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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.


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


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: dogbyte12

Good to hear, thank God


2,701 posted on 08/30/2005 7:51:43 PM PDT by gidget7 (Get GLSEN out of our schools!!!!!!)
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To: js1138

I tottally agree I wish Blanco would get a little of that out. I suspect she rather be at the command center but I understand the importance of her on CNN


2,702 posted on 08/30/2005 7:51:46 PM PDT by bayourant
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To: Alberta's Child

"To: BurbankKarl

That's a bizarre photo. What the heck would cause damage like that to a highway bridge? Every other section of bridge structure has been lifted out of place."

Water doesn't compress.

When a wave lifts under the bridge, something must give.

Water doesn't compress.

Steel bolts have a finite tensile limit, so every other span popped loose to relieve the pressure.

There was an identical failure on the I-10 (coincidence? no) bridge across P-cola Bay last year with Ivan.


2,703 posted on 08/30/2005 7:51:48 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: burzum
It's one thing to read about it in a hypothetical sense..

To actually see it's wrath is another matter entirely.

Thanks for the very interesting and informative link!

2,704 posted on 08/30/2005 7:51:49 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: BohDaThone

Post #1 - read it.


2,705 posted on 08/30/2005 7:51:54 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: PhiKapMom
NO Mayor spent Saturday night checking with lawyers to see if he could order a mandatory evacuation which he finally got around to ordering on Sunday morning.

That's right....forgot about the timing of that... I've got CNN on...have been a bit distracted, but I don't think they showed a presser here....(but as I said, I've been distracted...had a couple of phone calls).

2,706 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:01 PM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Ramius

"FLASH: New Orleans mayor says attempt to plug breach has failed and rising water about to overwhelm pumps; water will rise rapidly again, as high as 15ft in next few hours..."

From Drudge.


2,707 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:02 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Howlin
Not quite a chest-clearing laugh.

Remind me on a less-serious thread to comment on that.

2,708 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:08 PM PDT by steveegg (Real torture is taking a ride with Sen Ted "Swimmer" Kennedy in a 1968 Oldsmobile off a short bridge)
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To: flutters

I think FreeRepublic might centralize this information. There are volunteer programs popping up all over the country. The best thing to do is to contact FEMA or a local radio or newspaper of which city you may want to help. There is always the Red Cross and Salvation Army.


2,709 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:09 PM PDT by U S Army EOD (WHEN JANE FONDA STARTS HER TOUR, LET ME KNOW WHERE SHE IS)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

I hope you weren't directing that comment at me, because I was telling another freeper that this had nothing to do with the fact that the mayor is Black. Nada.


2,710 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:18 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: RummyChick
because of the danger presented by the looters.

looters with ethnicity? You forget to mention that RC. Be consistent here

2,711 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:31 PM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: Rennes Templar
How is it there? You obviously have power!

We just got power on in the last hour. We were genuinely not expecting it. This morning, they didn't expect to get us back up for 1-2 weeks. The thing is, the crews can't get into New Orleans, so I guess they got us back up because of that.

Lots of damage here in Ascension Parish. We are 50 miles west of New Orleans. 50 homes got hit by trees. Downtown Gonzales had a lot of trees power poles, light poles, down in the roads. A Shell station down the street had one of those big metal canopies over the pump topple down. A gas station about a mile further down must have been hit by a mini tornado. Steel beams from it are wrapped around trees.

Our property, which is about 6 acres is literally carpeted in leaves, trees and branches. But we're safe, and tonight we have power.

2,712 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:45 PM PDT by dogbyte12
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To: Howlin

Well that deals with surge failure, not later failure, which is what happened to the main bowl, and fails to deal with the elevation of Lake Ponchatrian, and just why the water is 3-4 feet above sea level and supposedly according to a CNN reporter supposed to rise another 5 feet. I find it totally and utterly baffling.


2,713 posted on 08/30/2005 7:52:55 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Shermy

Congress spends the money.


2,714 posted on 08/30/2005 7:53:05 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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To: BurbankKarl

I have no idea but she needs to go. Not showing up at the press conference for the LA media but going on national TV is just flat out wrong. What is she afraid of -- LA media asking tougher questions than Larry King?


2,715 posted on 08/30/2005 7:53:23 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: oceanview

The only passable road I've heard of is I-10 west of NO.


2,716 posted on 08/30/2005 7:54:08 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: don-o

Sorry for hollerin at ya, don-o. That's what wine at dinner can do.

Seriously, the Blizzard of '78 shut down the city for 6 days. We had, what I thought at the time, was martial law. People died, houses washed out to sea, electricity and heat were out. There was no looting, everybody worked together and shared their limited resources. And we had zero warning. These people in New Orleans had days. The mayor himself sent his family out of NO before Saturday.

I am angry at the looters. I am especially angry at the people who endangered their children by not leaving. They are using up resources that should be used for truly needy victims of this tragedy.


2,717 posted on 08/30/2005 7:54:19 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: jeffers

Maybe its designed to fail? Rather than take the whole thing down to the bottom.


2,718 posted on 08/30/2005 7:54:28 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: cmurphy

these dead people are americans.


2,719 posted on 08/30/2005 7:54:31 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: Torie
AGAIN From Drudge:

"FLASH: New Orleans mayor says attempt to plug breach has failed and rising water about to overwhelm pumps; water will rise rapidly again, as high as 15ft in next few hours..."

2,720 posted on 08/30/2005 7:54:34 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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