Hurricane Gustav, New Orleans and Louisiana State news sources and emergency contacts. Links and contact info here!
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New Orleans is in grave danger. Gustav is growing and may make landfall as a Category 4 and possibly even Cat 5!
New Orleans Police, the Louisiana State Police and the Louisiana National Guard are evacuating New Orleans. This comes almost precisely three years after Katrina devastated the city.
The City of New Orleans evacuation order includes:
- NO shelters of last resort will be located in the City of New Orleans. Everyone must leave.
- Citizens should not take the risk of remaining in the city. This is a mandatory evacuation. Everyone must leave the city.
- The State of Louisiana has deployed 1500 Louisiana National Guardsmen to assist.
Gustav hit Jamaica on Thursday after leaving 67 people dead in Hispaniola.
The Louisiana National Guard is in full operational status (read: Louisiana National Guard in Full Operation Status).
Here are a variety of sources where you can get current and fast-breaking news coming out of New Orleans, the State of Louisiana, the military and the Coast Guard. Please use the envelope icon immediately below this article to send this report and links via email to whomever you wish.
NOLA.com (online news for the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper)
New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper contact and resource page
WWL-TV CBS-4
WDSU-TV
NBC-6
WGNO-TV ABC-26
National Hurricane Service (NOAA)
HurricaneTrack.com
New Orleans Storm Surge Risk Map
DailyWireless.com - communication news in and around New Orleans HurricaneGustavResources blog
Louisiana Office of Public Health
Louisiana Governor's Office
Louisiana Emergency Services
Louisiana Dept. of Hospitals - Emergency News
Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation
Louisiana State Police
New Orleans Police Dept
City of New Orleans - official city website
Gulf Coast Offshore Oil Platform Maps
U.S. Coast Guard 8th District Command, New Orleans
Rear Admiral Joel Whitehead, USCG D8 CMDR
USCG Air Stations, Search & Rescue Stations and Sector Offices - New Orleans Area
New Orleans Fire Department
Louisiana National Guard.
Sunday Afternoon (31-AUG-08) Update:
New Orleans is being evacuated once again, as Hurricane Gustav lumbers towards the Gulf Coast. Everyone from the U.S. military to the British Royal Navy to Blackwater is gearing up to respond.New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tells the New York Times that "with 1,500 to 2,000 National Guard troops coming to New Orleans, the city would have twice as much law enforcement protection as it had in the days after Hurricane Katrina. In all, 7,000 members of the Louisiana National Guard were mobilized Friday." Coast Guard Air Force units based in Florida are on standby. U.S. Northern Command has set up a command post for the military response at England Airpark, in Alexandria, La. And they've begun airlifting up to 16,000 people from New Orleans to Nashville, Tenn.; San Antonio, Texas; Louisville, Ky.; and Ft. Smith, Ark. Additional staging areas have been set up at Fort Rucker, Ala., and Fort Benning, Ga., Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala., Columbus Air Force Base, Miss., and Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss.
U.S. Navy ships like the USS Bataan have been told to stand by for possible disaster relief missions. Canada has sent one of its four enormous transport planes, Boeing C-17 Globemasters, "to the region to assist with medical evacuations," according to Canwest News Service. And Canadian Forces medical personnel [are headed to Louisiana to] conduct a mass evacuation and assist U.S. medical personnel with any medical issues over there." Even the British military is "Royal Navy Warship HMS Iron Duke and Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel Wave Ruler have now arrived in the vicinity of the Cayman Islands, ready to render assistance if required in the wake of Hurricane Gustav," according to Cayman Net News.
But perhaps the most startling call for forces comes from Blackwater, the controversial prviate security contractor. The firm -- which famously patrolled New Orleans after Katrina -- is "compiling a list of qualified security personnel for possible deployment into areas affected by Hurricane Gustav," according to an e-mail obtained by R.J. Hillhouse.
Blackwater is looking for current sworn law enforcement officers, with "arrest powers" and "armed status (must indicate Armed and/or Semi Auto. Revolver only not accepted)."
Story Source: Wired.com's Danger Room blog
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