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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.


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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.

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: Blogger

MRE = Meal, Ready to Eat." It replaced the old "C Rations" in the Army, and is freeze dried rather than canned., as in C, O.D. or "Can, Olive Drab."


3,041 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:11 PM PDT by cookcounty (Army Vet, Army Dad.)
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To: RummyChick

And do you really believe that that will be her ONLY action that she takes tomorrow?? Surely you realize her day will be completely full, and she'll probably get no sleep again.

Her day will be full, lots of action.

(Maybe we can quit discussing this, huh?)



3,042 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:15 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: jeffers

> Without water, most of them will die first. The guy who had to cut his arm off to escape the canyon in Utah had to drink his own urine just to survive five days.

That guy was my stepson's former roommate in Aspen, CO. Ballsy, for sure.


3,043 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:16 PM PDT by XEHRpa
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To: dfwgator

LOL! Needed a laugh by now!


3,044 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:17 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: RobFromGa
I was told by a friend with family that Bay St. Louis, MS alone will be many hundreds...

Adding up Mississippi, Alabama, the New Orleans area, the parishes to the south, all of the "swamp rat" types who probably never even heard the warnings, and the toll from disease yet to come in the flooded areas, I'll be surprised if less than 10,000 people end up dead as a direct result of Katrina. Granted, that still doesn't come close to the tsunami total, but it's more than enough not to trivialize Katrina by comparison.

3,045 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:17 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Violence never settles anything." Genghis Khan, 1162-1227)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Do you think that when they rebuild New Orleans, they might fill "the bowl" in with dirt and build on top of that?


3,046 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:37 PM PDT by bannie (The government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: Alberta's Child

My guess is that those sections are anchored.


3,047 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:38 PM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all in the path of Katrina)
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To: nunya bidness
What matters now is the elevation of the city, about which I have now become an expert. The areas near the river are all abo above sea level typically from 5-10 feet above sea level. There is no surge now. Some posit the lake is rising like a top. Is that creditable. Here is a pic. The one water way is about 2 miles wide and there is another, and the "land" area is swamp, and if it is more than a couple of feet high I would be amazed. The idea that the lake can rise much in calm weather strikes me as not creditable.


3,048 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:43 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Arizona Carolyn
These ladies were taking shoes.

Great. Crooked cops at a time like this. They probably weren't even stealing their own sizes.

3,049 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:48 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Mo1

If I have kept track correctly, we have heard the following conflicting statements in various interviews with the Governor and Mayor:

1. The Super Dome would have to be evacuated soon;
2) The people in the SD would have to stay a week;
3) The people in the SD would have to stay for several weeks;
4) That the Army Corp of Engineers didn't show up in time;
5) That the Army Corp of Engineers did show up in time but repairing the levee didn't work.

It's clear they don't have a clue and haven't talked about The Plan we keep hearing about.


3,050 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:48 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: hole_n_one

Oh, I don't know about the Partridge Family...why not go with some light opera?


3,051 posted on 08/30/2005 8:24:58 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: TheSpottedOwl; PhiKapMom
Time to start drilling off the coast of FL and CA along with ANWR and tell the wackos to get lost. The wells I have seen around Norman are pumping continually right now.
Amen! Build more refineries, and cut out the "blend" nonsense while we're at it.

Ditto.

3,053 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:12 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: jeffers

The lake isn't going to rise - the water in the city is. They aren't yet equalized, and the efforts to slow the breach and keep pumping were slowing the rate of equalization.


3,054 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:15 PM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)
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To: willyboyishere
If this doesn't convince people that they need to be prepared for a disaster and able to be self-sustaining for a minimum of a week; nothing ever will.

When we lived in So. Cal we kept a backpack with water, food, radio, money, in each car as well as a pair of running shoes.

3,055 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:18 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: conservativewasp
Sound just like a story from Camile, damn people are stupid.

Correction, "were" stupid.

3,056 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:21 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: hole_n_one
30,000+ trapped in the Superdome..........

Which is why, as I posted on an earlier thread, you would have had to drag me kicking and screaming into the Superdome. I'd rather sit on my roof in the great outdoors and at peace with my God.

3,058 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:31 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
These ladies were taking shoes.

"Hey! What you doing with those shoes?"

"I gotta eat!"

3,059 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:35 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: Blogger
Mayor wants the Feds to help with coastal erosion.

Heard that loud and clear. Nagin is decompensating - aka melting down in front of our eyes. I would have asked him where on the priority list coastal erosion was five years ago, and where it is today with 60,000 refugees in the SuperDome.

3,060 posted on 08/30/2005 8:25:39 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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