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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: Knute

I think WalMart didn't lock up their weapons when they closed before the storm; a lady who lives in the quarter was on the phone and terrified because gangs were roaming the quarter with guns.


3,161 posted on 08/30/2005 8:35:25 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: All
How is typhoid fever spread?

Salmonella Typhi lives only in humans. Persons with typhoid fever carry the bacteria in their bloodstream and intestinal tract. In addition, a small number of persons, called carriers , recover from typhoid fever but continue to carry the bacteria. Both ill persons and carriers shed S. Typhi in their feces (stool).

You can get typhoid fever if you eat food or drink beverages that have been handled by a person who is shedding S. Typhi or if sewage contaminated with S. Typhi bacteria gets into the water you use for drinking or washing food. Therefore, typhoid fever is more common in areas of the world where handwashing is less frequent and water is likely to be contaminated with sewage.

Once S. Typhi bacteria are eaten or drunk, they multiply and spread into the bloodstream. The body reacts with fever and other signs and symptoms.

3,162 posted on 08/30/2005 8:35:27 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
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To: mariabush

I think she works for the Governor. I really do.


3,163 posted on 08/30/2005 8:35:42 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: mariabush

Wouldn't help Memphis, Nashville, St. Louis, Springfield, or even as far away as I am in OH though.


3,164 posted on 08/30/2005 8:35:51 PM PDT by Blogger
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To: conservativewasp

Put the Governor's office in there too!


3,165 posted on 08/30/2005 8:35:54 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Types_with_Fist
No, no. The Coast Guard would just rescue you and bring you to the Dome.

When I heard that people being plucked off rooftops were being taken to the Dome, I thought oh, my goodness, those poor people have no idea what they're in for.

3,166 posted on 08/30/2005 8:36:08 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: STARWISE
You are correct.. but why can't we overcome the water issue.. don't we have boats/vessels etc.. to take the people out of NO... what do we do if we are in a war and need to get over water???

I think a little American know-how blended with our past experiences and a renewed passion for overcoming barriers.. we can do anything we put out minds to.. It is just the American in me...
3,167 posted on 08/30/2005 8:36:14 PM PDT by Fritzy (Fritzy)
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To: PhiKapMom

I wonder what Da Kingfish would have done?


3,168 posted on 08/30/2005 8:36:23 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Jeff Head

Yup...that water is pretty horrible right now. Yet those two women looked right into the TV camera and said the water is fine!


3,169 posted on 08/30/2005 8:36:25 PM PDT by Palladin (America! America! God shed His grace on Thee.)
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To: Doe Eyes

I guess Jesus was wrong.


3,170 posted on 08/30/2005 8:36:48 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: oceanview
How long do you think it would take to move 60,000 people by small boats and helicopters?
3,171 posted on 08/30/2005 8:36:57 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: va4me

"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.

He said they have water and MRE's, just no functioning toilets."

Evacuees were told to bring 5 days food and water with them. An untrained person will use at least a gallon per day each. A gallon weighs about 7 pounds. That alone is 35 pounds per person.

There are 30,000 people in the Dome, by most reports.

Other than whatever they carried in, they will need 30,000 gallons per day. A semi-tractor-trailer fuel tanker holds 9,000 gallons but carries about 6,000.

That's a lot of helo drops and helos are in short supply. They are needed from New Orleans all the way to Mobile.


3,172 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:01 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: berkeleybeej
"Their garbage in now in the water, the junk yards are under water."

Add to that all of the gasoline and oil from submerged vehicles, as well as chemicals from businesses. Bacteria, parasites - it's just mind boggling."

As well as the above ground cemetaries, and the recently deceased and disease is just waiting for its chance...
3,173 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:03 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (Praying for those hurt by Hurricane Katrina)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

" These ladies were taking shoes. "

Not only were these lady cops taking shoes, they were saunteringly though Wal Mart, as if they had nothing better to do.
Martin Savidge of NBC was talking to them.


3,174 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:03 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: steveegg

A new thread started on FR about the shooting:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473839/posts


3,175 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:07 PM PDT by flutters (God Bless The USA)
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To: Mo1
***Is it possible to have these folks walk to a point were mass transportation can take them to a safer place?***

A few HAVE begun walking out on their own...

BUT...
Do YOU want to be the one who's held financially responsible when Grandma dies on the "New Orleans Death March"??

I see attorneys EVERYWHERE in what this Mayor is doing and saying, and I see it in the governmental response so far...

sad, but it's the world we live in today...
3,176 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:50 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: redgolum

Diabetics without insulin. Sick infants. Fumes, flooding.


3,177 posted on 08/30/2005 8:37:56 PM PDT by MarMema
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To: commish
but this time Mother Nature has won the war.

She sure has...

3,178 posted on 08/30/2005 8:38:21 PM PDT by txdoda ("Navy Brat")
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To: dfwgator
Yep, I always fear the earthquake because there's no warning, even a tornado gives you a few minutes to prepare.

I fear earthquakes for the same reason. When we went through our big one here (WA) in 01, I was at work, (now ex) husband was at work across the lake, dad was at work 15 miles South, and my kids were 45 miles away. It took me hours to find out my kids were ok.

My mom was telling me earlier that when they lived in Alabama and went through a hurricane warning once, my grandparents were visiting from So. Cal. Grandma said she would take an earthquake anyday, because it just happened and you didn't sit around for hours waiting through the scare.

3,179 posted on 08/30/2005 8:38:23 PM PDT by conservative cat
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To: All

That was their plan.
They knew all along all these people were going to die, and they've been spending all day long trying to point the finger at others to save their skin.
They also are lying to the Federal government about the problem because the reality is this - any money spent to save NO was stolen.
These politicians get it - someone is going down for mass homocide.


3,180 posted on 08/30/2005 8:38:33 PM PDT by mabelkitty (Lurk forever, but once you post, your newbness shines like a new pair of shoes.)
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