Day Five Comparison Slide of Troop Numbers for Hurricane Andrew and Katrina

Defenselink ^ | 6 Sep 2005 | DoD Public Affairs

[axes_of_weezles]

No Katrina Breifing from DoD today. Press photos of breifings by JCS Gen Myers and the CINC Army Corps of Engineers. Transcripts of todays breifing is available at Defenselink and has copyright restrictions on it.

That transcript is here - http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2005/tr20050906-secdef3862.html

[axes_of_weezles]

Good work by all involved.

[frankjr]

Bring on the Katrina Commission. Dems will be very sorry!!!

[msnimje]

I love how the good folks at the DOD put this information into Bar Chart form for the Democrats and those from Rio Linda.

[SteveMcKing]

Any REAL casualty estimates? All I've heard is that some model predicts 10,000.

I am skeptical.

[Terpfen]

Wow. Someone remembers Hurricane Andrew!

[msnimje]

Wasn't Andrew a Cat 5 at landfall and Katrina was a Cat 4? The Bush administration had more help for a lesser storm?

[LdSentinal]

If you read the threads prior to landfall, you'll see that the hurricane was a CAT 5 before weakening to a CAT 4 before landfall. It was the threat to NO and it's area under sea level that caused many to worry.

[msnimje]

If you read the threads prior to landfall, you'll see that the hurricane was a CAT 5 before weakening to a CAT 4

I understand that. My point was that this cat 4 storm received more assets at day 5 than did a cat 5 storm.

[LdSentinal]

Much more land area that was devastated. However, if Andrew hit Miami, well, you know.

[syriacus]

Good work by all involved.

I agree.

Especially considering that they had to sidestep the messes created by Nagin and Blanco, who were each worse than useless.

The Feds made two mistakes regarding this storm, and these two mistakes cost a lot of lives.

1. They didn't deport Blanco last year.
2. They didn't deport Nagin last year.

[gpapa]

From the DOD briefing.

>75,000 people evacuated
>13,000 rescues
>58,000 soldiers in the area
350 helicopters

[axes_of_weezles]

Thanks.

[axes_of_weezles]

The full casualty figures will take months, I think, especially if the bodies were washed out to sea/rapidly decomposed due to weather and other natural processes.
Someone will have to do a pre-post hurricane Census and figure out how many are missing.

There was a report on Biloxi that deaths there were only
130 and they were expecting thousands.

DoD doesnt do body counts, just saves. The body counts will be the County/Parish and States' responsibility.

[gpapa]

Some Rummisms from the briefing:

Q Mr. Secretary, a housekeeping issue?

SEC. RUMSFELD: I don't do housekeeping.

[last question]
Q But more in general, Mr. Secretary, weren't you itching to get some people in there, and you just weren't asked?

SEC. RUMSFELD: Nice try.