Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[Peach]

Mayor Nagin's interview on CNN again.

He's unhinged.

[mewzilla]

Speaking of CNN, why the heck is it that when CNN lists the phone numbers of relief agencies one can donate to, the news net NEVER lists the Salvation Army? I haven't seen their info up once. What in Hades is with that?

[max_rpf]

One of these reporters needs to remind the kind mayor that his job is to run the City of NO and ask him what he is doing?

[mewzilla]

And as for Nagin, you get what you vote for. This should be a lesson to the nation.

[NautiNurse]

I'm trying to understand why Nagin has time for all the interviews.

[NautiNurse]

The explosions and fire - omg - is it The Riverwalk Mall?

[bwteim]

He is blaming a lot of the lawlessness on the people dependent upon drugs [druggies]:


typing as he is speaking

"we have drug starving crazy addicts that are wreaking havoc"

"we can only target certain sections of the city and hope to G*d that we are not overrrun"

"we authorized 8 billion dollars to go to Iraq i lickety s quick

"we authorized $ x after 9-11

"you meant to tell me that you cant

that we can't figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need

"come on

"someone needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down and figure this thing out


"i don't want to see any ore g*damn press conferences

"dont tell me 40,000 are here, they ain't

"get of your asses and do something

"the city of NOLA will never be the same

[BureaucratusMaximus]

5:24 A.M. - UNDATED (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina damaged or displaced an estimated 58 Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and drilling rigs. The American Petroleum Institute says among those, 30 rigs and platforms have been reported lost. Tim Sampson, an A-P-I spokesman says no company breakdown was available.

Good God...not good.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Nagin doesn't seem to understand that unless he works to save his city first, he doesn't have to worry about saving his career.

[Uncle Ike]

"I'm trying to understand why Nagin has time for all the interviews."

that's easy -- he doesn't have a city to be mayor of anymore.

[Peach]

He really needs to stop getting air time and actually do some work in a command center with the FEMA folks.

He's talking and none of the people who need to hear him, can hear him.

I'd love to know if he really did ask the Governor to declare martial law days ago and she declined.

[SunnySide]

And didn't Max Mayfield from the NHC call them also warning them of the # of potential deaths/destruction.

...............

As did many non weather people and amatuers warned for all to get out of Katrina's path via internet boards as early as Wed., Thur., and Friday.

I know it will be hard but pass this onto everyone and repeat this over and over, especially those of you with access to radio shows, etc.,

American and foreignors who are offering "physical" aid and support to the disaster survivors need to STAY FOCUSED ON THE GOAL, STAY FOCUSED ON THE GOAL. Do not allow the nay sayers to distract search, rescue and relocation efforts. Focus on the goal, follow the LIGHT at the end of the tunnel. Keep the effort moving forward. Everyone can be the next persons pep talk coach. Keep verbally "Psyching up" your fellow men and women.

[bwteim]

'morning all

[Rightly Biased]

Wow I'd be goin absolutly crazy.

Thanks.

[mhking]

I'm listening to the Nagin interview on WWL-AM; the one thing I can't figure out is what the hell is HE doing right now other than pointing the finger?

What's worse, is that the announcers are cheering him.

There's plenty of time to point the finger, but what can we do to get this done? How can we get this done? How can we stop the looters and snipers? How can we save people's lives?

Am I missing something here?

[Peach]

I've noticed that; it's never the Salvation Army.

10 major Navy vessels are at Gulf Coast or on their way.

[Rightly Biased]

Friends don't let Friends live in Detriot.

[Peach]

I also heard him say someone needs to get on a plane between the president and governor and figure this thing out. OMG

And he said, I'm not a druggie and then something I couldn't follow. CNN will replay parts of it; they only played the first part so far.

[Trust but Verify]

This sounds like a lot, but there are 1000's, someone posted the number 4000 oil and gas platforms in the south. We have crude oil, we can take it out of the SPR if need be. What we do not have is enough refineries online, and anyone who heats with natural gas is in for a tremendous shock this winter. I'm one of them.

[mhking]

Updating streaming links:

WWL-TV (via CBS):
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/videoplayer/newVid/small_player/cbsnews_videoplayer.shtml?clip=LiveWebCast&BaseName=livenews&title=CBS$@$News$@$Live$@$Webcast&castNum=2&mediaType=wmv

WWL-TV (via WFAA Dallas): http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&live=yes

WWL-TV (via Yahoo!): http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1377930&segment=152389

WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38844.asx

WGNO-TV: http://abc26.trb.com/news/wgno-hurricane-livestream,0,6270996.htmlstory?coll=wgno-home-1

WPMI-TV: Temporarily Not Live Streaming http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739

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

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

United Radio From New Orleans (includes WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM as a single broadcast network) : http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wskr_am.asf

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

New Orleans Police Department + National Guard Operations (subject to congestion - try again later if it doesn't load):
(capacity 300 listeners) http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u
(capacity 250 listeners) http://216.22.26.45:8002/listen.pls
(capacity 160 listeners) http://66.255.148.51:8000/listen.pls
(capacity 100 listeners) http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/louisiana.m3u
(capacity 20 listeners) http://joem.scare.org:8025/
(unknown capacity) http://radio.scannerbuff.net:8008/hurricane.m3u
(unknown capacity) http://www.radioreference.com:8080/lspbtr.m3u

Gulf Coast ARES Emergency Net (subject to interference and audio anomalies): http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/canwarnlive.m3u

(You may need to install Winamp to listen to these NOPD & ARES broadcasts. Visit http://www.winamp.com to download the free player.)