She mentions so many helicopters is sounds like Baghdad, yet they report no aid.
The woman is holding a bottled water, yet they claim there was no water handed out in Metrarie at the staging area.
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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by 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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
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Tropical Storm 12
I don't know anything. I wish I had a crystal ball but I don't.
I don't want to be an alarmist, but you asked so....possibilities include a significant fire, natural or man made, significant civilian unrest, say a riot at the dome, a big firefight between Guard and looters, with significant collateral damage, long term damage to refining plants, long term closure of the Mississippi or any of the ports involved, river levee breaks, sending a wall of water across what's left and then the obvious, simply that the magnitude of the rescues still needed is so large that we don't get to a lot of them in time.
I think it's important to be aware of the worst case scenario, but once you get there, I think it's even more important to work hard putting as positive a spin on things as you can. Negative storm energy got us in this mess, positive energy will get us out.
Burbank Karl is reporting that the firefights, skirmishes, and even cops or hospitals getting overrun that we have seen for two nights running have now been replaced with arrests.
That's good enough for me, and on that note, I'm outta here.
Night all.
Yea .. Joe mentioned that he was in office for many many years
These libs do not want to go down this road
Though there have been many jokes through the years about the corrupt politicians in NO ... it's all true
Oh and while I'm on my rant .. Joe is getting on my ever last nerve
12,000 people in the AstroDome now; they changed their minds and let the buses that had already arrived in Houston to unload.
Later buses will be diverted to Dallas; Perry has declared his state in an emergency (so he can get funds).
Mayor Schmitz, "shoot to kill" proclamation, from a less politically correct era:
http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906.2/killproc.html
(I wish I knew how to get these images to load directly w/o the link!)
"Houston knows the difference between those who steal buses and those who steal televisions, shoot at rescue workers, or who stick up hospital pharmacists for drugs.
We greet these refugees not with zero tolerance, but with a generous welcome. And with an Astrodome that, while not ideal, will be air-conditioned, well-supplied and well-supported.
Now the mayor is blaming the Iraq war for not having the resources. This guy is losing it.
She mentions so many helicopters is sounds like Baghdad, yet they report no aid.
The woman is holding a bottled water, yet they claim there was no water handed out in Metrarie at the staging area.
FRmail!
Some people do not understand how orders of magnitude make a difference.
The structures may be sound but there will be problems with mold. Any place that is somewhat warm and damp will have problems with mold. Let it set for several months and you will have an extreme problem.
Does anybody besides me want to smack the ever living CRAP out of Joe Scarborough?
Some of those patients in those hospitals are resting in Kansas City and Houston hospitals tonight.
Knowing this, the local and state officials should have asked for more help and done more to reduce the number who actually stayed in the city. The rescue effort so far has been amazing, but the city moved resources from law and order to the rescue effort, instead of leaving the police in place and utilizing the National Guard to aid in the search.
I'll say this once again --- strong male leaders were crying after 9/11.
It's okay to cry at national tragedies. Shows you have a heart.
The men leaders cried then. The women leaders can cry now too.
Meanwhile his police force has just walked away from his city. Telling.
Bobby Demaisip, left; Billy Seller, center; and his father, Leland Seller, right; watch television as an electric fan cools them at their camp site in Hattiesburg, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. The men are from Orlando, Fla., and have come to Hattiesburg to work in the cleanup of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
uh, yes, I called them buffoons.
but that was based on the reporterette claiming there was a major miscommunication re: numbers they would accept....
it was later corrected, by reporterette, and I posted that I stand corrected.
Sorry if I am just a simpleton babbling, we're not nearly as smart as you, just reporting what I heard. Take care...
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