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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
2,000 coming to INDY, being shuttled by Chautauqua/Republic Airlines all weekend. 2 RJ's committed...
He said it is the Mayor and Governors responsibility and he basically said they dropped the ball.
Most of the fires are apparently being caused by breakdowns in the electrical and natural gas distribution systems in the city. Natural gas fires are extremely dangerous since they can spread wildly through piping systems and flare up with little notice.
Speaking of inevitable:
Remember our Dr. Neill Frank of the Hurrican Center [now in Houston] always dismissed as an alarmist??
Here is some 1992 news.
http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol57/92-08-13.html
Dr. Neill Frank: Since hurricanes are natural occurrences, Frank does not consider them a problem.
"We have a hurricane problem when people build on coasts," he said, especially those who build close to the shorelines.
"Now if you decide to live in California and you build a home close to a fault line, then you shouldn't fuss about earthquakes," he said. "It's the same if you build on Galveston's west end; you shouldn't fuss about hurricanes."
Dr. Neill Frank: He showed slides of hurricane damage, before-and-after pictures of entire homes that had disappeared in the aftermath of legendary storms like Hugo, Camille (which had a 25-foot-storm surge) and Alicia. He said if a category-five storm hit Galveston, Clear Lake could be under 25 feet of water.
He also pointed out that Houston's buildings lack a standard for building codes and do not provide sufficient protection during a category-one or -two hurricane.
"Even in a bad thunderstorm, you can get 100 mph winds," he said. The cost of improvement on existing buildings would be "only two or three percent more," he said, having checked with builders. "I think we're selling ourselves short."
What if there are still people on rooftops???
I think that was Cynthia McKinney of GA.
Does Al Gore know why he is there?
"Powder River".
The coal is clean and about $12 a ton last I checked.
I don't know onyx real well but I know her through the threads over the years. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I believe she is inland a bit in MS. Somewhere near Jackson?
No surprises there.
Not yet. And given the gravity of the current situation, I think it's going to be darn difficult to fool an adequate number of couch potatoes. The media has been changing its spin too often on this event.
I saw that too. I thought maybe this was her first ride in the air (I'm pretty sure it's her first helicopter ride). : ) She looked thrilled to be having the experience. Some people can see the up side in anything.
I wasn't happy w Bobby Jindahl (sp)
"Arizona Carolyn
wrote:
Is this guy on drugs????"
No, he just knows what the record is going to show regarding his pre-storm preparations, how mucvh money was devoted for this, where it actually went, and what he did and did not do once the storm took out his city.
As the political floodwaters creep up around him, he is desparately trying to keep his political career afloat.
He can smell the charges of malicious negligence all around him, beginning to stink in the sun.
This his been the premise from which he has operated from since before the storm.
Blanco, ditto.
Soon you will see them turning on their subordinates, rat eat rat and the island gets smaller.
Finally only one in each camp will be left and we will come for him or her with a proverbial(?) rope and a chair.
The media knows this too.
They think they can plant the seeds of a "Bush killed New Orleans" perception in the minds of Americans, and that later on we will remember only that, without remembering where the perception came from.
They are wrong.
The Governor is wrong.
The Mayor is wrong.
There will be a reckoning.
A lot of insurance companies are dropping homeowners in Florida. Can you imagine what they will do in New Orleans?
Minutemen help in Katrina relief by Filling Gaps in Border Patrol
MinutemenHQ 02 Sep 2005 | Chris Simcox
SPECIAL DISASTER ALERT: The Minutemen Civil Defense Corps has started our "Secure Our Borders" operation EARLY to aid Border Patrol helping with Katrina relief... which means we need YOUR help NOW.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, more than 100 U.S. Border Patrol Agents have been reassigned from Arizona and New Mexico to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Already, CBP agents are en route to the affected area to provide security and law enforcement support during the evacuation of the Super Dome.
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps deployed volunteers to the border today in order to fill gaps in border security as the U.S. Border Patrol was reassigned to disaster relief duty.
Due to the mounting crisis, U.S. Border Patrol officers are being shifted away from their posts guarding the US-Mexico border to aid in the Hurricane Katrina disaster, leaving our country vulnerable to increased trafficking by illegal aliens and terrorists attempting to enter the U.S.
Martial Law has been declared in the disaster stricken areas, and the Border Patrol along with thousands of National Guard personnel have been mobilized to enforce the rule of law. As a result, we've decided to push up our launch date of our "Secure Our Borders" operation, which had been scheduled to begin in October, so that Minuteman volunteers can be immediately deployed to the southern border with Mexico to assist with border security.
According to a report from Homeland Security, the Bush administration ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the federal agency charged with securing the border, to provide manpower, assets, and humanitarian support to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, which understandably has some border state residents nervous about the lack of border security.
We've requested that Minuteman volunteers and supporters aid in the effort by donating to worthy relief agencies, but we've also told volunteers to only travel to the area with authorized disaster assistance organizations to assist with any search and rescue or law enforcement duties. We're mobilizing volunteers RIGHT NOW to stand in the breach along our border -- a breach that has now opened wider, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
While the federal government is responding to the natural disaster and its aftermath of lawlessness and human suffering, we will assist by sending Minuteman volunteers to protect and defend our Border line in assistance to an already understaffed and embattled U.S. Border Patrol.
Our nation needs our help now more than ever, and we are prepared to serve honorably during a time of crisis.
WILL YOU HELP? While we certainly encourage donations to worthy relief organizations, NOW is the time when we need help in order to "pick up the slack" as more than 100 U.S. Border Patrol Agents have been reassigned from Arizona and New Mexico to aid the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Click Here to help with your best contribution now!
We weren't expecting this sudden need. There's no way to plan for such a time as this -- but nevertheless, we MUST take action now. We can't leave our borders unprotected -- but having to start our operation early means we're having to start without having all of the funds in place that we planned for.
The Border Patrol Agents are headed for New Orleans, so we're headed for the Border. Can you help us in our efforts to "Secure Our Borders"? We need you NOW. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Chris Simcox, Founder Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
EOC depending on Fox News to tell them where the trouble spots are? Well check out the suburbs and people dying on roofs!
I understand that with modern technology that a coal fired power plant can producr electricity for 3 cents per Kilowatt hour.
We waited for a machine part at our hospital for a long time because it was being shipped from a hurricane state.
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