WWL-TV now has a blog, and it’s being updated quite recently. Among the recent tidbits of information:
11:21 A.M. (AP) - The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts. …11:15 A.M. - Hospitals with no power and rising waters are bringing patients to the Superdome.
11:13 A.M. - Plaquemines Parish…if you are found on the street…will be arrested. Martial law in effect. 60 percent of homes flooded. 50 people rescued. …
10:35 A.M. Governor Blanco - “Worse than our worst fears.” [The governor’s fears were ill-informed, then. If she had read the article that I repeatedly linked to last week, and last year during Ivan as well, then her worst fears would have been precisely what is happening. There are no surprises here — just a lot of horrors. -ed.]
10:15 A.M. A spokeswoman describes Jefferson Parish as a “very dangerous” place. Jackie Bauer says there’s gas leaks everywhere, water needs to be boiled, there’s no commercial power, no pumping stations and the water’s toxic.
And there’s still some deep water in some neighborhoods. Bauer says there are other dangers — snakes in the water, other vermin, loose dogs and cats everywhere. She says — quoting now — “We kind of have to fight for survival with them.” - Associated Press …8:39 A.M. WWL-TV studios are being evacuated as rising water is coming into the station. The French Quarter is taking on water and water is expected to rise in the city for the next few days.
Also, here’s the latest on the North Shore. …
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August 30th, 2005 at 12:31:04 pm
it is about Fing time that bush showed up for work.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:32:16 pm
“The White House says President Bush is cutting short his vacation to return to Washington to monitor the hurricane recovery efforts.”
-cue the Bush cracks.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:33:18 pm
Why can’t we stay focused on the issue at hand without using this devastation to take a cheap shot at the president? How pathetic.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:34:13 pm
It’s maroons like this that may get the comments (and flow of information) turned off on this site. *sigh*
August 30th, 2005 at 12:35:44 pm
The Red Cross is asking for people to volunteer at their local chapters, thus letting trained personnel go to the disaster area.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:36:36 pm
Why can’t I state the obvious? This is an enormous disaster and was so the day BEFORE Katrina ever hit. Bush is now finally stepping up to the plate to play a role that he should have been playing days ago. I pray for the lives of those that are still at risk and hope that the rescue crews are able to reach them.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:38:48 pm
Because Cali now is not the time for partisan hits. Can it please.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:39:01 pm
Rescue crews are in the effected areas. Rescue crews are rescuing and evacuating people in the effected areas.
A lot of roads are flooded, or compromised. Rescue crews also have to be able to get to an area in order to do rescues.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:41:10 pm
To act like a child that cannot control it’s tantrums is completely unnecessary at a moment like this.
We are trying to find out information about friends and loved ones. Try to refrain your grade school outbursts until AFTER this disaster is over.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:46:42 pm
Wow, I can’t believe they’re bringing MORE people to the Superdome. Conditions sound awful there and getting worse. From WDSU’s blog:
10:25 a.m.: Superdome ‘Miserable’ The Superdome is filthy. Garbage bins are overflowing with trash and the bathrooms are filthy. In addition, the plumbing does not work. City officials say conditions are “miserable.” — WDSU chief meteorologist Dan Milham
August 30th, 2005 at 12:48:49 pm
Thanks for neeeded info on northshore.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:48:57 pm
The WWL blog is updating pretty quickly.
FEMA is assessing/or going to assess the situation of the people at the dome, and will then determine where and when they can and are going to evacuate the people there.
I believe, from what’s being said, the dome is the only place they can be taken right now.
August 30th, 2005 at 12:52:22 pm
I don’t like Bush, but the guy’s getting back as fast as he can! This is only day two of the disaster, and that’s getting back pretty fast. Plus I reckon he wouldn’t be able to look Jeb in the eye if he didn’t.
So far he seems to have made the right promises and the federal govt is reacting well.
Man, it pains me to say that, I really don’t like the current administration - but give the Devil his due, I say! He’s good on disaster relief!
August 30th, 2005 at 12:59:49 pm
Cali. Why don’t you shut up and “Fing get back to work!!”
Between David, Brian and Cali using this travesty to take shots at Bush is truly pathetic.
God bless everyone who is suffering through this horrendous event. My thoughts and prayers are with each and every one of them.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:04:38 pm
Okay, can we all please a) stop taking shots at Bush, and b) stop taking shots at people who previously took shots at Bush? Otherwise this becomes a pissing contest. Meanwhile people are dying, and others are having their fates sealed, at this very moment.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:15:20 pm
Point, Brendan. They’re doing what they can. Lets keep our focus on what’s going on.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:20:45 pm
Nitpick: it’s MARTIAL Law, not MARSHAL.
August 30th, 2005 at 1:36:47 pm
Good point. I already corrected it from “Marshall” to “Marshal,” so I might as well go all the way and correct it to “Martial”…
August 30th, 2005 at 1:53:49 pm
Not your fault, Brendan. That was the way it appeared on the WWL blog.
Thanks for your great efforts and keep it up!
August 30th, 2005 at 1:59:35 pm
I just put up a post that aggregates all of the local video coverage I have seen so far. If any of y’all find any additional footage, please post in the comments on my site. Here’s the permalink:
http://raywert.blogspot.com/2005/08/hurricane-katrina-local-video-footage.html
August 30th, 2005 at 2:47:24 pm
I always hate Hollywood disaster movies because people are shown getting hysterical and shouting at each other. That is counter-productive in “real-life”.
The extent of this event has not dawned on most media and public.
UNLESS I am misinformed, power outages prevent draining the basin. Power can’t be restored until the basin is drained. Pump stations are drowned, and can’t be fixed until drained. Is this correct?
If it is correct, or largely correct, or even about half correct, that water already there is there for weeks, if not months, to come.
Without housing, services, groceries, fuels of all kinds, the population cannot return. Is that factually correct?
Emergency refugee housing for 500,000 people needs to begin getting discussed because credit cards will be maxed in days at motel rates.
Somebody mature and in position of leadership ought to be addressing these issues. Criticisms for failure by incompetent leaders comes later, but there’s no saving their hide when that time does arrive.
New Orleans is broken, unlivable at this moment. There needs to be planning for 500,000 homeless people for a minimum of two months.
Water damage to flooded structures requires each and every one to be completely inspected before rehabitation. There’s not enough trained inspectors in the country to do it as fast as people might want.
Besides toilets out of order, sewer systems undoubtably overflowed. Garbage is already reported floating in the mix. Gas station tanks have to be leaking into it. What’s in cars is leaking into the waters. Corpses will be decomposing — many dead abandoned pets to say the least. This stinking mud sludge is coating insides and outsides of 80% of the building’s, at least on the ground floor.
Water and power cannot be restored before the water is drained. Broken mains compromise water purity.
The workforce which operates the port and refineries has no place to live. Fuels are hit in a powerful way, as is major commerce.
This is the biggest tragedy of your lifetimes. Those who prepared their minds early are best able to cope with the dimensions of it. For now, the stock market has not responded, the major media is brain-fogged, and politicians at all levels above mayors seem not to have got the message yet.
If you are functional. first act is to spread this word. New Orleans is mortally wounded. This is not hyperbole, but reasoned conclusion based on facts verified by people on the ground and reverified by multiple sources. Hollywood pictures training of snapping and shouting is “Darwin Award” behavior.
KATRINA is not done yet. Greater damage than to LA can still happen up north. Hurricane season is not done yet — nothing says another level 5 can’t happen in ten days from now.
I found this place through
http://katrinahelp.info/wiki/index.php/Blogs
Pick a place to pass the news.
I use usenet sci.environment, but the WIKI is realistically better.
When you are ready to NOT go through these things again in the future, pick better leaders next time who will preposition and prepare for known possible events. There’s at least two more decades before the weather chaos can be crammed back inside the Pandora’s box it was let out of, and these things can happen twice, or a dozen times per year from now on.
“Shouters” will be pitched out of the lifeboats. Change your behavior to deal with reality. Winter’s coming and 500,000 are now homeless refugees. This is a domino that can take down the nation if not dealt with in deliberate calm rationality.
August 30th, 2005 at 3:28:11 pm
It’s also not just the power outage causing problems with the pumps. Some of the pumps are effectively giant sump pumps, and thus can operate while submerged–but not all are. Some of the pumps won’t be operable until a good portion of the water already in the city is removed. Quite simply, the pumps were designed to prevent the bowl from filling (particularly during heavy rains), not to dry it out once it has filled.
August 30th, 2005 at 4:25:04 pm
Watching TV Monday morning I kept shuddering as reporters (and others) who had not done their homework continued to congratulate New Orleans on Katrina’s turn to the east. Years ago there was a great meteorologist in New Orleans, Nash Roberts. Roberts predeicted that the “design hurricane” that would destroy New Orleans would come ashore east of the city. The surge would be puched into Ponchatrain and the low country beyond. Then, when wind direction changed, all the water would be focused on New Orleans northern and less secure levees. Nash called it.