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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
President Bush: "We are dealing with one of the worst national disasters in our nation's history." Push has appropriated vast federal resources to assist with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
78,000 people are currently in shelters. New Orleans evacuation continues. 10,000 additional National Guard troops have been called to service.
Hospitals are running low on supplies, and public health concerns include water borne disease, poor sanitation, food and drinking water contamination and shortages, mosquitoes, carbon monixide poisoning from electricity generators, lack of childcare, and the special needs of the elderly.
Links to various news, local and state government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends (very slow load)
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
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
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
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:
WWL-TV: http://www.khou.com/perl/common/video/wmPlayer.pl?title=beloint_khou&props=livenoad
WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx"
WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739
WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WTOK-TV (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/
WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Related FR Threads:
FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
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
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.
Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
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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
Giuliani was sort of an odd case. He was kind of a prickly hard-ass with attitude, and people don't usually elect that sort to be mayor, even in New York where attitude counts for something. I can't remember who the Dems ran against him, but it must have been a total loser.
He was unpopular until 9/11.
After that, he was the right guy for the job.
In one picture(from the AP??) I counted 64+ school buses, all of them in a sea. Don't know how many you can get on a school bus--50?? Had they been used early on to get people out they would have been ahead of the game. Instead FEMA had to assemble 475+ buses from all over the south and beyond. The NO buses sit, unusable, do to sheer incompetence.
No from what I understand the river breached at what we used to call the jump just west of Venice It has reclaimed virtully all the land south of that line. That it what I understand from the reports. I hope I'am wrong.
SAD....seems like most of these folks plan was *it will turn*, also
HAaaaaaaaaa:) I always count on you for comic relief!
Oh, man. On PMSNBC, Olberman and Countdown, they just showed the most ironic video: A blue Huricane Evacuation Route sign buried mostly under water in St. Bernard Parish.
Ahhh you must not have been listening to him? He has asked repeatedly several officials where do these people need to go? He said he would pass along the info. He asked some bimbo in charge of the State police directly on air and she did not have an answer in fact her answer was incoherent, a non sequitur even, she never said WHERE they should go. She was like a deer in the headlights. She should be demoted and get someone in there who knows what is going on.
Hmmm.....many have NO CARS to evacuate.
BOR—reporterette: they released the prsioners from the local jail, and those were the people looting.
One more day of this and there are no more excuses. It will go to the top.
We sure don't need these to be leading up to anything:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_all.html
Perhaps this has already been mentioned on some threads, if so please excuse the repeat: Couldn't one or more of the abandoned or closed military bases be opened for these people? There are dorms, dining halls, medical, etc.
Any evacuation plan MUST include contingencies for removing people who don't have cars. It is amazing to me that New Orleans, with a large poverty-stricken population plus several universities and a large tourist presence, had NOTHING in place for those people.
BOR—reporterette: they released the prsioners from the local jail, and those were the people looting.
Now whose brain farted this one?
Reference post 166, I agree. I was one of the police officers at the OKC bombing, and I have survived a hurricane not too long ago in Virginia.
This is a large scale operation, and there should have been plans in place for the rescue of personnel based on past hurricane history and worst case scenarions. They had time to plan, and they failed. It wasnt the rank and file who failed, it was the management and the elected officials who failed.
Loss of communications is not an excuse to allow a city to descend into anarchy and chaos. You use messnegers, or even carrier pigeons if you have to, but communications is a necessity in this situation.
You can put a repeater in an aircraft and make it fly tight left hand circles at 5000 feet to keep comms if it is necessary . You can also take over GMRS frequencies and use Line of sight commo if you have to. There are options out there, it's just that no one is inspiring them or looking to solve the problems. Thats a leadership issue.
Some of the people on rooftops and under buildings are on the third day of no food or water, and some will start to fail before long. Its happening already, from some of what I have read.
There needs to be an airlift and maybe even an airdrop of supplies to stranded people who need supplies immediately. Otherwise, the body count will continue to grow. This hurricane is still in progress, from a response point of view, and it is getting grimmer by the minute.
New Orleans leadership needs to wake up, or someone in the adult world needs to take over. There are people out there who need help at this moment, not 3 days from now.
I have been getting all those emails....
and all the CA SAR teams left.
People who were downtown were told by public services announcements that they needed to get out because they were going to release the prisoners and that the authorities could not protect the people from the inmates. It was when the inmates were released that they began seeing people looting, banging on cars, terrorizing everone and everything . . .
There have been reports that some of the cars left have been "looted."
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