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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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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.
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Tropical Storm 12
I thought they got all the tankers out of there before hand. Did they blow that, too?
The lake is open to the sea. Someone said it was 9 inches above sea level. The surge is long gone.
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.
*** 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...
Yes. Let's do that, and leave the preaching for some other time.
Some 82 y.o. heart patient stuck up on Canal Street needing medication.
And it is raining here in lower Michigan too.
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'.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
They come into NO all the time it's one of the major cruise ports next to Florida and California.
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
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
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