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

[OKIEDOC]

Haven't you figured out that rich libs don't give great amounts of money to causes unless they are politically correct.

Larry King is nothing more than an old commie with suspenders.

[RDTF]

It seems to stop often and I have to relaunch it

[NautiNurse]

Whoa (Harrigan) - is that photo from the LA riots? It's not clear in your post.

[Warren_Piece]

WOW! they just did a story of a family that closed on their house in NOLA.

Last Friday.

It's under 20 feet of water, and they're here in a shelter in Nashville.

Life turns on a dime, doesn't it?

Wow.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

You are absolutely correct. The nomination of a SC CJ must have the advice and consent of the senate. I see no provision regarding multiple vacancies, as this is a first. Humble apologies.

[nunya bidness]

Do you have a link to the tac feed and the air ops feed?

[max_rpf]

Local TV interviewing refugees at Airport. Trying to ask if they are mad at the army for not coming sooner. People are saying hell no,,they were grateful to see them. Locals were scaring them to death. Hahahhaha,,take that Jesse and Al and put it in your pipe and smoke it!

My thesis as to why the LSM has had such a hard time finding evacuees that want to trash Bush.

All these evacuees turned on their televisions/radios Sunday morning to learn that there was a mandatory evac order in effect... They had been following the storm for days, but had not been in a panic over it since the city was still 'safe'. Now they see the mayor talking about the big-one and ending his message with "God bless us" and realized that this storm was going to be the real deal.

As they watched the neighborhood empty out, they tuned in and learned that they were supposed to go to the super-dome, but when they went outside to catch the public bus it never came. Then the LSM began running pictures and figures of 20-30k expected to show up, so rather than chance a long walk (if they were even able), went upstairs and barricaded themselves in the hallways and bathrooms of their homes.

The next 10 or so hours they watched the LSM telling them they were all going to die, and when the storm hit they believed it. Many of them thought that this was the end as they heard pieces of their buildings shear off, etc.. How many, for the first time, realized how precious life is -- their anger would have been at those that abandoned them to their fate.

The next morning all is well, Shep Smith is hitting the bars and cheering how everyone had overreacted. Lassie les bon temps roulette!!! Then the flooding started. These people know who is to blame, the flood and the aftermath are a direct result of the initial betrayal which, by the shear grace of god, survived only to face their next challenge.

[bwteim]

I need to step back for a while... catch you in the AM

Here is the top of the last WWL TV I just posted...

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

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.


8:47 P.M. - (AP) The last bedraggled refugees were rescued from the Superdome on Saturday and the convention center was all but cleared, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.

No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

[NautiNurse]

Hopefully, the moving van was delayed delivering the furniture.

[OKIEDOC]

Time for Bush to stick in the lefts rear and break it off with a good conservative.

Damn there's going to be some fight and not in the near to distant future.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I read it on Drudge. Was going pretty well till I got to the blame game part... and yes, she and Richard Simmons, and John Goodman and Nicolas Cage, etc., were all powerful enough names they could have made a difference in the cesspool they allowed to grow and abscess... and I think she is wrong, I think a whole lot will never move back to LA once they get a sense of another world.

Personally, I think they should take one of the closed military bases and turn it into a new, small, city for all the displaced citizens... it would certainly be cleaner and nicer than what many of them have been living in.

[BurbankKarl]

Some of the images that Maxine Waters missed during the 1992 Los Angeles Riots, which her started in her congressional district

[texasbluebell]

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters: Rescue delay shows "class division"

I once saw her name spelled MaRxine here on FR, which fits her a little better.

[Arizona Carolyn]

What for????

[NautiNurse]

Take care - and thank you for all of your wonderful updates.

[tcrlaf]

I see a response that was slowed by Wargamed, politicly correct beauracracy, and hobbled by lawsuit avoidance until BUSH put a size ten in somebody's rear.

If you remember, a few months ago there was some LIB screaming about a disaster excersise that included "Minority Civil Unrest" as being racist?

And the Governor of Louisiana STILL has not declared a state of Emergency!! A Health emergency, yes, but not a LEGAL state of emergency...

[Arizona Carolyn]

Tell them to call Bill O'Reilly he can send in Col. Hunt and company (not joking)... if he really has this power then use it.

[NautiNurse]

KALB now reporting that Jesse Jackson is expected to visit Alexandria, LA.

What is a FReeper in good standing going to do about this situation?

[RDTF]

very good idea - my guess is some big engineering/Contracting firm is already lobbying that idea.

[Warren_Piece]

Another Wow! 500 people in B'ham donated their tickets to the Alabama opening football game to the Red Cross. 500 evacuees staying at shelters in B'ham got to forget their troubles for a while and watch a game.

Roll Tide, indeed.