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

[cajungirl]

I remember hearing the scenarios 40 years ago. And it was discussed that 50 to 100 thousand would be left to fend for themselves. It was widely talked about that there was no way to save people after a levee rupture.

I think the toll will be about 10 thousand and that will be a blessing. It could have been much much worse.

[texasbluebell]

I bet so too.

[bwteim]

WWL

Updates as they come in on Katrina
10:09 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet

9:26 P.M. - (AP) The overseers for Louisiana's charity hospital system was working Saturday to learn the whereabouts of many patients evacuated late Friday. It did know some.

Newborns from the intensive care and well-baby units at Charity and University hospitals were taken to Women's Hospital in Baton Rouge, Marvin McGraw, spokesman for the LSU hospital system, wrote in a news release sent Saturday afternoon.

He said mental health patients and staff went to the Central Louisiana State Hospital at Pineville. Employees, students, and residents were taken to Baton Rouge or San Antonio, the statement said.

Medical surgical patients were taken to the triage center at the New Orleans International Airport where federal authorities sent them around the state, region, and country.

McGraw said system officials cannot now tell family members where those patients are, but hope to be able to do so shortly.

[Types_with_Fist]

We need to find the tactical channel.

It would be encouraging to me if this was it. But obviously it's not...:-)

[RDTF]

here ya go-

http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u

[zot]

"Voodo ops, voodo ops. This is Eagle three, over." I have no idea what that means but it sounds cool...:-)

If you heard some of the later transmissions, it was easy to figure out that Eagle 3 is a helicopter. They are not happy with their orders. Eagle 1 said to Eagle 3 "I don't understand it either. I guess we're supposed to just keep flying tired".

Yes, and they will, too, you know. Some of the Coast Guard helicopter crews in the first few days kept flying until they were so tired they had to be ordered to stand down. Semper Paratus. Semper Fidelis.

[tcrlaf]

The TActical feed is down...

Air ops is on Shoutcast

[Knitting A Conundrum]

They were slow...I don't think anybody realized how big the disaster would be in the prepositioning stages. And there seemed to be a true lack of good coordination until after day 3...Fema and the state and the city and the NG worked at cross purposes longer than they technically had to. Whoever's at fault (and I am not laying real blame...from an outside pov, it looked like everybody got kinda freekout froze for at least 12 hours more than they should have, but I certainly don't have the skinny on why it happened), made it worse than it had to be, but by day four things hit their stride and began to click. About a day longer than normal, but this was a huge event.

Things are always bad, screwy and miserable at the beginning of a disaster. But this one does take the cake.

[Warren_Piece]

People were talking about the levee in a Cat 5 storm in 1965 after Betsy. I was there, I went to the disaster meetings, I read and talked about it.

40 years at least they have known this, 40 years!!!!

Whoa! I had no idea you were so...er...experienced.

With "girl" in your name, I'm sure you've been the recipient of many "Freeper Flirtations". Hee, hee. I'm a southern boy, so I'd call you m'am anyway.

[OKIEDOC]

These people are empowered by Sharptons ilk to be super sensitive.

I think that the 37% of the white refugees should also have a say.

Heck I wouldn't care what the called me as long as i got three hots and a cot.

Most of these super sensitive morons doing the complaining are living in nice apartments somewhere in the East or Atlanta.

[BurbankKarl]

"I thought I'd seen a lot. Don't forget, I'm from Los Angeles," where there has been a documented history of rioting. "But nothing like this. To see dead bodies on the street just unnerves me."

Guess she didnt visit the dead Koreans during the LA Riots

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

"I remember years ago, one of the original cnn anchors, named Reed Collins, I believe, once said something interesting -- that even history has its rush hours. That was back when the Berlin Wall was coming down.

It appears we're living during another one of history's rush hours."

Well, Katrina alone is enough of a piece of history to cause a rush; but, please let's keep our perspective. I heard on NPR yesterday that the number one story for several days right up to Katrina's arrival at New Orleans doorstep was about that Cindy somebody in Crawford, TX. Other than the hurricane, the pace just isn't that dizzying.
However if you meant to extend the time frame to back to Easter we did have Terry Schiavo, the death of John Paul the Great (and he WILL be know in Eternity as one of the 5 or 6 Greatest), and the subsequent elevation of the Conservative Watchdog as the new pope. Hmm...you may be on to something after all.

[lainie]

bttt

[Txsleuth]

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows are gonna have to do some quick changing...

Bet they were gonna be all about what a rotten job President Bush has done with the Hurricane Katrina disaster...

NOW, they will have to dredge up the Roberts stuff, and the "potential justices" stuff....

LOLOL

[OKIEDOC]

That ignorant commie.

Can't stand WolfJack when their enabling the loony left .

Which is about every other word.

[NautiNurse]

Speechless...

[2111USMC]

Thanks RDTF!

It works if I launch it from your link.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I suspect the death toll will definitely be in that range or higher...

What it tells me is that civil defense/emergency plans that visualize people evacuating from a city (not suburbs, but the heart of a city) better be prepared for the reality of lots of non-drivers, the sick, the poor, the petowners, the crazies and the criminals.

Evacuating a city is harder than they thought!

[Arizona Carolyn]

I caught that... if we freepers do our job he won't be damaged. I just sent another tome to Chris Matthews. He has a local Saturday show on NBC and I happened to catch the opening where he was saying did we make these people suffer because they are black; or something like that. I was so livid I was seeing red and switched the channel. This time I called him a horses ass!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Last Friday.