How many troops would have been needed in New Orleans if Nagin and Blanco had arranged to evacuate people?Nagin and Blanco remind me of an old Anacin TV commercial
Please, Mother!!
I'd rather do it myself.
Posted on 09/04/2005 9:49:50 AM PDT by Tall_Texan
Sep 3, 4:57 PM (ET)
By The Associated Press
A day-by-day look at when National Guard troops from around the country arrived in Louisiana and Mississippi, the two states hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina:
TUESDAY, Aug. 30:
In Louisiana:
- 4,725, all from Louisiana
In Mississippi:
- 2,747, all from Mississippi
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 31:
In Louisiana:
- Ohio: nine
- Oklahoma: 89
- Texas: 625
In Mississippi:
Arkansas: 350
Delaware : 68
Florida: 350
Maryland: 130
THURSDAY, Sept. 1:
In Louisiana:
Arkansas: 446
Colorado: 4
Kansas: 12
Missouri: 40
Nevada: 12
Ohio: 210
Oklahoma: 283
Texas: 972
In Mississippi:
Alabama: 1,500
Ohio: 42
West Virginia: 3
FRIDAY, Sept. 2:
In Louisiana:
Alabama: 300
California: 517
Washington, DC: 100
Kansas: 87
Massachusetts: 100
Maryland: 65
Missouri: 10
North Carolina: 300
New Hampshire: 62
New Mexico: 250
Nevada: 92
Oklahoma: 210
Oregon: 100
Pennsylvania: 200
Puerto Rico: 60
Rhode Island: 150
Tennessee: 326
Vermont: 25
In Mississippi:
Delaware: 52
Georgia: 12
Indiana: 47
Ohio: 1200
SATURDAY, Sept. 3 (origins of Guard troops unavailable):
In Louisiana:
3,500
In Mississippi:
2,500
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Source: National Guard Bureau
Further, and slightly off-topic, I believe we at FR need to begin documenting a complete timeline of events before the Left and their media friends completely distort it. Including: when Katrina reached Cat 3 status, when the NHC revised their forecast to show Katrina hitting New Orleans, when Bush publicly asked for evacuations, when federal officials privately pleaded with Mayor Nagin to call for evacuations, when the Mayor actually called for mandatory evacuations, when Bush declared Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama disaster areas in order to free up emergency aid, when Gov. Blanco called up Louisiana National Guard troops, when the eye of Katrina passed New Orleans, when various people in the MSM and perhaps the Mayor and Governor expressed relief that New Orleans "dodged a bullet", when the levees began to break, when massive flooding became evident, etc. Whenever possible, the timeline should be excerpted and linked to the news source (hopefully an MSM news source) so as to prove the sequence of events before the Left rearranges the order to "prove" their pet theories. Feel free to use this thread for any contributions to the timeline.
(Sorry if this has already been posted elsewhere, I sis search several ways before posting).
Many of those young folks who rode in transport helicopters are, right now, thinking about their strong and skilled rescuers.
I look forward to a substantial increase in the number of recruits for all branches of service.
The do-nothing Dems will have a hard time competing with the strong image of the "do-or-die" rescuers in uniform.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08_28.html
Here's a pretty good timeline on New Orlean's own site. Some pretty good information there.
The North Dakota ANG "The Happy Hooligans" will be sending some of their Civil Engineers to Mississippi to help out. I don't know the count.
Good luck..The MSM already has their talking point..Bush is responsible..Must be true..I heard it on TV../sarcasm
There should have been Martial LAW declared in the affected area as SOP in the event of a natural or man-made large scale disaster such as this,,, and shoot to kill orders standing orders in the event of lawlessness such as looting. The failure to secure especially NOLA in a timely manner with troops was a tragic blunder of this event. (Bush's leadership is weak here.) Lets hope that lesson is learned by the bureaucracy
Thank you. NOLA.com is actually the New Orleans Times Picayune. The problem with this "rolling blog" though is that DATES are missing. You can infer a timeline and it *is* helpful but because of the way it was written, it is missing dates. This is a good start however.
Great. Thank you. Some of this will need to be put into context as we learn about undeployed school buses and other failures while the left tries to blame it all on Bush.
How often did Governor Blanco refuse to authorize the use of the Guard, before she finally acted two days after the flooding, three days after the hurricane?
"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
Congressman Billybob
Latest column: "Tide of Lies Swamps NY Times: Employees Riot and Steal Office Supplies"
How many troops would have been needed in New Orleans if Nagin and Blanco had arranged to evacuate people?Please, Mother!!
I'd rather do it myself.
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| Posted by rhetorica On News/Activism 09/03/2005 10:03:04 AM CDT · 44 replies · 993+ views OK folks, let's get this thing under control. We need to build a timeline of (1) events relating to Katrina (e.g. landfall, levee breeches, flooding, etc)(2)events relating to LA, MS and AL and Fed government responses to Katrina (e.g. evacuation orders, activating guard, etc) (3) events as reported by major media outlets (e.g. hurrincane hits and misses, breeches, flooding, evacualtions, looting, etc.) Let's see if we can put a timeline together that chronicles all these events. I am willing to assemble all the information if Freepers will help me locate the evidence. It will be very important that we have |
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| Posted by neverdem On News/Activism 09/04/2005 3:30:47 AM CDT · 24 replies · 571+ views The Guardian ^ | September 3, 2005 Saturday September 3, 2005 8:31 PM By The Associated Press A day-by-day look at Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Wednesday, Aug. 24: - Tropical Depression 12 strengthens into Tropical Storm Katrina over the Central Bahamas; a hurricane warning is issued for the southeastern Florida coast. Thursday, Aug. 25: - Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds. Friday, Aug. 26: - Katrina weakens over land to a tropical storm before moving out over the Gulf of Mexico. It grows to a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds,... |
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It has been copied in my word processer and saved. They may cause it to vanish from the site, but we have it. Thanks.
lets see...
if there are ~ 11,000 LA national guard ...
and 3000 or so are in Iraq..
and she deployed 4725 on TUESDAY....
where are the other 3,275 ?
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=104&sid=557960
With all due respect, Louisiana is not part of the federal government. It is, in fact, a sovereign state of the Union.
President Bush is not Dictator Bush. There are processes of law that shall be followed prior to the federal government taking any action contrary to the wishes of that states elected leadership.
Should you wish to denegrate the President, you have every right to do so. Try doing it with factual information.
Why didn't that nut Blanco call up the Louisiana Guard on the Friday before the storm to help with evacuation. Then her and the mayor waited forever for the mandatory evacuation worrying about legal concerns.
Then the governor refused to accept Michigan's large offer of national guard troops on Tuesday.
Governor refuses to allow military to coordinate national guard into louisiana from out of state national guards that need her permission. Thus you don't see Michigan on the list.
Inept Governor refused Homeland Security's assistance for firefighting equipment that they needed desperately. Disaster plans call for 9 rapidly response fire teams across the country to respond rapidly but Blanco refused.
Not only that. Why, as the Washington Post reports today, has President Bush been asking Governor Blanco since Friday night to relinquish control to Federal Authorities? The State is still refusing. How is President Bush to blame for something the STATE OF LOUSIANA is STILL in charge of right NOW?
When Florida got hit I think Jeb requested for national guard troops from neighboring states like louisiana, mississippi, alabama days before the storm hit.
That would have made all the difference in the world if Blanco had asked for the help of out of state guard troops before the storm hit.
Not National Guard but here is my two cents worth for the record.
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