Thread by @The_Gambit

Mayor Cantrell is up for her press conference

"The City of New Orleans have stood up our building evaluation strike teams" the mayor says of the city's response to the horrendous situation elders have been left in at assisted living facilities

Seems ... really late to be doing this.

city is "focused on improving the conditions of the buildings we have closed" Cantrell says. which, is good and all ... but damn. Should have never gotten to this point.

The city has established a "crisis cleanup hotline" to get volunteer help in cleaning up your house and property 844-965-1386, the mayor says.

Cantrell says the city will continue voluntary evacuations, but beginning today the city is winding it down given the decline in demand for evacuations. So far, 724 residents have been taken to shelters, primarily elders.

Poor treatment of seniors and others in assisted living is a perennial problem in hurricanes. So nobody in a position of authority should have been surprised about this situation.

The mayor's house got it's power cut on last night/this am, in case you were wondering.

The Mayor says the city is now pivoting ... and as a journalist, lemme tell you that word is triggering as hell. Basically TLDR they're moving resources into new areas of need.

Oh hey Colin

Colin reiterates that there's been a dramatic reduction in demand for evacuation. There's more than 1,000 New Orleanians in shelters, not including those who were taken to red cross shelters prior to the storm.

Cooling centers where you can get evaced from include treme, cutoff, brown, stalling, lyons and rosenwald

Colin says they've also evacuated 22 pets including 3 "large animals" ... who's got the hippos yall???

Colin has some thoughts on pet evacuations. "A pet saved, is a life saved." Well said Colin.

Colin says the city is beginning the process of family reunification (we'll get the number and website addy after this is done)

14,000 residents have used cooling sites. Which is good, though there's been some question about accessibility for a lot fo residents, esp those without cars or who can't use UBER and LYFT.

To find resources, particularly food options check this site trumba.com/calendars/hurr… it is an immensely helpful thing that Ready Nola has.

Colin notes you can find open gas stations with fuel on this map nolagis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/m…

Must say, @nolaready has done a pretty good job of getting useful information products up and running.

Better showing from Colin today.

Trash pickup is ... fubar. They're still trying to pick up trash that was supposed to be collected Thursday, hopefully will be done today. "We do have a tremendous amount of trash," Ramsey says. "put all the putrid disgusting things in your 95 gallon trash can"

"It's starting to smell out there," Ramsey says in perhaps the most understated moment of his life. There's so much trash the trucks are having to collected 1 block and go to the dump, versus 3 or 4 as under normal circumstances.

Recycling is postponed indefinitely he says.

"First date or third date ... conception" is 13 days for mosquitos (dirty freaks) Ramsey says. "we're getting close to that" so there's gonna be a whoooole lotta skitter skeet outchere soon yall. Dump standing water so they don't have neither windows nor walls to put it upon

The city will come and dump mosquito fish into your pool to eat all the skeeter swimmers.

Ramsey says don't flush your pee.

Cox has 39% of its customers online meow, Ramsey says. This tweet has nothing to do with the skeeter skeet situation.

Dig how Ramsey says Tmobile Teemo-bile, like it's some fancy English type shit instead of a boring American cell phone company.

Dr. A is up. Still very calming.

"Loss of life in a disaster is a tragedy. and we mourning every one we've lost over the last few days ... collective, all of us, we can and must do much better" Dr. A says of how we've handled our elders.

And the Chief is up. Strong Starship Trooper vibes every time he starts

They're continuing to use the state's looting law to gaffle up people.

"You may have lights, but your neighbor does not have lights" the Chief says ominously. To be clear, there is still no evidence that people are just wildin' out in the streets. In fact, given the size of the pop here and the situation, it's been very calm and peaceful in Nola.

"It's very important that households get in touch with FEMA" FEMA Guy says, which is true. But also, yall already know you need to find the patience of Job cause it's gonna be a ride dealin' with them

There's a Sept. 12 deadline to get urgent need money associated with the loss of power. So get registered now, yall

2nd deadline is Oct. 28 for other FEMA assistance, including grants for temp rental assistance, repairs, replacing property, money for chainsaws and generators, expenses associated with the storm.

And yall don't need us to say it, but it's gonna be teeth grindingly hard to get it cause it always is, so be patient. Breath, maybe eat an edible before. something.

We're gonna pull together some tips and such for yall on FEMA assistance, hope to have it up early this week -- we're a wee staff and there's a lot going on, but hopefully it'll help at least a little bit in dealing with this nightmare.

"I wish I was Oprah oh you get a car and you get a car ... so that's in my heart, but not in my pocket," the Mayor says. so there's that.