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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: PigRigger

"we" doesn't include me. I voted for Jindal and Foster either of whom would be a better person as Gov right now.

We suffer our incompetent leaders down here because usually things just rock along slowly getting better in places, worse in others. We tolerate them because usually inertia works pretty well.

I will predict, and I mean it, that the Gov will be reelected as will Mary. I am the first to say it,,.


4,141 posted on 08/31/2005 4:59:53 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: All

Morning, folks. Won't say good, but it is another day.

It's nearly 7 am in NO now.

I hear that Jefferson parish declared martial law.

There are National Guard being deployed.

I read how they are going to sink a barge today to try to plug the hole in the levee today.

We will see what today brings. I pray that yesterday was the worst.


4,142 posted on 08/31/2005 5:01:01 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: pj_627

We need ARNOLD or ZELL MILLER!

Stolid and reassuring, even humorous or reassuring and fatherly. Take your pick.


4,143 posted on 08/31/2005 5:01:49 AM PDT by foreign devil
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To: Lizarde
I thought I heard that Mayor say they all had to stay in that Dome for ONE week...was I dreaming?

Yes, I think so. They say they are trying to evacuate the Dome within 2 days.

4,145 posted on 08/31/2005 5:04:07 AM PDT by Bahbah (Praying for all in Katrina's path, from St. Louis)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
LOL, Orlando was pretty good, and you're right about his directorial attitude to his camera man, er 'scuse me, person.

Every time Orlando did that, I kept thinking if I was the camera person, in that storm, I'd have said BLEEP you.

I missed the sleeping Steve Harrigan. That would have been better than watching him holding onto a cable in 90 MPH winds and getting hit by debris.

BTW what's a Hookies?

4,146 posted on 08/31/2005 5:05:24 AM PDT by benjaminjjones
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To: A Citizen Reporter

Every time he is on I say "I love that guy!" even if no one is around.


4,147 posted on 08/31/2005 5:05:54 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights
I guess I am asking, if the Mississippi flowed as it did in the past, would NO be in such trouble today or is that one of those great debate questions no one can answer with certainty?

I think the correct answer is that "If" the Mississippi flowed as it "used to", New Orleans probably would not even exist or would be some small town, not a metropolis. Most of the city is natural flood plain that has been protected for over a century by man made levies. The Mississippi, the life blood of the city, would likely be many miles away from New Orleans now since the "natural" way for that river is to change course and find new ways to the sea fairly regularly.

4,148 posted on 08/31/2005 5:06:18 AM PDT by Ditto ( No trees were killed in sending this message, but billions of electrons were inconvenienced.)
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To: John Jamieson

You are talking about the Corps of Engineers actually doing something that makes sense. They are infested with idiots. One of these leaking levies was just finished with much fanfare in the lat year. I could off had the hole plugged yesterday - 1,000 pound sandbags was a stupid waste of time.


4,149 posted on 08/31/2005 5:06:44 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: benjaminjjones

Virginia Tech


4,150 posted on 08/31/2005 5:06:51 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: fortunecookie; Alberta's Child; Petronski; NautiNurse; cyborg; Knitting A Conundrum

Ditto your "morning". I have been glued to tv coverage.

NautiNurse - thanks for the threads.

Am sending prayers for the families and dollars to Salvation Army and Red Cross.


4,151 posted on 08/31/2005 5:07:07 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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Answers from Army Corps of Engineers on unwatering New Orleans

11:28 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
wwltv.com



Q.1. How long will it take to get the water out of New Orleans?


A.1. We are unsure. A number of factors play into this. First, Lake Pontchartrain is at roughly 4.5 feet above sea level and falling. The city is at a lower elevation so water will continue to flow into it until it equalizes.


Once the breach on the 7th Street Canal is closed, Pump Station 6 can pump...(excerpt)


4,152 posted on 08/31/2005 5:07:13 AM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

I'll pray with you. Others will too I know. But keep typing and looking for resources. I contacted a Canadian outfit like Home Depot (Canadian Tire) and asked them to donate generators as their donation to the flood relief. As soon as business opens this morning, I'll call their head office here and suggest that and give them Bayou_King's contact address and let them choose what to do. I'll keep looking through the yellow pages here for companies to appeal to for products that may help right now. The company that makes solar blankets, for instance, to put round people shivering from the water. But I'll keep praying while I do it.


4,153 posted on 08/31/2005 5:07:42 AM PDT by foreign devil
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To: pj_627
She inspires no confidence, because she HAS no confidence.

She has no answers or information to supply at press conferences. She is a complete idiot. I cannot imagine what she is doing in a governor's mansion. She just rambles around and seems to fade off at times.

4,154 posted on 08/31/2005 5:08:31 AM PDT by MarMema
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To: benjaminjjones

BTW, Hookie = Hokie
A Hokie just is.


4,155 posted on 08/31/2005 5:08:57 AM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: jhny7

>>>>any one watching whou live link?strange they showing Gov live chatting between interviews

More interviews after Larry King?

I saw a comment last night about sandbags not making it to the levee because there were conflicting orders about who was in charge.

WHO is in charge?


4,156 posted on 08/31/2005 5:09:28 AM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Still to be addressed is how to deal with the dead.

Stephens estimated that the death toll for his parish could reach the thousands.



FINALLY an "official" invocation of the "t-word".

Note too that he used the plural form of the word.

Looks like they have decided to begin breaking the awful truth to "the masses".


4,157 posted on 08/31/2005 5:10:43 AM PDT by Tom Thumbs
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WWLtv.com starting to show video from Slidell, NOW.


4,158 posted on 08/31/2005 5:12:07 AM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: Tom Thumbs; All

Uhmmm...not sure what to make of this...but this is an interesting thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473894/posts


4,159 posted on 08/31/2005 5:13:15 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Lizarde

You weren't dreaming. The Gov wants them out within two days, but last night Hizzoner told CNN it would be at least a week.



Stunning.


4,160 posted on 08/31/2005 5:13:26 AM PDT by Petronski (I love Cyborg.)
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