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Times-Picayune Shuts Down

One of Their Last Reports:

Special needs residents to be transferred to Baton Rouge
8:40 a.m.
August 30
By Jan Moller
Baton Rouge Bureau

About 500 “special needs” residents being sheltered at the Superdome will be transferred Tuesday to the Louisiana State University Field House, a spokesman for the state Office of Emergency Preparedness said.

“Those people are going to be evacuated today by whatever means necessary,” said OEP spokesman Mark Smith. Once in Baton Rouge, they will be assessed by state medical teams.

Meanwhile, about 350 search-and-rescue boats set off at daybreak across flooded areas of Southeast Louisiana to look for people stranded in their homes on rooftops or in attics. Dwight Landreneau, secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said at 8:15 a.m. that 700 people had been brought to safety.

“We are picking up as many people as the boats can hold, and we have others hanging on the sides,” Landreneau said.

Of the flotilla, 35 of the boats came from Texas, and another 60 are on the way.

More than 30 of the boats are being sent to hard-hit St. Tammany Parish, where state officials are still having trouble establishing communication links.

“St. Tammany Parish is a black hole to us right now,” Smith said.

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