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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: PhiKapMom

I thought they got all the tankers out of there before hand. Did they blow that, too?


901 posted on 08/30/2005 3:37:23 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: bjs1779

The lake is open to the sea. Someone said it was 9 inches above sea level. The surge is long gone.


903 posted on 08/30/2005 3:37:39 PM PDT by Torie
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To: Arizona Carolyn

CNN just had a reporter on live. She said that a man at the dome on the 2nd floor calmly got out of his chair walked over to the rail and told the people below to watch out. He then proceeded to jump off and kill himself. The dome is now surrounded by water.

It's getting desperate this is only the beginning.


904 posted on 08/30/2005 3:37:39 PM PDT by go-hyde-go (Dubya has secured his place in History.....Bill who??)
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To: teenyelliott

*** I say evacuate the prisons last, if they have time.**

I'm SURE the people gaurding them would agree with you...

But can you just IMAGINE the outcry? More screams of Gulags, and the attorney's lined up to file lawsuits??

This thing is going to be a MASSIVE litigation lottery anyway...


905 posted on 08/30/2005 3:37:49 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: metmom
The important thing is to show mercy to the suffering whether we think they we're foolish to stay or not. God knows, I've made some poor decisions in my life and I'm grateful that I'm not paying for them now.

Yes. Let's do that, and leave the preaching for some other time.

906 posted on 08/30/2005 3:38:04 PM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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To: BurbankKarl

Some 82 y.o. heart patient stuck up on Canal Street needing medication.


907 posted on 08/30/2005 3:38:06 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Lizarde

And it is raining here in lower Michigan too.


908 posted on 08/30/2005 3:38:11 PM PDT by queenkathy (Dear God, I have a problem; it's me.)
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To: libtoken; jeffers
We lost a piece of history.

Jefferson Davis's home destroyed

909 posted on 08/30/2005 3:38:17 PM PDT by Dog ( "Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.")
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To: cajungirl

No, the river appears to be flooding Arabi through the industrial canal. There was a photo of that posted where it appeared that the lock's gates were opened, and the river can be several feet higher than the lake during some floods. Also, the Superdome and FQ are, according to topo maps, at between 0' and 5' above sea level. The lake is normally around sea level, and the storm surge on the lake was reported to be between 9' and 12', but would now be mostly down from that because there is no longer the very strong storm winds from the north pushing the water against the city levees. So if the water is still rising downtown(which we don't know for sure, it may have by now leveled off), that suggests that there may be water coming in from the river, which was earlier reported to be near the top of the river levees, which are above 15'.


910 posted on 08/30/2005 3:38:28 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: dead

Disgusting. You can taste their glee at the potential economic ramifications and they're already starting an e-mail chain to blame this all on Bush...

Lower that the looters. Lower than the looters...


911 posted on 08/30/2005 3:38:52 PM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: Petronski
The question involved what was in the water: is it a toxic soup?

Right now, I would say the answers are "Everything" and "yes". What a tragedy.
912 posted on 08/30/2005 3:39:01 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Ohio State (-15) vs. Miami of Ohio, September 3rd)
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To: popdonnelly

That's last night's news. The VP of Tulane University Hospital had been notified that two blocks of it was gone and the hospital was calling FEMA for a roof-top evacuation.


913 posted on 08/30/2005 3:39:06 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: BurbankKarl
They = the mayor et. al.

There was a post about 3am last night here on FR that a levee had broken and the city was going to fill. I would hope that if we freepers knew, so would the local government guys.

914 posted on 08/30/2005 3:40:13 PM PDT by lizma
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To: atomicpossum; Admin Moderator
I agree that that might deserve its own thread, especially since they tried to delete it before it could be preserved. He is one of their "distinguished brainiacs", not a drive-by troll on their site.

But I think posting DU threads is frowned upon around here.

I'll wait for an exemption from the mods, should they believe one is merited. A little liberal lunatic mocking to lighten up the dreary news today.

915 posted on 08/30/2005 3:40:18 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: mariabush

I saw some of your posts after I posted the response to you, and I noticed that I had read your original post wrong...

I apologize to you. I think we all have good intentions but other than money, I don't know that any of us can help long term...

I am sorry, again...


916 posted on 08/30/2005 3:40:36 PM PDT by Txsleuth (Arlington Texas --- Next home of the Dallas Cowboys...going more broke every second.)
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To: sinkspur

They come into NO all the time it's one of the major cruise ports next to Florida and California.


917 posted on 08/30/2005 3:40:42 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Jeff Head
I heard that only 70 boats are available for rescue, so the Sheriff was demanding more. They were meeting at a Sam's Club and organizing for rescues. There are still entire Parrish's that have not been heard from.

This disaster is not something IMHO that could have been for seen. This, like 9/11 requires thinking outside the box. Not something we do well.

My fear is that not thousands, but 100's of thousands are dead or missing. The logistics of accounting for everyone, feeding, housing, clothing, not to mention medical care is enormous. The National Guard Unit here specializes in "displaced" persons. They have been called, or so I was told, to head to Louisiana. If anyone can account for missing and dead they can.
918 posted on 08/30/2005 3:40:57 PM PDT by Yellow Rose of Texas (War, 33% yes, 33% no, 33% undecided, so began the American Revolution.)
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To: Dog

That article states that the Mausoleum was opened by the hurricane and several caskets are now floating, or whatever the word was...OMG...
Just DANG


919 posted on 08/30/2005 3:41:03 PM PDT by queenkathy (Dear God, I have a problem; it's me.)
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To: queenkathy
And it is raining here in lower Michigan too.

It is? (looking out of window) Oh, yeah, guess it is. I've been on this thread so long, I didn't even know. LOL

920 posted on 08/30/2005 3:41:16 PM PDT by madison10
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