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

[advance_copy]

I got confirmation that the 600 MPs are being sent to the convention center. Reports are that there are 15,000 people stranded there, so I'm not surprised it will take that in force to secure the area for aid and evacuation.

[bluecollarman]

The Mayor of NO clearly cannot function properly in an emergency.

The press will make him (Mayor) a hero, wait and see.

[Bubbette]

Was that the same black congressman who then criticized the President for asking his father and Clinton to head charitable relief?? Oh, he claims that we don't "pass the plate" when we have other disasters, it's up to the government. He was totally put out that we would be raising money in that way. Of course, if there was a charitable rock concert for anything else, he would be up there singing We Are the World!

[Diddle E. Squat]

LOL, oops, yes indeed.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Was that the same black congressman who then criticized the President for asking his father and Clinton to head charitable relief?? Oh, he claims that we don't "pass the plate" when we have other disasters, it's up to the government. He was totally put out that we would be raising money in that way. Of course, if there was a charitable rock concert for anything else, he would be up there singing We Are the World!"

Yep

[TonyInOhio]

Shut up, you racist Nazi!

There. Welcome to FR :)

You forgot to tell him to go back to DU. :)

[dinasour]

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

Ok.

You're a racist nazi.

[I dub thee offically an old timer]

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Damn- I wonder what they mean when they say "southeast" United States.
Georgia?
They better get that chiller into Bellsouth.

[Warren_Piece]

What the heck are they talking about on FOX? That doesn't sound right about the BellSouth building. One switching station shouldn't know down the whole system. That doesn't make sense to me. Can some telecom Freepers help me out with his?

[Portnoy]

I'll become angry later with those people who could have gotten out, but chose not to. Nobody, even those who made stupid mistakes or lacked common respect for authority should deserve the punishment they are getting.

There is time to be angry later.

[rolling_stone]

I never heard of such.

Private Security...have gun will travel...There was a link posted the other day for just such a group of security professionals..maybe it was them...then again maybe it was SF...

[GOP_Proud]

I will.

Go back to DU, troll.

Now you are official.

[Bubbette]

They all have their own cars and working public transportation.

[Erik Latranyi]

I wish someone would ask Andrea Mitchell when evacuating people from an imminent disaster became the responsibility of the federal government.

When there is a Republican President.

If there is a Democrat President, his hands would be tied by not stepping on the toes of state and local officials.

[bvw]

They also had rail lines -- the impoverished and poor, the car-less -- could have been rapidly moved out on boxcars, gondolas, even flat cars. That is what would have been done had awareness of the size of the storm been known in say 1910. Today? There would have a foolish insistence on having (1) passenger cars (2) prepared terminals and camps of facilities where to take the refugees.

But just getting the people out of the storm area, of itself alone, should have been paramount.

[SE Mom]

Both NY and Florida had strong leadership at the city and state level to direct the flow of relief efforts. Louisiana apparently has none of that and the Fed lacks the local knowledge required to be effective.

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This needs to be repeated over and over and over...

[johnb838]

Blackwater Security? They know what they're doing. I think.

[AFPhys]

Would you believe they were not expecting the levee to fail?

Whether or not they should have, they didn't.

If you accept that, all else is clear.

It isn't really clear there is "incompetance" here, and I'm sure many FReepers could have done better - but resources are always limited, and officials all up and down for nearly three hundred years have made certain decisions regarding New Orleans that contribute to this disaster. Katrina herself contributed a mite, too.

[bvw]

And the people with local knowledge in NO, have in many cases scooted out.

[spanalot]

""Yankee Stadium clears out every night in 1 hr- why are there still people in the Super Dome""

"Good point. I wonder why they didn't try to build some sort of makeshift bridge and started walking them out."

Roads are open to the Superdome - the feds should commandere every school buss in the state to get rid of this spectacle NOW

And then find and string up the dumb SOB that did'nt have the slings for the sandbags ready to go last Tues. This is what flooded the city.