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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
President Bush continues to assess the catastrophic damage by air and on the ground in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bush spent the day meeting with search and rescue personnel, relief commanders, and displaced residents in Mobile, Biloxi, and the New Orleans area. U.S. Congress passed a $10.5 billion relief package for the hurricane ravaged areas. First Lady Laura Bush issued a press statement from an evacuation shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Patient and staff evacuations continue from numerous New Orleans Hospitals. Thousands of patients are being airlifted to a field hospital at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport for triage, staging, and transport to hospitals throughout the United States.
The U.S. Coast Guard and civilian volunteers continue to evacuate thousands of survivors from their flooded homes in New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to repair the damaged levees.
The nation's airlines today began an operation intended to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans. The airlines are volunteering their aircraft and crews for the program. Long convoys loaded with relief supplies arrived throughout the day into New Orleans, while convoys of buses are moving survivors out of the city.
Several large fires are burning in the city and greater New Orleans area. Reports indicate snipers are holding down firefighters. Reports of shots fired with LEO down in the St. Bernard Parish area. Rescue operations are underway. A bus carrying NOLA evauees rolled over in Opelousa, LA.
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:
New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002
WWL-TV New Orleans (via WFAA Dallas) - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. Yahoo has also provided a relay.
WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.
WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.
WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.
WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.
WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).
United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.
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/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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
An unidentified Air Force sergeant stands guard outside Harrah's Casino as a convoy of food and water arrives in the flooded city of New Orleans on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005. A huge military presence arrived in the city, restoring order and bringing with them food and water to feed the thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Mr. BBL knows to watch for flying objects if he turns on MSNBC or CNN when I'm in the room - especially if I see Olberman (Odorman) or Hissy Matthews!
The most frightening incident so far occurred Tuesday night. The Louisiana Governor's office reported that armed looters attempted to break into the Children's Hospital in New Orleans. They were no doubt searching for a stash of narcotics. The hospital held 100 children who were too sick to be evacuated before the storm. Police could not respond to the call due to high water. The hospital staff and children were left to defend themselves against the drug-crazed mob. These are not only thieves, but violent savages. A New Orleans police officer was shot in the head while attempting to stop a looter. The city's homeland security chief Terry Ebbert told the local Times-Picayune: "There are gangs of armed men moving around the city." A brief look at New Orleans reveals that this lawless behavior really should not be a big shock. The homicide rate in the 'Crescent City' is actually ten times that of the national average. There have already been 200 murders in that city this year alone. In 2004, New Orleans police and local university researchers conducted a rather disturbing and telling experiment. Police officers shot 700 blank rounds in one of the city's black crime-ridden neighborhoods. All 700 rounds were fired in one afternoon. Not one phone call was placed to 911 operators to report the gunshots! New Orleans is 67% black. Now, I am not suggesting that all blacks are criminals. However, there is a large segment of the black population who not only accept lawless behavior, but glorify it. Many blacks believe that they are somehow entitled to steal. A young black New Orleans' man named Mike Franklin justified the looting to an AP reporter by saying: "To be honest with you, people are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society." Unfortunately, that belief is all too common amongst America's black population. My brother lived in Charleston, S.C. during Hurricane Hugo. That area was hit hard by the ferocious storm. The governor at the time, issued a shoot-on-site policy for all looters. Consequently, there was no looting in the historic city. These vultures descending upon New Orleans' businesses are nothing more than useless vermin and should be dealt with as such. A shoot-to-kill order should be issued. Once a few of these thugs were blown apart--the looting would come to an abrupt end. We should all pray for the law-abiding poor victims of Hurricane Katrina. Those who could not afford to leave the city and have lost all of their meager means and even their loved-ones, are now apparently at the mercy of animalistic criminals. Two tragedies have befallen the city of New Orleans...The devastation wreaked by a storm of biblical proportion and now the devastation wreaked by human beings-turned predators.
(Sorry for the length)
I just sent off this email to Lou:
I've been watching coverage since last weekend. The people in charge in NOLA dropped the ball from the time they knew the hurricane was coming towards them. The first buses were loaded by police officers who were black, most of the people I see in the shelters are black -- which is understandable given the preponderance of blacks in NOLA -- so how can they say whites were evacuated vs blacks... if they are talking about the whites who heeded the call to evacuate and drove out of NOLA in their automobiles before the storm.... how is THAT George Bush's fault??
I stopped watching CNN's coverage a few days ago after listening to that bozo Cafferty...we almost lost a tv over that SOB!
Louisiana Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu, who has been working with search and rescue, confirmed that 30 people died at a nursing home in St. Bernard Parish and 30 others were being evacuated. He did not give any further details.
Ya think?!?
Harrah's stock has been on an incredibly good roll lately. After this...
Did anyone hear that idiot on MSNBC - president of National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans?
Of course he's blaming the federal government for everything. When asked if he had a share in the blame because he was a former mayor, he said "Absolutely not." because, he says, all NO mayors have lobbied the feds constantly to help them with the levees. Unbelievable.
This disaster has made me realize that having a liberal in charge of local government is not merely a nuisance, it can be life-threatening in the event of an emergency.
NOPD orders fuel for generator at THEIR HEADQUARTERS and do not KNOW THE ADDRESS (per scanner) . . .
This is what our National Guardsmen are trying to work with!
Also NG wanting the state to start giving some guidance on mortuary operations . . .
Good for Lou. No pun intended, but it pleases me when someone calls a spade a spade.
Haven't seen anything,,who did the Pres Diss?
Michigan National Guardsman Chief Warrant Officer Roger Cox, of Waterford, Mich., attached to the 210th Military Police Battalion, registers vehicles at the Taylor Armory in Taylor, Mich., Friday, Sept. 2, 2005 prior to a convoy departing for Mississippi to aid in relief efforts from Hurricane Katrina. The first contingency of troops left Friday morning from Taylor to assist in the Gulf area. Other troops are gathering in Taylor and will leave for Mississippi and Louisiana on Saturday. On Thursday, Gov. Jennifer Granholm deployed 275 Michigan National Guard troops to assist in the hurricane relief effort, bringing the total to nearly 500.
And you can bet the farm that once the mess is cleaned up (i.e., the "heavy lifting') and the BILLIONS of dollars pour in to rebuild the city, Nagin, Blanco, et al will demand to be in charge again. They're salvating at the prospect of controlling all that money.
I agree. Speaking of schools. My students brought up the fact that many of the kids will have no records of grades and test scores...and that seniors will be screwed for college apps. We're in Miami and they drew a sigh of relief - coulda been them.
TULANE & BROAD!! WTF???
As much as I dislike Geraldo, he did make one statement has some potential:
"These men here are just back from Iraq; they are the same ones who caught Saddam Hussein."
It's a shame the looters can't hear that.
Perhaps they need to blare that from loudspeakers mounted on boats and choppers so that the bad guys hear it.
As someone said earlier today, the adults have arrived.
Remember this:
WWUS74 KLIX 281550
NPWLIX
URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005
DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED
HURRICANE KATRINA
A MOST POWERFUL HURRICANE WITH UNPRECEDENTED
STRENGTH...RIVALING THE INTENSITY OF HURRICANE CAMILLE OF 1969.
MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.
HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.
AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.
POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.
THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.
AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
CERTAIN WITHIN THE NEXT 12 TO 24 HOURS.
ONCE TROPICAL STORM AND HURRICANE FORCE WINDS ONSET...DO NOT VENTURE
OUTSIDE!
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