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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: WayneM

No time to read everything but FEMA is here and helicopters are ferrying people from NO to LSU. Tent city going up on the track field. Families living in dorms with their kids, nowhere to put them. LSU and TUlane medical school are closed, trying to set up a med school in Baton Rouge. FEMA says Baton Rouge is now New Orleans. Tulane wants their students to come to LSU and decision on that is not made. Vet school doing something, don't know what. We are housing 300 people from FEMA and other fed agencies.

Everyone looks sad here.


5,082 posted on 08/31/2005 10:11:04 AM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: Warren_Piece

Gulfport, MS: CNN reports that a man wearing a "DEA" shirt carrying an M-16 went into an office building. Building is now surrounded by police.


5,083 posted on 08/31/2005 10:11:40 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Warren_Piece

There were a few of those, but it was founded (and paid for in the very highest currency) by men from all over the world. Germans, Brits, even Frenchmen.

That said, I think we should can the interstate rivalry. We *all* have other problems right now.


5,084 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:02 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Lizarde

They are starting the looting in Mississippi now?


5,085 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:17 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
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To: Lizarde

getting more and more difficulty to read the bad news, lizarde....don't worry about the typos....some of us have blurry vision right now, anyways.... : (


5,086 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:25 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: advance_copy
Gulfport, MS: CNN reports that a man wearing a "DEA" shirt carrying an M-16 went into an office building. Building is now surrounded by police.

I really hope they come out carrying a looter in a body bag. God help me, I really do hope that.

5,087 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:42 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: cgk
Have they started evacuating the Superdome yet as we heard last night?

It's been happening for the last couple hours.

5,088 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:43 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: Lizarde

ropery?


5,089 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:50 AM PDT by beyond the sea ("I was just the spark the universe chose ....." --- Cindy Sheehan (barf alert))
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To: r9etb

Angry, desparate, opportunistic, and in a tomorrow we die mindset.


5,090 posted on 08/31/2005 10:12:55 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

LOL.. the five finger discount kind of donation.


5,091 posted on 08/31/2005 10:13:11 AM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: All
1:00 CDT press conference on 17th street levee breech...

Army Corp. has engineers out at levee now. They have filled the giant sandbags - currently attaching slings that will attach to helicopter. This afternoon, will begin dropping giant sandbags.

Also attempting to close the gap between lake and canal.

The lake level has equalized with the water in the city, which means no more flowing in except at high tide - one hide tide coming this evening.

Lake is receding at 1/2 inch per hour.

5,093 posted on 08/31/2005 10:13:25 AM PDT by Pete
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To: Spktyr

I read somewhere on this thread that the Dallas Independent School District has even offered to let some of the kids from hurricane to come to their schools...


5,094 posted on 08/31/2005 10:13:30 AM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: Torie; Howlin

News conference on the breach: Water level in the city has pretty much equalized with that of the lake. Water is not rising in the city. Lake is down 2' since yesterday, and going down at a 1/2" an hour rate.


5,095 posted on 08/31/2005 10:13:38 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: r9etb
I keep trying to write, but keep erasing my comments. I am beyond words, anymore. :(
5,096 posted on 08/31/2005 10:13:55 AM 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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To: NautiNurse; Howlin; Peach

Been out doing errands for two hours...this is all anyone is talking about here (Central Florida)- everywhere I went I heard snatches of conversations...people driving to the coast to find relatives...people driving in convoys to bring help...people going out to gas up their cars..no matter where I went I heard people talking about it.


5,097 posted on 08/31/2005 10:13:57 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: Conservativehomeschoolmama

My 8 year old daughter likes to make stuffed animals. She wants to make toys for the kids.


5,098 posted on 08/31/2005 10:14:00 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Knitting A Conundrum
and in a tomorrow we die mindset.

I seriously doubt the looters have more than the fuzziest concept of "tomorrow."

5,099 posted on 08/31/2005 10:14:01 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb

Soon they will be hanging them from the few street lights remaining.
With big signs saying "looter" attached.


5,100 posted on 08/31/2005 10:14:10 AM PDT by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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