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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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During the last Los Angeles riots, the National Guard and US Marines from Camp Pendleton were brought in to save the city. Otherwise Los Angeles would have burnt down.
Every government owned bus in the state should have been ordered to NO - city busses, school busses, every 15 passenger white van. This should have been a standing plan for a Cat 3+ storm that is aiming for NO.
It is no secret that NO was at risk, yet there was no real plan. The plans that were in place required 72-48 hours before landfall for evacuation. And yet they waited until 24 hours until detonatin. Just plain stupid.
I wouldn't feel comforted if I was in the Superdome and I heard the only response of the Governor was that she was going to call for a day of Prayer.
NO Mayor gave the evacuation on Sunday morning less than 24 hours before the storm was scheduled to hit.
Oh, that's good!
Money is something most of the airlines don't have. United is in Bankruptcy, Delta will likely file in a few weeks, NW is having to break a union to stay solvent, USAir just got bought out of bankruptcy court, TWA is gone, American might avoid filing if fuel prices drop soon.
Instead, they got their planes clear of the storm (know what a storm can do to a jetliner in flight? Google up what happened to the Southern Air Lines DC-9 in Georgia a few decades ago - it changed forever the way the airlines treat storms.) ANd they gave their ground crews a chance to get their families to safety.
I know there's one at the D-Day museum on Lee Circle. I saw it a few months ago.
I am from Boston and I am telling you THE WHITE IRISH IN SOUTH BOSTON WOULD ACT DIFFERENTLY AND DID ACT DIFFERENTLY.
During the Blizzard of '78 there was no looting in South Boston.
You are a bigot and a liar if you say differently.
They are coordinating now on where to put them.
Mayor Ray Nagin called the storm pretty awesome"
FEMA said give us a list of your needs, said Nagin, referring to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And let me tell you, were giving them a hell of a list."
I think this is a wake-up call for the city and country, he said."
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Everything I've heard him say, since his first appearances on the air this past weekend, point to incompetence, including, of course, the evacuation decision. This is HIS JOB.
Good news.....Thanks for reporting in.
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth I
Cleopatra
Dame Thatcher
Once a century+ does not a success make.
Priceless!
Thanks for the update dogbyte!
I can hear it now. "After all these people have been through, you can't disenfranchise them by demanding voter IDs." With that playing, the out of town bus-ins, the multiple voters, and even the dead will show up at the polls.
Haley Barbor said the President was *itching* to get down there and see this in person and he told him not to come! at least not now.
LOL, yes I am sure that he never considered his present situation as a "field reporter"
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