HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links

various FR links & stories | 09-02-05 | the heavy equipment guy

[backhoe]

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KEYWORDS: AFTERMATH; HURRICANE; KATRINA; TROPICAL;

 

 Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

 

 Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I

 

And a special hattip to our own  NautiNurse  who started and maintained the above valuable posts--

 

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First off, let's debunk and defang the myth, meme, shibboleth and current hot talking point that "It's ALL Bush's Fault"--

 I have heard many leftists say that Bush slashed $20 million from FEMA funds that would have been used to reinforce the levee system in New Orleans.

 

MSM: Take Note - Clinton's Contribution to the Katrina Disaster ( Must Read )

Source:

 The Federal Register ^

 People have been talking for years about what would happen should a hurricane this size hit that city, and I'd be willing to bet you there were lots of federal dollars passed from hand to hand over the years to prepare for this.
I will be astounded if some of those reporters don't ask the obvious questions: Where did the money go, why weren't officials prepared? It's not like it was a secret this could happen someday.

 Bill Clinton did not sign for the improvements & money requested by the Army Corp of Engineers & LA to make them. Source:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474591/posts?page=77#77 

 

Q.3. Why only Category 3 protection?
A.3. That is what we were authorized to do. [Answer by the Corps of Engineers]

 http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/083005cccawwlunwatering.45718845.html

 There are already the accusations that federal money was diverted away from improving NO's levee system for other purposes, likely the war.Yes, Sidney Blumenthal already planted that political urban press using the foreign press to launder out the Clinton fingerprints. The way to shoot it down is to explain that the fed money was there but because LA refused to put up any of the state matching funds that were required by law before the fed money could be spent. Since LA made it clear for several years that they weren't going to provide those matches and expected the feds to pay 100%, the money was diverted to other needs, of which there were many.

 

 

Critics Say Bush Undercut New Orleans Flood Control -- Hint to the Liberals --This is NOT a road you want to go down --Shall we open up the books to the BILLIONS of dollars that was sent to NO and what happened to it all?

 Even with full funding in recent years, none of the flood-control projects would have been completed in time to prevent the swamping of the city, as Democrats yesterday acknowledged.

 

 Bush Urges People to Flee Hurricane (August 28th)

 

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What is worse, this danger was known about, and written about, and studied, for years:

 The Lost City of New Orleans? (Dec 2000)

 

 NASA Flooding Simulation

 

 2004 Amazingly Precise Prediction of New Orleans Disaster -- This was entirely predictable and inevitable to anyone who has followed the issue.

 

  Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes [2004]

 

 Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding

 

 Prophetic: This magazine article foretold New Orleans' doom...four years ago

 

  Click on the thumbnail to open full picture in a new window.

This is a 1998 modelling of a CAT 4 or CAT 5 moving through New Orleans-- Here is what they predicted for flooding....
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/content/katrina_projected_flooding082805.pdf

 Apocalypse Live (Description of a category 4 or 5 hurricane from three weeks ago)

 Gone with the Water -- Published last fall - eerie... 

 Drowning New Orleans -- Scientific American ^ | October 2001 |

 From Jeff Master's weather blog on http://www.wunderground.com
"I'd hate to be an Emergency Management official in New Orleans right now. Katrina is pretty much following the NHC forecast, and appears likely to pass VERY close to New Orleans. I'm surprised they haven't ordered an evacuation of the city yet. While the odds of a catastropic hit that would completely flood the city of New Orleans are probably 10%, that is way too high in my opinion to justify leaving the people in the city. -- posted on 08/27/2005 8:04:52 PM EDT

 

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Here are the pictures:

 New Orleans under water (aerial photos)

 

  Satellite Images Of New Orleans and Biloxi Before and After Katrina

 

 Hurricane imagery posted Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (excellent images)

 

 A Helicopter View of the Devastation of Hurricane Katrina

 

 Union Pacific New Orleans Damage Pictures

 

 Sattelite Before and After Pics  

 

  Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here (But please, no Getty images)

 

 http://sigmund.biz/kat/index.html has the archives of both the cam and camera shots taken from just before the hurricane to today. (it takes quite a while to load unless you have wide broadband.)

 

 NOAA aerial photo's-detailed coast - Hurricane Katrina

 

 URL of Map of Damage by Street - Marker's telling of damage in the Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia

 

 

Complete Aerial Picture Survey of Mississippi Coast Damage

 http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

 

 Astounding video of Katrina destruction 

 

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...and here is contact information for those trying to get information:

 (Katrina) Gulf Coast Nnews: Survivor-Connector DataBase (Midway down the page)

 

 INFORMATION ON KATRINA ASSISTANCE

 

 

Hurricane Katrina Survivor Check-In Sites

 Food for the Hungry , is a good solid Christian relief organization with VERY LOW Administration cost. Approx 93% of contributions go to actual relief.

 Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but here is a website for people to leave messages letting loved ones know they are OK or to post the names of people they are in search of: Katrina Check-In

 

 How to Help Hurricane Victims

 

UPDATES/ LOCAL NEWS LINKS:

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/

 

 Hattiesburg Community Web board

 

 

One Link for All Live Media

 Like I said, it's "Mogadishu on the Mississippi"

 

 Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread

 

 FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread

 

 Hurricane Katrina Survivor Locator Boards

http://www.createforum.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=katrinasurvivor.

 

 How to send messages over the Salvation Army SATERN Network

 

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In roughly reverse chronological order, here are the best links  I have culled since this story broke:

 

 

New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes (Blanco gives shoot to kill order?) -- Wow!
When guns are outlawed, only the government and outlaws will have guns.

 

 Tourists Realize They're Afterthought, Band Together

 

 New Orleans radio system flooded -- "I'm absolutely astounded by the degree and pervasiveness of the incompetence and malfeasance at both the municipal as well as state goernment level in this disaster." -- if you've been watching the Governor,  the mayor and police chief  the past few days ...... to call them "incompetent" is an insult to incompetents.

 

 

 Instant Haiti.

 Water May Linger for Months (New Orleans, "Gone With the Wind?"

 

 Levee repair work has yet to begin (Another Levee Break - 700ft wide NOLA will take 3-6 mos to dry) -- Would the last person to swim out of NOLA please bring the flag?

 NOLAntis. The Lost City.

  Masques of Death (A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.)

New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes -- Politicizing a tragedy? No, teaching valuable lessons, if they dare.

 

 Ted Koppel blames Bush for failure to evacuate poor prior to the Katrina hitting New Orleans -- Dateline pretty much did the same thing. ABC has a Meme and it is the new strategy of the Left... use the disaster to crucify the President.

It is obscene.

 

 

The Katrina syndrome: What a hurricane can teach -- I didn't really enjoy the article until the end..when he compared how they everyone the warnings about levees and sea levels and hurricanes, etc., until disaster struck....and then it was too late.
And when he then compared that to the border issue, and how the signs are all there, but nobody in the government cares to do anything about it. And when they do, it will be too late.

 

 The Great Society our welfare System has Created.

 Gasoline Prices & Katrina

 Hurricanes, Hatred and Hypocrisy

Don't blame Katrina

 

 Ford blasts Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina -- The Governor of LA is supposed to be coordinating with FEMA, isn't she?

Yep. But she has vanished. She can't go on television without bawling like a baby, so her handlers are hiding her.

 You asked, "What in the world is wrong with the governor??"

She's so afraid of doing something wrong that she can't do anything right. You can see her "deer in the headlights" look on television. She's an incompetent political hack thrown into a nightmare situation and she's just frozen.

 

 

Rebuilding New Orleans doesn't make sense

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475129/posts

 

 New Orleans, the Tragedy -- This is the article from which Rush quoted in the first hour of his show today.

 

 

 Shephard Smith "Grandstanding" in New Orleans, showing dead bodies on Fox News. -- "Personally, I don't think the networks should have 'saved us' from the horrors of 9-11 as they did. Perhaps if the reality of that situation had been known then people wouldn't have so easily forgotten."

Amen to that! I agree 100%! If they had show the real carnage, people would be supporting our troops now, instead of low-lifes like Cindy Sheehan.

 

 

Mr. Trittin, You've Got Mail! (Response to Trittin's claim that WE caused Katrina - It's GREAT)

 The global warming crowd says it's Bush's fault.

The Zionist Christians say it's Bush's fault.

The Islamist Jihadists say it's Bush's fault.

The Democrats say it's Bush's fault.

Millions of idiots can't be wrong.

 Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans -- I've never seen such poor planning and leadership in my life. the Mayor and Governor should be tarred & feathered. This is just inexcusable, unbelievable incompetence.

 Heart of America: Common People Doing Heroic Things

Thought-provoking opinion:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106

" In my opinion, the time for optimism has passed. New Orleans did not dodge a bullet, New Orleans suffered a worst case doomsday scenario. But this is far far bigger than New Orleans alone.
By my count, America has lost not one city, but nine of them. "

 

 

 Looters Strip Stores in Front of Cops

 Read this great rant from Pukin Dog then, no typing required --
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1474141/posts

 

 Looters around the city freely cleaning out stores (Amazingly Honest Account)

 

 

 Mississippi search crews pulling bodies from rubble - railroad tracks about six blocks from beach

 LINKS, INFORMATION, VIDEO and PHOTOS on sidebars

 

 Storm may shut refineries for months -- Keep the EPA multiple gas blend suspension in force, suspend the federal & state gas taxes indefinitely, start importing from IRAQ, drill - drill - drill where the caribou roam & wherever else it is geologically promising, start building refineries & identical nuke plants (one thing the French have done right), start using our vast coal supply by building liquification/gasification plants.

 Turn Bases into Refineries part 2 -- This is a excellent idea, which will help the LONG term problem (just like building 10 new nuke power plants).
For SHORT term help, suspend taxes on gas for 90 days, suspend requirements for 40 different blends of gas for the nation, pass legislation to end lawsuits against MTBE's (which the enviro-weenies are responsible for in the first place), proclaim closed military bases as "refinery empowerment zones", where they will have a 100 year lease on the land, be shielded against environmental lawsuits, and not taxed for 10 years.

  Analysts see Katrina as `perfect storm' for already high energy prices -- We own all of the oil sitting underneath Iraq. Why aren't we pumping it for ourselves? Gas should be 50¢ a gallon. We also own tons of oil up in the arctic. To hell with the environmental wackos - start drilling!

Timeline as best as I can quickly reconstruct from the earlier Katrina threads (times are CDT) -

• Sometime before 5 pm Friday,, the governor issues a state of emergency for Louisiana
• As of 10:45 pm Friday, New Orleans was simply monitoring the storm.
• At 10 pm Friday, the National Hurricane Center's 3-day track targets New Orleans for a late-afternoon Monday strike. The previous track issued at 4 pm bulls-eyed the Mississippi-Alabama line
• At 10 am Saturday, the NWS issues a hurricane watch for New Orleans.
• By 11:30 am Saturday, evacuations were ordered for parishes to the south and east of New Orleans.
• At 12:22 pm Saturday, Diddle E. Squatt points out that allowing the southern parishes to evacuate first is part of the plan.
• At 4:45 pm Saturday, the voluntary evacuation order for New Orleans is given. At this point, the NWS track shows the eye hitting about 1 pm Monday.
• At 3 am Sunday, the mayor claimed he could not make the evacuation mandatory due to a "legal technicality", and that he would order it if he could.
• At 9:25 am Sunday the evacuation became mandatory.

3,827 posted on 08/31/2005 2:12:02 AM EDT by steveegg

 

 Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph (Mayor irresponsible in evac delay) -- To: Howlin
For future reference, this repeated line by the mayor and governor that "We went to bed Friday night being told it was a Florida storm, and woke up Saturday to find us threatened" to excuse why they waited so long to start the evacuation plan is total bullshit. (excuse my French)

Friday 4pm NO time report from the NWS, warns of a significant shift west, Mississippi landfall (88.5 on the grid, NO is 90), and possible more movement expected (post #388):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=388#388


By at least Friday 6pm computer models were converging on LA (post #478):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=478#478


Turns out those computer models had been run at 2pm (post #526):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=526#526


In fact some computer models run at 7am NO time Friday had predicted a NO hit(post #224):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=224#224

So unless the gov and mayor went to bed Friday afternoon, they knew then that it likely was headed their way.

 

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 I wonder if someone should start a tread for ideas on how we can all prepare ourselves for a disaster like this?  Go to the Threat Matrix threads. LOTS of information.

 Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Two

 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preparedsurvivalistsunite2/?yguid=95479470

 

 Emergency Kit

 

Travel Pack --- BOB (Bug Out Bag)

(These items should be packed in portable "duffle bags" ready to go)

• 1-qt water per person
• Identification (copies of records/cd
• 2-"energy bars" per person
• Dehydrated food pack for one week dried fruit, vegetables, meat flour, oil, salt, pepper, spices vitamins, honey,peanut butter crackers, protein powder, powder milk
• Collapsible 5 ga. Water containers
• "Water washer" filter
• Lightweight cook kit large pot, dishes, spoons, forks knives, cups, non-stick skillet spatula, can opener, large spoon
• Towels
• 2-water proof nylon tarps
• Change of clothes for each person
• Coats,
• 1-thermal blanket
• 1-sleeping bag / person
• Matches, fire starter
• Compass, maps of areas of intended use
• 2-rechargeable/shakable flashlights
• 12v trouble light w/@cig. lighter plug
• First aid kit
• Toilet paper,
• Soap
• 1-pocket knife
• 1-fishing kit
• 1-large bowie knife (western cutlery) (perfectly weighted to serve as both fire knife and hatchet etc)
• 1-small portable mt. Climber's stove
• 1-back pack with frame
• Paper, pencil
• Signaling mirror
• 1-manual flashlight
• Whistle , portable cable saw
• Small bottle of bleach, insect repellent.
• Magnifying glass
• 100 ft. 1/2 dia. Goldline rope,
• 2 pulleys
• 50 ft. Nylon "shroudline" cord
• .22 caliber pistol w/ 500 rds. Ammo.

There are many, many variations of this Bug Out Bag. Some place more reliance on ‘defense’, property, records.

Seems one should prepare according to their own specific needs, location. Here's some info, left over from the Y2K 'scare' and survivalists
FYI …Google Search for Bug Out Bag = BOB

4,210 posted on 09/01/2005 1:37:35 PM EDT by Stand Watch Listen

 

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 Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?

Mr. Trittin, You've Got Mail! (Response to Trittin's claim that WE caused Katrina - It's GREAT)

 The global warming crowd says it's Bush's fault.

 Looters Strip Stores in Front of Cops

 Read this great rant from Pukin Dog then, no typing required --
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1474141/posts

 Looters around the city freely cleaning out stores (Amazingly Honest Account)

 

 Mississippi search crews pulling bodies from rubble - railroad tracks about six blocks from beach

 LINKS, INFORMATION, VIDEO and PHOTOS on sidebars

Timeline as best as I can quickly reconstruct from the earlier Katrina threads (times are CDT) -

• Sometime before 5 pm Friday,, the governor issues a state of emergency for Louisiana
• As of 10:45 pm Friday, New Orleans was simply monitoring the storm.
• At 10 pm Friday, the National Hurricane Center's 3-day track targets New Orleans for a late-afternoon Monday strike. The previous track issued at 4 pm bulls-eyed the Mississippi-Alabama line
• At 10 am Saturday, the NWS issues a hurricane watch for New Orleans.
• By 11:30 am Saturday, evacuations were ordered for parishes to the south and east of New Orleans.
• At 12:22 pm Saturday, Diddle E. Squatt points out that allowing the southern parishes to evacuate first is part of the plan.
• At 4:45 pm Saturday, the voluntary evacuation order for New Orleans is given. At this point, the NWS track shows the eye hitting about 1 pm Monday.
• At 3 am Sunday, the mayor claimed he could not make the evacuation mandatory due to a "legal technicality", and that he would order it if he could.
• At 9:25 am Sunday the evacuation became mandatory.

[looney tune]

Thanks for this. Bookmarking for future reference.

[Cindy]

Thank you backhoe.

[backhoe]

Thanks for stopping by-- here is a little more:

 Bottled-Up River Prevents Ships From Reaching Gulf (rail, truck, barge - diverting to new ports)

 

 NIGHTMARE OF ROBBERY, FILTH, DEATH & RAPE IN SUPERDOME

 

 Listen to Mayor Nagin of N.O. go *nuts* in New Orleans radio interview -- Sounds like the corruption of the government in the city is coming home to roost...  Nagin.mp3 ... He sounds like a complete idiot, all talking points with no solutions.

 

 Trying to survive, while others binge (police agencies in tatters)

 

 Hunger and rage (American city becomes a Third World nightmare) ... Little Somalia ... I watched some of the news yesterday for the first time as what stuck me was the HUGE difference in how the leadership and people of New York reponded to 911, and how the leadership and people of New Orleans responded to Katrina. New Yorkers were tough, determined, resolved, didn't loot, helped others, didn't complain, whine, sit around like helpless babies, expecting 'gubmint' to do everything...

 

 Weather Modification Advisory and Research Board - Bill S517 (Too late for Katrina)

 

 Nothing's Easy for New Orleans Flood Control

 

 QUICK LOOK REPORT: Gasoline Delivery System

I suppose I should add this, since it is related:

Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:

[Peach]

Thank you for your dedication to archiving this. The timeline is particularly valuable.

[Ros42]

Excellent backhoe! Thank you. :)

[looney tune]

Ugh! I paid $3.01 yesterday. Took $40 to fill my tank.

[backhoe]

Appreciate the kind words- thanks for stopping by.

[backhoe]

Ugh! I paid $3.01 yesterday. Took $40 to fill my tank.

I know what you mean-- my truck, and Mrs. B's little buzz bomb needed gas yesterday, and I thought I was going to have to go down to the bank and take out a loan to pay for it. At least I was able to get gas-- the day before that stupid "gas panic" hit Georgia, and there were lines, standing room only, and angry drivers everywhere.

A sign in Atlanta:

[backhoe]

 Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee Failure

 

[Smartaleck]

Did you check out the first two links in your post? The Federal Register refered to is -

[Federal Register: June 23, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 120)]
[Notices]
[Page 34151-34153]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr23jn98-32]

"Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the West Shore--Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, Hurricane Protection Feasibility Study"

How does this as a "matter of fact" reflect on Clinton?

[backhoe]

What's strange is "The Federal Register ^" link takes me to a blank page-- it was there last night.

[Smartaleck]

What's strange is "The Federal Register ^" link takes me to a blank page-- it was there last night."

Try this
EPA: Federal Register: Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental ...
... 1998 (Volume 63, Number 120)] [Notices] [Page 34151-34153] From the Federal
Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] ****[DOCID:fr23jn98-32]**** ...
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1998/June/Day-23/i16642.htm

[backhoe]

Thanks, that's even stranger- the document I saw early this morning was a stullifyingly huge black & white page with no graphics and TT ( typewriter ) font.

[backhoe]

Added:

 Check out evacuation instructions from NOLA website

 

[Peach]

Thank you so much, backhoe.

[backhoe]

 Hurricane Katrina: Who's to Blame?

 

 National Hurricane Center predicted New Orleans in trouble Friday before storm. Where was the Mayor? -- People get the government they deserve. Citizens of NO - this is what happens when you vote gangsters into office.

 

 A national disgrace -- "At all levels, government is overbearing and nagging, paying for people's prescription drugs and telling us whether we can smoke in restaurants or not. But when it comes to its most elemental task of maintaining order and protecting property, it might not be up to the task when it is needed most.""Keep that in mind and buy a gun, just in case."

 

 The Doomed Cities

 

 The State and the Flood

 

 If You Ain't Been to Heaven Then You Ain't Been There

 

 Mess on the Mississippi -- the surrounding nub of land around the last 20 miles of the rivers, known colloquially as the "crow's foot," was decimated by the storm.

 

 An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State -- "There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves."

 

 A Colossal Failure of Leadership (Leftist hate alert) -- President Bush has stepped into the breach after the failure of the democRAT mayor of N.O. and the democRAT governor of LA.

 

 New Orleans refugees bitter after Katrina ordeal -- "This is a prime example of what happens when a country has generation after generation after generation of people on welfare. Its not "how can I help myself or my family" its "what is the government going to give me and when will I get it?" mentality."

 

 Experts: Global Warming Didn't Cause Katrina

 

 (using buses) Galveston creates evacuation plan --- WHY DIDN'T NEW ORLEANS OFFICIALS DO THIS?

 IVAN EXPOSED THE EVACUATION FLAWS....BUT THEY APPARENTLY DIDN'T FIX THE PROBLEM

 Mayor Nagin - Drug Addicts Have Taken Over New Orleans -- He and the dim bulb governor will be forever known as the two boobs that destroyed New Orleans, and ten's of thousands of lives along with it. -- Mayor Nagin Curses Gov. Blanco, Pres. Bush -- When you give fools the right to vote --- they elect idiots.

 Cause of the Disaster: The People of New Orleans

 Note the real title for the article: Bush budget not expected to diminish New Orleans district's $65M -- FLASHBACK: Bush refused to fund New Orleans flood and hurricane protection last February

 10 ways you can help disaster victims

 Katrina Refugee: I could never have imagined this!

 FEMA’s Plan for Mass Destruction Attacks: Of Course It’s True

 WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?... New Orleans Lost Opportunity 

WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?...

 Air America caller from N.O. blasts N.O. mayor and Governor (Caller was Julia Reed) -- "Desperate people" replied Maddow -- No, "lawbreakers," said Reed.  Reed referred to Nagin's "send greyhound buses" speech as "ridiculous political posturing... hardly what I'd call leadership'
She says that Nagin has lost control of the city, and Blanco has lost control of the state

[Born Conservative]

Excellent post. Thanks.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking- here's a little more:

 1 YEAR AGO "Ivan exposes flaws in N.O.'s disaster plans" Mayor & Gov. fail to learn lesson

 

 Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

 

 "It took four days for FEMA to get its first people into South Florida after Andrew"

 

 They saw it coming(no blame but its Bushs fault)

 

 Katrina Takes Aim -- I had forgotten that a state of emergency was called BEFORE THE STORM EVEN HIT

 It was Bush that asked the Gov and Mayor to order a mandatory evacuation, NOT their idea at all.

 

 "The Begining of Our Nightmare" -- Personal Account from New Orleans **It's worse than you think!** -- The email-writer easily saw what MSM seems to be missing--the mayor, governor, and Sen. Landrieu need to go, and quickly. I wasn't aware they were standing in the way of aid, but if true, it wouldn't surprise me.

 

 Mark Steyn on Hugh Hewitt Re: Hurricane Katrina -- Robert Kaplan, when he talks about what's happened in failed West African states, calls it the re-primitivation of man. And that's actually what we're seeing in New Orleans.  It's the best commercial for owning a gun I've ever seen.

 

 Republicans Ask Guiliani to guide Relief effort -- Finally. I can't take many more appearances by Ms. Governor or Mayor Hate-Whitey or Senator Ima Bitch-Landrieu.
These clowns need to be sent packing and someone who is effective needs to take charge

 

 Canoe and a gun get duo to safety (escape from NO) -- Earlier today, a man came up to me. I think he wanted the canoe. He saw I was armed and gave up.

 Second Amendment. Learn it, live it, love it.

 

 Project 21 Responds to Black Caucus Criticism of Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

 

 

 

 This all falls on the Governor, Not the Mayor or The President

 

 Breaks in the Levee Logic

 This all falls on the Governor, Not the Mayor or The President

 Breaks in the Levee Logic

[backhoe]

 It's finally hit.."Why didn't you deploy the buses, Mr. Mayor??"

 

 

 Bush Admits Katrina Response 'Not Enough' -- God DA** them. The AP is OUT RIGHT LYING. He did NOT say ANY of this. HE has NO such authority. The STATE GOV has to send in the Guard HE CANNOT.

 

 UNBELIEVABLE! CNN's Cafferty suggesting that Bush withheld hurricane aid to get a photo-op!

 

 Governors Guide to Emergency Management

 

 Many More Hurricanes to Come

 

 Live survival blog in New Orleans

 

 Guardsmen Greeted With Applause, Anger - "The cavalry is and will continue to arrive"