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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by 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
4 of the local radio stations in the Dallas area were at a Salvation Army place yesterday, taking donations of $$$$, canned food, clean, new clothes....etc...
AT 5:00 last night, the show host was asked to tell the radio audience to QUIT coming by...that they had so much stuff to go through and disperse, that they couldn't take any more!!! jeez louise!!!!
But, I didn't hear about that on the news today!! NOPE, didn't.
Andrea Mitchell also read a two day old email she stated was "from friends" -- that sounded like the Nola.com article yesterday morning -- talking about Charity Hospital....those people are in hospitals in other states already, and she is giving the impression they are still stuck there.
Guard. Moving in, in force.
for the scanner listeners
CALLSIGN -- DESCRIPTION
Yeah, everytime I see someone talking about the money it will take to support these people long term I want to say, "who do you think has been supporting them long term already?" A lot of these people were already on welfare and living in HUD housing.
Ours went to Salvation Army and Catholic Charities. We aren't Catholic, but hear they do good work in NO area...
I saw a FEMA guy in an interview yesterday and he said that FEMA was there to ASSIST the local and state government, they are not 'in charge'. They coordinate with the officials and go where they tell them they are needed and distribute things where they say they should go. He said in all his years he had never seen this much manpower, equipment and supplies on the ground. He did not outright say it, but he implied that the local and state officials were not communicating to them what they needed and wanted them to do. He seemed pretty ticked at the suggestion that not enough were supplies there and that FEMA was not doing it's job.
Northern Wisconsin/Michigan/Minnesota is essentially earthquake-free, though I don't know if you want to put up with the cold and the snow. Even southern Wisconsin (where I am) is pretty much earthquake-free, even though we'd feel some of the effects of a New Madrid fault quake.
They must have a welfare card system. Heard yesterday that the money will automatically be put on their card. For those without them, the local ?? office will supply a card and add the $$ to it.
The NG doesn't want another Kent State manufactured from a looter suppression incident. thanks to the idiot media. They'd open fire if the idiots media would go somewhere else.
http://www.thedeadpelican.com/cb2.htm
"Mad As Hell"
> Evac isn't as easy as Hollywood has made it seem in their disaster movies the last few years.
Very astute observation. I've heard the same thing in Iraq, where our soldiers are sometimes upset that their weapons fail to always provide 1 kill for each bullet. They were brought up on video games, and conditioned otherwise. The reality is that the instant-kill target zone on the human body is actually quite small.
WWL FEED UPDATE:
Updates as they come in on Katrina
11:49 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
11:45 A.M. - U.S. Postal Service spokesman: 4,000 postal workers in the Greater New Orleans area can call 1-877-477-3273 to check in.
Anyone with friends or relatives who are currently stationed in the Houston Astrodome can get a letter out to them by writing the following on the front of their envelope:
(The name of the person you are trying to reach)
General Delivery
Houston Astrodome 77230
11:44 A.M. - (AP) Fire destroyed one in a row of old four-story brick buildings in the central business district Friday. The building was residential, but firefighters said there were no reports of injuries. The structure, not far from the casino and convention center, had minimal damage in the storm but burned to rubble.
Since there is no water in the city system, firefighters were unable to fight the blaze and stood by watching.
"There was nothing they could do," said Chief Norman Woodridge.
The blaze appeared to be contained within the firewalls. It was across the street from two high-rise hotels, where employees were dumping buckets of water on their wind-shredded awnings to prevent embers from lighting them. A half block from the fire, authorities with rifles stood guard.
The building was residential, and earlier in the week people, who apparently rode out the storm there, were sitting on a rooftop patio. Authorities said they were not aware of anyone in the building when the alarm was sounded. Virtually all the city is being evacuated because there is no water or electricity, let alone food and sanitation.
11:35 A.M. - BOISE, ID (AP): Another C-130 from the Idaho Air National Guard is leaving Gowen Field in Boise to support Gulf Coast hurricane relief efforts.
Before heading to New Orleans, the plane is stopping in Portland today to load supplies and equipment for Oregon National Guard security forces being deployed to the disaster area.
Yesterday, two C-130s from Idaho left for the Gulf Coast, one carrying Nevada National Guard security forces and the other loaded with 28-thousand bottles of water.
Can't be.
With so many sponges, the place would be dry by now.
"Here comes the good guys!"
My guess is that it will not take many of the good guys to put these punks down.
Ditto
Glad we're not the only ones to feel this way. :(
...............Placemark.
Concurrently with ongoing operations, FEMA, in fact all the way up to Bush, need to set another team, standing back, to assess the scope of everything that needs to be done.
The locals have been head down, ostrich style, and I think FEMA has used their "all is well" estimates to plan their own operation.
If so, they are going to get swamped from the get go, the local officials' estimates of the numbers who stayed behind are falling far short of both independent pre-storm estimates, and also what we are actually seeing in ground truth.
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