[Wolfstar]

From Goddard Space Flight Center

Hurricane Katrina progression is observed by the Aqua and Terra satellites. Katrina hit land on August 29, 2005, near the Louisiana-Mississippi border. Katrina's center was located near the mouth of the Pearl River about 40-45 miles west-southwest of Biloxi, Mississippi and about 30-35 miles east-northeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Katrina is the eleventh named storm of the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane season.

Wednesday, August 24

Thursday, August 25

Friday, August 26

Saturday, August 27

There is a gap in Goddard's images for August 28.

Monday, August 29

[sarasmom]

Bless you for trying!
Fact: The "media" in the USA and the rest of the world are incapable of reporting factual information.

[Former Dodger]

Nice one Wolfstar...ping for later read!

[Hayley]

I am amazed that the MSM, and others on the Left don't seem to realize the incredible scale and the colossal projected expense of the relief effort. Not only is it unprecedented, it was mobilized and put into _effective_ action in two days following the flooding. They seem to be pandering to the large section of inner city inhabitants, who were largely wards of the state to begin with. I can see, er hear, unending whining for the duration of this ordeal, to be dutifully reported by CNN, MSNBC, and spun into talking-points by the Democrats, while the administration tries work-through this very difficult job. They oughta thank God Republicans were in office!

[Eastbound]

First rate, Wolfstar. Many, many thanks for your efforts.

[hole_n_one]

I almost forgot........

Nice job!

[Willgamer]

Bookmark & bump.

[Fudd Fan]

You are a wonder, thank you for this. There must be an award for such work!

[cpdiii]

What the media will not address is the fact that the vast majority of the people left when ordered to leave. They got in their cars and drove away. Those that were not able to leave because they were ill, infirm, or had no means to leave were not able to leave because those responsible to provide the means to leave did not provide this nor did they have any plans prior to the flooding for evacuating these people. Those responsible for this are not the Federal Government and George Bush but the State of Louisiana Government and in particular the Governor of Louisiana and the Major of New Orleans. The corrupt New Orleans police force (some not all) is a subject all its own. They police work for the Major. If news reports are accurate some 30% of them abandoned their posts and more than one was looting.

[McGavin999]

Excellent work Wolfstar.

Print this out folks, save a copy of this to your hard drives and e-mail it to everyone you know.

[Theophilus]

The idiots on the left and in the media would hate the President just as much, and would still be unsatisfied if he had ordered Air Force One to participate in the evacuation, turned his daughters over to calm the rapists and then drowned himself and his entire cabinet in Lake Pontchartrain trying to plug the breach with their bodies.

[satchmodog9]

Thanks for the work. Now I can easily reference things to shove down liberal throats.

[DaveTesla]

Is it me or did the Governor and the Mayor play politics
with this situation?
What arrogance.
It's like having your house catch fire and try to put it out
with a garden hose. When that fails you call the fire department
(Actually you didn't call they just noticed the smoke plume in the horizon).
and when they arrive you tell the fire chief to STAND DOWN.
Then you try to operate the fire pump truck yourself and
when you house burns to the ground you publicly blame the
fire department!


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). 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.

The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor.

Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday, three state and federal officials said. As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said.

"The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana," White House spokesman Dan Bartlett said. "The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana."

Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.

[EverOnward]

wonderful job -- thanks for working on this

[MinuteGal]

Thanks for the superb work, Wolfie.

Too bad the White House PR staff will never wake from its long-standing Rip Van Winkle mode to do something similar and get it out as talking points.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Leni

[LachlanMinnesota]

Thanks so much for the post...this shows that for every impending disaster or storm, we need tostart the recording fromt he beginning so that history cannot be re-written.

[nutmeg]

Thank you for all the hard work you put into this outstanding thread, Wolfstar! I'll ping my biggest list here...

[rlmorel]

EXCELLENT!!!!!!

Well done, and a hearty thanks. I am going to memorize this, we are going to need it to counteract the Liberal talking points machine....

[upchuck]

Fantastic job, Wolfstar. I'm sure this took lots of effort. Thank you!!

[nutmeg]

ping!

Wolfstar has created an outstanding timeline for us on this thread...

Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Someone save and archive this before it is pulled from the news website:

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=3771630&nav=0RY5do3o

Hurricane Katrina Jogs West; Could Threaten Mississippi, Louisiana

Governor Kathleen Blanco issued a state of emergency in Louisiana at 5pm Friday, as state leaders continued to track the path of Hurricane Katrina. "The declaration of a state of emergency is in anticipation of possible damage from Hurricane Katrina should she strike Louisiana," said Deputy Press Secretary Roderick Hawkins. Hawkins said the state of emergency declaration places the Louisiana National Guard on standby. "It puts us on standby just in case we need to mobilize the national guard," Hawkins said. "We are in the strike zone," Governor Blanco said during a late afternoon live interview on CNN. Hawkins said the governor is holding a conference call among state agencies starting at 5pm Friday. He said decisions about possible evacuations will likely be made during that conference call. The governor's office said all state agencies will be fully operational by Saturday morning.