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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
WHAT? During a MANDATORY EVACUATION??? How on earth was he going to do that?
I don't know morans14. I just heard the butt end of S Smith's statement and he stated foreigners.
A cabinet level offical ?????
that a broad power to give to government. imagine if citizens are told to "evacuate in place", and stock supplies. I go out and buy a generator, fuel, food and water. my neighboors do not. after the disaster, should FEMA be able to confiscate my goods and distribute them to my lazy neighbors under "greater good"?
its a fine line.
Thank you!
Why are you celebrating buildings when thousands of people have died and others are still stranded? History is people, not buildings.
OK, that is a different story then.
But did their buses make it? This is what I saw earlier today:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.trapped.tourists.ap/index.html
Trapped tourists lose chartered buses
Told they were confiscated by the military
Thursday, September 1, 2005; Posted: 8:28 p.m. EDT (00:28 GMT)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Five days after Susan Dewey arrived in New
Orleans to celebrate her birthday, she was so desperate to get out that she
banded with hundreds of other tourists to hire 10 buses for $25,000 to
rescue them.
After waiting hours, they learned government officials had commandeered
their buses to evacuate others.
"We're the forgotten about," Dewey told The Associated Press in a telephone
interview Thursday. "The Louisiana officials are trying to get their people
out. They don't care about us."
Dewey, 23, of Washington, is one of countless tourists trapped in the city
amid the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina.
Dewey said she has no idea when or how she'll be able to leave, her best
chance lost Wednesday night when she learned the buses would never come.
"No one really knows what to do," Dewey said. "The people who are left are
just going and breaking into stores. ... You would just see people yesterday
dragging these bags of shoes. In the hotel, you would see piles of shoe
boxes."
Dewey and her boyfriend, Eric Hansen, were staying at Hotel Monteleone in
the French Quarter. They called Saturday before leaving Washington to make
sure the hotel would be open.
"They were like, 'Oh yeah, we don't close for anything,"' she said.
By the time the couple arrived, the city's bridges were closed and residents
were being evacuated. By Sunday, only one bar was open on Bourbon Street.
The hurricane hit Monday. The flooding and looting began Tuesday. By
Wednesday, Dewey was stealing to eat.
She said hotel staff encouraged guests to loot a nearby store for food, so
that's what Dewey and her boyfriend did.
"I had Power Bars, I had nuts because there were a couple (hotel) rooms
open, and we raided their mini bars," Dewey said.
That day, police went door-to-door to order local residents out of the hotel
and to the New Orleans Convention Center, Dewey said.
The handful of managers left at the hotel told guests they had booked 10
buses for $25,000 to evacuate them and those from the Crowne Plaza Astor
Downtown. Each passenger paid $45. The hotel staff began lining up elderly
and ill people outside about 7:30 p.m.
"I couldn't count how many wheelchairs you saw," Dewey said.
The guests waited until 9:30 p.m. when a manager told them the buses were
confiscated by the military.
Also planning to leave on one of the buses was Bill Hedrick, a Houston
oilman, and his family, including his mother-in-law, who uses a walker.
"We kept hearing they were coming, they were coming," he said. When the
crowd learned the buses would never arrive, "everyone was totally stunned,"
said Hedrick, who moved on to the convention center.
Dewey said she was ordered to head to the convention center.
**Thanks.... you're right. My mistake. I googled Nagin and Katrina, and that came up.**
No problem... But even then, the Mayor's remarks and advice at the end were RIDICULOUS to give people in harms' way of a hurricane, for God's sakes!
A young patient of Charity Hospital in New Orleans is carried to a waiting bus after being evacuated by airboat on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005. A huge military presence has arrived in the city, restoring order and bringing with them food and water to feed the thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Can't believe it! O'Reilly just held Blanco's feet to the fire. He and Lou Dobbs are the only two to actually tell the truth today!
The evacuation order recommend that hotel guests who could not find a way out, stay in their hotel on 3rd floor or higher.
On your link, I get page not found.
OReilly taking Blanco to task tonight. I think his staff is reading our threads!
Just checking in. What did Dobbs say?
(;>)
Yeah … and when the veneer of American life was ripped away from his eyes, he didn't do very well …
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