August 31, 2005

• More on Katrina

  This morning I checked WWLBLOG again.  Here’s a little sample of today’s chronology in New Orleans:

  1:45 P.M. – WWL-TV’s Mike Ross says “do not come back (to Slidell
  and Grand Isle).”
  

  
  

  1:39 P.M. – Hoss: Wind damage seen at the Target store on
  Clearview Pkwy.

  1:28 P.M. – WWL-TV’s Mike Hoss said the I-10/Causeway interchange
  has turned into a massive first aid station. 50 ambulances are stationed
  there, and those who need immediate medical attention are being kept
  there in tents. Black Hawk helicopters and other rescue copters are
  constantly ferrying evacuees in to the area.

  1:20 P.M. – (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin says at least hundreds of people
  are dead — maybe thousands — in New Orleans. “We know there is a
  significant number of dead bodies in the water,” and others dead in
  attics, Mayor Ray Nagin said. Asked how many, he said: “Minimum,
  hundreds. Most likely, thousands.”

  1:12 P.M. – WWL-TV’s Josh McElveen describes the stench coming
  from the bathrooms in the Superdome as horrific.

  1:03 P.M. – Mayor Nagin: Medical ship on the way to New Orleans.
  

  12:56 P.M. – Governor Blanco – Time is not on our side for
  stopping the levee break. There were two breaches, when we thought there
  was only one. Communicatiion, or lack of same caused the problem.

  12:55 P.M. – MIAMI (AP) — Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines says
  it is considering a federal request that the company use some of its
  cruise ships as emergency shelters or help in Hurricane Katrina relief
  efforts in some other way.

  12:53 P.M. – Governor Blanco – thousands still need to be rescued.

  12:52 P.M. – Governor Blanco: We will rebuild.

  12:51 P.M. – Governor Blanco: The magnitude of this is
  overwhelming.

  12:15 P.M. – Army Corps: 1,200 sandbags that are 20,000 pounds
  each are being brought in to bridge gap…water level is no longer
  rising.

  12:11 P.M. – Army Corps: Water has become level with the Lake in
  the city so no more water should flow into the city, except at high tide.
  

  12:10 P.M. – Engineers and construction experts are at the 17th
  Street Canal. They’ve filled 100, 3,000 pound sandbags and are trying to
  drop the bags and concrete barriers into the area.

  11:49 A.M. – (AP) AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is opening its doors to
  hurricane refugees from neighboring Louisiana.

  Texas Governor Rick Perry says he expects evacuees to start arriving
  within the next 24 hours at the Houston Astrodome. He says Louisiana
  Governor Kathleen Blanco asked him this morning if the Astrodome could
  house the 23-thousand people currently being sheltered at the Superdome
  in Louisiana, and he quickly agreed. He says even before the request,
  Texas officials had been talking about using the Astrodome as a
  long-term shelter for people already stranded in Texas because of the
  storm.

  Perry says the hurricane survivors are welcome in Texas for “as long as
  they want to stay.” Children who are sheltered at the Astrodome will be
  able to attend public schools in Houston. Perry says the Astrodome
  schedule has been cleared through December.

  11:46 A.M. – WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal emergency officials are
  looking for two-thousand Homeland Security Department workers to
  volunteer for hurricane relief efforts. The head of the Federal
  Emergency Management Agency has told Homeland Security Secretary Michael
  Chertoff a-thousand people are needed within 48 hours and two-thousand
  within a week.

  11:40 – (AP) Roving bands of looters are breaking into stores in
  Carrollton area to get food and supplies. They’ve also stolen guns and
  armed themselves.

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