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)
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Good post!
Thanks for the ping!
Big ole bump!
Thanks!
Safety and Security were also reasons the Red Cross didn't go in early on - were they the MAIN reasons?
Elliot Ness and the mob in Chicago is a prime example.
Exactly!
Oooooh!
Good post!
"He said they were looking into "liabilities" should the order be issued."
I got a heads up from a lawyer in an ajoining state during the early part of the Dome fiasco and no use of the buses.
He said to blame the union drivers, their bosses and the lawyers for the unions and the city for not using the buses.
"He said to blame the union drivers, their bosses and the lawyers for the unions and the city for not using the buses."
You just KNEW they had a hand in this.
They are no good at all.
One more thing, Gramps.
I think I, now, understand the source of Nagin's frustration last week.
While his outburst was unseemly, I think I understand why.
Between your excellent timeline and the unfollowed Official State Of Louisiana Emergency Operations Plan January 2000 (supplement--Evacuation Plan)
from PDF | State of Louisiana, we have hard data to shut the rats up.
Watch them move on to the Roberts's hearings or create a new non crisis.
Yes, I heard the same report on Art Bell's Coast to Coast radio show. Bell took a call from a truck driver who had water supplies and was blocked from delivering them.
I saw a TV report of a similar nature. If I correctly recall, the truck driver said there were several trailer loads of supplies temporarily parked at Maxwell Air Force base in Montgomery, Alabama, a staging area for FEMA. The drivers were told the Governor of Louisana would not let them in. I don't recall which day this was.
He had the plan, the buses and he knew what he should have done.
He listened to the rat lawyers trying protect the union and those worrying about a bus in a wreck with refugees and a non union driver.
If the governor, the chief of N O's police and Nagin had done what the plan had laid out, most of the tragedy would have been avoided.
No.
Tuesday 30 August
3:30 pm -- Governor Blanco says all of New Orleans must be evacuated, including hotels, the Superdome and other shelters.
-- Louisiana Department of Homeland Security refused to allow the Red Cross to bring supplies to the Superdome, "Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water." (Fox News)
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57 posted on 09/16/2005 7:21:42 PM EDT by Smartass
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Have spent a bit of time in the past week looking back over the Katrina Live threads. The evolution of events is fascinating. Glad to know they have been useful toward piecing together the facts.
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