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Mayor Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco failed to develope better evacuation strategy for NO after Hurricane Ivan in exactly one year ago.Ivan exposes flaws in N.O.'s disaster plans 05:09 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2004 By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press Those who had the money to flee Hurricane Ivan ran into hours-long traffic jams. Those too poor to leave the city had to find their own shelter - a policy that was eventually reversed, but only a few hours before the deadly storm struck land. New Orleans dodged the knockout punch many feared from the hurricane, but the storm...

LONDON: Indira Gandhi's India was awash with KGB spies, a Left-leaning bought-up media, wild, well paid-for rumours about CIA conspiracies to foment trouble in Assam and Punjab, millions of Soviet roubles pumped into the governing Congress party and remarkably successful Soviet plots to use honey traps and 'swallows' to seduce Indian diplomats, one of the world's leading Cold War historians has told TOI . The astonishing revelation, totally undreamt of in scale, ambition and detail, says India was the only country outside the Soviet bloc to be most successfully penetrated by the KGB, right up to the office of the...

Ivan exposes flaws in N.O.'s disaster plans 05:09 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2004 By KEVIN McGILL Those who had the money to flee Hurricane Ivan ran into hours-long traffic jams. Those too poor to leave the city had to find their own shelter - a policy that was eventually reversed, but only a few hours before the deadly storm struck land. New Orleans dodged the knockout punch many feared from the hurricane, but the storm exposed what some say are significant flaws in the Big Easy's civil disaster plans. Much of New Orleans is below sea level, kept...

The dead and the desperate of New Orleans now join the farmers of Aceh and the fishermen of Trincomalee, villagers in Iran and the slum dwellers of Haiti in a world being dealt ever more punishing blows by natural disasters. It's a world where Americans can learn from even the poorest nations, experts say, and where they should learn not to build future settlements like the drowned old metropolis on the Mississippi. The levees in New Orleans inspired a false sense of security, says Dennis S. Miletti, a leading scholar on disaster prevention. "We rely on technology and we end...

Does anyone have links to stories criticizing Bush for going to Florida "too soon" after Hurricane Ivan? It was around the time of the Debates. It would make for solid evidence that the MSM, once again, is clothed in hypocrisy (like we needed more evidence). Please post links here if you can find them. I have Googled for hours and come up empty.

Huge ocean wave towered nearly 100 feet Study finds giant waves are more common than first thought The Associated Press Aug. 4, 2005 WASHINGTON - Last year's Hurricane Ivan generated an ocean wave that towered higher than 90 feet at one point, says a study that also suggests such giants may be more common than once thought. Research indicates these are not "rogue waves but actually fairly common during hurricanes," said David Wang of the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, Miss. The giant wave was detected 75 miles south of Gulfport, Miss., by instruments on the ocean floor...

. . . and churn up big waves, too Sid Perkins From New Orleans, at the Joint Assembly of the American Geophysical Union As Hurricane Ivan approached the U.S. Gulf Coast last September, it passed right over an array of seafloor sensors. The network detected the largest wave ever measured by instruments—one that towered more than 27 meters from trough to crest. The 50-kilometer-wide group of 14 instruments was deployed in May 2004 to measure currents on the ocean floor, says William J. Teague, an oceanographer at the Naval Research Laboratory at Bay St. Louis, Miss. Late on the evening...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The highest-ranking U.S. soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Staff Sgt. Ivan "Chip" Frederick, a U.S. Army reservist from Virginia, also was sentenced Thursday to a forfeiture of pay, a dishonorable discharge and a reduction in rank to private.

Ivan's Massive Waves Caught Energy Industry Off Guard NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Waves and storm surges that were more massive than previously thought may explain why Hurricane Ivan did such severe damage to the platforms and pipelines in its path. Chris Oynes, regional director for the U.S. Minerals Management Service, said preliminary data from the government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration show the central Gulf of Mexico was hit by mammoth waves - including perhaps the tallest ever recorded in the Gulf - that exceeded the design requirements of the area's infrastructure. "There were some extremely large waves," he said...

...But none of that impressed me the way Jeb Bush did. Not for standing tall and radiating calm in crisis - you expect a governor to do that - but for a gesture that most Floridians might gloss over or even resent. As he has done with this season's other hurricanes, whenever he had a press briefing at the state Emergency Operations Center in Tallahassee, Bush explained himself not only in English but in Spanish. Then, according to his spokesman, Jacob DiPietre, Bush did something many of us never saw. He repeated his message in interviews with Spanish language TV...

Weakening system is downgraded, but threat of heavy rain remains for area Storm watching gave way to waiting Thursday night as Ivan's remnants trudged ashore in far southwest Louisiana and began what was expected to be a slow weekend traipse across Southeast Texas. By 10 p.m., the National Weather Service had downgraded Ivan to a tropical depression and canceled all warnings. Nonetheless, the weakening system, which is expected to begin drifting into the Houston area today, still could drop five- to 10 inches of rain across the region.

Call it what you will...heavy rain threatens Gulf Coast 8:10 P.M. ET 9/22/2004 Buzz Bernard & Anthony Diaz, Meteorologists, The Weather Channel National Forecast Video South Resurrected Tropical Storm Ivan bears watching in the Gulf of Mexico as it churns toward the upper Texas/Louisiana Gulf Coast bearing squally bands of rain. Tides may come up a bit, too, and a coastal flood watches and warnings have been issued for parts of the northwestern Gulf Coast. Showers from Ivan may punch inland Thursday over far eastern Texas, Louisiana and northward up the lower Mississippi Valley.

Remnants of Ivan Swing Back Into Gulf Sep 22, 3:06 PM (ET) (AP) McKinleyville, W.Va. resident Bob Ohler walks through the debris left behind in Buffalo Creek,... Full Image Google sponsored links Hurricane Ivan Updates - Get The Lastest On Hurricane Ivan & Real-Time Weather On Your PC. www.WeatherBug.com Hurricane Ivan T-shirts - "I Survived Hurricane Ivan" shirts at eBay! Register free (aff) www.ebay.com NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The remnants of Hurricane Ivan swung back into the Gulf of Mexico and threatened to develop into a tropical storm on a path westward toward southwest Louisiana and Texas. A hurricane hunter...

4:30PM EDT; Monday Sept. 20: The Weather Channel made a point to show via radar that ex-Hurricane Ivan is back in Florida. They said in a 4:30 PM broadcast, that the storm still has visible counter clockwise circulation and stratles the southern most part of Florida entering from the southern east coast with rain.

Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) teams were ready and waiting as Hurricane Ivan devastated entire sections of the US Gulf Coast early September 16. Packing 115 MPH winds as it made landfall, Ivan zeroed in on the Mobile Bay area of Alabama, but because of its huge girth, the storm wrought widespread death and destruction in the Florida Panhandle and also affected Mississippi. Below-sea-level New Orleans was spared major flooding, however. Alabama Section Emergency Coordinator Jay Isbell, KA4KUN, said ham radio has been helping relief agencies, especially in the hard-hit southernmost counties. "Right now the adrenaline's still up," he said...

Uh, I don't want to be an alarmist, but based on the 5PM discussion on the 'remnants' of Hurricane Ivan, the position and forecast of TS Jeanne and the cold front that swept down from the north recently, I am a little concerned.

I don't normally "do" vanities. Heck, I rarely post articles. But I absolutely have to get some attention to what Hurricane Ivane did to Pensacola and some of the nearby communities. The landscape has changed. Tens of thousands are now without homes or businesses. Roads needed for resupply are out. Power is out and food supplies for many miles are threatened. Grocery stores don't have power. Power may take weeks to restore, water 6 weeks or more.

Warnings for the next hurricane to hit the United States have already been issued -- for Washington, D.C. Taxpayers should keep an eye on the aftermath. After most disasters, Congress acts like a whirlwind to rush to the aid of victims, as lawmakers should. A few members of Congress are also quick to take advantage of the situation to tack money for their pet projects onto such bills. "Congress simply has no shame," warned Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste. "Knowing that this is most likely the last opportunity to bring home the bacon before the election, members...

RESTORING ELECTRICITY NB Power crews will help after Ivan hits southeast U.S. NBers currently assisting in Florida BY PHIL ANDREWS Telegraph-Journal A contingent of NB Power workers currently helping Florida hydro crews deal with the ravages of hurricane Frances will also likely be part of the cleanup sure to follow from hurricane Ivan's wake in the southeastern United States. Dave Agnew, NB Power's director of operations services, said the utility has consented to requests by a power utility that serves Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana to help out with repairs in those areas, if, as expected, hurricane Ivan causes widespread...