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

[AFPhys]

I was just looking for that figure (but hadn't asked): the area affected. I was motivated by the quote NN has from the Netherlands official starting this thread. I wish to note, now, that the area affected is FIVE the total land area of the whole country of Netherlands. I would love him to state just how he would handle it when his whole country is gone, as well as a distance his whole country wide on all sides of the Netherlands.

maroons...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Interesting piece of news:

EarthWatch Update:
Meteorologist: Glenn Schwartz
Updated: 12:30 p.m. Thursday

We have four potential tropical systems out there.

Slideshow: Glenn Looks At The 4 Tropical Systems Forming

One became a storm that is tropical depression Lee, but it is way out in the Atlantic.

Tropical depression number 14 may be the most potentially dangerous system, possibly affecting the Caribbean in a week.

And there is another one, northeast of the Bahamas we also will be following. This is not too far off Florida and that one will have to be watched as well.

A fourth storm is to the far east and it may also have potential to be a big system.

http://www.nbc10.com/weather/1787404/detail.html

[mewzilla]

I think the problem is that FEMA assumes states know what they're doing, and is there to help, not take over.

If that's the assumption they made, bad assumption.

[Friend of thunder]

Coast Guard estimates 100 barges are run around in the Mississippi river right now..navigation channels have to be completely redrawn.

Did they give any idea on a time frame? If the Mississippi is un-navigable for any period of time the middle of the country will be hard hit.

[WoodstockCat]

already happening in Miss. Guy pulled a knife in Jackson, MS yesterday in a gas line.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Nope. I blame the FEMA Incident Commander or whatever his job title is. Jerk.

[dawn53]

I don't know about the black vote thing.

A black man on a local radio station (in our area) was apologizing to the nation for the behavior of black thugs in NO.

He said it was a disgrace and embarrassment to the black community.

[spectre]

So? People get shot at in Iraq all the time, but it doesn't ground the planes.

sw

[AFPhys]

Correction: the Netherlands quote was from the start of a different thread ...

"Netherlands (based on the fact it has half its country below sea level) official: "I don't want to sound overly critical, but it's hard to imagine that (the damage caused by Katrina) could happen in a Western country. It seemed like plans for protection and evacuation weren't really in place, and once it happened, the coordination was on loose hinges."

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Absolutely bad assumption. Especially on a disaster this huge.

[Coldwater Creek]

Here in Memphis, we have a mayor that is of the same cut, and the man has a PHD. Street talk and legit babies are his tradmark.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

what a great, descriptive phrase: the coordination was on loose hinges.

[bwteim]

Admin Mods.

I know you all are up to your eyeballs in work, but I went through my replies/posts since the storm.

Whenever you have the time, would you please remove my links to Clarion Ledger? Don't want to get us slammed later.

Thank you, bwteim

They are listed below:


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=2990#2990

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=2963#2963

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=2949#2949

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474387/posts?page=2915#2915

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473615/posts?page=4649#4649

This one is OK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473615/posts?page=4517#4517

probably OK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473373/posts?page=468#468

probably OK
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472974/posts?page=1419#1419

[AFPhys]

The governor is the person who had the greatest authority to deal with this - even greater than the President.

The president was only able to act AFTER request by the governor, or if the governor or state was clearly incapable. Sadly, that wasn't (quite) the case.

[va4me]

The NO Police force is likely as crippled as the city in general.

Well, we have all these new Iraqi police that we've trained. Do you think anyone would want to leave the relative safety of places like Fallujah to come help in NO? :-)

[Friend of thunder]

Well said.

[BlackRain]

"There is no Incident Commander with backed up authority, by the looks of things. "

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Radio traffic shows that there is a command element to the responders. It is called "Pelican Base", however, I don't know who is in charge.

From the sound of the traffic, it seems that LSP, EOC, National Guard, NOPD are doing their own thing.

[mewzilla]

I don't think anyone thought they'd be looking at the largest natural disaster ever to hit the United States.

Whether they shoud have...

All I know is that last I knew disaster preparedness was still mainly a local and state responsibility. The feds can't be blamed for voters who elect morons, and morons who elect to stay instead of evacuate.

[GodBlessUSA]

This is scary news. I can't even imagine. Prayers they don't become much of anything. But 3 systems to be concerned about. Yikes!

[ohioWfan]

Show me where I have bashed Bush? You are reading something into my words that aren't there.

I didn't accuse.....I asked.

You were critical of one defending the President who is being attacked (stupidly) by the left for this disaster, so I was asking if you were taking the opportunity to bash him as well.

All you needed to do is say "No."