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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

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



TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aftermath; hurricane; katrina; tropical
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To: steveegg

Let's not fight over HOW MANY, okay?


5,581 posted on 09/02/2005 2:40:56 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Right_in_Virginia

I don't think so.


5,582 posted on 09/02/2005 2:41:17 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: stlnative

Mr. President, may we PLEASE now have the USMC Snipers on the ground, and have our American international prestige and believability back again??? Please?


5,583 posted on 09/02/2005 2:41:40 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (USA should be studied by StateDept. as a "Foreign Country". Then will see OUR insurgents and chaos.)
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To: plain talk

Are you saying the coast guard pulling thousands of people off their roofs starting Tuesday morning weren't motivated enough?

Are you saying the police that did try to hold and protect positions in NO from day 1 weren't motivated enough?

You are a victim of what the media wants you to think is happening.


5,584 posted on 09/02/2005 2:41:43 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Trust but Verify
What the hell is wrong with people? Kill them, mow them down, eradicate them and hang their bodies in the town square.

Off line most all day, so forgive, but how many boots and how much firepower we got in?

5,585 posted on 09/02/2005 2:41:46 PM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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To: oceanview

Thank God. The President was safer in Baghdad.


5,586 posted on 09/02/2005 2:41:55 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Twinkie

LOL... I see at least one other Freeper understands how I feel about Scientologists.


5,587 posted on 09/02/2005 2:42:08 PM PDT by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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To: Howlin

True. I want them all smacked upside the head.


5,588 posted on 09/02/2005 2:42:14 PM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: Howlin
Hell, we went without that long in an ICE STORM!

Tens of thousands of us did the same here in Western Michigan a couple of years ago. I guess if I would have leaned out my window and shot my neighbor or gone and broken into a few stores that would have been the federal government's fault for not having called in the national guard, huh?

I'm sick of this...Breaux is on Hannity saying that the mayor and governor can't do it all on their own. What the hell? What have they done? They didn't lose control at the edges, they had no control at the center from day one.

5,589 posted on 09/02/2005 2:42:18 PM PDT by Dolphy
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To: stlnative

Thanks! I'll go check it out.


5,590 posted on 09/02/2005 2:42:51 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (. . . Ministrix of ye Chace (recess appointment), TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary . . .)
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To: sfimom

Good news overall. Stay the strong and good mother that you are.


5,591 posted on 09/02/2005 2:42:58 PM PDT by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: RoseyT

I live for going to visit relatives in OKC. They have the best thrift stores in the oountry. I get all kinds of good things with the tags still on them for next to nothing. Even my teenage grandaughters will wear the things that I bring to them.


5,592 posted on 09/02/2005 2:43:31 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: Dolphy

The thing is, Hannity won't challenge him; even "our" people are joining in the misinformation and trashing.


5,593 posted on 09/02/2005 2:43:32 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Ohioan from Florida

There're a few of us here. ;)


5,594 posted on 09/02/2005 2:43:36 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)
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To: oceanview
coastal destruction in two states

Make that 3 states. Over 120 miles of coastline, up to 30 miles deep of utter devistation. Uncomprehensible in scope.

5,595 posted on 09/02/2005 2:43:44 PM PDT by myprecious
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To: OKIEDOC

And they are getting on my last ragged nerve.


5,596 posted on 09/02/2005 2:44:08 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek ("Over there, Over there, we will be there until it is Over there.")
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To: steveegg; Right_in_Virginia

I'd like a substitution, please:

I'll give up Anderson Cooper for JOE SCARBOROUGH.


5,597 posted on 09/02/2005 2:44:10 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: Dolphy
I'm sick of this....Breaux is on Hannity saying that the mayor and governor can't do it all on their own.

The mayor and governor could have come up with a plan to evacuate their citizens. Or, at the very least, they could have called Jeb Bush for some advice.

5,598 posted on 09/02/2005 2:44:26 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: AmericanInTokyo
3:34 P.M. - (AP) The evacuation of Superdome refugees was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt hotel. They were move to the head of the line to be evacuated -- much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome for days.

.....If true, not good in a sense. No better way than to get a class war going, real good, with the hothead gangbangers, rapists and looters in the vanguard. They can, and will, whip up the crowd into a frenzy. John Edwards would at least feel real at home

I heard that a lot of those people where from UK.  Hyatt had buses out before but they got commandeered to go to the Dome.  Some of them got in touch with the BBC........ or so I heard.....

 


5,599 posted on 09/02/2005 2:44:27 PM PDT by united1000
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To: Right_in_Virginia

From what I'm hearing on the scanner.....nobody knows who is in charge.


5,600 posted on 09/02/2005 2:44:29 PM PDT by Jrabbit
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