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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
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To: Strategerist; the Deejay

Plus moving in a boat and its wake with the river close to overtopping levees may not be a good idea right now.


821 posted on 08/30/2005 3:22:33 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: nwctwx

What about all the vacation homes on the AL coast? Some of those were in bubble conditions, doubling from last year...


822 posted on 08/30/2005 3:22:52 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: BurbankKarl

Where I live, we RARELY have rain.
Forget about storms.


823 posted on 08/30/2005 3:22:54 PM PDT by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: metmom

I agree but we don't need a FREEPER preaching from the Mount letting us know what God had planned.


824 posted on 08/30/2005 3:23:00 PM PDT by eternity (What's it all about...Alfie?)
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To: jeffers; conservative cat; the Deejay
I think you were spoofed, at least in relation to Iran.

See: http://www.etherzone.com/2005/sent082905.shtml

The article is good for a much needed chuckle.

825 posted on 08/30/2005 3:23:35 PM PDT by yatros from flatwater
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To: RDTF

Sorry if this starts any trouble. That's not what I intended. Is anyone besides me a little surprised that things are continuing to get so much worse? I got the impression that the worst would be over when the storm passed. I didn't expect to see so much continuing devestation.


826 posted on 08/30/2005 3:23:39 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

At the very beginning of his speech in San Diego. He really needs to go to Houston and take a military helicopter tour over the air and then back to Washington to oversee this thing.


827 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:11 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: the Deejay

Me too, southern Nevada.


828 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:18 PM PDT by EX52D
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To: All
The official "Bush manufactured this hurricane to distract from bad news, and institute martial law in the US" democraticunderground.com thread has arrived:

…our Military has been working with "controlling the weather" for sometime…

It's just started, so be sure to check back in periodically for fun and frivolity! Those are the kinds of threads were you separate the cutely insane from the dangerously certifiable!

829 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:24 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: filbert; Arizona Carolyn
SWEET! No, we were talking about this, but didn't know the answer.

Check this out, Arizona:

USNORTHCOM (U.S. Northern Command) has established Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. as a federal operational staging area to expedite the movement of relief supplies and emergency personnel to affected areas.

Also, the USS Bataan (LHD-5), an amphibious assault ship, is on standby to provide assistance. It's carrying three MH-53E Sea Dragon Helos, each capable of carrying 55 passengers and 16 tons of cargo over 50 NM. (ref.)

No word on whether a carrier will be redirected to the area yet -- a la the tsunami -- although I have heard unsubstantiated rumors to that effect. However, the LHD class (which includes the Bataan, and the Kearsarge that was recently fired at in Jordan) is essentially a small aircraft carrier in itself. Hopefully this is just the beginning of major relief efforts

830 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:35 PM PDT by madison10
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To: dennis1x

I don't know, but these 'holy rollers' in the threads of disasters get on my last nerve, I tell you.


831 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:40 PM PDT by Conservababe
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas
Excellent idea if they could get them in. I wondered why they didn't use tour and school buses to get folks out.

I think the problem is that the roadways are impassible. There is no way for busses etc to go anywhere. IMO

832 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:48 PM PDT by queenkathy (Dear God, I have a problem; it's me.)
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To: buccaneer81

I dont know much about hurricane andrew as far as the destruction.. How does this one compare.. This seems SO CATASTROPHIC.. LIKE #1 ??


833 posted on 08/30/2005 3:24:52 PM PDT by ElisabethInCincy
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To: metmom

Just imagine what would have been if not for this puff of dry air:

"But the storm actually turned out to be much less powerful than predicted. Meteorologists say a puff of dry air coming out of the Midwest weakened Katrina just before it reached land, transforming a Category 5 monster into a less-threatening Category 3 storm. "


834 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:05 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: filbert

Makes sense. It wouldn't make sense to bring in logistics and relief efforts by air right in the middle of the storm. A year from now, these people affected are still going to be picking up the pieces.


835 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:05 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: tcrlaf; Political Junkie Too
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...

Uh, those ships fly the Liberian flags so they don't have to pay exorbitantly high port taxes. They're all owned by American companies.

I'd imagine every single one of them is booked and scheduled.

The Delta Queen steamship company has several boats that go up and down the Mississippi. They don't hold thousands, but they might work.

836 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:10 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: Rutles4Ever
Okay - let's say they get these cruise ships in NO. How are these people going to get to them???

They're calling for everyone who has a boat to volunteer. Anything that floats could do it, plus the cruise ships have small boats that they could launch.

837 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:16 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Some bigger boats have landing pads for helicopters...


838 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:22 PM PDT by Woodstock (Unionize China)
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To: yatros from flatwater

"To: jeffers; conservative cat; the Deejay
I think you were spoofed, at least in relation to Iran.

See: http://www.etherzone.com/2005/sent082905.shtml

The article is good for a much needed chuckle."

You're right...on all counts.


839 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:29 PM PDT by jeffers
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To: proud American in Canada
rumored to be haunted by the ghosts of dead soldiers. If the water stays high for weeks, how can that possibly be saved?

I think that soldier ghosts can likely swim. :-)

840 posted on 08/30/2005 3:25:34 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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