Louisiana is set to be *smacked*

[Emperor Valerian]

A few rules about communication -

Good information:

You witnessed it yourself.
Reported by authorities.
Recorded and hearable/viewable.

Bad information:

Rumours heard from other sources eg. "hearsay".
Wrong panicked conclusions yourself purported as fact.
Given by extremist sources known to lie.

That's why I gave the link to the NOPD scanners... they're still talking about it on there. I'm using Realplayer and Mozilla, the link works for me.

 

[jgbrowning]

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Think of how violent N.O. was before the storm. When I was there N.O. had a murder rate under normal circumstances about 16 times that of Chicago per capita and now I believe its 10 times the national average (and it's gone down).

This isn't normal circumstances.

Now there's people with no food, no infrastructure, been looting for days, and no police and the majority of the people who couldn't leave were those with the highest crime commitment rates (the poor, the undereducated). The drug supply has broken down and I wouldn't be surprised if people are jonesing like mad for a hit of anything and I imagine gang infrastructure is heavily involved.

It's N.O. I'm horrified, but not surprised. Perhaps this tragedy will turn N.O. around because there's going to be a hell of a lot fewer poor people who will be able to return to the city after it's been underwater for two months.

If anyone has any specific questions for me about St. Tammany Parish, ask me and I will try my best to answer them as quickly as I can.

Scut, I'm glad you're ok. I was worried about you. Keep you and yours safe.

joe b.

 

[Del]

New Orleans PD is currently responding to a call where looters are attempting to break into Children's Hospital, and shots have been fired.

The scanners for the New Orleans P.D. can be found here:

http://205.252.89.181:8000/live.m3u

That scanner link is testy but it is a police scanner recording. Can you summarize what it says?

 

[Emperor Valerian]

A while back, they issued a Code 4 on the situation at the Children's Hospital. At present, they just got done saying that the medical staff is requesting police escort to survey the surroundings. The other major thing going on in this frequency is coordinating of the buses meant to evacuate the refugees from the Superdome.

Its a continuous live feed on one of the scanner frequencies for the PD. Unfortunately, its only one of several frequencies. I found the original link to it here:

http://www.stormtrack.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8254
If you use realplayer, sometimes the software will end the loop. If it does, just hit play and it'll reconnect again.

 

[Del]

A while back, they issued a Code 4 on the situation at the Children's Hospital. At present, they just got done saying that the medical staff is requesting police escort to survey the surroundings. The other major thing going on in this frequency is coordinating of the buses meant to evacuate the refugees from the Superdome.

The National Guard needs to bring in amphimbious vehicles. Is the Stryker rated for wet operations? (any wargamers who know?) I heard it's crap in the desert, but would stop any small-arms rounds used by these gangs. It also has computerization that might do well in a non-sand enviroment. These cops are now dealing with drug addicts who can't get their fix, and it is fairly dangerous.

 

[Del]

Fett!

The Sun Herald is still dishing out newspapers so your aunt might be involved in that. I don't know if you have found your family yet.

 

[Emperor Valerian]

Newest info - They're having issues collecting the buses that will be used to transport the people inside the Superdome. The issue is urgent enough that there are meetings scheduled with the Lt. Governor to try to solve the issue ASAP.

 

[Del]

Newest info - They're having issues collecting the buses that will be used to transport the people inside the Superdome. The issue is urgent enough that there are meetings scheduled with the Lt. Governor to try to solve the issue ASAP.

Heh. Did you see the CNN report about the "Renagade Bus"?. Hell even private citizens are using them so I wonder what the problem is.

 

[Emperor Valerian]

Heh. Did you see the CNN report about the "Renagade Bus"?. Hell even private citizens are using them so I wonder what the problem is.

I sincerely think its an issue that regular communications are wiped out, so what communication exists now is haphazard at best... so civil defense can't coordinate (reports on CNN said the choppers supposed to stop the levee break Tuesday morning never arrived because they were accidentally sent on S&R). When people feel they have no options left, they'll do what they can... and I'm betting more of the "commandeered busses" will show up in Houston tomorrow.

 

[Del]

and I'm betting more of the "commandeered busses" will show up in Houston tomorrow.

I agree. When they were throwing aspersions of criminality on the first busload I wondered what the problem was. Maybe they were armed or something.