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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
There are a lot of different feeds up now....including some of the Astrodome.
http://egg.dishnuts.net:8000/LASP.m3u this is the one I have on now...
This one is working for me - http://radio.scannerbuff.net:8008/
sorry to hear that...
come-on you guys. Callme shallow, I LIKE Geraldo... Shep, too!
Dang....where is your family now?
Are they setting those fires?
So far, I have not heard Whorealdo bash Bush...but the day is still young..
Now Jesse Jackson presser on WWL-TV...
(Shutting off feed to save blood pressure, someone else can report)
JESSE JACKSON found a camera. He's live on WWL
thanks...those lists are always "works in progress"
BTW... where is Shep? Did he flee?
He just found one... He's on the WWL feed now... taking credit for everything as usual.
Finally. Unbelievable. Phil Keating FNC just reported that the mall fire yesterday was not just the mall burning but that there was a sheriffs substation that was based there and that had been overrun and set on fire! Anarchy at your finest.
Correction -- Jesse has found a camera; he's holding a presser on WWL-TV.
It is amazing to stand back and reflect on what appears to be the synergistic and simlutaneous destruction of so much of our cultural capital at the same time. The erosion of the nuclear family going on in the West is something that is perhaps without precedent - an overturning in just a few decades of the norm for millennia in almost every society. The effects of that are hard to predict, but if you believe in the Burke/Hayek concept of the implicit wisdom of tradition they can't be good. The race to the bottom in popular culture, which glorifies, with the tolerance and even encouragement of our massive entertainment industry, some of these trends. The slow creation of the gigantic bureaucratic nanny state, which has taken over many of the functions that properly belong to individuals, families and communities and encourages people to demand instead of to create. Throw it all together and you get this kind of "48 hours from anarchy" environment that was lurking behind the scenes, invisible to all of us, in New Orleans just before the storm moved into the Gulf.
It is true that this is a massive force of nature, for which no one could be completely prepared. But it is not true that truck convoys had to be shot at when they bring in relief supplies, that short-term political calculations mean that no serious evacuation plan was in place, that an orgy of looting and takeover by criminals has to begin before the rain has even stopped. The Kobe earthquake didn't look like this, nor did the massive earhquakes in Turkey, Armenia or Iran. Nor did the even more devastating tsunami.
It's just one city in a big country with a lot of history behind it, so in a fe years perhaps we will have turned out to have overreacted. But the whole episode has the stink of decline and decadence about it. We do seem to be eating our cultural seed corn, and this appears to be a warning flare telling us of that.
Quite possibly, but that's unknown.
Did you expect anything less?
Knowing the "Rev" he brought his own camera. What a SPOS!
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