Mandatory evacuation ordered for New Orleans (Please keep this post - BUSH ORDERED EVACUATION!)

NOLA ^ | 8/28/05

[areafiftyone]

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.

[weegee]

It is the job of the governor to grant permission.

Again, the states are not run by the Federal government.

[Yasotay]

The breach occurred on a canal coming off of the lake. You don't plug the breach ... you use the bridge and plug the canal .... then repair the levee. Too late now, but at the time, many Freepers sure thought it could have been done.

[AliVeritas]

Check this out,

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-crittenden/up-next-teddy-roosevelt-_b_6605.html

[AliVeritas]

Up Next: Teddy Roosevelt to Blame for San Francisco Earthquake

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/danielle-crittenden/up-next-teddy-roosevelt-_b_6605.html

[weegee]

I know that she's disecting liberal talking points "Hurricane Katrina itself was a consequence of global warming." but the fringe is ACTUALLY willing to consider that this was a man-made storm developed by a super-weapon (just as the kooks said that we caused the tsunami).

Stalin's laughing, folks.

[weegee]

"And finally, because Homeland Security has been foolishly consumed with figuring out ways to protect the nation from a terrorist strike, it was not prepared for a strike by Mother Nature." (again, not attacking the messenger)

I've seen the libs bumping this through the email chains that I get. The question remains:

Who had national provision over this BEFORE THERE WAS A HOMELAND SECURITY detail?

The FBI and CIA had no jurisdiction. That is, unless some terrorist deliberately blew the levee.

[stylin19a]

If the levees don't breech, do we even have these discussions ?

[va4me]

It looks like Blanco and whats his name mayor really failed to have a plan.

Even worse, they froze. The worst aspect of leadership is being indicisive. Even if you make the wrong decision, you need to make a decision.

[Right Wing Assault]

I wish he'd had some buses before the hurricane hit.Yeah, the color them yeller buses wunt cooo1, man! Shee-hit! Won't catch mah people dayd in one those things! No way!"

[ProFree]

"If the levees don't breech, do we even have these discussions ?"

If the local New Orleans government had used available public transportation (ie several hundred school and municipal buses) to evacuate indigent residents before Katrina made landfall, then a levee breech only produces material damage. Still expensive and sad, but not nearly the human tragedy we see today.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Miserable Failure

[MamaLucci]

You're wrong

From WaPo:

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.

The administration had sought control over National Guard units, normally under control of the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request, noting that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. State authorities suspected a political motive behind the request.

[de Buillion]

Thanks, areafiftyone. Bookmarking.

[GoodWithBarbarians JustForKaos]

Thanks for the link. Didn't expect the mocking of liberal Bush attacks, on HuffyPuffy's post. Very nice indeed!

[GregoryFul]

But most of the posters believed the clearly utter nonsense posited by the referenced articles. Totally irrational partisan twits.

[lazlohollyfeld]

I have been watching all the hurricane coverage from New Zealand and only on CNN (worse -- the international version), so I have seen a slanted view of things. My take from down here is that everyone was slow to react. However rightly or wrongly, President Bush seems to have done a poor job of communicating what he has been doing from Saturday the 28th through today. I am certain the logistics were highly involved and that the coordination was unprecedented. If the President had articulated this better, through a news conference or conferences, a lot of the criticism would have been blunted. Is it just because I am far away or does this resonate?

[RnMomof7]

So then his declaration of a state of emergency was useless rhetoric

[applpie]

i like how the mayor told everyone basically to bring their own supplies. duh. nothing like a shelter with nothing. then you saw most of them come with nothing or a gallon of water. duh. plenty of blame to go around there.

[MamaLucci]

Uh, no........it was his job.

[1L]

>>The federal government should be quicker to respond<<

What exactly should the FG have done that they didn't do? This wasn't a tornado that goes away half an hour after it appears. It was a hurricane that was still powerful between the city it just hit and most any potential response. Wasn't the Coast Guard doing rescues within 24 hours?

The Superdome was a HORRIBLE idea, especially given the availability of at least some transportation. I guess if the levy's hadn't have broken, it might have been OK, but Druge was posting disaster predictions of "biblical proportions" on his site no less than 24 hours before it hit, so it isn't like they weren't warned.

I'll be honest: I didn't think the predictions would come true as its usually never as bad as forecast. HOWEVER, I knew nothing about NOLA and had I known 1/10th of what I do know, the first thing I would have said about a SD camp was that it was a totally stupid idea. Had there not been a SD, I think more people would have left.