[sgtyork]

Sorry, your time line doesn't make sense.

Why would you be bringing in food before the hurricane hit land? Given that they so often change direction, you have to wait until the land fall.

Then you have to remember that everything seemed ok when the eye of the hurrican passed to the east of New Orleans. The catastrophe began when the levee failed. Aid arrived in about 72 hours....which is how long FEMA guides local authorities to prepare for their own support.

[gondramB]

I don't really have a time line. I'm mainly just referring to what FEMA director Brown said about only having three days from Saturday to Monday once they knew (or thought they knew) where the storm was going.

So my only point was it should have been pretty clear they were going to need to get food and water in New Orleans 7 days before it actually arrived in quantity.

BTW, I realized I was wrong in the day count. I was counting Monday twice.

The domestic security chief said the probability that the storm would hit New Orleans increased last Saturday, giving relatively little time to prepare before it made landfall on Monday.

[filbert]

Why would you be bringing in food before the hurricane hit land? Given that they so often change direction, you have to wait until the land fall.

Then you have to remember that everything seemed ok when the eye of the hurrican passed to the east of New Orleans. The catastrophe began when the levee failed. Aid arrived in about 72 hours....which is how long FEMA guides local authorities to prepare for their own support.

Because it was common knowledge in the disaster planning community that NO's levees would be breached/overtopped by anything stronger than a Cat 3 hurricane. If the levees failed, New Orleans would flood and become largely uninhabitable.

Katrina was a Cat 5 and hit the coast as a Cat 4.