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 fascinating blog chronocling the formation of Katrina and predicting the worst days before
 
 Replacement Pumps Don't Exist
 
 Agency felt New Orleans was safe for 200-300 years
 
 US News and World Report had an article on July 18, 2005 about the hurricane threat to NO that sends chills down my spine reading it now.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050718/18neworleans.htm
 
 Katrina: A timeline -- proof the Federal response was NOT SLOW
 
 Katrina: A timeline -- proof the Federal response was NOT SL...
 
 Flood of regret...waves of anger - Blueprint to save New Orleans was created but never realized
 
 White House Shifts Blame: Points To State, Local Officials
 
 Buried in the article, this from the Washington Post:
Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
 
 WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES DURING THE MANDATORY EVACUATION, MAYOR?...
 
 US coal reserves are over 200 years and already power over 50% of US electricity.   I remember that it was the largest field of that kind outside of Indonesia (?) before the toon federalized the land so it could not be used for mining.   Clean burning coal - as I recall, the largest supply in the world next to the one in Indonesia. As I also recall, Bubba made the US supply in Utah a Fed protected area (Nat'l park or some such - I forget the exact wording) and the one in Indonesia is/was owned by the Lippo Group (his friends and donors)
 That Trillion-Dollar Ripoff-- Clinton's Utah Coal Deal
various websites | 7-29-02 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/724170/posts
 
 How many could have been evacuated from New Orleans?
 (from CNN itself)
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city.
 
 
 I checked over at the archives of http://mgno.com, to see when he reported hearing of flooding with the levees. He reported it on the 29th
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476917/posts
 Katrina Swamps Entire LA Neighborhoods [weird time-warp news from Monday night, 8/29/05]
Associated Press ^ | August 29, 2005 | ALLEN G. BREED
 
 
 Louisiana governor hires FEMA ex-director James Lee Witt
 Their plan has always been to let the peons fend for themselves and to stick their hand out for money when it's over. It's really that brutally simple.
 IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & SE Louisiana   June 3, 2004  ---Clinton's FEMA Director, James Lee Witt, took half a million dollars to prepare a hurricane plan for New Orleans.---  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476788/posts -- I will be posting some interesting FR threads about James Witt. -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476788/posts -- In These Times reports, “In June 2004, FEMA privatized its hurricane disaster plan for New Orleans, contracting the work to the Baton Rouge, La., firm Innovative Emergency Management (IEM) -- Guess which other Clintoon top rat is in bed with Witt. None other than Weaslelly Clark.:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1230846/posts
Clark, Slater working for crisis management firm of ex-FEMA director Witt ...
 You can present the best disaster plan every concocted, but if the powers that be don't implement it, it won't save one life.
 I've looked at "the plan" and its quite inadequate. But hey don't believe me, just read what those asked to implement it thought: Law Officers, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force, NY Times (FR post here)
 
 Google Earth overlays of hurricane damage
 
 Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill'
 
 Louisiana - Hurricane devastates Plaquemines
 
 The Roots of Corruption: Lowering the Bar (OR WHY the N.O.P.D. has been SO DISMAL...thus far...) -- A knock-off of Drudge's site, The Dead Pelican is good to keep up with the cesspool that is La. politics.
 
 Katrina Evacuees Distraught Over Pets
 
 Human Society working to save surviving animals -- Huge high five to all their help
 
 Looking for advice on a gun for self defense in the case of roaming gangs of looters.
 
 Proof that nothing changed after Sept. 11
 
 Paul Williams details 'American Hiroshima'
 
 Gas Crunch: Some Stations Run Empty as Supplies Fall
 
 Panhandle getting more gas, but motorists face lines, limits
 
 Oil is not just for energy
 
 The new economy (gas,cigarettes,beer and Mississippi)
 
 Katrina brings death, and more liberal idiocy
 
 The Cutting Edge: IT'S IDEOLOGICAL, NOT RACIAL
 
 Katrina: Now It's Personal (Kim Gandy has lost it!!) The official response to Katrina from NOW
 
 Dysentery outbreak feared - Authorities faced a deteriorating and disturbing public health crisis
 
 The Lost City of New Orleans?

34 posted on 09/04/2005 3:42:58 AM PDT by backhoe
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http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php
 

The Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool

The Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool. Hundreds of buses, abandoned and unused during the evacuation, now leaking tons of diesel fuel and motor oil into the already toxic water.

 
Be sure to read these... 09:50 PM PDT | link: 237 comments
 
 Domestic nuclear attack makes Katrina look kind
 
 For this one, Bush deserves the heat (KATRINA IS THE 'RATS PERFECT STORM)

35 posted on 09/04/2005 5:21:37 AM PDT by backhoe
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