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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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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.
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Tropical Storm 12
sorry.. he is short on food and gas and no accomadations for the night...
No problem. Order media out of the area under one of the ROE's.
someone bombard his email with the things W did while the storm was in the Gulf.
That stupid slime ball, CNN is slowly slipping back to their Bush-hating leads.
Sorry, that comment was meant for the person you were refuting, not you. I clicked on the wrong figamajiggy.
"If you look at the pictures that was posted on another thread (pulled for some reason) you see that two major levies --one was 17th street -- the first one to go; and the other Filmore Street iver the London Ave, Canal --were under construction and depending on sand bags to hold bag any potential hurricane surges for the near future...
In addition near the Louis Armstrong Airport there was ten miles of incomplete levees from the Bonnet Carre Spillway -- five miles from Lake Ponchartrain; a 5-10 foot wall of sandbags along the Airline Drive to the Mississippi Rver levee near the airport; another 60 miles o flevees that needed to be raised and were years away from completion; computer models said that the low levee from Monticello Ave in Jefferson Parish near the city's water plant was a likely spot for a major flood to enter the city.
With this information in hand the fact they didn't call a mandatory evacuation -- or face arrest -- is terrible."
--If these matters can be attributed to federal cutbacks under Bush, he's in trouble.
You have freepmail
So are we looking at the possibility of $4-$5.00 a gallon here?
Maybe. But I don't think such suits will gain much traction in courts manned by judges and juries who just went through the horror of Katrina. However, as someone mentioned earlier, those stealing food and water might not be prosecuted at all....the criminals are those nabbing electronics and jewelry and other unnecessary stuff. Those creeps deserve juries made up of nothing but shopkeepers.
this is exactly why Bush needs to go national, in primetime, now.
The scurge of society comes in many different skin tones.
YOU need a timeout.
Two stars, a slice of cinnamon bread, and a six out of my portion...
...final offer.
Wouldn't it be possible to bring big boats down the Mississippi to pick up some of these people? Sorry I don't live near NO, so hope this isn't a dumb question.
They probably wanted to cancel operations so their ground staff could safely evacuate. Evil bastards.
Sad to say that your stinging insight won't address the problem that these days, the engineers that win the low bid to DESIGN INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE THIS can barely speak english.
I'll pass on that question on what roads are open to NO, I'm not from there and don't know the land. But I'm sure the other FReepers can answer that :))
Dudge is now reporting the following: NAVY SHIPS AND MARITIME RESCUE TEAMS SENT TO REGION
We were at the shelter with somebody from down south whose farm is assumed to be a total loss with alot of cattle, and horses wiped out, their neighborhood just gone.
But you DON'T KNOW ANYTHING about the perspective.
Sweet Mary has already snidely suggested the president hasn't done all he could have done. It won't be long before she and the democrats go into full attack mode. I'm sure they're already looking on this disaster as a great opportunity for more voter fraud. After all, that's how she got into the senate. If we thought Republicans were cowards then, for not taking that Louisiana election to the courts, we ain't seen nothing yet.
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