[Wonder Warthog]

I wonder how many PRIVATE CITIZENS also cranked up their boats and helped out.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

the Navy's USS Bataan amphibious assault ship -cited for its inaction by New York Times columnist Paul Krugman

Has Krugman ever been anything but WRONG? I have never heard that Clymer apologize for any of his over-the-top errors either.

Regards,
GtG

[RegulatorCountry]

"contrary to the ghoulish projections"

I recall some of these ghoulish projections prior to, and during, the storm here on FR. I was flamed pretty badly for calling them just that, in those exact words, as was anyone else with the timerity to remain hopeful.

I'm glad it's turning out better than the doomsayers predicted. New Orleans lives on.

[Califelephant]

BTTT. Every Freeper should read this. And distribute it to their friends.

[jwpjr]

Don't forget, the storm made a last-minute turn to the east before landfall. This spared NO the 20 to 30 foot storm surge that instead struck the area from Pascagoula back to the west. Had the storm gone ashore to the northwest of the City of New Orleans the results would have been a thousand times worse. All of the flooding seen on the Monday of the storm was the result of offshore winds and flooding, not the onshore that would have been there if the storm had not changed course.

I remember the very first pictures I saw from the NO area were of military helicopters taking people from the roofs of buildings. This is exactly the role these aircraft and crews are designed to fill in an event such as this. It is not, and never was, FEMA's job to be a first responder. Seems to me FEMA performed quite well in all of this. They had hundreds and hundreds of shipments of supplies enroute to the area even before the storm made landfall.

I know the defense that the feds dropped the ball is the only defense the libs have to cover the dismal performance of local and state officials, all Democrats, but I am sure getting tired of hearing that drumbeat over and over.

[jdhljc169]

Bump

[spna]

Very good. In another thread a few days ago I said that the Katrina response and rescue will soon be recognized as our finest hour. Far more went right than went wrong, but was over shadowed by the ugly image put out by the MSM.

I get mad every time I hear someone call it a national disgrace or failure.

What other nation would be able to pull off what was accomplished? NONE

What other nation would even try? NONE

[UCANSEE2]

Thank you for posting this article.

A very positive message, and wonderful information.

The media is misleading the public because we are going to have to concern outselves with relocation and rebuilding of more than New Orleans.

Entire towns in Missisippi were deluged.

We will have to convince these folks that leaving behind their homeland will be a good thing for them. For us. For the whole country. And that is what we did, as a country, under the leadership of our President.

We are discovering that the leadership of New Orleans and Lousiana had trouble maintianing social order, before the hurricane.

That those leaders had been in charge in two previous hurricanes, had the same problems with shoving people into the DOME for days, and had promised not to do it again.

Then they did.

These Americans deserve a chance to start over. Some will take it, some will not.

No one can help those who will take a handout, but not a hand-up.

[Wuli]

If you consider everything, what was really going on as the media focused on those at the Superdome (where, within the flooded portion of the city they still had the best chance for survival) the really vulnerable - those in flooded out neighborhoods - were being rescued.

The Superdome and the Convention Center were the story because they fit the story line of the networks. Thousands being rescued by boat and helicopter, sight unseen, and supplies avaialable but denied delivery to the Superdome and so the networks had their story - nothing that needed to get done was getting done.

We are living in Orwell's 1984.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Nobody wouldn't have died had the Governor issued a proclamation saying that all looters would be shot on sight.

This is the elephant in the room. Relief aid was slow because volunteers were being shot at by the looters. Red Cross workers were immediately on the scene after Katrina passed over. The author spoils an excellent article with the obligatory FEMA cheap-shot.