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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
Did you happen to see Richard Simmons on TV? He's from NO and said she is his other mother, "my other mother has had a stroke, and I can't reach her now." I thought that was a sad, but very true analogy. NO is not dead, but desperately ill and unable to communicate or help herself.
Newt is just not Presidential and never will be. He is smart as a whip,he is a great teacher, he thinks on his feet, but he has so much baggage and you do not know where his head is at times. He is also a great motivator, and I can see him in a Cabinet Position, but way out of the Succession to the Presidency. He is running for the 2008 election now, even if he says no it is very obvious. I could never vote for someone I cannot trust.
With all my heart I want you to be so, so right about this.
did the simulation include the looting, snipers, incompetent governor and mayor? did they simulate the local officials refusing to give an evacuation order until Bush called them?
The airport was turned into a field hospital and disbursement point of refugees, moving them outside the city. Flights are taking off with refugees, since the local cities are all full.
Doesn't seem we're widely in conflict, just a slightly different determination of the reason for the man's actions.
I agree. I just don't think any of what they do will matter as the scope of this horror comes more into focus. They just don't matter.
I just got this email in my regular email; I thought it might be of interest to you all:
Hi Howlin,
I found your e-mail addy in your profile on FR. I have a bit of interesting info on the "refugees". Amarillo is going to receive 1000 refugees that should be here anytime. They are going to be housed in our civic center for a short while and then they will be placed in our community by volunteers who open their houses. Amarillo will respond to this greatly. I have no doubt they will have more than enough people volunteering their homes. I took about $100.00 worth of deodorant, tooth paste, toothbrushes and even tampons down to the civic center. I had no idea they would be sending people this far north. There is a special bulletin about this at amarillonet.com
I thought some freepers might be interested in this. If you don't want to pass it on, I completely understand.
Best wishes...
XXXXX
"The Clinton stain is all over the hiring of Witt"
I just had a tin-foil attack..
Afghanistan/Taliban/BinLaden
Louisiana/Blanko/Clinton
I dare the professor to walk into a NO crowd and praise the Gov, Mayor and local officials. I'll give him 50 dollars to do it even.
I know for sure a FEMA convoy was in Slidell on Wednesday....and that St Tammany guy was ripping on the response on Friday.
LOL!
NBC live reporting that the Mississippi River is not, repeat, not, blocked.
Traffic is limited and tightly controlled for reasons unknown, but the channel is open, per NBC. They mention submerged hazards still existing, so I'm guessing they have only completed a preliminary assessment.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., Saturday accused the
Federal Emergency Management Agency of failing to accept offers that
would have eased post-hurricane problems in New Orleans -- including a plan
for the Forest Service to douse fires in the city with aircraft used to fight fire.
On Friday, Landrieu asked President Bush to appoint a cabinet-level official to oversee Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts. She reiterated that request on Saturday.
"Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour
of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new
understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject
failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency,"
Landrieu said. "Twenty-four hours later, the President has yet to answer my
call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA,
now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at
hand.
Landrieu said that FEMA has inexplicably failed to take advantage of offers of help.
"I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims - far more efficiently than buses - FEMA again dragged its feet," Landrieu said. "Offers of medicine, communications equipment and other desperately needed items continue to flow in, only to be ignored by the agency.
Landrieu said that her "greatest disappointment" is the lack of progress fixing the breached 17th Street levee.
"Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast - black and white, rich and poor, young and old - deserve far better from their national government," Landrieu said.
Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which
is directing FEMA in its recovery efforts in New Orleans, has said that the federal government is committing more and more resources to what is
the worst natural disaster in the nation's history.
According to this bozo the local and state officials behaved perfectly. Direct quote "Everyone to blame is outside Louisiana."
Watching it was like being in an alternate universe.
The TV is now off.
but the current status is that only a small portion of the troops are under command of that general, is that right?
we said very early in these threads that the administration needed to start pointing out the incompetence of the mayor and governor earlier, to buy themselves political cover. Bush was too much of a gentleman to do that, and we have to deal with that on the backside, now that the Dems have politicized it.
Yes. I saw him. The Quarter is largely gay. No surprise about him there. I know a few gays from the FQ myself. I was sorry to hear about him mom. But I'm sure everyone in the FQ is okay. I also heard him say NO will come back. I feel even worse for him about that because I don't think it can.
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