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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: NautiNurse

Starting to see some scam websites like "katrinarelief.com" popping up. Beware.


701 posted on 08/30/2005 3:01:15 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

Why??????? There was nothing that he could do yesterday.


702 posted on 08/30/2005 3:01:18 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Ingtar

A very interesting and astute take on the situation.

Having lived through a great flood in 1972, I can say that thirty years later, we still have the same divides and same classes in our larger society.

I pray to God that the people of New Orleans will survive this disaster, and come back, as the people of Pennsylvania did after Hurricane Agnes.


704 posted on 08/30/2005 3:01:57 PM PDT by Palladin (America! America! God shed His grace on Thee.)
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To: Lizarde
If Mike Cafferty bothered to pick up a newspaper or log onto the net, he'd read stories like this

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Bush cancels rest of vacation to focus on Katrina response

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - President Bush decided to cancel the rest of his vacation to concentrate on federal relief efforts for victims of Hurricane Katrina as his top disaster relief official lamented "catastrophic" damage in three Southern states.

With at least one New Orleans hospital threatened by Katrina's floodwaters, Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said that patients were being transferred to the Superdome and medical personnel were being sent in to treat them.

Meanwhile, the White House revealed that Bush was returning to Washington Wednesday rather than returning to his Texas ranch. "We have a lot of work to do," the president said of the storm damage in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Bush planned to chair a meeting Wednesday of a White House task force set up to coordinate the federal response and relief effort, said White House spokesman Scott McClellan.

The damage is "very, very sobering," Brown said. "And of course the flooding is just everywhere ... New Orleans, all through Mississippi and Alabama. This storm is really having a catastrophic effect." Low-lying areas are "just devastated," he said.

FEMA sent medical teams, rescue squads and groups prepared to supply food and water into the disaster areas and Brown said it would be "quite a while" before those displaced by the hurricane can return to damaged areas, especially in those areas near downtown New Orleans.

Bush was considering tapping U.S. emergency petroleum stockpiles to ease the storm's impact on affected refineries. Administration officials said Bush was expected to authorize a loan of at least some oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The storm shut down oil and natural gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico, representing about 8 percent of U.S. refining capacity or about 1 million barrels, further driving up gasoline prices.

Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman said, "Over the next few days, we will continue to gain more information on the specific needs and then be able to make a better determination on how we can help."

The reserves would be used to provide refineries a temporary supply of crude oil to replace interrupted shipments from tankers or offshore oil platforms affected by the storm.

The government put into effect a massive emergency assistance program that included rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas.

The president made emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. McClellan said Bush had spoken with the governors of those states "to make sure they were getting what they needed from the federal government."

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705 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:03 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: the Deejay

Like I explained vessels had to stay away from the area, because of the storm, and the ships travel at about 25 miles per hour. They can't magically teleport there.


706 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:06 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: ElisabethInCincy

I fear this is going to get much worse.

If ships can get the ppl out of there,
sickness and disease will be kept at
a minimum.


707 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:19 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Vinnie_Vidi_Vici

That would make the most sense to me!!!!!!!


708 posted on 08/30/2005 3:02:34 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: the Deejay

Heard this morning that there is an oil tanker that is partially sunk and oil leaking. Not sure the Port of New Orleans is even able to handle any ship right now. You have debris everywhere.


709 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:04 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: spectre

I saw that - made me shudder... makes you wonder where the prisoners will go... made me think of the movie "Conair"


710 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:07 PM PDT by pamlet
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To: overtaxed_canadian

The man's name is Michael Barnett... no URL I could see. I typed in some keyphrases to google, couldn't find it.


711 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:10 PM 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: Strategerist

The cable news keeps reporting about one levee being broken; don't we have information that it's actually two that are broken?


712 posted on 08/30/2005 3:03:52 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: jeffers

Don't take it.


713 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:04 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: Fitzcarraldo

I guess he's back at the White House
or will be soon. I pray he will send
in the NAVY.


714 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:06 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: Strategerist
Almost all the cruise ships are not of US registry.

Yes, and they're owned by corporations. Let the request be made publicly for them to help, and let them take the PR hit for daring to turn it down.

715 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:35 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: al baby
Now have some cinnamon toast

Mmmmmm. Cinammon toast. Are we restarting the recipes? LOL. I still want the banana pudding cajungirl was talking about just the other night. (Sorry, pregnant woman here!)

716 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:46 PM PDT by conservative cat
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To: Peach

HAVE WE GOT ANY NEWS ON JIM CANTORE ???????????


717 posted on 08/30/2005 3:04:51 PM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: ElisabethInCincy

Jim Cantore survived; I saw some of his taped video yesterday, but oddly TWC seems to have been basically ignoring him today.


718 posted on 08/30/2005 3:05:34 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: The Grim Freeper
Frankly, I think we're just beginning to see God's Judgment,

Shut the hell up. Your perverse Christianity is embarrassing, and Jesus Himself would call you a whitened sepulchre.

719 posted on 08/30/2005 3:05:40 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: the Deejay

DUMB QUESTION TIME - WHERE ARE HELICOPTERS TO DROP 1000LB POLY PLY BAGS OF SAND INTO THE BREECH?

WHERE ARE THE EMPTY BARGES TO SINK AT THE BREECH TO DO THE SAME THING???



720 posted on 08/30/2005 3:06:31 PM PDT by spanalot
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