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

[ken5050]

Kerry and Kennedy would have added $2 billion to the emergency bill, to build a levee aroiund Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard..

[Mad Dawgg]

"don't forget to add the looting explained by the drug addicts looking for their fix. actually said."

Speaking of Looting I wonder what kind of fallout will come from pictures of those police officers looting DVDs and Radios and shoes an such and then a goodly number of those same Policemen leaving NO and basically deserting their posts.

[Abigail Adams]

NBC on now, convoy making its way through water with supplies to NO, 100 busses on their way too.

[beyond the sea]

Thanks for proving my point; you are completely detached from reality.

Only partially......... give me a break....... I live in a city that has been governed by Dems. since the 30's.

Again......... I'm real sorry for jumping to conclusions on your comment! I was very wrong.

[Rokke]

I thought it was funny.

[ken5050]

The NO voters lists are gonna need some major revisions..

[Elyse]

We've seen a parade of reporters, Harry Connick Jr. and Jessie Jackson all go to the civic center and talk about the starving and dying people. It reminds me of a thing that some comedian said.(I think it was Bill Engvall) He was talking about seeing reporters beside a starving child in Africa and all he could ever think was that he wanted to tell the reporter to put that camera down and give that baby a sammich.

How come none of these people didn't just turn around and go fill up their trucks with food and water and go back right then and there? Am I wrong here? Wouldn't all of you do the same thing? Even if you couldn't bring enough for everyone in the first load wouldn't you keep going back? This is something that puzzles the hell out of me.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

((Johnny Crab)) I have some family in nearly the same situation.

[jeffers]

"To: bwteim

12:19 pm Finally!
This convoy coming down the street is loaded with supplies. I see MREs and water and I assume ice.

Ok, so the troops used to restore order went in first and now the supplies are coming for orderly distribution (I hope). "




This is the beginning of a flow that took three days to establish and nail down.

The cops and Guard have held for the most part and the gamble to do the relief effort right, instead of throwing units and aid piecemeal into a black hole as they arrive will now pay off.
Heh.

You're about to see New Orleans and the Gulf Coast BURIED in drinking water, food and aid.

Let it roll.

[SeaBiscuit]

President now speaking on Fox @ Biloxi

[OKIEDOC]

CindyDawg wrote:
Oh yea. I see the loot-fest continues and the Bush bashing has begun. How can people believe all these lies?

REPLY:

My Email to CNN and MSNBC

This will not be pretty as I have completely lost it with your sorry biased comments and news coverage.

I hope God will forgive me for the language but I am raging inside about what message your are disseminating to the country and the world.

How embarrassing your are to good patriotic citizens.

I am ashamed to call your brother citizen.

Just what in the hell has the liberal left done.

Nothing at all.

Jessie Jackson goes down for his photo opt and takes not one bottle of water to the starving people.

Well he is the biased medias savior so you made him and your stuck with the sorry bastard.

Piss on your negative coverage.

Some of your reporters sound like ratings whores.

As Archie Bunker would say "PUT A CORK IN IT EDITH"

[Johnny Crab]

Wildlife & Fisheries.

We could sure use a degreed biologist in Texas.

[steveegg]

Pres now on talking about his walkthrough (there was no camera coverage). "The damage is worse than imaginable."

[Mad Dawgg]

"The NO voters lists are gonna need some major revisions.."

The NO congressional Districts will effectively be null and void for the 2006 election.

[rollo tomasi]

"Kerry in this situation might be too much like Blanco at the Presidential levels..."

Kerry would probably try and pass the buck onto the UN. After that, blame Republicans and the rich (Not his wife and big donors of course).

[Aquamarine]

Is that the historic Warehouse District that's on fire? Lumber that has cured out for over a hundred years will burn like matchsticks. They won't be able to put it out.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I WASN'T TALKING ABOUT USING TRAINS AFTER THE STORM. I was talking about for mandantory evacuation before the storm.

[grey_whiskers]

Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona is somewhat of a safe place to live, and that's probably why so many have come here over the last several years.

As a fellow AZ FReeper, let me ask...
Q. Why don't we get flooding in AZ ?
A. Because our Gov. is the biggest "dike" in the world? ;-)