Heavily armed police patrol past Hurricane Katrina survivors outside the New Orleans Convention Center, September 2.
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.
Heavily armed police patrol past Hurricane Katrina survivors outside the New Orleans Convention Center, September 2.
New Orleans Mayor's SOS
Associated Press, Thursday, September 1, 2005
New Orleans is slipping toward anarchy, and the mayor is appealing for help. As the mayor puts it, "This is a desperate SOS."
In a statement to CNN, Mayor Ray Nagin said resources at the Convention Center, where thousands of refugees have gathered, are nearly depleted. Nagin said the facility is unsanitary and unsafe.
Fights and fires have erupted, and corpses are openly scattered throughout the city. Rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers have been targeted by gunfire.
Anger is mounting across New Orleans, especially at the convention center, where at least 15-thousand people have taken shelter. Those thousands of storm victims are increasingly hungry, desperate and tired of waiting for buses to return them to the fresh air of civilization.
As the mayor asks for buses, he's also making an apparent effort to defuse what could be an explosive situation. The mayor says people will be allowed to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank, for whatever relief they can find.
[Big of Nagin to "allow" people to march across a bridge to the unflooded west bank on Thursday. How nice of him to make an appeal for buses on Thursday when the rescue and relief effort was in high gear. Too bad he didn't think of using city buses before the hurricane hit, or think of moving people from the Convention Center to unflooded areas shortly when the weather cleared.]
It should be clear to anyone with an open, reasonable mind that the MEDIA LIED TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ABOUT THE FEDERAL RESPONSE. It was heroic, not slow or racist or any of the other scurrilous charges the Left and its media shills have so carelessly thrown around.
Grin...a triple thank to you, Ronzo.
You have mail.
Hysterical liberals, not "reporters".
I knew this'd be awesome, and it sure is!
Unfortunately, some will stop at nothing to bash this administration and play politics, even the blah-blah about too many troops in Iraq to adequately respond. I, of course, foget the percentage of NGs in Iraq and NGs who helped out here (God bless each and every one of 'em!) but I think it's something like only 10-15% are in Iraq.
Don't know. You might check the State Department website.
great job!
Excellent thread, thanks for posting.
Hi Oz. I'm glad to see this news is getting to you. Maybe you can spread it around to your mates. I'm going to save every one of these photos to my Photobucket account, then repost in a 2nd thread so they will be on the FR server permanently.
EXCELLENT!!! Thanks Wolfstar!!
RE: evacuation photos in #10 above.....
NOTICE - No buses.
That's the bumbling mayor's fault.
He is to blame. Period.
The lamebrained fool.
Just wow, what an awesome thread, thanks for taking the time.
Grin...
ALEXANDRIA, La. (Aug. 29, 2005) - A Coast Guard disaster assistance response team from St. Louis begins unloading relief and response supplies from a Coast Guard C-130 aircraft at Alexandria International Airport here today.
U.S. Coast Guard photograph by Petty Officer 3rd Class Larry Chambers
NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29, 2005) - Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Huerta hoists two children into a Coast Guard rescue helicopter here today. The Coast Guard has begun damage assessment overflights as well as search and rescue operations following Hurricane Katrina. Huerta, 34, of Tampa, Fla., is an aviation maintenance technician stationed at Coast Guard Aviation Training Center Mobile, Ala.
A U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter from Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15, stationed at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, prepares to land on the flight deck of the USS Bataan. The squadron embarked three helicopters Aug. 29, 2005, to be prepared for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. The MH-53E Sea Dragon is capable of carrying 55 passengers and 16 tons of cargo 50 nautical miles. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Jeremy L. Grisham
Crew members assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15, stationed at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, and the USS Bataan prepare to unload equipment from the squadron's MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters. The squadron embarked three helicopters Aug. 29, 2005, to be prepared for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts along the Gulf Coast. The MH-53E Sea Dragon is capable of carrying 55 passengers and 16 tons of cargo 50 nautical miles. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Jeremy L. Grisham
U.S. Air Force Col. John Nichols, from San Antonio, Texas, commander of the 149th Fighter Wing, Texas Air National Guard, briefs members of the 149th Medical Group and 149th Security Forces Squadron prior to their deploying, Aug. 31, 2005. The units are deploying to New Orleans, La., in response to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Miguel Arellano
"Thursday was also the day the MSM and race baiters began screaming in full force about the "slow" federal response to the disaster. The Reuters-Yahoo caption for this photo: Resident Mary Mason reads a newspaper in a rescue shelter at Biloxi Junior High School September 1. The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society."
This is so disgusting. I am almost ashamed to say, "I'm an American!" That is...if I were a democrat. I am baffled by the MSM...that they can spew this stuff as "Gospel" and expect the world to believe it.
I know, somewhere down the line, that FR will have its' own TV station. It will give the world the TRUE story of America and what She really is! And wherever I am, in this World or the Next, I'll be the little old lady with glasses, waving the flag on the RIGHT Side of the parade!
XO
'Face
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