Thanks
Posted on 09/16/2005 2:34:16 PM PDT by zot
Saturday 27 August
-- Seven of the 18 Urban Search and Rescue task forces FEMA has deployed were already in the region before the storm struck Sunday. (CNN) These US&R teams exist for the purpose of structuring local emergency personnel into integrated disaster response task forces. (FEMA)
-- FEMA Director Mike Brown. "There's about 36 hours for folks to get ready. Beyond that, it's just too late. I can't emphasize enough to viewers how serious FEMA is taking this storm. The agency has dispatched teams to both states." (CNN)
6:45 pm -- President Bush declares a federal state of emergency for Louisiana. This document dated Saturday, 27 August, orders Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina, effective Friday, 26 August 2005.
9:00 pm -- Governor Blanco says the President has declared a PRE-hurricane emergency, apparently the first time this has happened, and Max Mayfield of the Hurricane Center has called her and told her it is really serious.
Sunday 28 August
8:40 am -- People showing up outside the Superdome. Louisiana National Guard not letting them in. Mayor Nagin says Superdome is for special medical needs.
9:50 am -- FEMA Director Mike Brown says they have planned staging areas to the west, east and north, and will be ready to roll the moment they can. Said the convoys of utility trucks were amazing ... NJ, PA, etc., are all enroute.
-- President Bush calls Governor Blanco and personally appeals for mandatory evacuation of New Orleans.
10:30 am -- Mayor Nagin orders mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, but exempts hotels. He says the city has no liability for the hotels. Governor Blanco, standing beside Mayor Nagin at this news conference, says President Bush called "just before we came in" and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation of the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
12:30 pm -- Hundreds of people are outside the Superdome waiting to get in.
3:41 pm -- Fox News: Long lines of people waiting to get into the Superdome.
4:00 pm -- Traffic cameras show torrential rain soaking New Orleans
4:30 pm -- Tempers are flaring outside the Superdome. Crowd chanting, "Let Us In!" Explanation: authorities are searching everyone for weapons and drugs.
Monday 29 August
6:30 am -- Katrina makes landfall 60 miles south of New Orleans. Winds 145 mph. Slate tiles blowing off roofs. Power goes out in the French Quarter.
8:00 am -- Wind tears two holes in roof of Superdome.
12:30 pm -- Emergency teams all along the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida are standing by and ready to be deployed as soon as damage is assessed.
1:00 pm -- FEMA Director Mike Brown states that he has “water, ice and military MREs ready to be shipped into areas affected. Supply lines are backed up to Fort Worth and Atlanta.”
2:15 pm -- Weather clearing along the coast, but first responders are still blocked by the storm inland.
4:00 pm -- Winds reduced. CNN and other media reporting a party atmosphere in the French Quarter, saying New Orleans apparently dodged “the Big One.”
-- Red Cross [agent of FEMA] is ready to take food and water into New Orleans. Not allowed by the Director of the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, because of concerns over logistical difficulties.
Tuesday 30 August
10:30 am -- Governor Blanco declares martial law throughout the State of Louisiana, tells state highway patrol to block all entrances into the state.
11:43 am -- Martial law is being enforced. Governor Blanco has instructed the highway patrol to block off all entrances into the state. (WDSU)
-- "I heard a FEMA contracted truck driver talking on Coast to Coast last night saying he was not allowed into New Orleans by the Louisiana State Patrol on Tuesday, and he was forced to wait til Thursday with 50 other semis." (Posted on FreeRepublic.com 09/14/2005 1:13:15 PM EDT by BurbankKarl)
Smartass posted his excellent graphic to his ping list and then he posted it to a particular individual, probably someone he forgot to include in the ping list. Your request to delete doesn't look very nice, espcially when SA is helping this topic.
>>"Thank you for writing. I will pass along your partisan opinion to Senator Levin."<<
LOLOL!
Oh he really cares.
Plumbophobia?
Blanco and Nagin should both be impeached!
I firmly believe Nagin is moving to Dallas for "health reasons".""
Impeached isn't enough. They should be prosecuted for their actions under ALL the charges anyone can dream up.
I wouldn't let either one walk any of my dogs. The dogs are smarter. The horses are smart enough to not let anyone like either of them even grab the lead rope shank. They would play keep-away.
I was horrified that he "resigned." The President, IMO, should not have accepted the resignation. It was a cave-in. The liars won the day, but they won't win the war. I pray Mike Brown reappears, ever more triumphant.
No kidding. Blanco and Nagin caused the problem though it's always President Bush's fault. He had our guys in there getting the job done though the media would tell us that. A lot of soldiers , sailors, airmen, marines, and coasties were in there getting the job done and only us freepers and their family knew what was going on.
The Democrats have established the lie that the federal response was slow. That is the false premise on which they and their surrogates base their blame-casting""
The Dems want a full blown investigation. I say "Bring It On!!"
Televise it live like the hearings with John Dean and Watergate. Let the people see up close and live what a bunch of nincompoops are running the entire state of LA.
Right, Brown fell on his sword for political reasons.""
How about impeaching Blanco and appointing Brown in her job?
The DemOrats whole scheme is to find or manufacture a cause, then yell, point fingers, scream before cameras and MSM to have an investigation, or demand the person to resign. Brown should not have resigned. Caving in plays round into their game plan. The Pubs just don't seem to get it yet.
I would certainly like to find this TV report. Any help will be appreciated.
I know I speak for all of us when I say, "Thank YOU, Nauti!" When you got any sleep, I don't know. You did an absolutely superb job and there are numerous others who deserve much credit, as well, for posting pertinent and critical information in a timely manner.
-- In case this isn't in your time-line. Earlier in the thread you referred to her Emergency Evacuation by Buses Executive Order KBB 2005-25, dated September 2, 2005. That's the only EO regarding buses I recall seeing when I first checked the LA governor's site last week. On Sunday Freeper GoLightly pointed out that there was another Executive Order entitled the Emergency Evacuation by Buses dated August 31. The numbers of these EOs are out of order...the September 2 is KBB 2005-25. The one dated August 31 is KBB 2005-31.
-- Now I suppose that there may be an explanation for this sequential mess up.
---- Thank you. Yes, there is an explanation for this sequential mess up. The one dated August 31 was apparently written after 2 September and back-dated to make it look like she issued it 31 August.
No offense intended. I appreciate SA helping this topic. I understand how a double-post can happen (have done some myself) and was just trying to keep the thread as clean as possible.
Miliary company? Or commercial company?
-- The Democrats have established the lie that the federal response was slow. That is the false premise on which they and their surrogates base their blame-casting.
---- The Dems want a full blown investigation. I say "Bring It On!!"
------ I agree with "Bring it on!" But the Dems don't want a real investigation. They want a stacked deck like the infamous 9-11 Commission. I'm glad to see the Reps have resisted that gambit.
Please, by all means, post it!
A sacrificial lamb.
I thought that maybe they could have been in Berger's pants or something :)
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