A military helicopter makes a food and water drop to survivors of Hurricane Katrina near the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005.
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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by 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.
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
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
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
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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How about the fault is : Katrina!
Pascagoula had a shipyard.
A military helicopter makes a food and water drop to survivors of Hurricane Katrina near the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005.
Jackson has a nose for publicity....
Yeah - & a face only a mother could love
No *sigh*'s allowed!!! This thread is so big it's hard to keep up. REAL hard.
You did the right thing!!!!!
I think now that FEMA's had a few days to asess things, things are going to get better in a hurry.
Illinois National Guardsmen pass a staging area for trucks being deployed to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, at Camp Lincoln in Springfield, Ill. The trucks will be accompanied by about 200 members of the Springfield-based 367th Maintenance Company, plus drivers and command staff.
Unbelievable!!! CEO CITGO who looks like he just jumped the Texas border fence. Is he Chavez" crony?
Sounds like trouble communicating with eachother on scanner...no one responding to requests for reply....Oh wait, sounds like they have a couple of cammand bases.....new conversation makes contact with command base
The police chief said the jail was evacuated yesterday morning. What is your source?
Have you identified "Pelican Base"?
This must be carefully sourced..
That sure looks a lot like Lynndie England walking alongside that column of vehicles.
Why should the levee be bush's fault? The funding for that is a clinton era project, or possibly Bush senior, I believe. I know they were working on the bridge at old hammond rd. in 98...and clinton turned down a request for funding to bring levee strength up to category 5 standards....
The photo montage Ron Reagan just showed at the end of his show is heartbreaking.
IMHO the numbers will be 100's of thousands when all is said and done.
is there any real items here?
Agree, I think think the grown-ups have arrived and are getting thing under control
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