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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: NautiNurse

Germany has offered assistance with the aftermath of the hurricane.


4,661 posted on 08/31/2005 8:27:53 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: beyond the sea

and the anti-gun peopel will be crawling out of the woodwork too.

Is this a real call or is it a seminar caller. I have noticed on the radio after the hurrican, there were people constantly trying to slip in Bush bashing. Could this be no different?


4,662 posted on 08/31/2005 8:27:53 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: Pete

Fascinating presser update for the hospital evacuations. Patients are being airlifted from NOLA hospitals to the airport for triage and staging. Case-by-case, will be transported to other hospitals.


4,663 posted on 08/31/2005 8:27:56 AM 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: Peach

If the airport is open, that opens the gates for aid to begin to come in, finally. Remember, up until now there's basically been ONE way into the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain, including New Orleans, and that was I-10 from the west. I-10 from the east is trashed (the bridge from Slidell) and the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway probably isn't safe to handle heavy vehicles.

Right now the aid workers and public safety folks are hamstrung by a near-total lack of communications. Their radio networks are destroyed, radio batteries are dying, cellphones are dead, landlines are dead...they're out of contact with almost everything and everybody. Information's almost as important as water right now, and they aren't able to get any.

}:-)4


4,664 posted on 08/31/2005 8:28:12 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: Spktyr
Specifically, Marine Air Support.
So, you want to snipe at cops? Here, have a 20mm greeting card or fifty.

LOL! I like your attitude.

4,665 posted on 08/31/2005 8:28:23 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: Pyro7480
According to the Shreveport paper, St. Bernard Parish is almost entirely covered by water, and the water level is above roof tops. A fly-over by the Secretary of Agriculture ( I think it was the state Secretary of Agriculture) resulted in his conclusion that the parish " could take years" to rebuild. The population of the parish in 1990 was 66,631. You may confirm this on Google News by entering the search term " St Bernard Parish".The land area of the parish is 514 square miles.
4,666 posted on 08/31/2005 8:28:36 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
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To: palmer

Oh God. Are they above (north of) Plaquemines then?

}:-)4


4,667 posted on 08/31/2005 8:29:01 AM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: Our_Man_In_Gough_Island

Yeah, I saw the map earlier on the thread. It's no wonder, it's all coastal areas.


4,668 posted on 08/31/2005 8:29:43 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: gopwinsin04
Governor basically just threw up her hands and tossed it over to FEMA and the Army. I don't blame her...

I think it was the other way around. The grown-ups showed up and made her irrelevant - much to the relief of those hit hardest by this disaster.

4,669 posted on 08/31/2005 8:30:14 AM PDT by Spiff (Don't believe everything you think.)
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To: Peach
Germany has offered assistance with the aftermath of the hurricane.

Bless them. Have we heard from any others?

4,670 posted on 08/31/2005 8:30:48 AM PDT by hoosiermama (prayers for all)
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To: Peach; don-o
Germany has offered assistance with the aftermath of the hurricane.

Thanks for the important update - what other nations have we heard from to date?

4,671 posted on 08/31/2005 8:31:16 AM 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: HalfFull

Hopefully the Salvation Army is still doing a great job because I just contributed to them, but I will bookmark this for my next donation.

Thank you.


4,672 posted on 08/31/2005 8:31:44 AM PDT by MNlurker
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To: NautiNurse

Only Russia I believe. I'm surprised that UK has not spoken up.


4,673 posted on 08/31/2005 8:32:08 AM PDT by TN4Bush
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To: gopwinsin04
Ya know I've NEVER been to New Orleans before but with the little info I have on it I know UNTIL THE WATER IS PUMPED OUT THERE WILL BE NO ELECTRICY RESTORED.

Why do these folks on FOX keep worrying about it?

NO is not going to be functional until Engineers get the water out. They are not going to even start on getting the water out till they stop it from coming in. They are not going to make a serious effort to stop the water from coming in till they get ALL of the people to safety.

WHat is so damned hard to understand here? I keep hearing reporters (on all channels) blather on about time tables of getting back in to NO.

You have to wonder about the IQ of some of these reporters.

4,674 posted on 08/31/2005 8:32:08 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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To: luckystarmom

In SF?

You'll need more than one gun (one for every family mrmber that can safely manage one). You will also want an SUV or truck that is actually offroad-capable to climb over the rubble and wreckage.

Something like that is why I bought my Jeep Grand Wagoneer to supplement my Jaguar and Z.


4,675 posted on 08/31/2005 8:32:14 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Pyro7480

update,,everyone in a meeting. The field house at LSU had some criticallly ill people, some from the dome, they are sending them out to hospitals. FEMA has taken charge so I don't know what is happening. We wait on the meeting to have someone tell us where to go.


4,676 posted on 08/31/2005 8:32:35 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Spiff

Just write the city off. Get those guys trying to plug an unfillable hole over to help with evacuation.


4,677 posted on 08/31/2005 8:33:27 AM PDT by eternity (What's it all about...Alfie?)
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To: NautiNurse
WDSU reporting that some legislator said it could be 4 months before people would be able to return to NO.

Also, reporting on the looters seiging Children's Hospital. Looters have also broken into cars outside Tulane Hospital. Jefferson Parish confirming 5 dead.

4,678 posted on 08/31/2005 8:33:38 AM PDT by Pete
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To: All
If anyone has any word on the condition of Bay St. Louis or Stennis Space Center, I would be much appreciative. The only info I have seen has said that a bridge between Biloxi and Bay St. Louis is gone (I'm assuming that it's the Route 90 bridge).

Anyone whose heard anything??

4,679 posted on 08/31/2005 8:34:13 AM PDT by cwiz24 (I worked very hard on this tagline.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

I don't think they comprehend the breadth of this. They have to get everyone out and figure out what to do about the dams. That will take ages and then they have to decide how and when to reconstruct them. Then they pump.

I dunno, it seems like too much to do. It just seems overwhelming.


4,680 posted on 08/31/2005 8:34:28 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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