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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: section9

Good griefs! And what would be their mission? These troops are not trained for this kind of stuff. They should attack the water?


2,201 posted on 08/30/2005 6:57:38 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: sinkspur

I'm glad she's on TV--she can't intefering with the operation of government if she's distracted by Larry--but anyone who truly cared about her would get her to resign immediately. It's sad.


2,202 posted on 08/30/2005 6:57:42 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: hole_n_one

Heh.


2,203 posted on 08/30/2005 6:57:57 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Howlin
The same governor who said "We can make this a good experience?"

I almost choked when I heard her say that. Needed to rewind the Tivo - and she certainly did say that. You just know someone is going to use that in a campaign commercial. What a loon.

2,204 posted on 08/30/2005 6:58:00 PM PDT by Tuxedo (This space for rent.)
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To: oceanview
most americans think this was just a bad rain storm - they are just going along with their normal lives.

I brought up the issue with two retail employees today. One, a fast food shift leader in her 20s, was completely unaware of the situation (even that there had been a hurricane), and barely recognized the name New Orleans, from what I could tell. However, and to her credit, she was very attentive as I told her about it and expressed great concern for the victims.

The other person, a cashier in her 50s, was remarkably well informed on the subject. She had obviously spent time watching the news before coming in to work. She had things to add such as they should allow drilling in Anwar. She also pointed out the the Chevron station across the street had just raised diesel and premium to almost $3.00, even though the link here with NO is rather tenuous. This is in Washington State.

2,205 posted on 08/30/2005 6:58:00 PM PDT by steve86 (@)
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To: Husker24

Wasn't that Holloway girl from Miss. or Alabama...???

Maybe her house has been flooded or destroyed...don't you have a heart? /s


2,206 posted on 08/30/2005 6:58:05 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: U S Army EOD
If we could only drop Micheal Moore and Ted Kennedy in the levee breech we could save the city. Maybe those two could finally be of some use.

Add Nadler and you've got a deal :-)

2,207 posted on 08/30/2005 6:58:12 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: Howlin
The same governor who said "We can make this a good experience?"

WHAT!!!!, she actually said that?!

2,208 posted on 08/30/2005 6:58:31 PM PDT by apackof2 (In my simple way, I guess you could say I'm living in the BIG TIME)
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To: Lauretij2
Sounds like it's rapidly getting out of control. I wonder if FEMA can even really do much.

Why don't you take your "happy dance" & do it somewhere else. Thanks.

2,209 posted on 08/30/2005 6:58:50 PM PDT by madison10
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To: U S Army EOD

"To: jeffers

If we could only drop Micheal Moore and Ted Kennedy in the levee breech we could save the city. Maybe those two could finally be of some use."

It might work.

Will Moore fit into the canal?


2,210 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:03 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: jeffers

"I do not believe I could dam a 20 foot wide creek, of a three foot depth and a walking pace flow rate, even with unlimited funds and preparation, without unwatering the site. "

I guess you do alot of govt work. :-)

Seriously, we have a creek that is exactly 30 ' wide and 2-3' deep. It feeds a raceway that supplies a pond.

There is 3' of water to feed the raceway there only because of a dam made of bank run stone that we have to repile after every major storm. Its amazing what 3 men and a boy can do in one hour and as this is a trout production stream - it runs fast and cold.


2,211 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:07 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: steveegg
I don't have a link handy, and I don't quite remember where I saw it, but Katrina apparently took in a bit of dry air from the Midwest just before landfall, which weakened it and also pushed it just east of NO.

Here you go: http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CAD3M00.html
2,212 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:17 PM PDT by jcharmony
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To: dawn53

Governor..what are you going to do ..Seh said...call for a day of prayer.


2,213 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:25 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Howlin

The Red Cross lady looks like former ARC leader Liddy Dole.


2,214 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:26 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: sinkspur
She's been working on a plan to bring in buses to rescue those TRAPPED in the Superdome.........

You know, those new-fangled floating buses.

2,215 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:32 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: U S Army EOD

"To: jeffers

If we could only drop Micheal Moore and Ted Kennedy in the levee breech we could save the city. Maybe those two could finally be of some use."

It might work.

Will Moore fit into the canal?


2,216 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:34 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: oceanview
There is no diesel within 70 or more miles, they have to get tankers in first
2,217 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:34 PM PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas (War, 33% yes, 33% no, 33% undecided, so began the American Revolution.)
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To: dawn53

Jeanne Meserve, one of the great talents at CNN.


2,218 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:42 PM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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To: Petronski

The Red Cross lady is PR; Mary is a politician; Blanco is -- well, there is just no other way to put it: a simpleton.


2,219 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:55 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Ramius

> The levees overran because of water dumped uphill from them. Even water coming close to the top of a soil dam will start to force its way under and through. This is not the first nor the last time it will happen.

And it grows worse with each hour of saturation, and each atmosphere of pressure head.


2,220 posted on 08/30/2005 6:59:57 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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