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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: NautiNurse

This has perhaps been posted previously; I'm not able to keep up with the thread today.

The Northern Command/Pentagon is coordinating to offer relief to NO.


4,902 posted on 08/31/2005 9:29:20 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Petronski

i like the fact that he even has a beer stuffed into his back pocket!


4,903 posted on 08/31/2005 9:29:38 AM PDT by Spaghetti Man
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To: mhking

I wondered what would happen to the colleges down there. Is LSU in NO? What about Tulane? I have been trying to get the Tulane and University of Southern Mississippi (friend works there) websites for 2 days and haven't been able to bring up a thing.

The school may be open, but where are folks going to live? What are they going to do for electricity,etc.? I just heard that it might be 12 weeks before they get anywhere near to normal in NO.


4,904 posted on 08/31/2005 9:29:49 AM PDT by radiohead (Proud member of the 'arrogant supermagt')
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To: don-o
Add (from the "Pentagon Coordinating Katrina Response" thread the Army/Air Force providing helicopters, and the Army Corps of Engineers trying to deal with the breached levees.
4,905 posted on 08/31/2005 9:29:51 AM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: King Prout

Some McGuyver-type improvisation (such as you describe) may have helped stem some of the destruction in NO. I'm afraid, however, that our best and brightest minds are currently tied up in the WOT. Shame they can't be in two places at once...


4,906 posted on 08/31/2005 9:29:56 AM PDT by oldfarmer (Mark 16:17-18)
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To: WoodstockCat
WWL now speculating about the rising flooding waters continuing into East Jefferson.

Louis Amrstrong Inernational Airport now has about 3-4 operational runways cleared for daytime humantarian flights only.

4,907 posted on 08/31/2005 9:30:09 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: steveegg

Hey steve. There was a post yesterday that stated a huge column on the move. Assuming that report to be accurate, is it a problem of blocked roads?


4,908 posted on 08/31/2005 9:30:54 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: NautiNurse
Hah! With talent on loan from Gah-ahd, I mentioned to a family member two nights ago that the MSM was slavering over the fact that the hurricane was a great "equalizer". They were ecstatic that the storm destroyed the homes of the rich as well as the poor.

Class warfare at its finest, of course.

Rush just opened his show today with the same thought.

I would go Rush's cogent comments a step further. If the rich are destroyed, the poor suffer more. Many of the rich in those $500,000 homes on the beach are the go-getters that produce the jobs for the poor.

I've never heard yet of welfare folks creating corporations with thousands of employees collecting pay checks.....unless the jobs they create are in social work or law enforcement.

The MSM is stupid as well as mental.

Leni

4,909 posted on 08/31/2005 9:31:25 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: radiohead

LSU is at Baton Rouge.


4,910 posted on 08/31/2005 9:31:51 AM PDT by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: eastforker
I heard that but a cutting torch and a bank vault could be a prety big payday for someone.

There must be literally 100,000 safe deposit boxes too. I believe the authorities will get the scum either out or isolated in the next couple days, and restore as much order as can be had in an evacuated, flooded city.

4,912 posted on 08/31/2005 9:31:58 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: steveegg

3,500 NG from Memphis were supposed to be on their way last night specifically to restore law & order. They should be there now.


4,913 posted on 08/31/2005 9:32:16 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("Freedom of speech makes it much easier to spot the idiots." [Jay Lessig, 2/7/2005])
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To: gopwinsin04

This feels like another 9/11 to me. It's like a whole city has been wiped off the map. Kinda makes me worry about what terrorists might do in the future, and how that is going to affect all of us.


4,914 posted on 08/31/2005 9:32:24 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
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To: MrsCinAZ
OORAH!!!
4,915 posted on 08/31/2005 9:32:43 AM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: John Jamieson

Aha, it has a dam. Where is it? Why doesn't it have a way to open it?


4,916 posted on 08/31/2005 9:32:56 AM PDT by Torie
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To: gopwinsin04

What hasn't been said is that they may NOT be able to repair the levee break, and it's also likely that miles of levess adjacent tot he break may be "loosened" and water is seeping under them...the force of the water rushing to the breech is scouring the bottom nearby..the whole structure is weakened..


4,917 posted on 08/31/2005 9:33:15 AM PDT by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Petronski
'Thank you, Winn Dixie!'


4,920 posted on 08/31/2005 9:34:15 AM PDT by gopwinsin04
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