Posted on 09/06/2005 8:45:18 PM PDT by Wolfstar
The near total evacuation of the major American port city of New Orleans, Louisiana was accomplished between Tuesday afternoon, August 30 and Friday afternoon, September 2, 2005. This evacuation occurred while other search, rescue, relief and evacuation operations were simultaneously being conducted throughout the Gulf Coast between approximately Lafayette, Louisiana, on the west and the Florida panhandle on the east -– an area of about 90,000 sq. miles, or the size of the entire nation of Great Britain.
I'd say this amazing achievement is the opposite of slow. I'd say that it's a stunning accomplishment and one that demonstrates superb organization, remarkable logistics flow, and the greatness of the American spirit.
From the following photographic timeline, it should be clear to all reasonable people that the failure of government response occurred before the hurricane hit, and it occurred solely at the local and state level.
What a wonderful thread to read first thing this Wednesday morning! Thank you for all your hard work.
Abby
btt
WE are going to have to defend the President, as too many Republicans and commentators who are SUPPOSED to be on his side are too cowardly to do so.
Note on this photo that the production areas of the refinery are NOT underwater, only the moated storage tanks. The press got it wrong.
Re photo in #62 where rescue vehicles are with the people on a highway on the 31st ---- note the accumulation of trash
which had to have been wrapped around food of some sort. The Times-Picayune was not printing complimentary papers!
I was happy to see you mention Shep Smith and Geraldo Rivera because their reporting was some of the MOST irresponsible. But it's pretty pervasive at Fox now.
Louisiana Officials in Flood-Money Scam
Nine months before the Hurricane Katrina disaster, three Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness officials were indicted for obstructing an audit into flood prevention expenditures.
In a November 2004 press release, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Louisiana announced:
"A federal grand jury has returned two separate indictments charging three members of the State Military Department with offenses related to the obstruction of an audit of the use of federal funds for flood mitigation activities throughout Louisiana.
"The two emergency management officials were senior employees of the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. Both were charged with conspiracy to obstruct a federal audit."
Gov. Kathleen Blanco told Louisiana's News-Star at the time that she was disturbed by the indictments. She said the National Guard is cooperating with the investigation "as I expect them to do."
Reports of rampant corruption among Louisiana's state and local agencies have been cited in recent days to explain why officials were so ill-prepared to deal with the Katrina disaster.
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/6/222032.shtml
Just Damn...
I'm posting this here because I'm in a hurry and I know a lot of people will be reading this thread so maybe it won't get lost.
CNN just had an interview with 3 young college guys who used forged press passes to get back into NOLA after the hurricane but before the flooding. On their way into the city, they videotaped numerous school buses coming OUT of the city on the highway. Well, guess what? The buses were all empty! They said every single school bus was totally empty! Please, someone follow up on this today! I don't know who to ping to this post, but maybe you do, Howlin.
Of course, the CNN guy was trying to get them to blame FEMA, but the 3 guys were concentrating on those empty school buses. Watching their video (taken from their car window) was absolutely riveting!! It was bus after bus after bus after bus..... A convoy of the dang things.
I want to know WHO ordered all those empty school buses to leave without people sitting in them!!
Bump for real history, as opposed to MSM fabricated history.
Just a guess -
people employed by the school board to drive school buses evacuating themselves and their families.
bttt
Well, that begs the question: Why were they all in a convoy? Are you saying they all got together and evacuated their own individual families in an organized manner? I don't think so.
The only thing that makes sense is that they were ordered to save the school buses from the impending flood.
Hey, I know! Maybe they were going to all those safe, water-stocked shelters to bring all the indigent people back that they had evacuated. No, wait....
Back in July, as this link shows, the city was readying to tell everyone "You're on your own">
http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1122184560198030.xml?nola
This is a really good thread. I can't wait to look at it when I have more time.
I hope the more influential and media savy FReepers with contacts will find a way to get it to those that can help spread the word.
This is an excellent photo essay especially the time line of the storm and its effects on responders getting to the gulf coast. My hats off to you.
ping to Tony Snow show
The top pic looks like brother in his flight suit! I'm sure you knew that he was doing hops into Iraq and Kuwait. Right? {{hugs}} Louis
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