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

[Smogger]

Weird yes. But I find the entire south kind of weird. But take heart your also from the 4th most charitable state in the Union. You're about to find out how charitable your neighbors are.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Since 67% of New Orleans is made up of dirt poor people who have lived forever on the public dole, perhaps this storm will actually do them a favor .... the favor of getting them out of there and out where they can get a whole different view of the world.

Maybe in the end this will have a positive effect of the lives of the younger people who may receive opportunities they would never receive if they stayed and grew up in the ghetto's of New Orleans. Sometimes you get so ensconced that you can't see the forest for the trees in life.

As people pour forth to give aid and assistance over the coming months and Jessie Jackson, the Black Caucus, etc., lose direct control of them -- spread out across the country -- their perspective can't help but change.

[steveegg]

That's the thing, though -- a properly thought-out and executed plan would have included notification and activation of drivers.

I hear you.

Evac isn't as easy as Hollywood has made it seem in their disaster movies the last few years.

[OKIEDOC]

I would point out to all the griping and complaining black leaders screaming racism.

These looters and low life thugs are the PLANTATION people you have used and abused by enabling them for years.

None of the thugs in backs of pickup trucks seem to be of a white skin.

There is absolutely no excuse for what you are now doing by your continued enabling of these kinds of low life scum.

As Archie said to Edith "PUT A CORK IN IT"

[Rokke]

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

Which in the final analysis will be the best proof of what really was screwed up in this whole event. 2 out of 3 governors effected say Bush and FEMA have done an outstanding job. The remaining governor can't be found. Neither can the mayor...or half of his police force.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Jessie went into New Orleans last night... that is why he is getting credit for the big buses to evacuate people.

[Spktyr]

That, and in most Red States, everyone understands that Rule #3 after a disaster (after Survive, and Help Your Neighbor) is "Looters should be shot on sight - defend your and your neighbors' property."

[doug from upland]

GALVESTON HAD A PLAN TO USE BUSES FOR EVACUATION.....WHY DIDN'T NEW ORLEANS?

[mystery-ak]

Is that true....67% live on the public dole?,,,it's the first of the month, they'll be asking where their checks are next.

[maryz]

Also, anyone know where there are more details about the arrangements and set up as Astrodome?

I heard on the radio it's overwhelmed and, after medical review of the evacuees, decided they could take only about half as many as they thought they could.

[jeffers]

I'd like to see about 4 gunships up, might not ever have to fire, but there's nothing like the sight of a heavily armed grasshopper with a gatling gun under the chin that tracks the pilot's every head movement to stare down even the hardest core gangbanger.

Force multiplication, the Apaches can respond much quicker than ground troops can.

[Smogger]

I guess I just don't understand that mentality.

I don't know anyplace free from natural disaster.

[steveegg]

I hear what you're saying.

Glad to hear that your dad and uncle are safe.

[AFPhys]

I'm surprised that the whole French Quarter isn't already burned out. There will be no fire control if it goes up.

Yet another reason I think the city is probably dead.

[Peach]

I just heard a report on FNC that they are taking refugees to the airport.

Previously they were talking about taking gangsters off the streets. Who knows. The reporting is so bad at times.

[mhking]

WWL-AM playing the Nagin interview yet again.

[Types_with_Fist]

I have never been to NO..so I am just reporting what he said.

The Convention Center is right on the river. If memory serves, that same road goes all the way along the river to the back of the French Quarter. If the military has to chase the looters through that area and they set fires as they go, we could see the Quarter go down. I also saw a "Poydrous (sp) Street" sign near where Harrigan is. That's not good either. Between Canal and the river and into the Quarter all those buildings are right next to each other. They need to isolate that fire somehow. Still a lot of tourists trapped in the Quarter at the hotels as well.