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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: Diddle E. Squat

TO ALL:

I put out a call for help on the Canadian blogs and received a response today from one lady who says the Petco Foundation is sending assistance for animals. You could contact them to find out more about what they are planning. Here's the link she sent me:

http://www.petco.com/Content/Content.aspx?PC=petcofoundationhome&Nav=11&cm_ven=email&cm_cat=don&cm_pla=083005&cm_ite=katrina&CMReferringUrl=


921 posted on 08/30/2005 3:41:30 PM PDT by foreign devil
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To: Dog

I guess the South won't rise again.


923 posted on 08/30/2005 3:41:50 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Dog

Is this the right time to say "the south shall rise again"?


924 posted on 08/30/2005 3:42:06 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: TexanToTheCore
There may be some screw ups along the way, but we are dealing with rescue personnel who, at this point, are already tired. They have been working since last night to bring people to higher ground.

I've worked with these people and they are the best you will ever encounter, dedicated to saving lives and secondarily, protecting property.

Unless you have been in a flood, you really don't realize how overwhelming it can be and at the same time how courageously people stand and deliver in the face of extraordinarly bad odds.

For those people on the ground this is total war.

Thank you for an excellent post. I agree.

925 posted on 08/30/2005 3:42:39 PM PDT by justshe
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To: jhny777
Bush needs to take control now

He already has. Where have you been?

if he wants legacey this is it .

He doesn't.

Oh, and welcome to FR, newbie.

926 posted on 08/30/2005 3:42:53 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Official RKBA Landscaper and Arborist, Duchess of Green Leafy Things)
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To: mariabush

You beat me to it...just what I was going to post.


927 posted on 08/30/2005 3:43:16 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: jhny777

welcome to Free Republic.


928 posted on 08/30/2005 3:43:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: TexanToTheCore

thanks for your posts, these rescue people are every bit the heroes that the NYPD and Firemen were. They are risking their lives to help others, and no one knows what additional horrors might unfold in this unstable situation.

Anyone who could be long gone, but is instead there in NOLA helping strangers is a hero in my book.

Thanks Texan for continuing to point this out.

RobFromGa


929 posted on 08/30/2005 3:43:48 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas

I asked about that yesterday... also trains and or the riverboats -- that they must have sent North out of the path of the storm.


930 posted on 08/30/2005 3:43:56 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas

This disaster was quite easily, and repeatedly, forseen in detail.

Storms like Katrina are routine; the site of New Orleans and Mississippi has undoubtedly struck by hundreds of Category 4/5 storms.


931 posted on 08/30/2005 3:43:56 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: All

Can someone give an analysis of how Gov. Blanco and Gov. Barbour are handling this event, and the future political impact of their performance?

I know it is early, but this could be a key event in the run up to their next election campaign.


932 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:09 PM PDT by ChronicMA
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To: dead
But I think posting DU threads is frowned upon around here. Just attach it to the bottom of your home page for now.
934 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:21 PM PDT by RobFromGa (Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran-- what are we waiting for?)
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To: BurbankKarl

AL was better off than MS and parts of SE LA... those homes are also constructed better. So far, all the images/videos I have seen from the 'harder' hit areas have shown that better constructed buildings held the surge best... this is especially evident with the high rises. Wherever the surge went, it took out houses/apts/most frame buildings.

We still don't have much from the worst hit areas, and at this time frame, that is extremely troubling. That coastal region has a lot of small wood frame houses... so far I'm hearing a lot of people figured if they survived Camille, they would survive this... Combine that with the focus on NO, you probably have a lot of people who didn't leave. Whoever came in contact with the surge... I don't know, they probably didn't make it.

Everyone is still mobalizing, and the real news is slow to trickle out. It's very concerning. FEMA modeling said a cat4/5 near NO could kill 50-60k. I think that's highly unlikely, but I suppose it's the only real reference we have.


935 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:22 PM PDT by nwctwx (Everything I need to know, I learned on the Threat Matrix)
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To: dead

OMG.


936 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:26 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: Torie

How deep is Lake Ponchartrain?


937 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:28 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: teenyelliott

I say have the non-violent ones work helping in someway, like how they have the street crews made of prisoners.


938 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:48 PM PDT by ftriggerf
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To: flutters
3:13 P.M. - Governor Blanco: A lot of people have lost their lives, but we have no numbers because the priority is saving those who are alive so we don't have more casualties.

We may never know how many lives were lost. Bodies never recovered. It might be better to not even release total death estimates.

939 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:56 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: All

If anyone is interested in finding a certain address, or just wants to see a map of New Orleans or anywhere, for that matter, see below. Someone on another thread had friends living at 610 Independence St., New Orleans, and wanted to see where that was. Type it in. Click on "Aerial Photo." Use the zoom, in or out, on left side of page.

http://terraserver.microsoft.com/advfind.aspx


If that takes too long to open....use this:

http://terraserver.microsoft.com

Click on "advanced find" at top of page. Type in the address. Then click on "Aerial Photo." Use the zoom, in or out, on left side of page.

You can type in your own address in your city and state! See your house!


940 posted on 08/30/2005 3:45:58 PM PDT by toldyou
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