HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links

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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.

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

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

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241 posted on 03/31/2006 6:49:11 AM PST by backhoe ("Keep Your Powder Dry!" hattip: Minutegal)

242 posted on 04/02/2006 1:07:21 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

243 posted on 04/04/2006 1:33:29 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

244 posted on 04/05/2006 5:45:03 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

245 posted on 04/18/2006 5:29:07 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

246 posted on 05/02/2006 3:29:05 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

Blanco vetoes natural gas port --The last poll I saw, I think it was in March, had Blank-0's approval rating in the mid-20's. Having known her and her family for over a decade before she was foisted on this state, I warned anybody who would listen that she was a complete buffoon. Katrina merely proved what I'd been saying for years.

247 posted on 05/06/2006 12:11:11 PM PDT by backhoe

248 posted on 05/07/2006 4:47:41 PM PDT by backhoe

249 posted on 05/08/2006 4:23:09 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

250 posted on 05/15/2006 9:22:13 AM PDT by chaosagent (Remember, no matter how you slice it, forbidden fruit still tastes the sweetest!)

Thanks for looking- and here's ( gulp! ) more:

3 major hurricanes to hit US this year: AccuWeather

251 posted on 05/15/2006 12:52:26 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

252 posted on 05/21/2006 5:48:20 AM PDT by backhoe

http://www.instapundit.com/

REPRESENTATIVE WILLIAM JEFFERSON ( Democrat of Louisiana ) captured on video taking a $100,000 bribe: Gateway Pundit has a roundup. This whole "culture of corruption" is getting way out of hand.

Plus there's this: "$90,000 found in congressman's freezer . . . Some readers may recall that Jefferson also used the National Guard to secure his home in New Orleans during the Katrina aftermath.

Explaining the New Orleans Election(From a Conservative Local )--The DUmmies are moaning and wailing about Nagin's re-election, calling him a Republican and--of course--claiming the election was stolen.

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE WORKED TO DEFEAT NAGIN

253 posted on 05/22/2006 5:38:01 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005238.htm

FOILED AGAIN!

By Michelle Malkin · May 22, 2006 08:51 AM

So much for the Dems' attack on the GOP culture of corruption.

Now, they've got to contend with Democrat Rep. William Jefferson reportedly caught on tape accepting bribes in cold, hard cash. Emphasize on cold:

Add this one to the files, Howard.

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Scrappleface spoofs: "Rep. Jefferson Hid Cash to Protect Colleagues."

One of Ed Morrissey's readers notes the possible connection between the bribe scandal and another Jefferson brouhaha over the congressman's use of "National Guard troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings — even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from rooftop:"

Hot Air on Alan Mollohan
King John Conyers
Dirty Harry Reid: Then and Now

254 posted on 05/22/2006 1:49:19 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

255 posted on 05/23/2006 3:58:03 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014165.php

Katrina Media Malpractice: Worse than we Knew!

With another hurricane season approaching, Lou Dolinar's analysis of the medial meltdown over Katrina in Real Clear Politics couldn't be more timely. Dolinar shows that the media almost completely ignored an extraordinarily successful rescue effort, by the National Guard and others, that saved tens of thousands of lives in New Orleans. In their haste to broadcast lurid (albeit false) stories of chaos and mayhem, the press missed the real story: ...read it all. The bottom line is that the mass media blew their coverage of Hurricane Katrina badly. Has anyone paid a price for that malpractice? Not that I know of. Last I saw, media figures were awarding one another prizes for their Katrina coverage.

256 posted on 05/23/2006 1:14:47 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

257 posted on 05/24/2006 4:32:57 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/004030.html

Katrina: A Tale Of Two Tales

One wonders if the news networks took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ended up, not in New Orleans, but on a Hollywood movie set. More here from Jonah Goldberg; Read them both, and then file for future reference the next time those who ride the microphone ponies stand before the cameras to bring us "on the scene reporting". Comments (13)

New Orleans seen top target for '06 hurricanes

Mississippi has a place for heroes: Jail [man jailed for selling generators to Katrina victims]--When the government steps in to limit the amount of profit a person can make in an otherwise free and open market, or it ties their hands in order to supposedly make things more "fair" for others, that person will eventually withdraw their goods and services from the market.
At some point, Atlas Shrugs...

House Passes Pet Evacuation Bill

258 posted on 05/24/2006 2:07:56 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

259 posted on 06/01/2006 4:36:35 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

-- soon, we will control the Universe:

260 posted on 06/02/2006 12:17:00 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)

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