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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
WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
05:20 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet
5:05 P.M. - WWL-TV: The following is a release from Loyola University:
Loyola University New Orleans is closed for this semester and will reopen in January 2006. Our 27 sister institutionss have generously offered support by making arrangements to accept Loyola students this fall semester.
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4:27 P.M. - WWL-TV: Clean up crews can be seen collecting the debris and garbage around the evacuation point at the I-10/Causeway Interchange.
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There are no more evacuees in the area.
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NEW YORK -- A convoy of 70 city buses, accompanied by an assortment of support vehicles and volunteers, departed lower Manhattan on Saturday morning for a 24-hour trip south to help evacuate victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The caravan, including another 47 vehicles from the city police and mass transit, was expected to arrive in New Orleans on Sunday to start ferrying victims of the hurricane out of the crippled Crescent City. They left from Police Headquarters, just a few blocks east of ground zero.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, cognizant of the nation's outpouring of aid to New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, said the city "will help those who helped us." The group that left Saturday will join members of the Fire Department, the NYPD and the city Office of Emergency Management already on site in New Orleans.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses will bring homeless residents of New Orleans to Dallas and Little Rock, Ark. The task force from New York is also carrying food, water and other supplies for the ravaged region.
On Sunday morning, another 30 city buses will head south from Staten Island. The buses will spend about one week in New Orleans, as will the 230 volunteer MTA workers and the 171 volunteer NYPD officers, said Bloomberg.
Although the city employees volunteered for the trip, they will be paid while helping out in New Orleans, the mayor's office said.
The deployment of the buses may create limited service interruptions for city bus commuters, and the MTA will provide details on any changes over the next day, Bloomberg said.
On Thursday, city Fire Department sent three chiefs to Jackson, Miss., to help with command and control operations.
Maybe Gore thinks he's in Tennessee.
I've just been on an online shopping spree. Ain't nuttin like it when you want specific stuff!
Like I said somewhere upthread, my outlook has changed since viewing this disaster. Not only do I have a renewed respect for mother nature but since I live in a large city...I have gained an urgent desire to become more self-reliant due to potential anarchy/insurrection. This has been a wake up call for me.
I urge you to think hard about your location and it's particular problems and what you can do for you should all heck break loose.
His doctor might have sent him down there knowing there would be nothing to eat.
Newt lost me a long time ago, well, he never had me really, but for some reason he thinks we should care what he thinks.
"are we looking at a 5,000 -30,000 death toll?"
Conflicting information: In anticipating a CAT 5 storm FEMA got 25,000 body bags ready. Then in the next breath I have to listen to them say on tv with a straight face, "No one could have reasonably guessed that New Orleans could be stricken with both broken levees and a hurricane."
Many many of my neighbors on the North Shore chose to live there because they feared buying a house in the bowl. We shook our heads at the thought of how many dead there would be if a hurricane struck. Hearing people from N.O acted shocked that so many will have died from levee breaks reminds me of people acting shocked that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer.
" am pissed....there are white people that have been rescued"
There was just a guy on FNC (think he was their HS advisor or some such) and was saying that there are folks in Saint Bernard and other parishes in the suburbs that need rescuing and, that no one is paying any attention to them - it's all focused on NO. He said he's tired of all this race baiting as the folks in these areas haven't had any help and are primarily white and THEY NEED HELP NOW!
ROFL!
LOL!
LIBS cannot be big...didn't he get the memo?
Okay-corny. What can I say? It's a sickness, LOL!
He wishes the CIA was after his useless butt. It is probably the rubber room people after him.
LOL - actually I have redefined him as a conservative dem - but still a dem
LOL - Single-lady dittos to you! Sounds like something I might do :-)
"The Metropolitan Transportation Authority buses will bring homeless residents of New Orleans to Dallas and Little Rock, Ark."
But not NY? How interesting.
I recently saw a picture of a wall of low sulfer coal in Wyoming that was 80 ft high on the surface. I understand that 110 trains, each with more than 100 cars filled with coal leave Power River, WY every day.
Everybody's had to fight to be free,
You see you don't have to live like a refugee.
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That is a message that the demagogic party has been hiding from "their" people for 40 years.
Aside: one of my immigrant ancestors lost her husband in a fire in New Orleans in the 1860s. She had fled Ireland during the famine time with her parents and sibs. She found a way to get herself and her 5 kids back to Baltimore where she still had relatives. She had to have been a strong character; wish I could 'meet' her someday.
My great grandmother - Mary Flaherty's youngest - was baptized in St Patrick's Catholic Church on Camp street - not too far from the SuperDome. I keep wondering if it survived.
Didn't I read somewhere that onyx had left CA and moved to the South?
Slidell isn't inner city New Orleans. It's a wealthier burb of NO.
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