Can someone point me to the time-line thread that puts all the events into perspective, please?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475914/posts?page=191#191
From among the most important 'time-line' stats:
-- It takes 72 hours to evacuate New Orleans.
-- The state of emergency was declared on Friday. Katrina was forecast to make landfall in Louisiana as a Category 4 storm as of Friday (08/26/05) at 7:00 PM CDT.
-- (I'm adding this now): Katrina was reclassified Category Five Friday night (08/26/05).
-- The voluntary evacuation notice was given Saturday (08/27/05) afternoon at 2:30 PM CDT.
-- The mandatory evacuation order was given Sunday (08/28/05) at 9:30 AM CDT.
-- The storm hit the Louisiana coast on Monday (08/29/05) morning at 6:00 AM CDT.
AND, this article...Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin made it known in a joint public statement on 08/28/05 that they'd already been contacted by President Bush (saying, "he called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacution of low lying areas prone to flooding...").
Both Governor and Mayor told Bush they'd think it over, hadn't made any decision, would get back to him, whatever...