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

Exactly. And they likely did evacuate. No ground crew, a flight is not functional.

Blanco needs to point fingers at anybody she can to cover her own incompetence at not demanding that New Orleans evacuate early on Saturday.

If Max Mayfield tells you it's coming, IT'S COMING!!

2,461 posted on 08/30/2005 7:24:54 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: jeffers

hey my mistake was listening to nancy grace screech..rattled my brains...anyway I posted it earlier today and I think yesterday too...


2,462 posted on 08/30/2005 7:24:59 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: operation clinton cleanup

Do not toss a grenade into this thread then clam up! If you don't have any relevent facts or links, save it.


2,463 posted on 08/30/2005 7:24:59 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: Types_with_Fist

The CNNN truck stealing thing was with Tuchman's truck in MS. They have a lot of gas drums/tanks which he said is common when covering a hurricane. Some lady got up on the truck to try to steal them. They said Hey what are you doing and she responded that she needed them.


2,464 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Nope. Shep is worth a ransom though. Too bad the he didn't think about that before he decided to chase after Katrina.

In another day or two, complete lawlessness will exixt in NO -what's left of it, that is.

2,465 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:07 PM PDT by independentmind
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To: Palladin
Why are they still sending people to the Dome? It is a mass epidemic waiting to happen...malaria, typhoid, west nile fever. This is unbelievable.

It's the "bad" choice, compared to the "even worse" choice.

2,466 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:12 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Great find, Fitz !

I played w/part of it, but am no grafix guy by any means.
Hope this doesn't merely add to the general confusion.

What's below is #5 (at the bottom of the page) in that big link, and evidently the spot most of the inflow is coming from...


2,467 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:29 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Howlin

Governor blaming AIRLINES for not getting people out on Sunday Morning??
The same governor who's own solution was to pray that the winds die down?

The same governor who said "We can make this a good
experience?"



You're right. Besides, the ONLY people the airlines could have flown out of N.O. are the ones who had reservations. And how many, may I ask the officials, would that be? They talk like the airlines should have been responsible to evacuate all of the citizens of New Orleans! I hate when people point fingers at everybody else.







2,468 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:35 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: Shermy

Exactly - and why can't there have been more of a Plan B for levee breaks? I saw one report that the hlos were diverted from plugging the hole because the snadbags were not there.


2,469 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:35 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: milagro
Why the heck did they not order BEFORE Saturday that people leave?

What I did read, however, is that it wasn't expected to hit NO until Sat. a.m. and that's when the evac order was given. I don't know, otherwise, unless that's not true...but, I think it is.

2,470 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:37 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: sinkspur
This woman is an ignoramus!

The woman is a coward.

2,471 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:41 PM PDT by madison10
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To: MEG33

Right, he should at least be sandbagging breeched levees. CNN gets a dig in every chance it gets.


2,472 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:45 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Fitzcarraldo
Maybe the "c" word is being bandied about (cannibalism).

Dear God, I will not judge anybody in that place, honest...

2,473 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:52 PM PDT by bjs1779
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To: STARWISE
We won't know the total death toll for DAYS, maybe weeks.

Or ever? This is an American Pompeii.
2,474 posted on 08/30/2005 7:25:53 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: Peach
I heard that various agencies had been begging the officials in NO for years to do something about the levee system.. there were plans for years. I know they'll spin it like crazy .. and Mother Mary will be at the top of the heap .. I wouldn't be surprised if Cindy bops in to give Nagin emotional support .. but a natural disaster in a city below sea level was a problem from day one.

The enormity of this catastrophe doesn't escape W for one minute .. he and Max Mayfield had to BOTH call Nagin to get him off his butt to declare mandatory evacuation, when his incompetence prevented him from taking charge of the impending disaster. Having said that, I'm sure politics will rear it's ugly head. Nothing can be done about that .. no matter what W does, he's gonna get slammed.

2,475 posted on 08/30/2005 7:26:04 PM PDT by STARWISE (GITMO IS TOO GOOD FOR THE 911 TRAITORS -- SEND THEM ALL TO EGYPT FOR QUESTIONING.)
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To: Jeff Head

I watched the video in shock at the devastation throughout the area.


2,476 posted on 08/30/2005 7:26:08 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: RummyChick
Anyone noticing the predominant ethnicity of those doing the looting

An elephant in the room.... It's not really a race thing, though -- it's cultural, and for various reasons (mainly political) inner-city black folks are probably only a few years ahead of the rest of us in terms of cultural breakdown.

2,477 posted on 08/30/2005 7:26:08 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: Howlin

""Where do we go now? Nobody tells us where to go."
"
Liberal government in action, what the hell would we expect?


2,478 posted on 08/30/2005 7:26:09 PM PDT by conservativewasp (Liberals lie for sport and hate their country. Islam is a terrorist organization.)
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To: Doohickey

"You know you're in trouble when the politicians start resorting to honesty!"

Earlier the mayor was giving bureacratic talk. This time he was plain talking. Refreshing - I know that's just his story, but it seemed plausible.


2,479 posted on 08/30/2005 7:26:13 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: cajungirl

Absolutely.
From what I understand, in order to declare a mandatory evacuation, you have to have a place to house people.
I bet there was plenty of politics and plenty of plans to lay this at his feet, but he is pretty innocent.
When they have hearings on this, and they will, I hope he throws the whole lot of them under the bus.
He knows things.


2,480 posted on 08/30/2005 7:26:26 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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