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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
Don't want to post this on the thread...
The Baton Rouge River Center
220 St. Louis Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70801
(225) 761-8400
Clearly mark the contents of the box, and Hurricane Relief
They are overwhelmed with refugees at this time. Here's a clip from an article...
"Monsour said he is especially concerned about the River Center, which has been near or over its capacity of 5,000 since it opened to evacuees Tuesday. City-parish officials opened the River Center to allow schools that were being used as shelters to prepare to reopen."
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Thank you!
Hello?
She is like Howard Hughes now couped up in that Las Vegas Hotel. She couldnt leave the hotel to perform at Live 8. A billionaire recluse.
Rush forshadowed all this before he left on Thursday saying it was bubbling in the "orc factory (my words)" of the Democratic websites.
To paraphrase: Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin pleaded for days for federal help but couldn't get it (it's Bush's fault.)
Pete Marevich....my hero.
I used to watch him when the Hawks played at GA Tech. He was so close you could almost reach out and touch him (and being a high school girl I wanted to, LOL!.) Pistol Pete.
I cleaned out all the kids clothes this winter and they are sitting in the boxes, taking up space. That is where I will send them.
How cold does it get in LA in the winter? Lots of sweaters all sizes boys & men.
Is anybody listening to Fox?
Did I just hear Geraldo compare this to the Holocaust?
If so, I may have a bad case of the vapors.
Listen to him......is he insane?
I thought it was Republicans rescuing Democrats.
I just saw a local, WDSU, film made by a kid from Chalmette who went in in a boat and took video. He went down to the locks and there sitting on land was a red barge right by a broken concrete levee. I think that is our barge. He said it looked like the barge broke the level. And St Bernard Parish is no more.
The video was amazing. Houses still up to the roofs with water, dead horses, dead deer, cars sitting upright. Place is destroyed. Beautiful houses too. And old community, very tight. Their people, 1000 of them left on a pier for days, no help, 100 dead. I know someone from there, there was a piece on pBS about this parish.
oops ? ;-)
Did Geraldo just compare the refugees to the Jewish people? How they were turned away from cities? Who has turned the refugees away? What a disgusting thing for him to say!
Oh I'm with ya. Cafferty has been leading the charge.
I just posted the same question......I swear he said that!
I think they are trying to incite a race war.
not cold, light jackets and cotton sweaters. Pants and long sleeves for about two months. They wear shorts and tees up into December. Hot here.
Apparently socks are really needed, adult and kids. Pleading for them.
but I did anyway...
Somebody needs to drive a stake through his heart.
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