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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: BurbankKarl

"To: jeffers

Maybe its designed to fail? Rather than take the whole thing down to the bottom.
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Yes,the spans are designed to fail, sacrificed for the piers, which are harder to replace.


2,821 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:09 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: GOP_Proud
But my point is I would not have needed to be ordered out.

Isn't it funny that you have to make that point in this forum.

People blaming them government for not ordering them out soon enough.

2,822 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:09 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Torie

Torie, it's an absolute disgrace!


2,823 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:14 PM PDT by hole_n_one
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To: BurbankKarl

I don't doubt what you say is true, but once the gas lines break after the quake there will be no water to fight the fires. The city will burn.


2,824 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:29 PM PDT by Canticle_of_Deborah
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To: BurbankKarl

What??? Where did you hear that?


2,825 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:33 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: NautiNurse

a week? whats going to happen in that week's time to make the evacuation of these people easier?


2,826 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:46 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: RummyChick

I'm surprised the airline let her fly!

But glad everyone made it safely.


2,827 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:50 PM PDT by John Jamieson (Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Mayor says that most of the persons on the rooftops he saw during the first trip were not there (had been rescued) during his last trip.


2,828 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:50 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: steveegg

It was discussed a lot on here Saturday night that the Mayor was meeting with lawyers before making the decision mandatory. Why the wait is what I would like to know? And then why no buses, etc. to help with the evacuation. It was you are on your own in your own cars.


2,829 posted on 08/30/2005 8:06:51 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: hole_n_one

On Saturday I was afraid that the winds were going to blow the Superdome apart.

It never occured to me that it could survive only to start filling with water. If too much water gets in there, they'll have to start lifting people out through the holes in the roof.

The video on WWL of the NO damage is making me physically ill.


2,830 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:00 PM PDT by nhoward14
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To: jeffers

So the lake is going to rise from 5 feet above normal to 10 feet? That is hard to believe. There is a a very large gap between the lake and the gulf. It must be a couple of miles wide.


2,831 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:24 PM PDT by Torie
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To: don-o

Don't see you commenting about people saying that the Governor is incompentent because she is a woman.


2,832 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:30 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Blogger

There's no way anyone can stay in New Orleans. No food, no water, no sewage, no electricity, no way to get around until the flood waters are pumped out. Plenty of chances for death, disease, and injury. They need to set up places for the remaining people, and they have to move them out.


2,833 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:33 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: GOP_Proud
But my point is I would not have needed to be ordered out.

Same here, though I would've taken time to figure out whether it was as bad as the mayor said (which would've taken all of, oh, 5 minutes).

2,834 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:40 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: Arizona Carolyn

Are they getting them out or not? They need to think outside the box. Call in volunteers with boats or something. Just get them to dry land and then worry about the other stuff. Help is just across the river.


2,835 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:40 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Peach

No, the person you were talking to. I get so upset that when people start talking the South it always boils down to race.... and the place that is really getting ready to boil over (for the third time) is LA -- only this time a race war between the blacks and hispanics in South Central.


2,836 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:46 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: dawn53

To be honest martial law was not one of those things they taught me at law school.(laughter) Martial law should normally a state can have extradinary police powers but yeah I suspect that the President will authorize Fed troops


2,837 posted on 08/30/2005 8:07:50 PM PDT by bayourant
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To: Blogger

Excuse me?? All I said was Dear Lord to the post about the levies failing and the pups out. i didn't ask a question.


2,838 posted on 08/30/2005 8:08:01 PM PDT by AggieMom x 3
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To: flutters

Well, I work in a Federal Building. Maybe I can ping the FEMA folks or Corps of Engineers tomorrow.


2,839 posted on 08/30/2005 8:08:01 PM PDT by STFrancis
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To: jpsb
You've asked me that question twice now, for some reason I don't understand.

I was literally despondent on the threads Sunday night thinking the city would be destroyed.

The storm took a jog to the east and it did look like the city was spared. A day later we know it wasn't.

So why exactly do you keep asking me this question?

2,840 posted on 08/30/2005 8:08:03 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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