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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.
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
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
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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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.
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Tropical Storm 12
It's the welfare/"gangsta" "get back at the society that repressed us" "culture" that did this.
All of ya'll that are complaining about Shep doing this, and not doing that...and he shouldn't be reporting but showing where these people are...
IF Shep wasn't there...if he wasn't reporting, WE wouldn't know what was happening...THEN how would this thread go!
Wouldn't he get flamed for NOT going where the people are, and bringing us the REAL story? you bet he would be flamed.
Just like President Bush---yesterday I saw poster after poster complaining because Bush hadn't given a speech...so, today he has one scheduled at 5:00 EST., and what do I see? Posters complaining about the TIME of the speech!!!
jeez louise, people get a grip----President Bush is 1 (one) man, Shep is one man, and stuff IS getting done...
look at all of the people that the Coast Guard have saved, and the Governors of other states stepping up...
I never thought I would see on a conservative site, people complaining about things not being done by the government, like I have the last few days...
Also, I doubt that ANYONE that watches the video of Shep on that overpass, and CAN get there, has decided not to ---I think we all need to take a big, deep breath----and quit complaining about stuff like times of a speech, or whether Bush flew over instead of landing, or whatever!
maybe he confiscated them from a looter
Very good point. I shouldn't have assumed that he had taken them.
CNN reporting that pentagon is mobilizing 10,000 troops to deal with law enforcement. 5K to each state of Mississippi and La.
Fire him? That would be racist. </s>
that was my first thought, he confiscated them from a looter.
On a side note anyone know what this means, is this good or bad news?
3:18 P.M. - WWL-TV's Thanh Truong reports the water from the Lake is rising to meet with the River in Uptown.
Ligthten up; we're posting ALL news here.
I wouldn't be so sure. The union will support his claim that was returning them to the shelves.
BINGO !!
How did Shep get there to where those people are stranded on the highway? Did he get helicoptered into there? Did he drive there? Is he going to stay there until all those people find out where they should be going, or will he, when his shift is over, bug out to somewhere safe with electricity, a/c, water and food and come back to give more drama when his next TV performance time comes. If he was truly concerned, he'd quit emoting on the boob tube and use the resources he has to begin taking those people to safety. It's all about the ratings.
You go girl!!!:>)
Straight out of Atlas Shrugged, which becomes more true every day.
I think that would be bad news.
this will become like the frontier in arkansas took a hanging judge to return law to the area.
I saw Shep talking to an off-camera State Police officer, female for sure. Similar in the lack of acknowledgement.
"The thin blue line"
do you have a link to a pic somewhere?
Maybe this idea would help with deterring rapes.... :o
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474146/posts
Re water -- explain "bad news."
Yes, but it is going to take a while to get there from Norfolk.
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