Katrina Live Thread XII

Various ^ | 31 August 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

President Bush: "We are dealing with one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history." Push has appropriated vast federal resources to assist with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

78,000 people are currently in shelters. New Orleans evacuation continues. 10,000 additional National Guard troops have been called to service.

Hospitals are running low on supplies, and public health concerns include water borne disease, poor sanitation, food and drinking water contamination and shortages, mosquitoes, carbon monixide poisoning from electricity generators, lack of childcare, and the special needs of the elderly.

Links to various news, local and state 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 includes shelter and volunteer updates

WLBT.com Jackson MS

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
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers

Streaming Video:

WWL-TV: http://www.khou.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad

WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx"

WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739

WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518

WTOK-TV (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/

WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563

Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#

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 XI
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

[neodad]

As a matter of fact they had some earthquakes out my way in the California Desert this afternoon...

From the usgs website it looks like a swarm of 4+ quakes, right on top of each other. Something brewing out west?

Nah, W is just testing his earthquake transmorgefier.

[BurbankKarl]

Police detain people in a stolen truck filled with looted goods on the Westbank Expressway in Westwego, La., Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.

[PhiKapMom]

Way to go Governor Perry -- Texans searching for guns and drugs. Guess those folks from NO are going to get a Texas welcome.

[M0sby]

You are in my prayers...
I am so very sorry...
Please let us know if we can help you...because we will...

Have you seen this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473656/posts

Thanks for the ping BG...

[bvw]

In his never-quite-finished opus "On War", the Austrian teacher and officer, Karl Von Clausewitz, encourages plans and planning. Not, says Clausewitz, so that a particular plans will be carried out, much less perfectly carried out -- but because by making plans and developing the planning capability, an institution or organization trains itself to deal with situations as they happen. At the onset of war, says Clausewitz, iirc, "Plans go out the window." But the strengths of the planners, and the abilities to coordinate, to adapt, to communicate of the organization that are developed by active planning, are the real strength of a military.

We saw in NYC on 911 a great city organization, refined by such planning.

Did they have a plan for two heavy fuel-loaded airliners flying into the WTC towers? Of course not! But they had all the organizational capability and resources that a long program of active planning gave them. And once so trained in dealing with all the various contigencies people come up with in doing active planning, they had no problem applying all that strength, that strength of preparedness, coordination and intellect. They behaved like adults.

[76834]

No
This is recent vid, earlier this afternoon and they were loading up folks to go to Houston.
Also lots of military folks on top of SD unloading "who knows what" probly food H20 etc.

[Not A Snowbird]

Nah, W is just testing his earthquake transmorgefier.

Snort! :-)

[76834]

The thing is you cant eat welding rods and immediately $hit I beams.

You got it.......

[owl37]

1. Lake Ponchartrain is getting an incredible amount of run off from the storm.

2. The Missississississippi is prevented from flowing into the lake by the Bonne Carre spillway. (i.e. a dam)

[John Jamieson]

The news people didn't do well in science and math is totally beyond them.

Nearly all of NO is lower than the Mississippi, but not below sea level.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Re bombing a drainage channel:

That would drain LP to sea level a bit quicker, but they've still got to keep LP out of New Orleans, and pump what's spilled into New Orleans back into LP.

[Arizona Carolyn]

It HAS been very quiet here the past week or so. The monsoon has gone away suddenly, too. The Pacific is in a quiet phase. Wouldn't suprise me for us to have an October suprise out this direction.

[Riley]

To repeat from an earlier post, I heard the Army Corp of Engineers guy on the news this evening. He said, once the levees are repaired (he estimated 4 days for that job), he said it would take 3 to 6 months to drain the city!

Thanks- in a thread of this size, once you've read something, it becomes a major undertaking to find it again.

[Skip Ripley]

If Pete Maravich had played in his prime with the talent that surrounded Jordan, Bird and Magic Johnson, he would be mentioned in the same breath.

That guy had the most amazing feel for the game.

[tcrlaf]

THAT's A good example of what's happening in NO!

I'm betting those clowns get off because they were "Profiled"!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Beats me. Were they out of fuel?

[TYVets]

The city did crap pre-storm.

On the Larry King Show tonight a Jefferson Parrish official said that between 200,000 and 300,000 of the 500,000 parish population was still there when the storm hit.

50% does not sound like a very good rate for for an evacuation.

[Cboldt]

Thank you for sharing that letter from Bill Martin. It is breathtaking...it gives some idea of the scope of the disaster. People coming in on buses and literally dying before his eyes!

From gunshot, not from the disaster. Yes, it is breathtaking. Yes, it is really happening.

[Howlin]

http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

[tcrlaf]

PS... You notice the bottle of BOOZE he's holding?