Well, I was trying to focus on some narrow issues, and I did not see any accounts of that meeting where the Convention Center or Superdome were specifically discussed. If you have, please feel free to post the source - it would be a good addition. By the 1st, people were already being evacuated, and the folks at the Convention Center were just beginning to be reported.
Great timeline.Any timeline, of course, has its own focus and criteria of significance, and its own time window. What follows is a timeline of sorts, which skims highlights of FEMA over the past two administrations.
Ben Stein points out that "the media" "rioted" about the time of the Chernoff interview. But mabelkitty pointed out that the whole scenario was a reprise of Hurricane Andrew back in '92, with FL governor Lawton Chiles behaving much like Blanco has, and Bush 41 being the target of the media riot.
I posted this barf alert thread which shows the left in the very act of establishing the meme that presidents named Bush don't do disaster management. In that thread dirtboy makes the excellent point that Andrew was far more damaging than any hurricane FEMA responded to during the Clinton years - and that Katrina dwarfs Andrew.
Yet FEMA was not truly free from criticism, even from Jesse Jackson, during the Clinton Administration.