Where was she?
I was here for Katrina. She and Blanco were having news conferences out of Baton Rouge on local channel 4. At the time, we could still get local programing on TV with our generator going. There were helicoptors going over head all day long bringing national guard to new orleans, etc. and also, I am sure flying Landrieu and Blanco to the hotel set up downtown. When they had press conferences, Blanco and Landrieu would stand in front and put Vitter in the back like a step child. Anyway, they both looked like deer in headlights. Volunteers with boats were in lines along airline highway waiting for the go ahead to start getting people off roofs and out of the flooded areas. There were snipers reported so they wouldn’t let the civilians in right away. We were under martial law because looters were going through our neighborhoods. The people waiting to be evacuated on the Causeway overpass looted a local store close to me that this Vietnamese couple had and stole $150,000 worth of high grade liquor and cigarettes. They had to get a loan to restock but at lease they didn’t burn their place. They always attack Bush for not landing but there was no where SAFE to land the President of the United States. We had two shot guns loaded one for the house and one for the truck. Landrieu can’t say anything good she accomplished in Katrina because there is NOTHING she can say!
I was in Covington. Had no time for TV. I vaguely recall Vitter on the radio. Don’t recall Landrieu at all. Nagin was AWOL until he called on to WWL with a rambling desperate sounding plea for help. I do recall Monday the talking heads were saying “we dodged a bullet” along with Blanco congratulating everyone for how well they handled everything.