Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[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

[Route66]

I just saw a Fox News interview of a woman and a child who actually danced at the end singing "Thank you all! We're getting out of New Orleans! Thank you all! We're getting out of New Orleans!"

[GOPrincess]

A brief postscript to our discussion about the media in this thread last night and this morning, Fox News just had a tour of the emergency command center. They had huge screens on one wall with 8 different TV news channels playing, including cable and local news channels.

The military gentleman giving the Fox reporter the tour praised the media saying that it was thanks to the news they had the initial situation reports from the "front" and they could see where help was needed, or words to that effect.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

TOM DELAY IS ON WWL!

[eternity]

Next stop American Idol.

[DocRock]

"I've just been on an online shopping spree."

You may want to add one of these to your list if you don't already have one.

Big Berkey Water Filter

[John Jamieson]

That coal also makes over a barrel of oil per ton if you cook it just right. What's left is coke also a clean fuel.

I bought Sasol SSL stock two weeks ago to hedge oil prices. So far I'm winning.

[supercat]

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.

And why is the gas STILL under pressure? Even if the shutoff valves are underwater, it should be possible to send someone with a dry suit to operate them. If nothing else, find someplace far enough away from other buildings that heat dissipation would not be a problem and burn off as much gas as possible there.

[samantha]

He heard about all the food that they were now serving.

[owl37]

"He said if a category-five storm hit Galveston, Clear Lake could be under 25 feet of water."

Everyone here claims the sea wall makes all that impossible. There are neighborhoods in Houston that flood whenever an ant spits. I can't imagine 18 inches of rain in an hour.

I'm a weenie. I "evacuate" if there is even the potential of my electricity going out for more than 24 hours.

[Laverne]

I did not take Frist's statement as negative at all, only an acknowledgement that at some point we should look at the process and procedures regarding this story.

[neutrality]

5:30 P.M. - (AP): The American Red Cross said Saturday it had 361 shelters open and was caring for at least 96,180 hurricane victims in nine states. These figures do not include refugees still in New Orleans, or at hotels, motels or church or state shelters across the South. Texas Gov. Rick Perry said as many as 120,000 hurricane refugees were in 97 shelters in his state alone, with another 100,000 in Texas hotels and motels. Hundreds more were housed in churches or private homes.

American Red Cross shelters:

-- Louisiana: 127 shelters; 51,480 people

-- Mississippi: 102 shelters; 13,510 people

-- Texas: 49 shelters; 23,850 people

-- Alabama: 47 shelters; 3,760 people

-- Georgia: 17 shelters; 880 occupants

-- Tennessee: 9 shelters; 70 occupants

-- Florida: 8 shelters; 1,380 occupants

-- Arkansas: 1 shelter; 1,250 occupants

-- Missouri: 1 shelter; 0 occupants

Good job Red Cross

[Seattle Conservative]

Let us not also forget one of the most dispicable, uninformed 'news broadcasters' everyone's non-favorite Aaron Brown. There's also Paula Zahn - -I suspect she'll uphold the CNN mantra.

[mathluv]

Which kind is in Utah? I remember that it was the largest field of that kind outside of Indonesia (?) before the toon federalized the land so it could not be used for mining.

[sheikdetailfeather]

Does Al Gore know why he is there?

He saw Jesse Jackson and leaped at the chance to get his face on the news too.

[tcrlaf]

MSNBC: FBI was guarding the Internet Hub in NEw Orleans?

[Abigail Adams]

On NBC one of the reporters rode along in a dump truck with a guy who was going in to flooded area to check on his boss's house. They came upon a flotilla of neighbors helping each other, but who needed rescue. The dump truck driver didn't want to stop for them. But the reporter pressed him to help. So he did and the people were taken to dry ground.

Wow, what is it with people who don't want to help other people? Is this really America? Sigh.

[John Jamieson]

Seems like too many already.

Behind in your rent, work on your NO accent.

It was in NO wasn't it, that a man said his wife took a taxi to NY to go shopping and was killed in WTC!

[tiredoflaundry]

MSNBC: FBI was guarding the Internet Hub in NEw Orleans?

AHHHHHHHHH That's why Al Gore was there! Protecting his invention!

[BurbankKarl]

Have to add Phoenix and possibly Tucson to that list. 1000 are enroute.

[Michael Goldsberry]

Tropical Storm Allison ate my car in '01. It's not fun.