Posted on 09/06/2005 10:15:17 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
This thread is for Katrina news and updates.
Isn't this something that is fairly easy to find out when the Guard was called into service? What's she hiding?
Alright, boys and girls, let's say it together now:
"It's not just the crime - it's the coverup."
It makes you wonder about the IQ of the people we're dealing with here, doesn't it?
But Louisiana has gotten away with it for years.
Remember the WashPost article said that Blanco and her group didn't want to give Bush control because he would get the credit.
Well, she's going to get it now.
And remember. In Watergate, no one died. This cover up has killed people. Literally.
She sure is Howlin.Sounds like a Hillary plan
Press Releases
Date: 9/8/2005
Contact: Denise Bottcher or Roderick Hawkins at 225-342-9037
Task Force Pelican Status Report, Thursday, September 8, 2005
AMERICAN RED CROSS
- ARC is managing 216 shelters in Louisiana with a population of approximately 55,537 displaced citizens
- To date, ARC has served more than 1 million meals and 3 million snacks
o Of which, 201, 285 meals were served in the last 24 hours
- More than 18,000 trained Red Cross workers have left their homes to join thousands of local volunteers and assist in Katrina recovery efforts
- ARC is also coordinating a Family Registry Link to assist individuals in locating their friends and family
o Additional information available online at www.redcross.org
o Or call: 1-877-LOVED-1S (1-877-568-3317)
o More than 94,000 individuals have already registered
Department of Health and Hospitals
- The official number of fatalities remains at 83
o This number will be updated as often as possible when deaths are determined to be storm-related
- Several major pharmacy chains will be establishing mobile free pharmacies or free pharmacy services for shelter sites
o The state has identified 16 sites in need of these services and at this time 15 of
these sites have been adopted and one is scheduled to have a mobile pharmacy
on site
- 19 new West Nile cases were announced yesterday
o The new West Nile cases are from Bossier (1), Caddo (6), Iberia (2), Jefferson (1), Livingston (4), Orleans (1), Ouachita (2) and Webster (2) parishes.
o No new deaths as a result of West Nile virus have occurred
Department of Transportation & Development
- DOTD continues assisting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on pumping water from neighborhoods into Lake Pontchartrain
o Pumping Station #6 has two 1,000 cubic-feet-per-second pumps operating three 250 cubic-feet-per-second pumps operating and two 24-inch portable pumps and one 30-inch portable pump operating near the repaired breach at the 17th St. Canal
o The Mound station pump is operating at limited capacity
o As of Wednesday, all pumps in the metropolitan area were pumping 8,041 cubic feet, or about 60,000 gallons, of water per second
- La. 23 in Plaquemines Parish is flooded from Port Sulpher to the mouth of the Mississippi River
- DOTD is now operating the ferry at Algiers Point to Chalmette to transport military emergency and supply vehicles
o Regular ferry operations resumed in Plaquemine & New Roads this morning
- DOTD is replacing traffic signals and signs throughout the effected region
- DOTD continues to make bridge and road inspections throughout the region
- DOTD has hired a contractor to fix damaged bearings on the Rigolets Bridge in St. Tammany Parish
- The control house for the Belle Chasse bridge (La. 23) caught fire on Wednesday
- The bridge will remain in the down position, closed to marine traffic that is too tall to pass beneath the bridge, until a contractor can be secured to repair fire damage
Department of Social Services
- Displaced Citizens
o There are currently 54,622 displaced citizens in 201 Louisiana shelters
o Another 704 citizens are housed in six special needs shelters
o About 78,923 Louisiana citizens are housed in 92 shelters in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Oklahoma, Texas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia
- From 7 a.m., Sept. 2 thru 8 p.m., Sept. 6, DSS has processed 108,000 Disaster Food Stamp Benefits
o Applications will be accepted thru Sept. 9, 2005
- Foster Parenting/ Adoption
o The Office of Community Services is compiling a list of the many calls received by individuals who wish to be a foster parent to those who children who have lost parent
o DSS intends to work with Louisiana's sister states should we have a greater need for foster homes than we have resources
o Out of state offers should contact their local child welfare agency for information on foster parenting or adoption.
o For information about foster parenting or adoption in Louisiana, individuals should contact the Regional OCS office nearest them for training and certification
- In order to ensure that there is a central source of shelter locations, DSS is requesting all shelter operators (other than those who are caring for individuals in their homes) to contact their Offices of Emergency Preparedness if they haven't already done so.
Department of Education
- Superintendents of the hardest hit school districts now have a better idea of when they might reopen:
o St. Tammany Parish, to open October 3rd
o City of Bogalusa, to open October 3rd
o St. Bernard will not reopen this year
o Orleans is working to decide when or if they can open
o St. Charles Parish school personnel to report back Sept 12th
o Plaquemines Parish, no date for reopening
o Jefferson Parish, will likely reopen January 19th, maybe sooner
Department of Environmental Quality
- DEQ is conducting impact sampling of water
o Along the shore of the lake
o Along the north shore where the rivers come in
o At three points on the causeway
o At the site where the water is entering the lake
- Lake Ponchatrain is affected by tides and the water circulates counterclockwise
o Most of the water that is discharged will be assimilated before it reaches the Gulf
o The speed of the water entering the lake is a big factor in assimilation
o There are booms in place at the areas where the water is going into the lake
o More booms will be positioned
- DEQ is attempting to get representative samples but access has to be taken into account
- DEQ has developed a comprehensive sampling plan for water - based on historical data to compare
- The most current number on tonnage of waste is 22 million tons
- Of the 25 major waste water treatment systems in the affected area, 14 are up and running
Department of Labor
- More than 72,000 Katrina-related Unemployment Insurance claims have been filed
o Taken in Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Georgia
o California Labor Department partners with state to begin collecting unemployment claims for Louisiana
- Labor Department asks that injured workers who were receiving workers' compensation benefits before Hurricane Katrina to call the Workers' Compensation office immediately to update their contact information
o The toll-free number is 1-866-783-5567
Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries
- LDWF search and rescue operations winding down in Greater New Orleans area
o DWF has rescued APPROXIMATELY 21,000 people
o Includes hospital evacuations, individuals, and small group rescues*
o **Numbers have leveled off - less than 50 rescues Wednesday
Areas worked Wednesday: Lower Ninth Ward, mid and central inner city, and some parts of New Orleans east.
Search crews re-sweeping areas to ensure that all who want to leave have boat transport access.
Presence: 20 LDWF flatboats and airboats (plus staff) to remain in rescue area to support local police and emergency rescue efforts
- Habitat assessment - next phase of LDWF hurricane recovery effort set to begin
o LDWF biologists will soon begin assessment of fish and wildlife habitat to determine storm damage
o Fisheries Division staff will focus on hurricane damage to coastal and inland waterways and the marine and inland fish species affected
o Wildlife Division staff damage will survey 12 wildlife management areas and refuges affected by the storm to assess effects on waterfowl and other marsh and wetland species
- LDWF staff affected by storm
o 90 LDWF employees have been displaced from homes and / or job locations
o The agency is working to relocate all near new work assignments
Department of Corrections
- US Marshals Service will transport approximately 460 inmates by airplane to federal facility in Florida Thursday
o Another 460 inmates will make the trip Friday
o BOP will provide housing without expense to the state of Louisiana
- This is the first move of state inmates out of Louisiana
o This move will greatly relieve population situation
- 239 St. John Parish inmates who were evacuated prior to Hurricane Katrina's landfall will return to St. John on Thursday
- As of 6:00 p.m. Wednesday, the Greyhound Detention Center was holding 53 males and 1 female
- There were no inmate transfers from Greyhound to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center on Wednesday, nor LCIW
o DOC anticipates transfers on Thursday
- Probation and Parole agents continue to provide security for the New Orleans Fire
Department Command Center
o 20 agents are assigned rotating shifts
- Electricity has been restored to Washington Correctional Center in Angie, LA
o Normal operations have resumed and WCI is now a supplies distribution point for Washington Parish residents
- DOC facilities are allowing evacuated inmates to place a call to loved ones to let
them know of the inmate's new location
- Federal authorities are still in the process of identifying federal inmates for
transfer out of state
I was going to post the link below on this update thread, but since it had so much, I posted it separately:
Make shift militia patrols Algiers neighborhood "
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1480118/posts
An alternate title would be: Protecting your Neighborhood 101
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
Katrina trapped city in double disasters
By John McQuaid, Staff writer
Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans with a double blow when it made landfall Aug. 29. First, storm surge waters from the east rapidly swamped St. Bernard Parish and eastern New Orleans before the eye of the storm had passed the city around 9 a.m. Within hours, surge waters collapsed city canal floodwalls and began to “fill the bowl,” while top officials continued to operate for a full day under the mistaken belief that the danger had passed.......
The floodwaters moved quickly.
By around 8 a.m., authorities reported rising water on both sides of the Industrial Canal, in St. Bernard and eastern New Orleans. The Coast Guard reported sighting residents on rooftops in the Upper Ninth Ward. “Water is inundating everywhere,” in St. Bernard, Parish Council Chairman Joey DiFatta said.
At 9 a.m., there was 6 to 8 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward, state officials said. Less than two hours later, most of St. Bernard was a lake 10 feet deep. “We know people were up in the attics hollering for help,” state Sen. Walter Boasso, R-Arabi, said that morning. By 11 a.m., water was covering Interstate 10 at a low point near the high-rise over the Industrial Canal.
Sometime Monday morning, the 17th Street canal levee burst when storm surge waters pressed against it and possibly topped it, Corps officials said. .....
Once the floodwalls failed, water – then at about 8 feet or higher in the lake – began to pour into New Orleans from the west, beginning the full-scale nightmare emergency managers and other officials most feared. At 10 a.m., reporters from The Times-Picayune saw water rising over I-10 where it dips beneath the railway trestle south and east of the canal......
As night fell Monday, many outside of New Orleans breathed a sigh of relief believing the city had been largely spared the worse......
[end excerpts]
St. Bernard Parish
....Raymond Theriot, a deputy sheriff in St. Bernard Parish, said the grim tally could hit 1,500. Others said 500 to 600 casualties would actually be good news compared with initial gloomy predictions......
St. Bernard Parish has about 68,000 residents. But driving through small communities like Florisant showed home after home leveled by Hurricane Katrina, leaving nothing but a few front porches, scattered water heaters and the ever-present stray dogs....
.. coffee break bump ..
Does anyone have info on the Blessed Sacrament Sister's in New Orleans.I need an address-have a donor to help them,thanks,fatima
Thank you!! Was getting jittery from withdrawl symptoms lol.
Red Cross is giving out checks to the refugees and some of the Houston people are trying to get in line saying they are from LA.
No surprise here!
Name: Sisters-The Blessed Sacrament Address: 5116 Magazine
St, New Orleans, LA 70115 Phone: (504) 897-0235
See #833
Good to hear. I have been writing my state congress people asking when they were going to start legislation for impeachment.
Thanks for the ping...and good morning!
The rest of the state is conservative and not anything like NO or BR. We are not all stupid or incompetent.
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