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

[Warren_Piece]

Now is not the time, but he's on to something, and we'll need to address it once this is all over. But he's wrong about the cure.

We will need to take a good, brutally honest look at the culture of our inner cities. We should start a campaign to eliminate thug culture wherever we find it - even the white suburban wannabees.

The only disaster that compares with this is the Great Depression. And people didn't act like this then. We had TRULY poor people. But they were for the most part honerable. The people we see on TV do not even know what honor is.

I personally believe we should take welfare reform a step further. Every person in our country who is able to work should be required to work in some capacity. Work changes people, not as much as religious conversion, but it still helps give people, especially men, honor.

We don't need a new war on poverty. We need a war on poverty of spirit.

[Erik Latranyi]

OK. That's not the way it looked, but I will take your word for it.

[angcat]

Smoking Crack.

[bwteim]

No, I have not watched too much tube this morning and not CNN.

[dinasour]

Welcome to the FreeRepublic.

FYI, You stop being a newbie the first time a troll calls you a racist nazi.

[fooman]

that 8 looters had already been shot.

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that is good news.

[Lurking in Kansas]

We're really one big, happy disfunctional family.

And more so this week. This has been the craziest week I've ever seen on FR --EVER.

Old-timers vs. newbies, newbies vs. old-timers, trolls flushed out by high water, old friends at each others throat. This situation is, unfortunately, bringing out the worst in some FReepers too.

*sigh*

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I had lots of family and friends there. Most of the ones I am in contact in got out...but I have been glued to everything...If I hadn't left the city to care for my mom, I might have still been living there (and then I wouldn't have met my hubby, and then I wouldn't be living in Utah and talking to you!)

I still think they ought to appoint Giuliano as coordinating IC for the recovery in NO. Things would get hopping.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Any info about how the USPS is handling relief packages to Lousiana? I just heard on Fox News, that one out of five people have no shoes. This is at the Astrodome. Can boxes of clothes/flipflops/personal care items, be shipped directly there?

Maybe Payless Shoes can donate footwear?

[Uncle Ike]

"FYI, You stop being a newbie the first time a troll calls you a racist nazi."

Does a former lady-friend (very offline, on election day) count?

[Jrabbit]

I hate getting this mad so early, but I am furious!

For 2 hours, all I've heard and read, is pissing and moaning. Now Fox is doing a hit piece on the Astrodome. I give up. Nothing will ever be good enough, or quick enough or nice enough. President Bush, Rick Perry and anybody else that has tried to help should just go ahead and resign.

[Doohickey]

They've had to DROP supplies to the Convention Center because the helos couldn't touch down. They were getting rushed.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Must mean I'm still a newbie. Nobody on FR every called me a racist nazi.

[MMkennedy]

"within the next 2 weeks Chertoff will be out as will Michael Brown"

1. How's a $20.00 wager I'm just a poor pastor?

"The MSM, CBS, has a poll out today showing only 12% disapproving of the way Bush is handling the disater"

2. I'll stick with my poll prediction. The MSM has only just begun to spin this. The president's approval numbers will tank.

"Bushs visit will be successful period. He is at his best on the gournd with boots on and talking to the common folk among us."

3. Bush's visit will be successful, but what I should have said is that the MSM will find a way to present it as a failure and do so in the most humiliating way, they'll find an articulate disatisfied "victim" and make him/her the anti-Bush poster child

"emocrats are in the minority, they don't "begin impeachement hearings", they don't begin any hearings. Thats what happens when you're in the minority."

Dim's are in the minority, but by the time the MSM gets finished framing this and putting out skewed polls there will enough RHINOs ready to bolt that I'll stand by my prediction

"Bush will come out of this fine. Big losers politically will be MSM, Governor Blanco and Louisiana LEO's."

5. I agree Bush will come out fine, but he'll have a very hard year.

"Bush's numbers will always be the same."

6. His numbers will not be the same. They will tank. I'll be willing to wager on that too.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Racist Nazi.

;^)

[JulieRNR21]

I will only watch FNC now. CNN & others are BASHing Bush all the time. Every story has a negative spin. Myles O'B earlier was interrogating a NG Air Commander as if he were an enemy of the people he's trying to evacuate.

When the Commander said they were going to use commercial planes to evac hospital patients......Myles O'B immediately interrupted with....Is that because you don't have enough military planes? The Commander responded.....'we are using commercial for those who can walk aboard' and putting those on gurneys on the military cargo planes. O'Brien looked disappointed as he'd obviously hoped to be able to report that the war in Iraq is hurting the relief effort in NOLA.

BUT I have NOT heard one REPORTER ASK......

WHERE IS THE NO MAYOR, RAY NAGIN?????

[Doohickey]

Other point for later: When mandatory evacuations are ordered, it is customary for law enforcement to ensure the order is being heeded. NOBODY at the local/state level made any effort to ensure the city was evacuated, no did they in any way help people get out who could not on their own. It's criminal negligence.

[spanalot]

"Welcome to FreeRepublic, Uncle Ike! Guess I'll have to don my flame retardant underwear (not government issued), too, because I don't believe in a Fairy Godmother Federal Government magic wand either."

Damn straight - The MAIN LESSON of all this is that the citizen must take care of his own - food, fuel, water, and weapons.

But re: the Republican Party?? There is a perfect storm brewing and fuel prices, the middle east and pictures of bodies floating are going to converge unless something is done immediately.

Yankee Stadium clears out every night in 1 hr- why are there still people in the Super Dome - why are the Repubs setting this stage for the MSM?

Get everyone out now - including the tv crews - plug the levee, pump it out - get going.

[Types_with_Fist]

FINALLY... massive help near the Convention Center and to that part of the city; military, food, medical units, etc. Praise God!