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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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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
How many Cruise ships actually fly the AMERICAN flag, any more?? Even Taking over a Bahamian ship, like one of the Carnivals, would be an act of war...
Yea, that is when I switched too. Cindy almost drove me to look for the remote, but Cafferty was too much.
Thanks to all letting me know that Howlin is a girl! Redfaced here in Texas. I do admire that gal Howlin.
How about all those cruise ships that moor in Miami?
120 restrooms when many of them aren't working with no water pressure... ouch.
Ok, tell him to firewall the throttles. We also need a central information to where we can give donations and I have also noticed that several people have mentioned that they are willing to give space in their homes.
Laz is on "vacation."
You are very much correct. The Industrial Canal lock SEEMS to be missing and may have been opened to let the river water from the St. Bernard side equalize things....but I cannot fathom the east side of the Industrial Canal with 20 ~ 30 feet of water over EVERYTHING(up to the canal levee). Glad I have memories, photos, and videos of "how it was"..
04:42 PM CDT on Tuesday, August 30, 2005
4:42 P.M. - (AP) Electric companies from around the country are rushing crews to the hurricane-ravaged South. They will help restore power to an area so devastated that it could be weeks or even months before the lights come back on in many places. David Botkins, a spokesman for Dominion Virginia Power, says 200 workers are headed to Louisiana and Mississippi.
4:40 P.M. - (AP) State officials say they are working on plans to evaucate inmates from the Orleans Parish prison and the Jefferson Parish jail. Both facilities face a threat of flooding.
The state Corrections Department is trying to figure out how to transfer 4,000 inmates from the New Orleans jail and another 1,000 from the Jefferson Parish jail in Gretna.
The inmates would be moved to state prisons including the highest-security at Angola. Corrections spokesman Pam LaBorde says it's quite a logistical situation to accomplish.
4:23 P.M. - Jefferson Parish officials say schools could reopen two months after Labor Day.
4:21 P.M. - WWL-TV Reporter quotes officials as saying there may now be 60,000 people in the Superdome and that more people are still being urged to go there.
3:59 P.M. - WWL-TV reporter Jonathan Betz reports widespread looting and WWL-TV cameras showed people walking out of Canal Street stores with racks of clothes and electronics. Some looters concentrated on basics and supplies, while others made no secret of their desire to get what they could.
Yeah, but Laz only dresses like a girl, so it's OK if he has a crush on Howlin.
Again?
If you remember last year when there were two hurricanes in a row that his Florida...
President Bush, Laura and daughters went to Florida..passed out water and iced...checked out the situation.
He was FLAMED by the dems and media for going because they said he was taking up valuable people that were needed in the clean up, to guard him...
Pres. Bush will NEVER do anything right for a lot of Americans.
His tone of voice was very pertinant to his speech: "Where is Bush?" (Wolf announces he's in San Diego) "Oh it's nice that he came off vacation. . ." his voice was spilling over with sarcasm. I sent an email to CNN calling him a maggot - I believe he's the first asshole liberal that I've heard bring anti-Bush politics into the middle of this tragedy.
LOL and Bump! Agreed!
Almost all the cruise ships are not of US registry.
The rain water from that part of the Country ends up in the Mississippi River after all the streams run off into rivers like the Ohio River.
Man, it's that way accross the nation.
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