Documentation of Louisiana Officials Blocking Aid to New Orleans

September 10, 2005 | Miss Marple

[A Citizen Reporter]

Louisiana Officials Could Lose the Katrina Blame Game
CNS News
September 7, 2004

"But research into more than ten years of reporting on hurricane and flood damage mitigation efforts in and around New Orleans indicates that local and state officials did not use federal money that was available for levee improvements or coastal reinforcement and often did not secure local matching funds that would have generated even more federal funding."

[Peach]

In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers.

"We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529_4.html

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