBC with Chrissy Matthews and Douglas Brinkley....John Kerry's biographer, who is a professor at Tulane...
He said that his house is okay, but they moved to Houston, because of the flooding, but, (and I kinda doubt this) that he expects to be teaching at Tulane within a few WEEKS.
I am thinking that Tulane usually has a good football team, don't they...or is it basketball??? Oh, dear, isn't their name the Tulane GREEN WAVE???
A tag team of Chavez and Putin worries me but I'd take it just to see what they say. King is interviewing Governor Blanco.
Blanco talking about cruise ships - "we are thinking about it". hey, no rush, take your time.
Here's the bigger problem.
They are rapidly losing their window of good will with the American people.
If they keep showing the non-stop footage of do-nothing local and state government with the looters, Americans will start demanding it be plowed over, declared Federal land, and use the entire coast for oil and gas exploration.
I'm hearing it now on local radio, and I was shocked - until I got home and saw the non-stop looting footage.
This is very, very bad for morale. I'm concerned.
I read a comment that the SuperDome is flooding...true?
So it's not just me then?
"The casualties from Chernobyl far exceeded anything this hurricane can drum up"
The failure of the dikes after the passing of the hurricane and storm surge will amount to one of the biggest boondoggles in history.
You have no idea what this 9' of water will cost us in the next 48 hrs - in $ and lives.
Finally... we agree about something.
>>...they bitched after Isabel
>Only for the 8 days I went without power...
You got me beat. I was only out 5 1/2 days.
Shep Smith no longer has that look of "excitement" on his face or in his voice.
He wants out of there, fast.
I heard a report from him earlier tonight, and, if I didn't misinterpret it, he was basically resigned to the fact that anybody still in NO, is now stuck in NO for the forseeable future......including him.
Pure Horse pucky...
Someone needs to take over her job...........and quick.
There is physics, and then there is man. Which one is lying?
I wonder if sheehan will go to La. and prove she can walk on water now?
The water is relatively slow rising, and so the pressure is equalized on all sides. There are probably more than 100,000 still out there in their homes and apartments, the superdome is too far for many of them, and it would be very difficult to house them all. Plus the food issue, and more importantly the water issue. So far no potable water at the SD, while there was some rain today so anyone at home with a brain who hadn't been chased onto their roof collected some in a pitcher or bowl or tupperware. The disease issue is a very real threat, so spread out is better. Give rescuers time to first get those off the rooftop.
Has anybody asked Mary exactly what she had done to help and/or prevent this situation?
I watched Blanco earlier today at a press conference. Useless platitudes. No leadership coming out of that city or state at all.
It's like taking three elderly women what they think of the home team's defense, late in the fourth quarter.
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