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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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
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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
exactly, i said no more heb b for my boy or chicken pox,,,he's not even getting his last polio.
Oh really. Did he get special permission to breech the closed area? Did he spend 50,000 gallons of jet fuel to reach Louisiana on a private jet?
I think most on the left and those in the media would prefer not to be B-slapped with her wit and intelligence.
Much like Rummy.
Do you know where that shelter is?? I have family there,,
does dissentary need or even have a vaccine avail or is it a sickness that goes away,,,,is it contagious??
Of course, if he really *is* pitching in (like Bill Frist, for example, who is doing his job as a medic and working triage down there without a press conference), I don't really care about his politics.
Anyone seen John Travolta and his private 707 lately? He could be using that thing to evacuate 100 or so people at a shot.
No, but if that pathetic pissant has temporarily come around to my point of view, it shows how badly the globo-weenies have shot themselves in the foot.
Arkansas covention center and other areas there are now taking in evacs.
what's action items were in the plan:
#1 - Buses will be needed for evacuation. Therefore, allow all the school buses to remain at the depot to flood.
#2 - Civil order will be crucial when federal aid needs to arrive. therefore, NOLA police officers will resign and go AWOL from their posts in droves.
> bloody diarrea....said they must have swallowed the bad water...
Or else they're swallowing some of that stuff the Democrats are shoveling.
not to be picky, but if you want to "google" it, the correct spelling is "Dysentary", and yes, it is contagious.
I sure am praying for you and yours...
Amen.
none of them are going outside. FNC ran some tape this morning of small boat search & rescue. Searchers screaming down the street to even try to get people to come out of their houses.
I have a friend who, several years ago, attended a convention there at the convention center. Came home an dended up with a bacterial infection that attacked her heart muscle and had to have major surgery as a result. This was a woman in her 50's and in good health and the doctors said the timing was close enought that they felt she picked it up in NOLA -- due to mold.
not to be picky, but if you want to "google" it, the correct spelling is "Dysentery", and yes, it is contagious.
I sure am praying for you and yours...
I heard yesterday that some of the power has been restored. Maybe she now has power?
For those of you old enough to remember 1977, that sounds a lot like the Chicago Machine apparatcniks that were responsible for that city's blizzard plan, who only came up with that plan well after the blizzard of 1977 (need I mention that it also sank the Machine's mayor, Michael Bilandic).
Does Love Canal strike a familiar cord with anyone?
Lady needing rescue said she was in the Uptown area. Probably gave the assignment to Geraldo since he's out with a boat.
If any place in the world was moldy, NO was...some things I think about second nature as mold prevention things, my kids think I'm crazy about in this dry climate...
I'll take her in. She's a survivor that doesn't complain. I'm off to write to Fox.
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