Katrina Live Threads, Part XV

Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

U.S. commercial air carriers continue transporting tens of thousands of evacuees from the New Orleans airport to destinations throughout the nation.

Rooftop air rescue efforts continue. One rescue chopper crashed late today. Crew members are reported safe. Gunmen who fired upon bridge repair contractors were killed by law enforcement.

To date, an estimated 70 countries and U.S. businesses have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars, supplies, food and equipment to assist the United States' efforts in Katrina's aftermath. Lt. General Honore described the damage to Mississippi today, "all infrastructure south of Jackson, MS is either damaged or destroyed." Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited the devastated areas, and attended Sunday church services in Mobile, Alabama.

Elsewhere, Sean Penn's rescue boat, sans plug and full of his personal entourage,reportedly sank during launch in New Orleans. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) threatened to punch President Bush, and Jefferson Parish President Broussard decried that the bureaucracy of FEMA has committed murder.

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

New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002

Streaming Video:

All information is subject to change. Many stations are relying on their corporate parents to configure and maintain Internet streaming. Because of the intense interest in the feeds, they may be unavailable at times because of network congestion or a problem feeding the video to the streaming servers.

WWL-TV New Orleans - 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. They have a secondary stream from Yahoo. WWL-TV is also offering a special low-bandwidth audio-only stream for dial-up users.

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).

WFAA-TV Dallas, TX - WFAA-TV is here because Dallas is one of the evacuation cities.

United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM (Clear Channel & Entercom) who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.

Gulf Coast Storm Network (Clear Channel Radio) - Clear Channel offers radio listeners across the gulf coast access to a simulcast emergency radio service. This service seems primarily focused on Alabama and Mississippi, but does cover Louisiana to some degree.

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
Katrina Link Archives Nice work by backhoe
Mary Landrieu-"I'll Punch Bush"
Sean Penn's Rescue Bid Sinks
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 XIV
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

[CedarDave]

The admiral had very specific good answers to the reporters "delay" questions, as far as the military preparation in ADVANCE of the storm. At some point the stupid biased reporters have to run out of questions for the feds and realize they need to ask them of the city and state officials.

[mhking]

[shrug] I'm feeling charitable for a short time -- plus I can't find the Penn Jillette "STFU" animated gif...

[Types_with_Fist]

Personally speaking I think it would be a wise idea to study what exactly they are doing before they do it.

Maybe you are being sarcastic. I'm not sure and my apologies if so.

They have two choices in this situation:
The water WILL NOT recede on its own. It has to be pumped out. They cannot save the ones still alive nor remove the bodies until the area is pumped out (the bodies also have to be removed from NO because they cannot create mass graves there). Leaving it the way it is for any length of time will create disease not just for the immediate area but for the entire south and even the rescuers -- who are from all parts of the country.

Or... they could worry about the environmental impact of pumping that goop -- not water but goop -- into the lake and allow every sort of deadly disease to spread in New Orleans. Dysentery is only the first and mildest disease that will spread.

There are only two choices and neither is good but one is worse than the other.

[hoosiermama]

Link to a VERY helpful post on dealing with "those less informed".

[maryz]

Someone on another thread said that, after the power went, the minimal light provided by the emergency generators (most of them provide only minimal light) wasn't enough for pictures.

[texasbluebell]

If you already had it open on your computer, go to your history button and look through there till you recognize it.

Sorry, I don't have the link though.

But search through your history.

[NautiNurse]

See post #652.

Let us know if you still have questions.

[publana]

Probably the reason I can't find it in the searches is that I'm not describing the link very well.

It is a Webhosting company that is still up and running in NOLA. They have 55 employees, and have a camera up on the roof, out the window, in their office... etc. They have been taking pictures and keeping a BLOG going of all that has happened to them during this mess.

Some of the things discussed were getting diesel for the generators to keep their 0C3s up and running; watching and experiencing the lawlessness of the city; talking to the police;... etc.

Does this ring a bell with anyone, and if so, do you have the link? Please?

[texasbluebell]

He'll have a lot of pings later!

[TheSpottedOwl]

I was clobbered by a FReeper for including nice dresses in the clothing shipment - it would be impractical, I was told. Of course, I pointed out there are many, many proud Louisiana church going women who likely miss their Sunday dresses.

I never thought about that. My bad? You're absolutely right, though. The Southern ladies get dressed up for church. In fact the Los Angeles Times ran a nice feature about custom hat stores in South Central, with pictures. My mom wore hats to church. We're Catholic, and it's not too common anymore. Hmm, that's another thing to think about. I wonder if some of these hat stores could donate some hats for them? This would be a terrific morale booster. How about the men? Do they get dressed up for church? Men's suits are pretty darn expensive, though : (

I'm tracking down the lady here who is taking material donations. If she has time to talk, I want to ask her what is being donated and what isn't being donated. Like a gazillion boxes of Pampers, but no Depends. We can't forget about the handicapped and elderly.

Once again, thank you so much for your time and effort on these threads.

[Spktyr]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

[publana]

I did that already and for some reason, it's not there. I clicked all the non-descriptive links in case the page had a crummy title (which would be unusual for a Webhosting company.) I'm at a total loss as to what happened to it.

[Types_with_Fist]

I've heard of them but I never checked out the link. Sorry. I do believe the blog you mentioned and about 11 survivors were all holed up in the Bell South building. They actually had food, water, power and air throughout this thing.

[lugsoul]

"The other material and manpower (SAR) asssets were in place by FEMA and the Feds."

Sure, if 'in place' means something other than in the places they were needed.

[publana]

Thank you so much, mhking!

[Just mythoughts]

They would be far better off pumping it out and down the Mississippi than into the lake. Right now those pumps won't work, they have to be dried out first. A hundred smaller pumps would be better than no pumps.

No I was not being sarcastic, I have observed the method and minds of liberals.

[CedarDave]

Fox: Awaiting NO police news conference.

[publana]

Thanks to you as well.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I saw a pic of Sean bailing it out with a dixie cup! I'm sure you've seen it by now ;-)

[texasbluebell]

Hmm, strange. Well, I've got no other suggestions.

Maybe someone else will be able to post a link for what you lost.