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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: NonValueAdded
Where did you hear it?

DHS press conference occurring right now and carried on WDSU.

5,281 posted on 08/31/2005 10:52:45 AM PDT by Pete
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To: agrace; My Favorite Headache

great minds think alike . . .


5,282 posted on 08/31/2005 10:52:55 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: Pete

thanks, just turned down Limbaugh and turned up WDSU.


5,283 posted on 08/31/2005 10:53:19 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: jeffers
Each person still alive in New Orleans needs one gallon of WATER per day. If all 100,000 who stayed behind survived, that is eleven 18 wheel truck tankers full of WATER everyday.

But New Orleans isn't the only issue. There are refugees along a strip the Gulf a mile wide and 166 miles long who also need WATER and it needs to be DELIVERED.

I'm reading about all the horrible logistic problems dealing with getting the rest of the people out of the flood zones. Are the pharmaceutical companies gearing up with tetanus shots, and antibiotic supplies? Water is the first priority, but with the disease factor, medicine is a very close second.

Air drops of quart sized water bottles, and some kind of food rations? Heck, I don't know...

5,284 posted on 08/31/2005 10:53:43 AM PDT by TheSpottedOwl ("President Bush, start building that wall"!)
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To: steveegg
are waived through 9/15/2005.

2 WEEKS!!

WTF good is that gonna do?

It needs to be suspended a few MONTHS at the minimum.

5,285 posted on 08/31/2005 10:53:52 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: Pete

News

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050831/NEWS0110/50831025/1260

August 31, 2005
10 dead in Jackson County, officials say

The Associated Press

At least 10 people died from storm-related injuries in Jackson County, officials said today.

The deaths were verified by the Ocean Springs fire chief, Jackson County emergency operations officials and Sheriff Mike Byrd.

Most of the deaths were reported in Gulf Hills and in Porteaux Bay. Both are small, upper-middle-class communities near Ocean Springs in the western part of the county just across the Harrison-Jackson county line from Biloxi, where at least 100 deaths were reported by local emergency officials.

Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove said today that search and rescue teams had probably gotten into about 50 percent of the damaged areas and it "may be several days or even weeks" before some areas are reached.

He said structures that had survived Camille were destroyed - "pancaked."

"I was here during Camille. In my opinion, this storm was worse then Camille," he told a news conference at local civil defense offices.


5,286 posted on 08/31/2005 10:53:52 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: sockmonkey

He's done the research, and it is good for at least 5 years. There's lots of websites with all the instructions for packing up the food. He had to use some very specialized containers.


5,288 posted on 08/31/2005 10:54:42 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: sockmonkey

How do you vacuum pack 5-gallon buckets????? That sounds like a great idea!


5,289 posted on 08/31/2005 10:54:44 AM PDT by nuclady
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To: AnAmericanMother

Got it...thanks


5,290 posted on 08/31/2005 10:54:45 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache ("Scientology is dangerous stuff,it's like forming a religion based around Johnny Quest and Haji.")
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To: MNlurker

Yes, that's what he said. Clean Air restrictions on fuel have been suspended in all 50 states.


5,291 posted on 08/31/2005 10:55:26 AM PDT by Michael Goldsberry (an enemy of islam -- Joe Boucher; Leapfrog; Dr.Zoidberg; Lazamataz; ...)
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To: SE Mom
does my heart good to see and hear from some grown ups

That's just what I said to my husband! I feel like, for the first time since Monday, someone is getting a handle on the scope of what's needed to work on this crisis.

5,292 posted on 08/31/2005 10:55:49 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: Types_with_Fist
Seems as though reports of "tsunami" about the surge were quite accurate.

The surge in Mississippi was about as high as the tsunami in Thailand and a bit higher than the tsunami in Sri Lanka.

However, astonishingly, it was only about 1/4 to 1/3rd the height of the tsunami in Banda Aceh.

Overall, a 25 foot tsunami is going to have a bit more force than a 25 foot storm surge; the tsunami rapidly comes in and goes out upwards of 10 times; the surge comes in more gradually and doesn't keep going in and out; that the surge has wind waves in it partially, but not totally, makes up for that.

If you look at the Banda Aceh pics you had areas ABSOLUTELY swept clean; in Mississippi you'll see parts of wooden structures, and some trees, in the surge area.

5,294 posted on 08/31/2005 10:56:01 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: tcrlaf
He JUST stated that!

Now watch the LIB Enviros go absolutely NUTS over this!

Nobody will be going nuts...If I heard correctly...it would only last until September 15, 2005.

(sigh)

whatever

5,295 posted on 08/31/2005 10:56:10 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.)
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To: MNlurker

Clean Air Act for all states but I think specifically he mentioned the four states will have some changes made to their gasoline standards. He mentioned specifically Alabama, Louisiana, FLorida and Mississippi.


5,296 posted on 08/31/2005 10:56:55 AM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: OXENinFLA
2 WEEKS!! WTF good is that gonna do? It needs to be suspended a few MONTHS at the minimum.

True. But in the short term it relieves the shipment logistics for existing supplies. Gas can come from anywhere to fill demand, not just from specific refineries.

5,297 posted on 08/31/2005 10:57:08 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: BureaucratusMaximus

I imagine that they are going to re=evaluate it as the week passes. This is a first step.


5,298 posted on 08/31/2005 10:57:14 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: Peach

Bush had no choice. He's apparently trying to get the hand-wringing Blanco to act and she's going on TV and whining instead while people are dying. That's another point... you don't hear much about Barbour in MS. That's because HE'S working.


5,299 posted on 08/31/2005 10:57:19 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: Howlin
Texas Governor Rick Perry says he expects evacuees to start arriving within the next 24 hours at the Houston Astrodome. He says Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco asked him this morning if the Astrodome could house the 23-thousand people currently being sheltered at the Superdome in Louisiana, and he quickly agreed. He says even before the request, Texas officials had been talking about using the Astrodome as a long-term shelter for people already stranded in Texas because of the storm.
5,300 posted on 08/31/2005 10:57:47 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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