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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
To highlight your point the Mayor has ordered the police to stop looking for survivors and restore law and order. That's a tough decision as jeffe pointed out earlier, and one I wouldn't want to have to make. I agree also with the guy that said they should have shot looters on sight in the beginning before it became widespread and people who aren't otherwise criminal became involved.
Before the storm hit, I made mention in a post that the horror in NOLA would be hard for even Stephen King to describe.
I also think American's need to see this so they don't get so complacent the next time there is a hurricane coming towards them... Hurricane fatigue, it's called when no one evacuates. Continuing coverage also helps convince people to dig into their pockets and actually send some money for relief.
Lastly, the experts have been saying for years this was going to happen. No one paid any attention to it, just like no one pays attention to the fact that California will get hit with a 9.0 earthquake, sooner than later... or that we have a super volcano under Yellowstone that could go and decimate the country.
Perhaps this will at least serve to convince people that they need to know when there is a disaster they have to be prepared to care for themselves for at least a week, and to have a cordless radio to get information on a disaster station, or food and water on hand for emergencies......
Perhaps it will convince governors in other states that they need a viable disaster plan.. like Texas, who are implementing their plan to bring these people there and house them...
Greta has some army corps engineer on now - he is saying the levees are plugged, and the pumping and outflows are going to begin. anyone else hearing this?
Has anyone suggested salvaging all those thousands of empty tractor-trailer-shipping containers washed ashore and using them as bulwarks for the breaches in the levees? I mean you can carry them empty by copter or tracor to a barge and tow them to the levee where, filled with sand/debris they can be sunk. You could weld or bolt chains to them to form a flexible sea-wall even.
Tough finding any photos at your link!
Has anyone suggested salvaging all those thousands of empty tractor-trailer-shipping containers washed ashore and using them as bulwarks for the breaches in the levees? I mean you can carry them empty by copter or tractor to a barge and tow them to the levee where, filled with sand/debris they can be sunk. You could weld or bolt chains to them to form a flexible sea-wall even.
Yes, finally some positive news.
what is accomplished or gained by showing piles of dead U.S. citizens? Do you require seeing our U.S. soldiers dead and maimed in order to support them?
She ain;t in charge. I was talking about cramming the mike in a local cops face and him stammering for answers, not apparently what you and Diddles are talking about. And you're right, if that spokesperson doesn't know, then the reporters should bypass them and find out who's NOT feeding her info and WHO's responsible for "the plan."
I just got in and was rounding up the current updates to post on the thread (lucky post, yours, how fortuitous), when that caught my eye, too. I've heard several people say that about her, about her inability to be a leader in this tragedy.
I've been praying for days but to have your leader say "Let's Pray" instead of "Let's do ___ and ____ and _______" and "We're doing ____ and ____and _____" isn't going over too well with the locals.
Thank you
"8:44 P.M. - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Gov. Kathleen Blanco bristled at suggestions Louisiana perhaps didn't make enough preparations for a devastating hurricane, possibly worsening the devastation.
"We begged all of those people, the mayors begged those people, the parish presidents begged those people to get out," she said at a press briefing when questioned about the state's preparedness efforts."
Yet they didn't even open both sides of the freeway...they obviously had no comprehensive evacuation plan already in place (i.e., they could have pre-planned and informed the public of locations of evacuation stations in each parish years ago, so people would know where to get on a bus if they lacked transportation)...and they had not much of a response ready when disaster finally struck. I don't expect them to have had something up and running like clockwork when a disaster of this magnitude strikes, but it seems there was no plan in place at *all*, even for how to immediately service the needs at the Superdome. FReepers and bloggers predicted before the hurricane even hit what the conditions would be like in the Dome if it lost power, and they were correct. That's something a disaster preparedness team could have planned for years ago.
I've heard very little on ideas about how to fix the levee breaches. The sandbag idea fell through, though I heard they were having another go at it? Not sure.
I seen that today. It is due to depart sometime this weekend. I just don't know where the airlift supplies are now. Do you?
I'm sorry, but short of building something like they have in the Netherlands, this is doomed to happen again eventually. This is a sinking city. They should save what is on high ground, build a double or triple wall to protect it and then let the remainder go back to wetlands.
Ouch. That's gonna leave a mark.
He can feeze the price at fifty cents, otherwise he doesn't have a hair on his butt.
Get ready, we are going to get a loooooottttttt of money... more than you can imagine, this is going to be great, just see... Wish they had shown THAT on National TV.
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