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

[cgk]

A thread was just yanked with some EXTREMELY VALUABLE INFO about N.O., Mayor Nagin and "evacuations" during Hurricane Ivan. I guess because the source was Mother Jones, the message was lost: READ THIS! What they are crying foul over now is what they complained about N.O.'s mayor doing during Ivan, published in Sept 2004!

Here is a link to the original article:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/update/2004/09/09_414.html
Title: Poor, Black and Left Behind.

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Excerpt:
"New Orleans had spent decades preparing for inevitable submersion by the storm surge of a class-five hurricane. Civil defense officials conceded they had ten thousand body bags on hand to deal with the worst-case scenario. But no one seemed to have bothered to devise a plan to evacuate the city's poorest or most infirm residents. The day before the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast, New Orlean's daily, the Times-Picayune, ran an alarming story about the "large group…mostly concentrated in poorer neighborhoods" who wanted to evacuate but couldn't.

Only at the last moment, with winds churning Lake Pontchartrain, did Mayor Ray Nagin reluctantly open the Louisiana Superdome and a few schools to desperate residents. He was reportedly worried that lower-class refugees might damage or graffiti the Superdome."

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Sure, there is a lot of leftist drivel. But read all of it. Sometimes you can get a lot of valuable information from THEIR sources, using THEIR own words and FACTS against them.

[OKIEDOC]

what you mean is skim their share off the top.

Sort of like what Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton are trying to do.

Let the war begin and lets get it over now.

[jeffers]

Oh lord....we got Nauti and Cajun having a fashion show, and Types with a Fist driving a 16 charlie...what next?

The Mayor claimig the CIA is after him?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Some friends in Utah just said they got a call to assist in crisis management for a group being flowin in tonight from NOLA... they will take good care of them in Utah.

[buickmackane]

Interview now on the WWL feed: Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard has good news. The influx of water has stopped. He's got water restored to most of the parish, so fires can be put out. He's going to let people into the parish on a temporary basis just long enough to visit their homes, grab their important documents, secure their property and leave. After Friday, he's bringing in military reinforcements and putting the entire parish on lockdown. No cars will be allowed on the streets and it's a mandatory evacuation. He actually said, "You would be better off being a nutria in Jefferson Parish than violating this aggressive curfew!"

I don't know much about Jefferson Parish, but I am VERY impressed listening to Aaron Broussard's interview. I wish this guy had played a bigger statewide role because he really seems to have a handle on the situation and how to resolve it. He knows what the problems are and he has concrete, detailed solutions to each one of them.

Thank God somebody's got a plan!

[Spktyr]

One difference, though.

We all already *have* guns in Texas. And we know how tu use them.

[cgk]

Yes, Salvation has a thread running of a list of charities. I will ping them to your post, so they can direct you to it (I can't remember the exact title, and now can't find it :( )...

[OKIEDOC]

I have a couple of mini 14s, a 308, 3 30-06 automatics and several other guns in storage.

Because I have small children and we came from a country where violence and death was an everyday occurrence the wife just doesn't want guns around the kids even if there locked up.

The guns not the kids.

I do however keep in a closet lock box and old 32 automatic I carried for personal protection several years ago.

[cgk]

Ping to #5971, about gun sales in Baton Rouge.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Very interesting.... they sure nailed the real John Kerry.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Nothing Nagin, Blanco or Landrieu, much less Jackson, Sharpton or Lee is saying would hold water if they didn't have the MSM to carry the bucket of cra%ola they are trying to throw on the President.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Awwww.... I was watching the video of the rescuer trying to rescue a spaniel-mix and it breaks my heart. One of our females is pretty skitzy and I worry about how she would react in an emergency,

[OKIEDOC]

All this because the selfish black leaders are playing the race card at every turn.

[OKIEDOC]

Thats true.

I have taken people off the street before and had mixed results.

Usually their on the streets for a valid reason.

[OKIEDOC]

I certainly hope your right.

I think Blanco is a good example of what you will get from a liberal whether woman or man.

[jeffers]

I'm seeing this on the non-political threads too. The lefties, even some of the very hard core ones, are ignoring the political aspects of this and talking about how to help.

But the media is hammering this very very hard. New Oprah show being touted on NBC, "....everything your DIDN'T hear...everything you DIDN'T see....LIVE ON THE GROUND....OPRAH!!!!!"

As hard as they're hitting it, it will either fail or succeed spectacularly.

The media sees that a predominantly liberal city is off the voting map and they are up to something. Gore and Witt and Blanco and Jackson....my nose smells a rat.

But there's an angle they may not have counted on. The average American still doesn't get all of this.

I frequent a computer music forum and there are no Katrina threads at all. The kid's mom is essentially in the dark. The price of gas is high and that seems to be as far as their interest goes.

The media will have to graduate from spin to outright lies (which may have already started at CNN) to pull this off in the coming days because the cavalry is in there on the ground. Maybe they are building a foundation for when the casualty count is announced. Lots of possibilities, but the images and the statements and the political plans are archived under armed guard and pictures are worth ten thousand lies.

If they think they're going to win, they're miscalculating.

The most troublesome aspect of all this is Bush and the Mayor. The guy lights into Bush one night, the next day they act like a band of brothers, and then later that night the Mayor is on TV claiming Bush and the CIA are trying to mist him. Bush sees a bigger picture that we are still trying to puzzle out.

Well, we have most of the puzzle pieces already, it won;t take many more to see the larger pattern, we're cocked and locked. If they choose to open, some kind of real move, not just jaw flapping, they aren't going to know what hit them.

[OKIEDOC]

I think it had to do with moronic moon bat Cindy Sheehan.

Heck, I got admonished on Sheps Smith program for saying reporters were pampered unpatriotic two faced suck ups.

[tcrlaf]

From another board...

Whenever you encounter a Liberal ranting about how Bush killed New orleans, simply retort with:

Got Bus?

[OKIEDOC]

I didn't watch it either.

As soon as he announced some of his guests I knew it would be a Bush bash.

Dose anyone in their right mind think these people really care about New Orleans or it's people.

I think not.

[Route66]

Whenever you encounter a Liberal ranting about how Bush killed New Orleans, simply retort with: Got Bus?

Decades ago we were told that busing would solve the racial problems in this country. While it was not much of a long term solution then, it probably would have worked this time. Too bad Nagin and Blanco killed New Orleans.