Posted on 03/03/2006 2:40:36 PM PST by ncountylee
WASHINGTON -- As Hurricane Katrina loomed over the Gulf Coast, federal and state officials agonized over the threat to levees and lives. Hours after the catastrophic storm hit, Louisiana's governor believed New Orleans' crucial floodwalls were still intact.
"We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said shortly after noon on Aug. 29 - the day the storm hit the Gulf coast.
"We heard a report unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee," she said on a video of the day's disaster briefing that was obtained Thursday night by The Associated Press. "I think we have not breached the levee at this time."
In fact, the National Weather Service received a report of a levee breach and issued a flash-flood warning as early as 9:12 a.m. that day, according to the White House's formal recounting of events the day Katrina struck.
Not until the day after Katrina roared ashore did the White House confirm that its surge had, in fact, breached the levees - a delay that critics charge held up repair efforts and allowed the deadly flooding to worsen.
Michael Brown, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief who resigned under fire for mishandling the disaster, said Friday that rescue workers should have been sent to New Orleans earlier, regardless of whether reports of a breach had been confirmed.
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There is no way LA DummyRATs are going to take responsibility for this as long as they are allowed to drag W through the mud.
I'm surprised they're even allowing the truth to slip out. How uncharacteristic of these leftist liars......
If critics say this, they are stupid.
Once the breach was found, they were unable to repair it until the water level through it equalized, meaning until NO was completely under water.
They tried to drop things into the breach, but it was so large that the sandbags simply got washed away, so they finally gave up and waited for the pressure to get closer to equalized.
I haven't read / heard / seen the news anywhere of how the video of W being briefed pre-Katrina, and the video of Blanco (the subject of this video) got into the hands of the press.
Anyone heard?
Brown is an idiot. The Coast guard was in New Orleans, rescuing people, while the back end of the storm was still passing over the area.
If other rescuers were needed that weren't put in place by state and local officials, Brown was responsible for the FEMA part of that deal, so I don't know who he is saying should have got the extra rescuers. The House report suggests that Brown's FEMA turned down rescue worker offers.
What is Blameo's approval rating?
According to this it was a Dem Staffer....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1588601/posts
Levee's weren't breached. The water didn't go over them.
Levee's collapsed. Totally different.
Thank you.
It definitely had that demaroma.
I wonder what bar in the French Quarter she passed her time the night before ... c'mon girl, get a sponsor!
I'm waiting for the 60 minutes special where they explain how Bush wasn't actually at fault....
I think I'll hold my breath until it comes on......
Is the AP admitting they made a few mistakes over the last few days in reporting this story?
All this "Who shot John" crap is the silliest waste of breath. Even if the federal government had ordered mandatory evacuation, provided chauffered limosine rides to luxury lodgings in a safe area, these people would have insisted on staying. If any government agency had tried to forcibly evacuate them, the "civil libertarians" would have raised nine kinds of hell. Then, if Bush had ordered an evacuation and then the tragic flooding hadn't happened, the bumper sticker mentality would put out: "Bush Lied - And People Had to Take a Ride". Pointless discussions foisted on us by essentially gutless politicians who don't have the balls to say, "These idiots played 'hurricane roulette' and lost - and if the same thing were to happen again the same way next year, the same idiots would do the same effin' thing"
Get a good look at it... it'll be the last time you see or hear it ANYWHERE.
I don't care what the report was. If you have a big honkin' hurricane heading toward your below-sea-level city, you get out. What's so difficult?!?
Unfortunately, I know that. The best we can hope for is mention on Special Report, but the MSM won't touch it again.
Levee's weren't breached.
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