Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

28,000 National Guard troops are deployed to the disaster areas in Mississippi, Alabama, and to Louisiana, where SWAT teams are working to combat the looters and shooters in New Orleans. Additional 1400 National Guard troops are being deployed daily.

Shootings reported at a New Orleans hospital, rescue boats, and a military helicopter, while conditions continue to deteriorate at the SuperDome amid refugee deaths and chaos. Evacuation of New Orleans continues.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert has voiced serious doubts about rebuilding New Orleans with federal funds, while assuring the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS."

Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, "We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.

The Port of New Orleans is now open to shallow draft vessels. Congress is reconvening in an emergency session. International offers to assist the U.S. have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States.

Jesse Jackson has arrived in Louisiana...

Links to various news, local and state government websites:

WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends
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 (via CBS): WWLTV via CBS
WWL-TV Now via WFAA Dallas **NEW LINK**: http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&live=yes
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 Temporarily Not Live Streaming (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
Louisiana Statewide Katrina Network (WJBO-AM Baton Rouge): http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wjbo_am.asf
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Louisiana Scanner

Related FR Threads:

FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread FReeper Check In thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Looting Begins In New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread
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, and lines are busy
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.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association http://www.nbhera.org/

Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
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

[BenLurkin]

Poor planning on their part has created a huge crisis...

Sure looks that way.

[EBH]

And someone needs to answer for that, when this is all over. Right now the powers that be are trying to recover from the vacume that was created. People are dieing from...the incompetence exhibited in the beginning.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Children are incredibly resilient with respect to pets, IMHO. Family, friends, neighbors, or even strangers dying before them is a very different thing. This comes from personal experience with both events.

[oceanview]

under state control - its no problem.

[Tuxedo]

The sad thing about the Snowball story is it is the tip of the iceberg in tragic stories we will hear over the next several weeks. This was one of those hundred-year storms, like that which struck Galveston (also a Category 4) and it gets harder each day to grasp the enormity of these situations.

[Will_Zurmacht]

dear lord!

i imagine the landlord will be getting paid by the gov. for housing them, plus school districts get add'l funding bills, etc.
.....that's the dirty little secret in a lot of this stuff.

oh, my angry muslim neighbors are loving this hurricane...
One told me this was a curse by Allah for Americas ways...
I replied "Oh, like when he killed all those muslims in the Tsunami?"...
that shut him up.
He sits by the mailboxes and acts obnoxiously to the American girls...but I digress...

[Cedar]

"Korea, CCTV, and NHK are on regular prog."

I may be wrong, but earlier I was shocked to see NBC, CBS, and ABC on regular night programming too. Shocked.

At least Dateline last night did their show on the crisis.

Thought for sure they all would pre-empt regular programming tonight. Maybe they did later on, and I missed it.

I bet if this tragedy happened on the East Coast all the 3 major networks would be showing it 24 hrs. a day. Just a thought.

[RummyChick]

I don't know. But she also said there could be no guns inside the Superdome because everyone was searched. Evacuees claim that isn't true.

[Mad Dawgg]

"If the President were to declare a state of insurrection, then he could send in federal troops without violating the law."

Excellent choice, if memory serves you just canceled all insurance in the area. If so you have just declared anyone who has any property damage in the area they will not recover any insurance funds. Imagine the economic devastation of such a decision.

[eternity]

Let's face it. All this is totally over her head.

[fedupjohn]

"Washington, November 12, 2004 -- After five days of fighting, U.S. and Iraqi forces are now said to be in control of nearly all of Fallujah..."

Great post....buuuut how long were we staging and positioning for the move on Fallujah: I think it was about a month. Ha Ha , didn't think of that did ya. Hey guy, just funnin' with ya, but I'm serious.

[LikeLight]

Sounding more and more like a BlackHawk Down situation in the making . . .

Mogadishu on the Mississippi . . .

Let's hope not . . .

[Soul Seeker]

Chuckie has just alerted us after lives are "saved" they'll begin a Blame Bush campaign.

[Cedar]

Don't worry. I believe God is the real source of all help.

[cajungirl]

wwl radio is on the lsu campus. As is Times Picayune.
The WWL people have been on non stop and are about to collapse.

[lightman]

government has a duty to do precisely what governments are established to do, protect and defend.

"that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men...."

[BurbankKarl]

Deven Hull, of Charleston, S.C., armed with a shotgun, questions a motorist in Pascagoula, Miss., Thursday. Hull's family home was one of the oldest homes on Beach Boulevare. A growing number of looters have left exhausted residents frustrated.

[MarMema]

I live down the street from Northwest Hospital and can see them going thru the drills. From the outside, and w/o an actual disaster, it looks like they are prepared. But here's the question - I'm sure hospitals, police, fire, etc in NO have these drills as well. What happened, or didn'thappen, for there to be such a lack of response? Is the extent of the disaster just too great? Are we fooling ourselves w/what we could do in a real disaster? Are the folks in NO just not competent?

Thank you. That has been exactly my point. What happened? Why were almost a thousand boats turned away that came during the beginning of the flooding offering to help?

I have been slowly coming to the conclusion that these people are throw-aways for some reason.

[Palladin]

More idiocy from Blanco:

Blanco demands apology

9:15 p.m.

An angry Gov. Kathleen Blanco demanded that Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., apologize for his statement that it might not make sense to rebuild New Orleans. It was “unthinkable,” Blanco said, that Hastert would “kick us when we’re down. I demand an immediate apology.”

At a press conference Thursday night, she said that 300 soldiers from the Arkansas National Guard arrived in New Orleans fresh from Iraq and are under orders to restore order from the “hoodlums.’’

She said of the soldiers: “They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot to kill . . . and I expect they will.’’

U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, said that 1,500 people had gathered on the Chalmette ferry landing awaiting evacuation, possibly by ferry, to Algiers. Making a plea for those refugees to receive food and water now, Melancon estimated that about 100 are dead, possibly from dehydration.

[MEG33]

One would think they did not understand our form of government.