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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
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
AMEN
Absolutely the best summary of what happened in this heartbreaking week, Moose.
bing bing bing LOL!
12:17 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
12:15 P.M. - Gov. Blanco's press conference has been postponed until 1 p.m.
12:13 P.M. - Information for employees of the Orleans Parish Public School System: Payroll records unattainable at this time, according to school officials, though employees will be able to keep their health insurance, even those who were recently laid off. Employees are asked to call 1-877-771-5800 and leave their contact information.
12:11 P.M. - (New York Times): The NBA may move the Hornets out of New Orleans for the entire season. Click here.
12:07 P.M. - WWL-TV's Brad Panovich: Mother Nature reclaimed the Mississippi River delta. If she wants to move the delta, or move the city, then she will.
12:05 P.M. - (AP): Twenty-seven young patients from a hospital in New Orleans are in Kansas City. They were flown in last night on two Missouri Air National Guard transport planes.
Children's Mercy Hospital of Kansas City agreed to take the patients after sending a team to New Orleans to arrange the transfer from that city's Children's Hospital.
A spokesman for the Kansas City hospital said the New Orleans facility called yesterday asking for accommodations as quickly as possible.
A spokesman at the Kansas hospital says medical officials wanted to get the kids "to someplace safe and dry, away from the chaos." The patients range in age from a few months to 20 years, and were hospitalized for everything from asthma to leukemia. Their conditions range from fair to critical.
12:02 P.M. - (AP): The federal court system in New Orleans needs a new place to set up shop.
The courts are closed indefinitely.
And a federal judiciary spokesman says Congress must pass emergency legislation when it returns after Labor Day to let the system move to an alternate location.
Federal law doesn't let U.S. District courts hold proceedings outside their geographic area.
But the Speedy Trial Act says criminal cases must be handled quickly, so New Orleans will need a new locale to deal with cases.
http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20050901-00000015-yom-int
It is rather bleak indeed. It states in Japanese that looters are now on a free for all. That every time they head into a store, or private residence, or even hospital, there is looting and then further shots fired. It states that "in America, even in some (super) markets, guns are for sale. When any of these are broken into, the guns will circulate among the looters, so they have this crisis". Reports that a 'man shot a family' (that's what it sez!), and other reports from "AP", including vehicles stolen, commandeered, and 'even a vehicle from a senior home' has been stolen.
Not painting a good picture for us overseas, folks. Most people in Japan I would say, egged on by their media, are inclined (unfortunately) to look at this as an American news story, not a Louisiana or New Orleans news dispatch per se.....
To emphasize the correctness in saying that politics will make big decisions like this, recall this HISTORICAL FACT!
In 1998, the DoD and the US Army Corps of Engineers drafted a document detailing the fact that New Orleans was protected by levees which were designed to protect N.O. from a LEVEL 3 hurricane. These groups wanted to go into N.O. and assess what needed to be done to improve the levees to at least withstand a LEVEL 4 OR 5 hurricane.
This serious request and supporting information was deemed highly necessary to protect N.O. and was presented in full to the President of the United States for approval of this critical project.
THE REQUEST WAS DENIED BY WILLIAM JEFFERSON CLINTON. For those interested in the details, they are available in the FEDERAL REGISTER as a matter of permanent record.
So, how many more deaths do we attribute to this horrid excuse for a criminal, negligent, incompetent excuse for a human being ???
In summary, politics in critical situations, usually costs lives, it always has.
The president needs to act NOW!
Send in the military to rescue those people at the SD.
These are OUR people!
The local authorities seem helpless.
And apparently outgunned.
I think Rudy and Kerick would have stopped these gangsta's in no time flat...
Or even to a single emergency plan that calls for the natural gas supply to an entire city being shut off in advance of an approaching storm.
Go right ahead and blame the mayor for not doing something that no mayor in the country would do in the same situation. But that is just stupid.
I was thinking that. Also that by the time the knew they should, they couldn't get to the controls. They also probably never foresaw this -- expecting damage, of course, and some flooding and probable electric power failures, which would make a gas stove invaluable.
This is just a monumental nightmare.
I was there the last time LA went nuts for a week.
It looked startlingly like what we're seeing in NO.
That's a very good question!
It'd be worse in Detroit if there were actually people living there. (kidding) The mayor of Detroit is high-ranking crook.
Your son was helping like that? Very nice of him and thank you, and him. But I hope he goes out armed, next time.
>Scanner stream back up at http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u
>How do you listen to this feed? Media Player9 isn't loading it. Thanks.
Its an MP3 stream. I use iTunes, but any MP3 jukebox should work.
I agree 100 percent. And I got hammered for saying just that last night.
I haven't heard anything yet. Still praying, and shaking my head in disbelief.
The risk of civil unrest is more a city by city, and neighborhood by neighborhood issue. NOLA had more than its fair share of thugs.
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