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

[Tarheel]

Saw that interview. Wondered what she expected. Our troops are eating them.

[bwteim]

And I'm signing off for a while.

Keep the Flag flying.

[Warren_Piece]

Let me tell you, that hositals all over the country (especially in the southeast) are VERY involved in this. I can't (won't) tell you how I know, but hospitals all over the south are ramping up for a HUGE influx of patients over the Labor Day weekend. They are on the ball.

[Hard Way]

"One man says "hell no," he's not happy to see the Guard"

You just can't please some. I saw a woman on FNC this AM who complained, "Well yeah, we got water now, but we don't have any ice! It's HOT down here!"

I swear I'm not making this up..

[steveegg]

Ping to the live thread.

[max_rpf]

The race card should be: Why did the Mayor issue a mandatory evac order and have NO MEANS to evacuate people that had no means to leave? Just how were they to comply?

[ican'tbelieveit]

I just posted the same thing. I forgot to mention critical patients dying in hospitals due to no electricity or abililty to provide adequate care. Then there will be some disease, I would imagine, after seeing all of those people trudging thru the dirty waters.

[jeffers]

It goes both ways. Differences between work, energy and power.

Even the "cubed" solution is an approximation.

I hope it is a trivial issue now.

See "Maria".

In any event, several days before it's a concern. Onward.

[lrvp99]

This EXACT senario was predicted in a 5-part special report in the Times Picayune a couple of years ago. It's amazing just how close the predictions in the report are to the reality of what is happening now.

"Amid this maelstrom, the estimated 200,000 or more people left behind in an evacuation will be struggling to survive. Some will be housed at the Superdome, the designated shelter in New Orleans for people too sick or infirm to leave the city. Others will end up in last-minute emergency refuges that will offer minimal safety. But many will simply be on their own, in homes or looking for high ground.

Thousands will drown while trapped in homes or cars by rising water. Others will be washed away or crushed by debris. Survivors will end up trapped on roofs, in buildings or on high ground surrounded by water, with no means of escape and little food or fresh water, perhaps for several days."

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway/

[misharu]

I could be wrong, but I have a gut feeling that the fires are being deliberately set. Anyone else think that?

[tcrlaf]

good article....

I think DEMS have NO IDEA of the price they are going to pay over their handling of this nightmare...

[ContemptofCourt]

Whne they say "New Orleans," I think that they also mean the parrishes around New Orleans. The parrishes to the south and east of NO were, litteraly, wiped off the map.

Besides, if you assume that 100K were left in the city when it flooded (9' of water, mind you), it is not unreasonable to think that 10% died in the flood.

[pitinkie]

Jack Cafferty on CNN blaming all this on the war in Iraq...as usual.

[jeffers]

They're aren't dead till you can't find a pulse.

You have to touch them to know. We aren't there yet.

Never say die.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I am referring to changing their disaster responses. The dr. I heard last night commented that their generator was in the basement. After the electricity went off, they fired it up, it flooded. They had to go into another building and turn on another that subsequently flooded. He said they lost some of their ventilator patients in the end.

[Danette]

For those of you that want a live blog from NO.....


http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/


http://mgno.com/

[RDTF]

I hope you are right - but honestly they never pay a price because they have the media on their side. That's how they get away with all of it.

[Types_with_Fist]

Jack Cafferty on CNN blaming all this on the war in Iraq...as usual.

Advice: If you have to watch CNN (as they have had comprehensive coverage of this disaster) at least keep your thumb on the mute button.

[jeffers]

Thx.

Once he takes off, outbound, or once the MSM picks it up, delay is unnecessary.

Your effort is appreciated.

[truthluva]

Shep just said that they would be running footage later of French Quarter and CBD. Says that despite what everyone has been reporting, damage doesn't look that bad there..? Said footage coming up in 25-30 mins...

Right after the initial storm isn't Shep the one that said NO had been spared?