Katrina Live Thread, Part XI

Various ^ | 30 August 2005 | Various

[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

[MarMema]

I heard they are STILL taking people to the SD.

Great. No toilets since this morning. Should be a real health hazard before long, with the flooding.

[Shermy]

"Genius? This ain't rocket science. Its called filling up a hole with stuff . Its called a stitch in time saves $20 billion in tax and insurance premiums."

Looks like the helicopters were "diverted", rather apportioned, to rescue. They're bragging how many people they saved.

CYA already beginning...saying the breaches were too big...ok, but how about earlier in the day?

[mabelkitty]

Look at it this way - this woman is the prototype for why women can't run an administration.
Hillary is keeping a low profile right now specifically to keep from being associated with dim and dimmer.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

The real problem with looting is what it leads to. Most looters are anarchists...think of what happens if the anarchists think they control the city. It is not a pretty sight.

I lived thru the LA riots and the looting is scary. It is gang members run amok.

[Milwaukee_Guy]

We are 48 hours into the NO disaster and things are getting -worse-.

Where is the local, state and federal response?

[Tuxedo]

Airlines also need ground crews, who all live in the area and were told to evac.

[Ramius]

Hunter Thompson would be proud of you.

Hah! funny... well put. :-)

[RobbyS]

What expect anything from a Senator? She commands no one except her staff.

[Fitzcarraldo]

It's 500,000 bytes - it should only take a few minutes to download. It has details you won't want to lost at lower resolution.

[oceanview]

her interviews and comments, are only fueling the concept that its a "meltdown". that's not what a leader does. they do exactly the opposite.

[Peach]

And here's where the full blame will be...on Bush. Read it an weep.

Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside.

Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473789/posts

[rolling_stone]

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/popup/nolalevees_jpg.html

[steveegg]

Just heard on CNN there are an estimated 60,000 in the SuperDome.

Hmmm, who to believe; C^NN, who AFAIK had nobody in the SuperDome, or PMSNBC, who just repeated their 10,000 there, which included at one point, Brian Williams?

[spanalot]

Uhhhh- any idea why people have to be rescued by copters?

Does it have anything to do with not stopping the levee leak.

With 9' more coming, how many more copters do you think they'll need - I would think the increase would be exponential.

[Strategerist]

I know as well as you what it will cost us. A sizable fraction of 9/11 costs in dollars, and a sizeable fraction of 9/11 cost in lives.

I think you might end up reversing the numerator and the denominator in both dollars and lives.

[U S Army EOD]

Well okay, but you have to write the enviromental impact statement.

[MarMema]

the bottom line is, by now, they ought to have figured out how they are going to evacuate these people from the superdome.

Agreed. But instead they are just adding more residents.

[hole_n_one]

Thanks, Fitz!

[cmurphy]

Katrina on the other hand killed less than 200...

Mr.Jeeves >>>> Er...

Don't get me wrong, 200 or even one is a lot and is very sad. It's different in some way though to half a million dead, who had no chance to escape.

[XEHRpa]

> There is physics, and then there is man. Which one is lying?

Well put. Some seem to think that all we need is Bruce Willis to kamikazee an ocean liner into the dike breech to save the city. Occasionally, a miracle can happen... but not on demand.