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| 09-02-05
| the heavy equipment guy
Posted on 09/02/2005 3:35:55 AM PDT by backhoe
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Katrina Live Thread, Party XIIKatrina Live Thread, Part XIKatrina Live Thread, Part XKatrina Live Thread, Part IXHurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIIIHurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIIHurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIHurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VHurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IVHurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part IIIKatrina Live Thread, Part IIHurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
And a special hattip to our own
NautiNurse who started and maintained the above valuable posts--
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First off, let's debunk and defang the myth, meme, shibboleth and current hot talking point that "It's ALL Bush's Fault"--
I have heard many leftists say that Bush slashed $20 million from FEMA funds that would have been used to reinforce the levee system in New Orleans.
Source:
People have been talking for years about what would happen should a hurricane this size hit that city, and I'd be willing to bet you there were lots of federal dollars passed from hand to hand over the years to prepare for this.
I will be astounded if some of those reporters don't ask the obvious questions: Where did the money go, why weren't officials prepared? It's not like it was a secret this could happen someday.
Q.3. Why only Category 3 protection?
A.3. That is what we were authorized to do. [Answer by the Corps of Engineers]
There are already the accusations that federal money was diverted away from improving NO's levee system for other purposes, likely the war.Yes, Sidney Blumenthal already planted that political urban press using the foreign press to launder out the Clinton fingerprints. The way to shoot it down is to explain that the fed money was there but because LA refused to put up any of the state matching funds that were required by law before the fed money could be spent. Since LA made it clear for several years that they weren't going to provide those matches and expected the feds to pay 100%, the money was diverted to other needs, of which there were many.
Even with full funding in recent years, none of the flood-control projects would have been completed in time to prevent the swamping of the city, as Democrats yesterday acknowledged.
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What is worse, this danger was known about, and written about, and studied, for years:
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Here are the pictures:
http://sigmund.biz/kat/index.html has the archives of both the cam and camera shots taken from just before the hurricane to today. (it takes quite a while to load unless you have wide broadband.)
Complete Aerial Picture Survey of Mississippi Coast Damage
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...and here is contact information for those trying to get information:
Food for the Hungry , is a good solid Christian relief organization with VERY LOW Administration cost. Approx 93% of contributions go to actual relief.
Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but here is a website for people to leave messages letting loved ones know they are OK or to post the names of people they are in search of: Katrina Check-In
Like I said, it's "Mogadishu on the Mississippi"
Hurricane Katrina Survivor Locator Boards
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In roughly reverse chronological order, here are the best links I have culled since this story broke:
New Orleans radio system flooded -- "I'm absolutely astounded by the degree and pervasiveness of the incompetence and malfeasance at both the municipal as well as state goernment level in this disaster." -- if you've been watching the Governor, the mayor and police chief the past few days ...... to call them "incompetent" is an insult to incompetents.
Instant Haiti.
NOLAntis. The Lost City.
Masques of Death (A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.)
It is obscene.
The Katrina syndrome: What a hurricane can teach -- I didn't really enjoy the article until the end..when he compared how they everyone the warnings about levees and sea levels and hurricanes, etc., until disaster struck....and then it was too late.
And when he then compared that to the border issue, and how the signs are all there, but nobody in the government cares to do anything about it. And when they do, it will be too late.
Gasoline Prices & Katrina
Hurricanes, Hatred and Hypocrisy
Yep. But she has vanished. She can't go on television without bawling like a baby, so her handlers are hiding her.
You asked, "What in the world is wrong with the governor??"
She's so afraid of doing something wrong that she can't do anything right. You can see her "deer in the headlights" look on television. She's an incompetent political hack thrown into a nightmare situation and she's just frozen.
Amen to that! I agree 100%! If they had show the real carnage, people would be supporting our troops now, instead of low-lifes like Cindy Sheehan.
The global warming crowd says it's Bush's fault.
The Zionist Christians say it's Bush's fault.
The Islamist Jihadists say it's Bush's fault.
The Democrats say it's Bush's fault.
Millions of idiots can't be wrong.
Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans -- I've never seen such poor planning and leadership in my life. the Mayor and Governor should be tarred & feathered. This is just inexcusable, unbelievable incompetence.
Heart of America: Common People Doing Heroic Things
Thought-provoking opinion:
" In my opinion, the time for optimism has passed. New Orleans did not dodge a bullet, New Orleans suffered a worst case doomsday scenario. But this is far far bigger than New Orleans alone.
By my count, America has lost not one city, but nine of them. "
Storm may shut refineries for months -- Keep the EPA multiple gas blend suspension in force, suspend the federal & state gas taxes indefinitely, start importing from IRAQ, drill - drill - drill where the caribou roam & wherever else it is geologically promising, start building refineries & identical nuke plants (one thing the French have done right), start using our vast coal supply by building liquification/gasification plants.
Turn Bases into Refineries part 2 -- This is a excellent idea, which will help the LONG term problem (just like building 10 new nuke power plants).
For SHORT term help, suspend taxes on gas for 90 days, suspend requirements for 40 different blends of gas for the nation, pass legislation to end lawsuits against MTBE's (which the enviro-weenies are responsible for in the first place), proclaim closed military bases as "refinery empowerment zones", where they will have a 100 year lease on the land, be shielded against environmental lawsuits, and not taxed for 10 years.
Analysts see Katrina as `perfect storm' for already high energy prices -- We own all of the oil sitting underneath Iraq. Why aren't we pumping it for ourselves? Gas should be 50¢ a gallon. We also own tons of oil up in the arctic. To hell with the environmental wackos - start drilling!
Timeline as best as I can quickly reconstruct from the earlier Katrina threads (times are CDT) -
- Sometime before 5 pm Friday,, the governor issues a state of emergency for Louisiana
- As of 10:45 pm Friday, New Orleans was simply monitoring the storm.
- At 10 pm Friday, the National Hurricane Center's 3-day track targets New Orleans for a late-afternoon Monday strike. The previous track issued at 4 pm bulls-eyed the Mississippi-Alabama line
- At 10 am Saturday, the NWS issues a hurricane watch for New Orleans.
- By 11:30 am Saturday, evacuations were ordered for parishes to the south and east of New Orleans.
- At 12:22 pm Saturday, Diddle E. Squatt points out that allowing the southern parishes to evacuate first is part of the plan.
- At 4:45 pm Saturday, the voluntary evacuation order for New Orleans is given. At this point, the NWS track shows the eye hitting about 1 pm Monday.
- At 3 am Sunday, the mayor claimed he could not make the evacuation mandatory due to a "legal technicality", and that he would order it if he could.
- At 9:25 am Sunday the evacuation became mandatory.
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I wonder if someone should start a tread for ideas on how we can all prepare ourselves for a disaster like this? Go to the Threat Matrix threads. LOTS of information.
Travel Pack --- BOB (Bug Out Bag)
(These items should be packed in portable "duffle bags" ready to go)
1-qt water per person
Identification (copies of records/cd
2-"energy bars" per person
Dehydrated food pack for one week dried fruit, vegetables, meat flour, oil, salt, pepper, spices vitamins, honey,peanut butter crackers, protein powder, powder milk
Collapsible 5 ga. Water containers
"Water washer" filter
Lightweight cook kit large pot, dishes, spoons, forks knives, cups, non-stick skillet spatula, can opener, large spoon
Towels
2-water proof nylon tarps
Change of clothes for each person
Coats,
1-thermal blanket
1-sleeping bag / person
Matches, fire starter
Compass, maps of areas of intended use
2-rechargeable/shakable flashlights
12v trouble light w/@cig. lighter plug
First aid kit
Toilet paper,
Soap
1-pocket knife
1-fishing kit
1-large bowie knife (western cutlery) (perfectly weighted to serve as both fire knife and hatchet etc)
1-small portable mt. Climber's stove
1-back pack with frame
Paper, pencil
Signaling mirror
1-manual flashlight
Whistle , portable cable saw
Small bottle of bleach, insect repellent.
Magnifying glass
100 ft. 1/2 dia. Goldline rope,
2 pulleys
50 ft. Nylon "shroudline" cord
.22 caliber pistol w/ 500 rds. Ammo.
There are many, many variations of this Bug Out Bag. Some place more reliance on defense, property, records.
Seems one should prepare according to their own specific needs, location. Here's some info, left over from the Y2K 'scare' and survivalists
FYI
Google Search for Bug Out Bag = BOB
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To: Ellesu
I greatly appreciate those links- thank you.
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posted on
09/17/2005 4:05:23 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
FEMA's Response --
Thank you for posting this. Her story and those like it need to be heard and published.
A Tale of Two Hospitals (Katrina relief) -- The truth IS getting out. Written by a physician doing hurricane relief work. I thought this excerpt regarding how they ended up in MS instead of LA was worthy of a post.
The Katrina Blame Game: Environmentalists Under Fire -- Enviros need to be taken to the Amazon jungle, striped nekked, handed a knobby stick and told to feed and care for themselves for a six month period of time. I'd love to here their views on modern technology, medicine and sanitation after that sabbatical.
For a ground-level view of whats going on in Louisiana, heres a blog called
Cerberus, written by a cop with one of the big-city Southern police departments. Cerberus is currently on detatched duty in the disaster zone, working with deputies in beleagured St. Charles Parish, across the river from New Orleans.
Money Earmarked for Evacuation Redirected -- During the Clinton regime, money went to the State of Louisiana for an evacuation plan, but they spent it on something unrelated. Two years later more money followed, with the same result.
Er, a little elementary Web-sleuthing:
It also indicates content changes on the first and third of these dates.
All the ones I looked at contain an asterisk next to James Lee Witt Associates and the disclaimer at the bottom.
There's no asterisk or disclaimer on that copy of the press release.
And look at the title on the top of your browser window- it's for a previous press release.
I suspect that somebody copied the earlier page, inserted the new release, and neglected to update the HTML title information.
Print 'em now, folks, while you still can.
The Impeach Blanco site has a video clip of her admitting she should have asked fo the National Guard earlier. Also lots of other great stuff.
http://www.impeachblanco.org/
Ethnic news organizations find a new angle on the Katrina story --
For more first hand accounts that put the Has-Been Media to shame. This is from Powerlineblog.com which points to Dr. Goodheart's blog. Dr. Stanley Tillinghast is the cardiologist whom John wrote about in
"A doctor reports from the front." When Hurricane Katrina hit, Dr. Tillinghast cashed in some miles for a plane ticket to Jackson, Mississippi, rented a car, and started driving until he came to people who needed his help. He is now writing at
Dr. Goodheart (as John explained, he means your heart, not his) to record his experiences.
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posted on
09/17/2005 4:45:33 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
To: backhoe
Thank you for this, I have volunteered many times to help with a spreadsheet time line but this is so much better.
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posted on
09/17/2005 6:56:02 PM PDT
by
Yellow Rose of Texas
(WAR: 1/3 yes, 1/3 no, 1/3 undecided; So began the American Revolution)
To: Yellow Rose of Texas; tentmaker
145
posted on
09/17/2005 9:44:36 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
FEMA Funds to Study NOLA Evacuation Were Diverted -- I just received a call from Kim Fuller in Kansas City, who is the "official spokesman" for James Lee Witt. She called me, and spent about 20 minutes on the phone with me. They are in serious damage-control mode over Witt's involvement in the prior Evacutation-FEMA contracts prior to Hurricane Katrina...
What caused the flood? Take your pick (corruption) -- The (Orleans Levee) board operates an airport, two marinas, and has a private police force that Nungesser says ''wears more gold braid than Gen. MacArthur when he went to the Philippines.'' The board just spent $2.4 million on a Mardi Gras Fountain near Lake Pontchartrain. NBC News reports that the board spent $15 million on building overpasses to a riverboat casino, and paid $45,000 to a private investigator to find dirt on a board critic - followed by another $45,000 to settle the resulting lawsuit. Feeling dry yet?
Big Easy hard on gun rights -- Businesses selling bumper stickers that read "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns" also should offer one with the rejoinder "We told you so."
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posted on
09/18/2005 4:14:48 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: backhoe
This thread is outstanding:)
147
posted on
09/18/2005 4:17:30 AM PDT
by
SE Mom
(God Bless those who serve..)
To: SE Mom
Thanks for the encouragement!
148
posted on
09/18/2005 4:18:40 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
More rights being violated. I just posted an article that Posse Comitatus is being considered for review to loosen the restrictions on using the military in certain cases.
Gun Grab, NOLA:
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posted on
09/18/2005 6:17:14 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
150
posted on
09/18/2005 9:24:42 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
151
posted on
09/18/2005 1:03:05 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
152
posted on
09/18/2005 4:52:35 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
Where was Clinton, Dewitt and FEMA in 1995? During the month of July heat wave of that year in Chicago, in spite of repeated warnings of the impending disaster, all of them stood by and let well over 1,000 (even higher if counting those who were admitted to hospitals and died later) poor, disabled and mostly Black elderly die alone and unaided in one week.
Why did Clinton, Dewitt's FEMA and Chicago Mayor Daley not follow their own heat disaster plan? Why did Clinton and FEMA down play the number of dead? Why were so many of the unclaimed dead stuffed into pine boxes and buried unceremoniously in mass graves? Why was this hushed up in the MSM after several independent studies and resulting reports laid the blame directly upon all of them.
Aftermath postmortem.
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr96/apr96/noaa96-21.html
Picture of mass grave from Slate. (Slate has pulled the original story I was linking to)
http://img.slate.msn.com/media/36/020730_MassGrave.jpg
The warnings:
http://www.emergency.com/heatwave.htm
???
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posted on
09/19/2005 3:17:41 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Undocumented Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
To: All
Katrina's hidden loot -- Is any of this causing concern? Does "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, pappers and effects" ring any bells out there?
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posted on
09/19/2005 5:08:34 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
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posted on
09/19/2005 11:47:49 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
|
Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread |
-- The difference in the two news conferences I just heard- Jeb speaking with Floridians and Nagin talking down to...everyone. Jeb giving information and instilling confidence. Nagin acting arrogant and wishy-washy (an amazing combination) and giving NO information. |
Interactive map showing evac routes from Houston.
Here's what you need:Water
a fill bath tub
b fill all large pots
c several dozen cleaned plastic milk carton / change quarterly
Battery operated radio
Battery operated flashlights (1 per person + 1)
Week worth of batteries for above
Fill propane for gas grill
Fill all cars
Sterno cans and fondue pot for cooking
Matches, lighter, lighter fluid
Several rolls of 6 mil plastic sheets 10 x 100
5 boxes of 20 each, large garbage sacks
4 pair heavy work gloves
Axe, hatchet, shovel nails, heavy duty staples, staple gun, hammers, saws, chain saw
6 bread baking pans (to make block ice)
4 large ice chests
Hand operated can opener and bottle opener
Bug spray
1 month of all medicine, gauze, band aids, tape, alcohol, OTC headache, antiseptic
Heavy duty knives, 100 each plastic forks, spoons, knives, paper towels, paper plates Toilet Paper!
Soup, Vienna sausage, peanut butter, crackers, chili, bread, several small jelly, mustard, spam, apples, dried fruit, hard candy,
Stove top coffee pot, 10 lbs coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, tea bags
2 12 ga shot guns 2 boxes of 00; 1 of slugs; bird shot
Might as well line them up now:
http://www.wxnation.com/houston/
http://www.skeetobiteweather.com/
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/tlh/tropical/
Texas Weather Cams:
http://www.weatherimages.org/weathercams/usa.html#TX
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posted on
09/19/2005 3:21:09 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
157
posted on
09/19/2005 4:53:20 PM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
We Don't Need No Stinking Orders? -- Higher authorities pulled the locals back this time. But it did show a general inclination by the LEOs to go right to confiscation in SHTF scenarios.
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posted on
09/20/2005 2:51:57 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
§26. Recall
Section 26. The legislature shall provide by general law for the recall by election of any state, district, parochial, ward, or municipal official except judges of the courts of record. The sole issue at a recall election shall be whether the official shall be recalled.
We also have provisions for impeachment but it would be hard because they are controlled by the dems.
http://senate.legis.state.la.us/Documents/Constitution/Article10.htm
More pictures, these from Hershblogger;
The attention has been on New Orleans and the levees, but here are some pictures of what the storm surge did on the north side of Lake Pontchartrain.
Bad News in New Orleans (Townhall column By Freeper) -- When this is all over I hope the media is exposed for the frauds they are. From Aaron Broussard and NBC's attempts to use the death of a elderly woman to CNN and ABC's efforts to discredit FEMA with the lies about their "Convention Center" coverage...the media has deliberately manipulated the events of this catastrophy. -- a tautology. Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes a fact. And a damn good story.
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posted on
09/20/2005 10:56:59 AM PDT
by
backhoe
To: All
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posted on
09/20/2005 2:01:55 PM PDT
by
backhoe
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