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

[sweet_diane]

"Anarchy was in place before the rain stopped"

We lost power Monday at 2:30pm and were still having very high winds (Cat 2 gusts is my guesstimation) on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. At that point we were still hearing reports of Nawlins having dodged a bullet, rumors of a levy break and that looting had begun.

After Hurricane Ivan I remember driving past large souviner shops in Gulf Shores AL that had no walls and merchandise still on many of the shelves and an awesome view of the wind chime section of the store. I never saw a looter, even before the NG got there.

[CedarDave]

Ike federalized the guard and put it under US authority.

[Abigail Adams]

What's going on at Harrigan's location? I'm trying to catch up.

[bwteim]

thanx

[overtaxed_canadian]

National Guard scanners talking about bringing in "contractors" and that they have to come in via Air Force.

Could it be that they are employing military contractors like Blackwater to come in and augment National Guard forces, since the Army/Navy can't perform security functions for the state?

I can't imagine they are bringing in civilian contractors to cook hamburgers and pass out bottled water this early in the pacification of New Fallujah.

[mewzilla]

Some arrogant jackass on MSNBC said this morning: "If we can get here, why can't FEMA?"

That's just another reason why they're called presstitutes.

[Torie]

"Federal Emergency Management Director Michael Brown told CNN that federal officials were unaware of the crowds at the convention center until Thursday, despite the fact that city officials had been telling people for days to gather there. (Full story)

"When we found out about the convention center yesterday, we started diverting supplies to get them fed, too. And now we're finding literally as we do evacuation, that more and more people are beginning to manifest, show themselves in areas we didn't they were there so we're doing everything we can to get there," he said in an interview with CNN Friday."

The above snippet is from CNN's lead story. This is the most horribly incompetent operation imaginable. Blanco just came up with the clever idea of commandeering state buses. I stand by my previous statements on this matter, and may extend them.

[steveegg]

The mayor is incompetent, but the failure to utilize those buses is hardly his fault.

Part of the mandatory evac order gave him the authority to seize those buses. Whether he had the drivers for them is another story.

[AFPhys]

wow...

Great post illustrating the problem with LA

I still think they had more problems than MS and AL, but your illustration is wonderful.
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[Spktyr]

Which will be brought up in Congress later, if people are smart, and will cause a massive overhaul of liability law.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Fox just said President Bush would like to "touch down" in NO.

[Miztiki]

Where is the thread for those of us who can't believe that the images we are seeing on tv are coming out of the United States?

I keep shaking my head in disbelief at what I'm seeing. It looks like a war zone from some far away country.

[Smogger]

Incidentally, the top wealthiest states in terms of income per capita and median household income are:

1) District of Columbia
2) Connecticut
3) New Jersey
4) New York
5) Massachusetts
6) Maryland
7) Hawaii
8) Nevada
9) Alaska
10) Illinois

Of course they are also the STINGIEST states in terms of charitable giving. Mississippi - the nation's poorest state in terms of average household income - ranks No. 1 in giving when measured as a percentage of income, followed by Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. By contrast, the nation's wealthiest states are much less generous. Connecticut - with the highest average household income - ranks 44th in percentage of income donated to charity.

Source: CATALOGUE FOR PHILANTHROPY

So frankly some of the comments on this thread and others make me sick.

[Pyro7480]

NO isn't New Fallujah. Rush said Detroit is. NO is New Tikrit (think about the cronyism that took place because of Saddam there.)

[r9etb]

Well, it destroys the first, but total depravity?

You haven't been on the predestination threads, have you? ;-)

[Types_with_Fist]

At the airport, likely. I think he should go there, bypass Baton Rouge and leave the area afterward.

[rwfromkansas]

wow.

As for blaming Bush, at least on the 11 a.m. update, CBS did say MS and AL governors praised the President's response.

[LA Woman3]

http://www.zoo-talk.com/

Info on the Aquarium and Audubon Zoo. And no, I'm not a member of PETA.....