Floodwater is pumped out of an overflowing levee in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans September 3, 2005.
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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:
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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/
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Tropical Storm 12
what is her website please?
Floodwater is pumped out of an overflowing levee in St. Bernard Parish near New Orleans September 3, 2005.
That's a serious question. I had a survey phone call two weeks ago and wanted to know about how happy I was with my Walmart shopping experience and to grade them on price and cleanliness.... and then they asked me about Albertsons.
Check out this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1476866/posts?q=1&&page=1#1
Has anyone started a thread yet to list places to send donations? I am not sending money to be misused by the Red Cross. I am planning on donating actual items that can be used and would like to find a shelter that could use items that may be not getting the attention they need from the Feds.
Yes one of the greatest songs ever!
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They're drinkin', thinkin' that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can't refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal.
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?
I don't know. We go to a Calvary Chapel and I checked the website (www.calvarychapel.com) for names of churches in LA, MS and AL. Whenever possible, I like to give to something with a face, if that makes sense. We did donate to The Salvation Army on Monday.
Some of our homeschool kids are getting together this Tuesday to make blankets, and I imagine it won't be hard to find somewhere to send them. One woman here that I know rented a large UHaul, put out the word, and it was packed to overflowing by the time she left for Baton Rouge today. I'd love to do that, but Mr. Chip isn't as eager as I am.
Right now, the WWL feed we get via an Alexandria low-power cable channel is showing an interview with David Vitter that is irritating the hell out of me.
Vitter is talking about how he's got to get his children enrolled in another school. My ears perked up because although he's listed as being from Metairie, I read that he recently purchased a house in Alexandria. Then he started going on about how he wants to have his children go to school at the same school as their cousins so they won't feel so isolated in their new surroundings. Later in the broadcast was some discussion about the Catholic school system.
Wait a minute...this guy gets to CHOOSE what school his children will be going to? What's up with that? I don't mind that his children and their cousins are most likely going to be part of the 1,000+ kids absorbed by the Rapides Parish school system, but it does bother me that he feels he has a choice.
I can't imagine that if my daughter and I were evacuated on an emergency basis to some other parish that I would be allowed to choose which school my child attended. They'd look at the temporary address we had (shelter, motel, whatever) and assign us to whatever school corresponded to that location.
In Rapides Parish, your street address usually has nothing to do with the school you're zoned for. There's a long-standing desegregation problem here that has resulted in the kids being bused several miles out of their neighborhoods for the sole purpose of achieving racial balance. For example, there are some wonderful magnet and Montessori schools within the public school system. They're located in rough neighborhoods but what they have to offer is so good that parents send their children from other towns on what they call M-to-M (majority to minority) transfers.
I hope nobody tells Jesse Jackson about the desegregation thing during his journey to Alexandria; that's the last thing we need right now...
I have other gripes about David Vitter, but they're best saved for another thread where I can really rant about some things he said during his campaign. It's just that this interview made him seem like he's in a bit of an ivory tower during this crisis.
Might make the Mariel boat lift look like a walk in the park.
With all due respect, you're just wrong. It would work, EVERY time, because I said they should drive 400 miles from the storm. NO hurricane does this kind of devastating damage 400 miles inland because (a) the most devastating damage is caused by storm surge (which is maybe 2 miles inland in the worst areas), (b) hurricanes weaken once they hit land, (c) an entire city wouldn't be flooded 400 miles inland, and (d) Cat 4-5 hurricanes are rare.
So even if they got caught in their cars in the direct path of the hurricane, a few would die from flying debris through their cars, but that would be a miniscule number of people compared with the human disaster we are witnessing now.
I think that is what has me so angry. These innocent people were used as pawns last weekend by their representation and they are being held as pawns this weekend by the MSM and their black leaders.
So, tell me. WHAT did Celine Dion DO!!! I was gone and didn't watch that LK thing.
Salvation Army!
I know what's at stake here, but I have big problems with using this barge photo the way you all are suggesting.
The barge is in the neighborhood up next to a house, right?
The levee is broken nearby, right?
But the water is flowing OUT of the neighborhood.
That area filled up as the storm passed, because its seawall and the one from East Orleans Parish (or St. Bernard Parish, if the image is from East Orleans) form a big V pointed right into the storm surge.
If the barge was in the canal, into which the flooded neighborhood is spilling, how could it break the levee and then flow UPSTREAM into the neighborhood?
If the barge was at sea or in the Intercoastal Waterway and the surge pushed it into the neighborhood, and then it broke the levee from the inside, how come it didn't flow out with the flood waters?
Ok, you can see that the seawall is down, and that silt from inside the seawall has built up at the breach, so maybe the barge was inside, and maybe it cracked the wall, and maybe the broken wall prevented it from escaping with the flood waters, but you really want to be sure of what your claim is before you go using this image to "prove" anything, or else the other side is going to pick their time and blow you out of the water.
Once you lose credibility on an issue, it is very difficult to get it back, sort of a momentum/herd mentality thing.
"David Gregory gets my ire up every time I see his face'
is there something about Gregory's face and the remote that seem to go together, or is it just me ?
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