Katrina: ABC Notices The New Orleans Emergency Plan
At least one major media outlet has finally noticed that New Orleans had an emergency response plan for hurricances and evacuations that somehow never got implemented. ABC News yesterday asked why Mayor Ray Nagin not only did not follow the plan, but actively sent non-evacuees to a site that had no preparations to handle them: Perhaps the media might notice this November 2004 analysis of the dry run Hurricane Ivan provided city officials in evacuating the city as a hurricane approached. It would address the meme that only the very poor and infirm resisted the mandatory evacuation, and noted that New Orleans did a poor job in communicating the evacuation order then as well -- Comments (82)
Largess in Louisiana: Money Flowed to Questionable Projects -- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479913/posts
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17424_A_Funny_Odor&only
"A FUNNY ODOR" (September 7, 2005) -- A federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging three members of the State Military Department with offenses related to the obstruction of an audit of the use of federal funds for flood mitigation activities throughout Louisiana...
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THREE STATE OFFICIALS INDICTED FOR OBSTRUCTING FEDERAL AUDIT (Louisiana Levee Money, 29Nov2004)
Gil Gross interviewed Sen. Landrieu...she is STILL blaming Bush, but get this...
She said she is going to introduce legislation that takes ALL $$$$$$$$$$$ out of the hands of FEMA and HS for her state and ALA and MISS...and put all of the Billions of dollars that will go to that region...
INTO THE HANDS OF THE MAYORS AND GOVERNORS AND PARISH PRESIDENTS...
A Tale of Two Shelters -- the GS ( the Good Samaritan ) ministry, without directives, rules and regulations, or any real boss on the ground that I could find, Americans rolled up their sleeves and got to work.
Katrina trapped city in double disasters (How and When the Floodwalls Broke)
THE TRAP THE DEMS SET FOR BUSH
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans? -- Man, as the facts keep comming out Bush looks like a saint and the local Gov't looks like they killed a bunch of people...
What future for the Big Easy?
Nagin, Blanco, Nagin, Blanco, Who the Hell Cares (vanity)
Dean: Race Was Factor in Deaths (Barf Alert!!!)
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Did Blanco attempt genocide at Superdome? -- On Sunday, when they started herding the unwashed masses into the Super Doom, (not a typo), I went to my 90 year old grandmother's house and turned on the TV. I told her we were about to witness the biggest disaster the U.S. has ever seen. I mentioned to her that I knew she lived through the 'Great Depression' but this would be worse and happen faster. |
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Snipers Firing On Workers Repairing Cell Phone Towers -- The stepped-up evacuation came as workers trying to get into the city to restart essential services came under sniper fire. More than 100 officers and seven armored personnel carriers captured a suspect in a housing project who had been firing on workers trying to restore cell phone towers, authorities said.
Air America: "They were not shooting at helicopters, but just trying to get attention to be rescued" -- Don't forget too that she was inciting the looters to loot last week. She urged them to go loot the good stuff, not loot just at Wal-Mart.
Tancredo: Don't let Louisiana, New Orleans officials touch federal aid -- 
Oh gimegimegimegimegimegimegime
The Story of the Hurricane - After a Period of Self-Suppression, the Horrific Story Spurs the Press
A Civilizational Vacuum (Appalling lack of self-gov't in New Orleans is the one area Media won't...)
Good news photos from New Orleans now online
Animals in the aftermath (Animal Lover Alert)
SNOWBALL STILL MISSING
Hurricane Hillary's In a Whirl -- Psst. Hillary. Did you know that your husband's FEMA Director was criticized by Jesse Jackson during Hurricane Floyd because ONE MONTH after the hurricane there were still people who had not been helped?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479542/posts
Oh, and Hillary. Did you know that the Bush administration spent slightly more than your husband on levee/flood control for New Orleans?
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479913/posts
From the past: Update: Hurricane Katrina is NOW CATEGORY FIVE! -- The incompetence of this mayor and governor is going to cause many people to be injured and lose their lives. The Director of FEMA said they have studied this scenario for two years and their models called for evacuation 48-72 hours prior to landfall. But he said the decision had to be made by the governor (state) and mayor (city). The evacuation has already been delayed too long. --As an astute FReeper noted last night--on election day, they put all the voters on buses and promise them the moon and stars. now when their lives are in immediate danger, the poor people must fend for themselves. 08/28/2005
Shelter-seekers find long lines, noisy conditions in Superdome Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005 ----About the MRE's before the Hurricane From the Times-Picayune Archives- Monday, Aug 29
In Case You Missed It: Fox News' "Special Report," 9/7/05 (On FEMA)
Environmentalists Partly to Blame for New Orleans Flooding
Rumors of faraway places sway evacuees (the 100,000 + evacuees want to stay in Houston)
Exhausted New Orleans cops battle on-(NO Cops mad at 300 cops that left)
The Three C's of Blogging, What the blogosphere is doing to help (Free Republic Mentioned) -- Compassion, connection, and correction... Finally, correction, as in the sort that follows from accountability. There aren't going to be any secrets in this story, at least not for long. When Fox News's Major Garrett broke a story on Wednesday afternoon that Red Cross senior officials were confirming that Louisiana state officials had blocked the supply of water, food, blankets, and hygiene products to the Superdome, it was only moments later that the story had been picked up on FreeRepublic, and Garrett was booked and interviewed on my radio show. (Transcript here.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479745/posts
