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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: Acts 2:38
Cafferty is a bitter liberal who opines from NYC.

Wolfie took to be stunned.

441 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:16 PM PDT by Dog ( "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.")
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To: Howlin

LOL


442 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:22 PM PDT by KC Burke (Men of intemperate minds can never be free....)
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To: LibWrangler

Well if she didn't have the stamina to deal with something like a disaster, she had no business running for office IMHO. You either have it or don't and it is obvious the people of LA cannot lean on her the way the people of MS can lean on Barbour. She was clueless in the press conference and now ordering a total evacuation? Made me wonder what was happening. Better to be honest with people IMHO then try to sugar coat it.


443 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:24 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Acts 2:38

I would personally ring that POS Cafferty guy's neck if I could. I want to use every swear word in the book right now to vent about the guy. The nerve of asking where the President was and why he was making a speech about the end of WWII when this is going on I seriously cannot believe him right now.


444 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:32 PM PDT by MNlurker
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To: hipaatwo
"CNN has been great"

CNN is always best for breaking news, but CNN can not resist spinning stories once it has figured out the spin. I just left CNN coverage because they are beginning the spin. From here on out CNN will be more spin than news.

445 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:33 PM PDT by jpsb
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To: conservativebabe

Yeah, Like Bush would have been there filling sand bags, or flying a helicopter.

Idiots.

Only a wacko would try to politicize a hurricane.

And, when Andrew struck in 1992, Bush I was criticized for going down there...You can't win for losing with these people.


446 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:37 PM PDT by Sometimes A River (Go Braves!)
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To: beckybea
"While the Katrini story is incredible, the world moves on. "

Not my world. Not until I hear from my son.

......and for the duration, I will go to CNN first for breaking news on this situation. They were the only ones with live coverage late last night, and they have consistently been first on the scene with breaking situations.

447 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:47 PM PDT by MozartLover ( My son, my soldier, my hero. Protect him, Lord, wherever he goes, and keep him strong.)
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To: spectre
If I were you, I'd BEG the Admin Mods to remove my post...and pray they showed mercy and did it..

This is becoming worse than the Terii threads.

448 posted on 08/30/2005 2:25:50 PM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.)
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To: libtoken

Besides the existing flooding, Katrina has been busily dumping rain upstream from NO, which is going to find its way downsream


449 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:06 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: EX52D
OMG...and now they have to evacuate the Superdome?

I sure wouldn't want to be tasked with that mission.

450 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:11 PM PDT by Heatseeker ("I sort of like liberals now. They’re kind of cute when they’re shivering and afraid." - Ann Coulter)
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To: fireforeffect; Diddle E. Squat
No it doesn't. I never said it did. There are levees down along lake ponchartrain in the main bowl, which would get the water up to sea level in it, or maybe a foot above, but now the pics show the water 4 feet above sea level in the main bowl. Thus the Mississippi, which is 14 feet above sea level, must be flooding in, and presumably the water is flowing through NO into Lake Ponchatrain, and the Missisippi has found a new channel to the sea, right through beautiful downtown NO.

I think that about sums it up. Maybe somebody should tell the networks to read this post.

451 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:22 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Dog

Tell Cafferty the President is going back to Washington. Would he prefer the President go to the Superdome?


452 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:24 PM PDT by popdonnelly
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To: Anybody

What do they do with prisoners within the area to be evacuated? Mental patients?


453 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:37 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Remember and pray for Sgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
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To: jveritas
I think you are way over exaggerating.

Believe me, I hope I'm wrong. I hope everyone who's posted today that NO will be back open for business by Mardi Gras 2006 is right. And if so, I'll be bringing my kids down there to see it, like my parents brought me, because I truly love that city; had my honeymoon there. There's something about it, an atmosphere that is like no other place.

I'll make my kids sweat in Preservation Hall to hear the jazz, just like my parents did, LOL!

454 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:55 PM PDT by proud American in Canada
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To: Acts 2:38; Dog

Do believe that Dog in the post below yours summed it up perfectly. Cheap shot is right!


455 posted on 08/30/2005 2:26:57 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

My guess is that it would take to long to get the ships out of mothballs, and then they would have to be retofited.


456 posted on 08/30/2005 2:27:00 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Dog

Cafferty worked in a dig at the Pres, huh? He'll get his dinner paid for by Howard Dean tonight.

You're right in your description of him. Arrogant and biased.


458 posted on 08/30/2005 2:27:31 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (We are grateful to our fine military. God bless them and their families.)
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To: jpsb

I turned off CNN after Cafferty opened his vial mouth.


459 posted on 08/30/2005 2:27:34 PM PDT by hipaatwo (Nazis Love Mother Sheehan)
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To: MrsCinAZ

I am awed by the rescues going on. How dangerous to be hovering around these rooftops trying to pluck people off of them and not run into all those electrical lines everywhere?!


460 posted on 08/30/2005 2:27:34 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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