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

[Grampa Dave]

Great find. Please post it as extended news.

Then we can have it documented on Free Republic before it disappears.

[mommya]

Does insurance cover a fire after a flood? How could they prove how much dameage was there before the fire?

[BlackRain]

Here come the fires....



Link to fire photos

[colorado tanker]

Roo-dee! Roo-dee! Roo-dee!

[bwteim]

But before I sign off......



WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina

02:29 PM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet

2:28 P.M. - WWL-TV: Wildlife and Fisheries has said they are no longer asking people to volunteer their time and boats to go on rescue missions because of security concerns.

2:25 P.M. - (AP): The nation's airlines have been putting aside their own financial troubles to fly in supplies and take out refugees from hurricane devastated areas. Relief flights donated by airlines poured into Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport today.

Here are other efforts:

CUT, SEE
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html
for more

2:22 P.M. - HOUSTON (AP): Passengers getting off buses from New Orleans may be in sight of the end of their nearly week-long ordeal. But first, they have to go through screening.

Police in Houston are guiding people through lines where they can undergo pat-down searches.

Paramedics wearing rubber gloves are helping medical teams conduct a triage operation. Kidney patients and others who might need immediate medical attention are being transported to hospitals.

The evacuees are also being offered icy bottles of water as they get off the buses. Disposable diapers are being passed out to those with small children.

Many of the people are asking total strangers for a few seconds of cellphone time to try to locate loved ones.

[jeffers]

""Hell, yeah! Hell yeah!" "We've been sleeping on the ... ground like rats," Levy said."

Or like backpackers.

Wuss.

"I say burn this whole ... city down.""

Yeah, with Levy in it.

[ican'tbelieveit]

It had been spared, from the likes of it, initially, as the storm moved east. The flooding in NO is due to levee failure some time after the storm passed. But comparing NO to Biloxi right after the storm, where whole buildings were gone in Biloxi, NO looked spared.

[Tarheel]

We have had 125 come into CLT area hosps. in the last 36 hours.

[conservative in nyc]

Fox reported that Lousiana Senator Vitter (R) said he thought the death toll in Louisiana would start at 10,000. I wouldn't be surprised. Remember, the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish flooded during the storm, and the water came up fairly quickly in New Orleans once the 17th Street Levy broke.

BTW - Shep keeps on calling Vitter a State Senator, which he's not.

[Types_with_Fist]

Holy moly. Fox showing inside of Dome. Completely trashed.

[pitinkie]

Yes that is all true. My husband is part of FEMA and all these media people and such dont know the laws that actually govern when FEMA can go in and how they do it. Its the state of Louisianas fault if there is blame, but I think it is just too big a disaster.

[LizardQueen]

The dr. I heard last night commented that their generator was in the basement.

Why the hell would they put their emergency generator in their basement in one of the countries worst flood zones?

LQ

[fatima]

They were up against unthinkable attacks.I thank them and the firemen too.

[Howlin]

Can you even believe all these people, even on this forum, screaming because aid didn't get to NO Monday afternoon?

[BlackRain]

Scanner Update-

I-10 and Causeway

Requesting manpower for security and food/water.

There are between 8,000 to 10,000 people stuck there and need transportation out. They are being brought there and dropped off by buses and military vehicles.

Command does not know why they are being brought there. It was originally supposed to be a medical collection point but that idea was abandoned. However, no one told the buses or military.

[Jrabbit]

Just heard on scanner....I won't say where....but 8 to 10 thousand people have been dropped off and nobody knows why. Sending additional personell to deal with "issues"

[advance_copy]

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

Jack Cafferty doesn't think America is capable of defending ourselves against terrorists and rebuilding at the same time. Jack Cafferty isn't the President of the United States.

[jeffers]

Right, but those rates are known, and might not be quick enough to strand a boat.

If that's all it is, fine, but if something else is up, deliberate breaches or restored pumps, it's news.