Posted on 09/05/2005 1:05:02 PM PDT by LPM1888
Hurricane Center Director Tells Paper He Briefed Brown and Chertoff on Danger of Severe Flooding
By E&P Staff
Published: September 04, 2005 6:55 PM ET
NEW YORK Dr. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, told the Times-Picayune Sunday afternoon that officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff in advance of Hurricane Katrina slamming Louisiana and Mississippi--and were advised of the storm’s potential deadly effects.
"Mayfield said the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it could bring were made clear during both the briefings and in formal advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise buildings," the paper reported. "He said the briefings included information on expected wind speed, storm surge, rainfall and the potential for tornados to accompany the storm as it came ashore.
"We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It’s not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be topped."
Chertoff told reporters Saturday that government officials had not expected the damaging combination of a powerful hurricane levee breaches that flooded New Orleans.
Brown, Mayfield said, is a dedicated public servant. “The question is why he couldn’t shake loose the resources that were needed,’’ he said.
Brown and Chertoff could not be reached for comment on Sunday afternoon.
In the days before Katrina hit, Mayfield said, his staff also briefed FEMA, which under the Department of Homeland Security, at FEMA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., its Region 6 office in Dallas and the Region 4 office in Atlanta about the potential effects of the storm. He said all of those briefings were logged in the hurricane center’s records.
E&P Staff
Mayfield also called Nagin at home TELLING him to issue an evac order for NO too!...
Your political agenda is showing.
Chertoff hasn't denied he was briefed about Katrina. FGS
Can anyone tell me where Chertoff denies being briefed by the National Weather Service about Katrina?
Now the media is going to outright lie about this crap.
Yeah, and Bush told Nagin to evacuate the city. Can we have the post by the next troll?
It's been posted as a thread and on the Katrina threads....Mayfield did call Nagin at home...I think Sat night........anyone have a link......I would help, but Im a little busy..hubby just got activated for LA
thanks...good luck to your husband..
I don't think that's what Chertoff said. ANd if he did, he was nuts to say it. It was common knowledge that the levees were built to only withstand a Category 3 hurricane.
"That's not what he said- Chertoff said they were surprised the levee's were breached AFTER the storm went through since they withstood the severe portions of the hurricane"
Ah. Another liberal distorted the facts to take a cheap shot at Bush and FEMA. Gee, imagine that.
As long as they are in charge of the Department of Homeland Security and Fema we are all at risk if we are hit by a disaster.
Sounds to me as though Maxie is pimping his "yet to be published," Bush-bashing "best seller."
What DemoncRAT official was never briefed?
do you have a link on Mayfield calling Nagin...I know it was posted on the Katrina thread somewhere..
God Bless your husband.
You know why, because the Hurricane Director called Nagin, Blanco and Landrieu and felt they weren't taking it serious enough. He then called the president who set up his own meeting with the Pentagon and with FEMA. This is why (even when Bush called the mayor and governor, they said they had it under control), Bush took it upon himself to declare state of emergency in two of the states and himself asked for mandatory evac on TV. There were troops and agencies waiting to go, they wanted no help.
By the way, you can find NO example of when FEMA was able to respond in less than a week in previous disasters.
I have been watching this publication for some time now and it is consistently full of lies and distortions--what an apt name it has.
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