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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: james_f_hall

Waaaaaait a minute. I thought the river levees held. If they didn't, then this just went from bad to worse to "we're rebuilding it twenty miles inland."

Where's Uptown? Anybody got a map?

}:-)4


6,041 posted on 08/31/2005 1:37:21 PM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: Txsleuth

Matthews comes onto MSNBC, saying "President Bush cut short his vacation to return to Washington..."


6,043 posted on 08/31/2005 1:37:33 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Cboldt

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6,045 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:10 PM PDT by aft_lizard (This space waiting for a post election epiphany it now is: Question Everything)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

If the lake water is rising to meet the river, it's bad news. Water going down is good news.


6,046 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:16 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: jhny7; All
C130 just landed at Louis Armstrong International Airport with 300 extra security for the Tulane Hospital standoff
6,047 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:16 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: afnamvet

was there 6 years ago was a wonderful place old homes and wonderful people


6,048 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:18 PM PDT by jhny7 (made in USA tested in japan mess with USA we'll use it again)
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To: All

Message on another board that looters have taken over Tulane MED Center??

Can anyone confirm/Deny?


6,049 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:28 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: Howlin

I am turning off CNN, that clown mccafferty is on.


6,050 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:28 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)
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To: Cboldt

The doers are coming to town. Thanks to Pres Bush.

It took action on part of president to encourage a mandatory evacuation.

Also, I think Gov Barbour might be out of a job soon, forced to resign. Mandatory evacuations came to late or were not enforced it seems in MS thereby costing thousands of lives it would appear.


6,051 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:31 PM PDT by james_f_hall
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To: spectre
Hello,

Sometime during the morning of 9-11, I was on the phone with my MIL. I totally broke down, and could only say, over and over, "Make it stop, make it stop". I feel the same now, Dear Lord, please make it stop.

Glad to be here, with such wonderful people, MOgirl
6,052 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:39 PM PDT by MOgirl (In memory of Walton Wayne Callahan, I love you forever.)
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To: Dawsonville_Doc

New Orleans is second only to Boston for historic places on the National Register. It's worth saving. IMHO


6,053 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:40 PM PDT by beckybea (Never ask a man where he's from. If he's from Texas;he'll tell you.If he's not,don't embarrass him.)
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To: MrsCinAZ

sorry, but the prisoner situatuion is a disaster waiting to happen.....
no telling how many slipped away last night...they were apparently left on overpasses in groups for the last 24 hours, no one knowing for sure where to take them....


6,054 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:52 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: Diddle E. Squat

He is telling the truth -- the moron Governor had not asked for them to take over so they were back-up only. Until she makes the request, they cannot take over.


6,055 posted on 08/31/2005 1:38:53 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: Lizarde
I bet the guy who paid 1000 cash for a cab to take him to Atlanta on Sunday doesn't regret a penny of that or the family who spent 3000 plus for a limo to go to Chicago...

And the drivers are pretty happy too, cuz they're not underwater in NO.

6,056 posted on 08/31/2005 1:39:05 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: gopwinsin04

Where did you hear about the C130? Lock and load!


6,057 posted on 08/31/2005 1:39:27 PM PDT by Pyro7480 (Dies irae, dies illa....Rex tremendae majestatis, qui salvandos salvas gratis, salva me!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

The Mississippi is several feet higher than Lake Pontchartrain. I don't know how the lake could be "rising to meet the river" unless the lake was exceptionally high (which it is) and the river is exceptionally low? And in any case, I thought all the river levees on both banks held?

}:-)4


6,058 posted on 08/31/2005 1:39:37 PM PDT by Moose4 (Richmond, Virginia, where our motto is "Will Riot For Cheap Laptops")
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To: mware

We can still be selective..........LOL

France, Germany, NATO, Russia have all offered help.

So has Venezula. :-)


6,059 posted on 08/31/2005 1:40:00 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: jhny7

This has probably already been posted, but an associate of mine has a friend in Northern Louisiana who was en route to NOLA with his boat in order to help. Law enforcement stopped him on the highway and made him turn back. Those with boats are now being shot, and the boats are being "boatjacked".



253 posted on 08/31/2005 4:17:03 PM EDT by hispanarepublicana (No amnesty needed...My ancestors proudly served. [remodel of an old '70s bumper sticker])


6,060 posted on 08/31/2005 1:40:17 PM PDT by RummyChick
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