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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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oh...I thought it was given Saturday a.m., right after it was pretty certain that the hurricane was headed their way.
The LA state people have indicated that there are a total of 36,700 people in a total of nine shelters in New Orleans. This is in a press conference going on right this minute.
I have been saying the same thing for two days.
Two upper-crust city boys are about to spend the nice downtown.
"My point earlier this thread was that actions taken by authorities in the few days leading up to and since Monday will not deserve the criticism that many here want to throw at them"
I first visited NO in 1978 and like all first timers, the first thing we did was go to Antoines, and the second thing we did was listen to the horror stories of what would happen if Lake P got over the dike.
Well Holy S if it did'nt finally happen and now they are running around with lots of helicopters but not sandbags (as reported above)
I cannot fathom all this water that I keep seeing in the video's. The devastation goes on for miles.
then I do not understand why they don't have a caravan of buses shuttling people out of the superdome area - can't FEMA setup a tent city someplace to take these people to? they have to start getting them out of there, none of these people know what to do, no government officials are telling them what to do, the governor issues a statement to "evacuate new orleans". How?
It has NOTHING with him being black. I'm sick and tired of everything in this country boiling down to race or religion. We are a mixed bag and had better learn to live with each other as fellow Americans'.
What about the idea I posted earlier: making the "incoming" sides of the freeways be two way traffic reserved for emergency vehicles and either incoming busses of >20cap or outgoing busses of >20pax? There are many thousands of busses within a few hundred miles of NO, and a dedicated bus line on the freeways would have allowed them to move effectively.
If I remember right, the Seventeenth Street Canal breach was near something called the Old Hammond Highway bridge?
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It wasn't pulled. It was locked. Anyone can still view it. When threads get too long, the make the whole site go slow. That's why we're on thread 11 for this topic.
Thanks. That explains it.
This is waaaaay off topic, but I had a call from someone a while back doing a survey about the required yearly emissions check we have. The point of the survey was how it helped air quality.
She was getting very frustrated with me, but I was not giving her the answers she wanted "That is not a choice."
Finally told her she was wasting her time with me. M'am, I hate to be rude, but when it routinely takes me an hour to go 10 miles, I could care less about emissions.
Killing people for taking stuff that will be under water anyway is ridiculous.
Let 'em go. They won't be able to take any of their loot with them.
"What have Al and Jesse done to stop the looting?"
They have been looting at the public trough long enough that they wouldn't know HOW to stop.
I lived in NO for over two years.Loved it and had few problems with anyone of any ethnicity.I ran into some black thugs.Ran into a few rabid white bigots as well.
Yet most blacks aren't thugs as most whites aren't rabid racists.
Just stay away from the bad folks.its all very simple.
LA has lightweights for leadership. Has anyone referred to the salvage/rescue efforts in NO as a quagmire yet? Bush needs to get on National TV and take control from DC tomorrow.
Aaron Brown is a putz. The President declared Mississippi, Louisana and Alabama disaster areas before Katrina struck the Gulf coast.
You know what the point was. I've noticed the 'ethnicity' of the looters. I've also noticed black grannies barely escaping with their lives and people of different 'ethnicities' helping eachother. Ashame that RC's world is so dark that she can't notice those things.
I think we need to keep harping on that fact...
how long is her term?
Fish and Wildlife speaker just said 3000 have been rescued.
They had 30 boats out there and just added 31 more. They're bringing in a few hundred more boats in the morning. (WWL)
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