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HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links
various FR links & stories | 09-02-05 | the heavy equipment guy

Posted on 09/02/2005 3:35:55 AM PDT by backhoe

 To view all related posts, use the "keyword database"--
KEYWORDS: AFTERMATH; HURRICANE; KATRINA; TROPICAL;
 
 Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
 
 Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane 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.
 
MSM: Take Note - Clinton's Contribution to the Katrina Disaster ( Must Read )
Source:
 The Federal Register ^
 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.
 Bill Clinton did not sign for the improvements & money requested by the Army Corp of Engineers & LA to make them. Source:  http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474591/posts?page=77#77 
 
Q.3. Why only Category 3 protection?
A.3. That is what we were authorized to do. [Answer by the Corps of Engineers]
 http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/083005cccawwlunwatering.45718845.html
 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.
 
 
Critics Say Bush Undercut New Orleans Flood Control -- Hint to the Liberals --This is NOT a road you want to go down --Shall we open up the books to the BILLIONS of dollars that was sent to NO and what happened to it all?
 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:
 The Lost City of New Orleans? (Dec 2000)
 
 NASA Flooding Simulation
 
 2004 Amazingly Precise Prediction of New Orleans Disaster -- This was entirely predictable and inevitable to anyone who has followed the issue.
 
 
 
 
  Click on the thumbnail to open full picture in a new window.



This is a 1998 modelling of a CAT 4 or CAT 5 moving through New Orleans-- Here is what they predicted for flooding....
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/content/katrina_projected_flooding082805.pdf

 Apocalypse Live (Description of a category 4 or 5 hurricane from three weeks ago)

 Gone with the Water -- Published last fall - eerie... 

 Drowning New Orleans -- Scientific American ^ | October 2001 |

 From Jeff Master's weather blog on http://www.wunderground.com
"I'd hate to be an Emergency Management official in New Orleans right now. Katrina is pretty much following the NHC forecast, and appears likely to pass VERY close to New Orleans. I'm surprised they haven't ordered an evacuation of the city yet. While the odds of a catastropic hit that would completely flood the city of New Orleans are probably 10%, that is way too high in my opinion to justify leaving the people in the city. -- posted on 08/27/2005 8:04:52 PM EDT

 
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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
 
 
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In roughly reverse chronological order, here are the best links  I have culled since this story broke:
 
 
New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes (Blanco gives shoot to kill order?) -- Wow!
When guns are outlawed, only the government and outlaws will have guns.
 
 Tourists Realize They're Afterthought, Band Together
 
 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.
 Water May Linger for Months (New Orleans, "Gone With the Wind?"
 
 Levee repair work has yet to begin (Another Levee Break - 700ft wide NOLA will take 3-6 mos to dry) -- Would the last person to swim out of NOLA please bring the flag?
 NOLAntis. The Lost City.

  Masques of Death (A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.)

New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes -- Politicizing a tragedy? No, teaching valuable lessons, if they dare.
 
 Ted Koppel blames Bush for failure to evacuate poor prior to the Katrina hitting New Orleans -- Dateline pretty much did the same thing. ABC has a Meme and it is the new strategy of the Left... use the disaster to crucify the President.
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.
 
 The Great Society our welfare System has Created.

 Gasoline Prices & Katrina

 Hurricanes, Hatred and Hypocrisy

Don't blame Katrina
 
 Ford blasts Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina -- The Governor of LA is supposed to be coordinating with FEMA, isn't she?
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.
 
 
Rebuilding New Orleans doesn't make sense
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475129/posts
 
 New Orleans, the Tragedy -- This is the article from which Rush quoted in the first hour of his show today.
 
 
 Shephard Smith "Grandstanding" in New Orleans, showing dead bodies on Fox News. -- "Personally, I don't think the networks should have 'saved us' from the horrors of 9-11 as they did. Perhaps if the reality of that situation had been known then people wouldn't have so easily forgotten."
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.
 
 
Mr. Trittin, You've Got Mail! (Response to Trittin's claim that WE caused Katrina - It's GREAT)
 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:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1474387/posts?page=106#106
" 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. "
 
 
 Looters Strip Stores in Front of Cops
 Read this great rant from Pukin Dog then, no typing required --
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1474141/posts
 
 Looters around the city freely cleaning out stores (Amazingly Honest Account)
 
 
 Mississippi search crews pulling bodies from rubble - railroad tracks about six blocks from beach
 LINKS, INFORMATION, VIDEO and PHOTOS on sidebars
 
 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) -
3,827 posted on 08/31/2005 2:12:02 AM EDT by steveegg
 
 Katrina Packing Wind of Nearly 175 Mph (Mayor irresponsible in evac delay) -- To: Howlin
For future reference, this repeated line by the mayor and governor that "We went to bed Friday night being told it was a Florida storm, and woke up Saturday to find us threatened" to excuse why they waited so long to start the evacuation plan is total bullshit. (excuse my French)

Friday 4pm NO time report from the NWS, warns of a significant shift west, Mississippi landfall (88.5 on the grid, NO is 90), and possible more movement expected (post #388):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=388#388


By at least Friday 6pm computer models were converging on LA (post #478):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=478#478


Turns out those computer models had been run at 2pm (post #526):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=526#526


In fact some computer models run at 7am NO time Friday had predicted a NO hit(post #224):

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=224#224

So unless the gov and mayor went to bed Friday afternoon, they knew then that it likely was headed their way.
 
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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.
 Threat Matrix: Daily Terror Threat - Thread Twenty-Two
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/preparedsurvivalistsunite2/?yguid=95479470
 
 Emergency Kit
 

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

4,210 posted on 09/01/2005 1:37:35 PM EDT by Stand Watch Listen
 
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 Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?

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To: Ellesu

I greatly appreciate those links- thank you.


141 posted on 09/17/2005 4:05:23 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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 FEMA's Response -- Thank you for posting this. Her story and those like it need to be heard and published.
 
 Money that Congress set aside for New Orleans evacuation plan went instead to studying bridge
 
 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.
 
 Federal Judge Dismisses Greenhouse Gas Lawsuit -- The reasoning that went into this decision is similar to the reasoning (and language) that went
into this BLAST FROM THE PAST decision out of Florida.
 
 For a ground-level view of what’s going on in Louisiana, here’s 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.
 
 Governor Blanco Delivers Democratic Radio Address
 
 On Mugabe and Katrina
 
 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.
 
 Drowned Out by Katrina, Berger Gets Away With It
 
 More evidence of Louisiana government foul-ups -- I found the page you referred to in your above post. I think it's important to note that the text on the Louisiana Sportsman Magazine site is identical to the one I linked to above and in no way reflects the lying crap that the lefties are posting on their web sites.
 
 The AP: Never Have So Few Kept So Many in the Dark for So Long -- The IEM press release that contains the erroneous information has been disappearing and reappearing, another sign of something suspicious with IEM.
Er, a little elementary Web-sleuthing:
I put the IEM press releases page in the Wayback Machine. it shows that the last three times it captured the page were on June 22, 2004, July 10, 2004 and October 16, 2004.
It also indicates content changes on the first and third of these dates.
Note that on all these pages, and on the current page, there exists a link to a June 3, 2004 press release.
All the ones I looked at contain an asterisk next to James Lee Witt Associates and the disclaimer at the bottom.
However, if you feed the press release's URL into the Wayback Machine, it returns only a date of November 26, 2004, and guess what?
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.
39 posted on 09/17/2005 5:54:12 PM EDT by George Smiley
 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.

142 posted on 09/17/2005 4:45:33 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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To: backhoe

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143 posted on 09/17/2005 6:34:53 PM PDT by tentmaker
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To: backhoe

Thank you for this, I have volunteered many times to help with a spreadsheet time line but this is so much better.


144 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)
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To: Yellow Rose of Texas; tentmaker

Thanks for stopping by.


145 posted on 09/17/2005 9:44:36 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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 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."
 
As the waters recede (President gives speech at synogogue-MSM doesn't report)
 
 Landrieu: I'll Still Punch Bush
 
 Vanity: Foster Homes Needed (hurricane pet rescue)
 
 Protecting New Orleans to cost billions -- Being a firm believer in States Rights I would ask how much NOLA is willing to pay?
 
 Is Blanco Trying To Rewrite History?
 
 How Katrina Turned me Republican
 
 Threatened With Eviction At Gunpoint, The Big Easy Holdouts Are Now Hailed As Heroes

146 posted on 09/18/2005 4:14:48 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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This thread is outstanding:)


147 posted on 09/18/2005 4:17:30 AM PDT by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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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...)
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 Did Loose Barge Cause Levee Break? (Vanity).
 

 
 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.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486739/posts
 
Gun Grab, NOLA:
 News Articles and Statements in PDF Format (right click and save target as):
seems as if this has been largely quashed - but no one is denying the order.

New York Times

ccrkba news release

Reason Online - Defenseless on the Bayou

nraila.org News Alert

Gunowners.org - Media, Politicians keeping Gun Confiscation Quiet
 
 Hundreds of millions paid to people untouched by disasters
 
 VIN SUPRYNOWICZ: 'A black underclass isolated by poverty'
 


149 posted on 09/18/2005 6:17:14 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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 Disaster illustrates churches' new role
 
 For Coast Shrimpers, End of a Livelihood
 
 

Read the rest of this incredible disaster - the timeline & the pathetic events the Looney Left Politicos & MSM are hiding:

http://www.northsidejournal.com/special2.htm

 Poor Behavior -- So the next time the poverty propagandists start with the "America ignores the poor" bull, simply walk away. These people are blatantly dishonest and could not care less that America does, indeed, help the less fortunate. The race and class baiters will always ignore the facts...

 Read This With an Open Mind

 LATEST DEMOCRAT DISASTER STRATEGY WOULD BE A DISASTER FOR LOUISIANA - BLAMESHIFTING

 "I'm A Thief"


150 posted on 09/18/2005 9:24:42 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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 The real cannibalism story out of New Orleans (The left EATS IT'S OWN)
 
 Wash Postie: 'Reasonable' Blacks Believe Levee Plot -- No, they are not. They are far from reasonable, in fact they are just the opposite. They are simply reasoning that this is the perfect time to show their true feelings towards white folks.
 
 16 Survivors Escape Katrina in Odyssey -- Gee, the "schizophrenic, bipolar, severely depressed, obsessive-compulsive and shellshocked from war" did what Nagin couldn't...
 
 Blanco says feds pledged buses
 
 Posse Comitatus Act to be Reviewed/Revised

151 posted on 09/18/2005 1:03:05 PM PDT by backhoe
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 Political Sitrep: Tactical and Strategic
 
 All Is Forgiven (Almost)
 
 FBI Issues Warning About Gangs Transplanted From New Orleans (Katrina)
 
 As a leader, George Bush was a flop..(Liberal logic in an amazing twist)

152 posted on 09/18/2005 4:52:35 PM PDT by backhoe
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 post-disaster musings: footnotes to failure
 
 Drudge: 795 Poor People Die from Heat on Clinton's Watch --
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
57 posted on 09/19/2005 12:09:20 AM EDT by Ursus arctos horribilis
 
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 The Unvanquished: A Cop's Story (Katrina - New Orleans)
 
 Louisiana Officials Indicted Before Katrina Hit (New Orleans). -- Mo Money, Mo Money, Mo Money...

153 posted on 09/19/2005 3:17:41 AM PDT by backhoe (Just an Undocumented Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trackball into the Sunset...)
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 Media Just Discovers That New Orleans Was Poor
 
 So, we're going to rebuild New Orleans (Podcaster's blog page)
 
 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?
 
 FEMA Battered by Waste, Fraud -- Well, it is federally funded. What do you expect?
 
 Oil prices up on hurricane fears, OPEC ($63.75/bbl) -- Homeowners are in store for a price shock this winter with Natural Gas. The October contact's price is currently listing @11.790.Once the severe cold & snow begins we could see 15.000. It is and shall be very $$$ to keep one's home warm. Natural Gas Weekly Update

154 posted on 09/19/2005 5:08:34 AM PDT by backhoe
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 Failed Politics Should Not Control Louisiana Rebuild
 
 Quick Reopening of New Orleans Questioned
 
 Rush LIVE THREAD--Monday Sept. 19, 2005
 
 Impeach Kathleen Blanco
 
 What N.Y. Could Give (Katrina reconstruction $$ vs. pork spending in highway bill)
 
 A FEMA Volunteer Judges The FEMA Response As She Saw It
 
In response to all who have criticized FEMA and
 
 
 Bush Offering a Hand Up, Not Handouts
 
 Katrina Exposes Government for What It Is
 
 Agency (FEMA) ignored most cries of fraud

155 posted on 09/19/2005 11:47:49 AM PDT by backhoe
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 An emotional moment and a misunderstanding (Jefferson Parish Prez lied about death of a mother) -- I'm really getting tired of the public being manipulated by a bunch of liars.  CBS had debunked this story on 9/7. It is outrageous that MSNBC has continued showing that deceitful tape.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479653/posts
 
 Oil Prices Rebound Above $66 Per Barrel ($67.45 on Possible Gulf Storm Surge)
 
 FEMA AWOL in 90's Worst Disaster
 
 Miss. Sues to Force Insurers to Pay All Hurricane Damage
 
 Disaster relief? Call in the Marines.
 
 As water ebbs, tallies emerge (MSM suffers loss) As water ebbs, tallies emerge
 
 Sociologists question how much looting and mayhem really took place in New Orleans.
 
 New York Warned to Prepare for Hurricane (could suffer as much damage as New Orleans if it were hit)
 
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.
 http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/05/hurricane/index.html
 
 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


156 posted on 09/19/2005 3:21:09 PM PDT by backhoe
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 Tropical Storm Rita Live Thread  

 

 NBC RETHINKS TIMELINE IN POL'S TV BREAKDOWN... -- More poor people died in Chicago's Heat Wave of 1995 than died in all of Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Katrina. I'm doing my part to get this fact circulated.

 A Lesson from a Survivor

 Deceased Victims Update 9-19-2005 (Katrina deaths now over 950)

 The Elderly: Helpless and Left to Die. Don't know about it? Well it didn't happen in the USA.

157 posted on 09/19/2005 4:53:20 PM PDT by backhoe
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 "Fending for ourselves": Making do in Mississippi
 
 "Dog In Boat" - For Diesel and ....
 
 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.
 
 Contract details between state, Witt unclear
 
 WE'VE DONE IT YOUR WAY FOR 60 YEARS
 
 Victims Less Angry Than Bush-Haters
 
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php

Emotional, Misunderstood, Dishonest

The president of New Orleans’ Jefferson Parish apparently lied (and cried about the lie), but MSNBC can summon up no stronger opprobrium than “misunderstanding:” An emotional moment and a misunderstanding. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

WuzzaDem has been pushing this story forward, and so has Right Thoughts.

06:26 PM PDT | link: 75 comments

158 posted on 09/20/2005 2:51:57 AM PDT by backhoe
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 Effort To Recall Louisiana Governor Underway -- Signed and sent to all my friends and relatives last week.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1487355/posts
 Shaw Group Awarded Contract for Hurricane Rebuilding (Blanco's Budies) 300 Million.  
 
 §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.
 
 Couric the Green Climatologist Frets Seven Hurricanes "a Lot"; Ignores Historical Data
 
 Black Panthers on Hannity & Colmes -- Another Black Panther in the news is Malik Rahim who Cindy Sheehan's caravan visited in "occupied" New Orleans last week: http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter_History/New_Orleans_Malik_Rahim.html
 
 NO Police LT. tries to justify his desertion during Katrina disaster (CNN transcripts)
 
 
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.
 
 Flooded Buses and the Coffee Lady
 
 David Limbaugh: New Orleans and race -- revisited
 
 Hurricane Rita Live Thread

159 posted on 09/20/2005 10:56:59 AM PDT by backhoe
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 Kathleen Blanco: Beyond Gross Public Dumb -- As usual, this is posted on FR before its Internet or print media publications.  http://www.impeachblanco.org/
 
 Go here, this is a Katrina video tearjerker, very well done!

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/bommer/Praise%20you%20in%20this%20storm.wmv
 
 Cindy’s Hero: “Most Algiers Deaths Caused By Whites”

160 posted on 09/20/2005 2:01:55 PM PDT by backhoe
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