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

[GodBlessUSA]

I pray for the safety of President Bush today.

[Peach]

The Governor of NC put out a press release yesterday...it was on FR...that the southeast gets its oil from the Gulf and there will be shortages.

Economic consequences are going to be severe.

[bwteim]

"And he said, I'm not a druggie and then something I couldn't follow."

what he said/meant was: I am thinking clear and ""someone needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down and figure this thing out "

the part that struck me most * about what I caught on the stream was his blaming a lot of the lawlessness on drug addicts:
"we have drug starving crazy addicts that are wreaking havoc"

PS
after most * I was struck by:
his profanity laced speech
his lack of leadership

[mewzilla]

Nagin's trying to cover his butt. I just hope Congress doesn't give him any help.

[Peach]

Have you heard from everyone in your family, mhking?

[NautiNurse]

what the hell is HE doing right now other than pointing the finger?

Nagin has decompensated.

Mike, there have been explosions down by the river. Some reports saying a mall. Riverwalk?

Meanwhile, 40 buses with 20 more on the way to the Astrodome, which reached capacity 10 hours ago. Anyone heard the next stop?

[Types_with_Fist]

Morning all. Any troops, water, help... anything today?

[LikeLight]

This is the last day of "normal" as the rest of the country has known it. This is a sea change day, a watershed day, like 9/11. The "storm surge" from Katrina is going to engulf the country - economic, humanitarian, political - the whole deal. I sense things are about to be different. Like the migration of the middle west during the dustbowl, only faster.

[mhking]

The leadership, or lack of it, is what is frustrating me more than anything about Nagin. This is insanity. And to see this in our own country is even more frustrating.

[mewzilla]

I know there was a fire at a big local mall yesterday. The mall that burned had Sears and JC Penney as two of its anchor stores, if that's any help.

[dawn53]

The guy was trying to lay blame at everybody's feet but his own.

Yet at the same time he acknowledges that NO was a city on the edge before the hurricane.

Talks about drugs flowing freely through the city, high murder rate, etc. and says now that they're understaffed, things are out of control.

He almost sounds empathetic to the drug users that are now "on the edge" as he says because they haven't had a fix.

[Peach]

How long is the drive from NO to Houston?

Communications are seriously compromised, but can't at least some reporter walk to the Super Dome and tell those in charge that buses are being turned away from Houston?

[section9]

Sort of a tactical problem: where to airdrop. Only place inside might be to establish a forward area in the French Quarter. In fact, I rather expect an LZ to be set up there: it's dry land.

A LOT of what you were trained to do has not been done by a local force of first responders that simply did not respond. Large percentages of NOPD have simply bugged out. Others were simply outgunned by technicals with AK's and other automatic and semiautomatic weapons.

Disgusting is the only phrase that comes to my mind. Bottom line? Payment in full is being made for decades of corrupt, venal local and state government that goes back to the days of Huey Long's faux populism.

Only the military and the out of towners will be able to these good people out of the mess they're in.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Right_in_Virginia]

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?

www.salvationarmyusa.org/

1-800-Salarmy

[Peach]

There will be "before" and "after".

This changed everything.

[bwteim]

Now the talking head is saying blame/contact the GOP, hey, you want to keep in authority.... you better do something about this mess.

"let's secede from the union"

[Trust but Verify]

Awesome. I would have given her a ticket. I hope there are many. many such stories like this one. I can't see people living in a dome with 11,000 for very long. Hopefully, many of these folks will get in touch with family members who will offer to take them in.

[mhking]

Mike, there have been explosions down by the river. Some reports saying a mall. Riverwalk?

Nope. Riverwalk is just off the Quarter. The explosions happened at a railyard or chemical plant (both?) about three miles further south along the river, according to WDSU.

[SunnySide]

The Salvation Army is ONLY taking monetary donations to get FOOD, WATER AND MEDICINE to Disaster Survivors. A good organization to send in your donations. They are well organized, efficient and not wasteful.

[don-o]

I was struck by: his profanity laced speech his lack of leadership

Well, my take is that he was revealing that he did not have the power (ability?) to make things happen. His call for a moratorim on press conferences was surely a pointed finger.