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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: CajunConservative

Bump to your post.


282 posted on 08/30/2005 2:08:58 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Didn't really want to get into this debate while rescues are still going on, but we have to have this debate before too much is committed towards a New Orleans rebuilding that is just as likely to be wiped out next year as it was a month ago.

New New Orleans should be build next to New Orleans Lake, if you know what I mean.

283 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:06 PM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: PhiKapMom

Where is a 'Governor Jindal' when we need him??


284 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:09 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I Support the President on Iraq and Our Troops; But 'll Freep Him In A Second for Illegal Alien Mess)
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To: dawn53

I don't think there are any roads going OUT of town that the trucks could use....unless I missed a report.

I got the impression that the highways out of NO are impassable...


285 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:12 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: fireforeffect

The pic looks to the north. The lock and the Mississippi are just behind. So the breach in the levee is to the East, and not into the main NO bowl. And that bowl to the East was where the water got really deep, and apparently filled up to above sea level from the Mississippi overwash.


286 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:14 PM PDT by Torie
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To: RDTF

Sure looks worse than Camille.


287 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:17 PM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: Types_with_Fist
Could somebody here explain to me if it's possible the river levy has been compromised from underneath... maybe just some sort of saturation?

Generally that type of event, when localized, is referred to as a "sand boil" and can be seen on the dry side of a levee when a river is at-flood behind the levee. However, the condition here is that local flooding within the bowl of NO has enough water, within the bowl (on the dry side, if you will), hiding the underlying ground where such sand boils could develop. They develop from the super-saturated subgrade being pushed by the higher hydrostatic pressure of the lake or the river on the other side of the levee and you would only have luck working if you spotted it.

Think of it like a boil on someones butt. The layers of skin hold the infection (the pressure) in place until it erupts at a weak point in the skin such as through an adjacent pore.

Usually, a levee allows one side to be dry and hence that works to keep the subgrade below the levee or dike dryer than the subgrade under the river or lake. One small weak point in the clay layers, when enough pressure is applied and the underlying sand starts "boiling" up.

288 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:29 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: beckybea
Wow! Didn't realize how many employees of CNN posted here begging for people to watch their network.

Don't be afraid to show your ignorance of what goes on outside your little world.

And on this story, Fox sucks.

289 posted on 08/30/2005 2:09:43 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Types_with_Fist

Absolutely -
Everyone turn on CNN


291 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:09 PM PDT by RDTF
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To: sinkspur

a looter shot a police officer in the back of the head while aprehending another looter!!!? OMG The Next Level . . .


292 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:31 PM PDT by bored at work (I feel more like I do now than when I first logged on . . .)
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To: Johnny Crab

Glad your family are with you and left N.O. What happens when all the tributaries like the Ohio start flowing down the Mississippi.

Cannot even fathom what everyone with you is going through right now. Prayers and thoughts are with your family.


293 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:31 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Lizarde

It's worse than even we could have imagined.

(I wonder where all those posters who called us all exaggerators are now?)


294 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:37 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: NautiNurse

Might be a stupid question, but...has anyone been able to dial a New Orleans tel # with any success?

I have a cousin there and have been trying for 24 hours to call his cel phone and all I get is an "all circuits are busy" recording.


295 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:43 PM PDT by Sometimes A River (Go Braves!)
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To: The Grim Freeper

Frankly, I think we're just beginning to see God's Judgment, and I think more than A DAY of prayer is required though--several days of fasting and repentance would be a good start for that city and this nation

LOL! Good for you.


296 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:44 PM PDT by swarthyguy
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To: conservativebabe
I did a search on Google News for: "United Nations" hurricane. Nothing of note.


I did a search on Google News for: France chirac "new orleans">.


This is the only article I came up with:

http://www.etherzone.com/2005/sent082905.shtml

"Kofi Annan's hastily called meeting of UN members has produced a unanimous decision to send massive aid to the United States for the reconstruction of New Orleans.

Iran jumped onboard very quickly. Supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated emphatically that, "the generosity of the Americans after our two recent earthquakes must be returned. We were only waiting for an American disaster anyway to return the money, and this is of the scale that we believe is just and right. America, through my good friend President Bush, sent us millions of American dollars after our earthquakes. Bam has already been rebuilt by American dollars. Iran will rebuild New Orleans." "


Snicker. Funny.
297 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:51 PM PDT by overtaxed_canadian
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To: SoothingDave

Read a site today that said if you add red wine to water it can act as a purifier. Not as good as clorox, iodine, or peroxide, but better than nothing.

Of course, if you had the red wine, why would you add it to the dirty water, LOL.

Seriously though, 1 part red wine to 3 parts water has an antimicrobial effect on the water (won't prevent giardia or cryptosporidia though.)

http://millennium-ark.net/News_Files/LTAH_Water_Pure2.html


298 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:52 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: RDTF

Guy on CNN just said that water continues to rise. Holy Lord in Heaven!


299 posted on 08/30/2005 2:10:59 PM PDT by conservativebabe (God Bless Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida)
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To: JerseyHighlander
Here is the link to the FX Site with the synopsis:

Called Oil Storm.... Google has a lot of links on it. http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/oilstorm/main.html

300 posted on 08/30/2005 2:11:00 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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