HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links

various FR links & stories | 09-02-05 | the heavy equipment guy

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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.

 

 Bush Urges People to Flee Hurricane (August 28th)

 

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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.

 

  Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes [2004]

 

 Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding

 

 Prophetic: This magazine article foretold New Orleans' doom...four years ago

 

  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:

 New Orleans under water (aerial photos)

 

  Satellite Images Of New Orleans and Biloxi Before and After Katrina

 

 Hurricane imagery posted Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (excellent images)

 

 A Helicopter View of the Devastation of Hurricane Katrina

 

 Union Pacific New Orleans Damage Pictures

 

 Sattelite Before and After Pics  

 

  Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here (But please, no Getty images)

 

 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.)

 

 NOAA aerial photo's-detailed coast - Hurricane Katrina

 

 URL of Map of Damage by Street - Marker's telling of damage in the Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia

 

 

Complete Aerial Picture Survey of Mississippi Coast Damage

 http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

 

 Astounding video of Katrina destruction 

 

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...and here is contact information for those trying to get information:

 (Katrina) Gulf Coast Nnews: Survivor-Connector DataBase (Midway down the page)

 

 INFORMATION ON KATRINA ASSISTANCE

 

 

Hurricane Katrina Survivor Check-In Sites

 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

 

 How to Help Hurricane Victims

 

UPDATES/ LOCAL NEWS LINKS:

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html

http://eyesonkatrina.blogspot.com/

 

 Hattiesburg Community Web board

 

 

One Link for All Live Media

 Like I said, it's "Mogadishu on the Mississippi"

 

 Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread

 

 FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread

 

 Hurricane Katrina Survivor Locator Boards

http://www.createforum.com/phpbb/index.php?mforum=katrinasurvivor.

 

 How to send messages over the Salvation Army SATERN Network

 

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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) -

• 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.

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?!?

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.

 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

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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 Daily New Orleans Photos - 9/9/05

 LINK TO PHOTOS

 

[ELS]

Thanks for this. Bookmarking for future reference.

Ditto!

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 JPFO ALERT: If You Don't Like the Truth, Don't Read This Alert! -- I guess this disproves the old claim that "the police and military would never enforce a rule to take our guns away!".

 

 Local Officials helped trap people in New Orleans - - old ladies dying and the brother officer go the extra mile to save a "brother". Now he can help disarm the rest of the law abiding citizens.

 RE; Closing bridges and trapping evacuees:

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481211/posts

 Here's another first hand report. Note that LNG (Lousiana National Guard) troops, on site, in front of the refugees, ate and drank while at least one trapped person (an elderly woman) died of thirst:

 http://www.strangepolice.com/content/item/110126.html

 

 New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms as Water Recedes

 

 Citizens of Iraq have more rights than the citizens of New Orleans

 

GOA Denounces Gun Confiscations In New Orleans

 

 NRA's take on NO gun confiscation

 

 Governor Blanco's Letter To President Bush 8/27/05 -- This is backdated. The crooked LA Officials are re-writting the truth

If we can prove that we can have another Dan Rather moment here, and on the anniversary too...

 

 What went wrong in New Orleans...

 

 Initial sweep of New Orleans finds far fewer bodies than feared

 

 The Caller Rush Just Had On (vanity)

 

 Patriot Act or NOPD: which tramples our rights? -- This just set a very dangerous precedent.
Remember the duration always last longer than the emergency. If you are in the South/ Gulf states, don't be surprised if you get a knock on the door.

 

Hurricane race issue is a fabrication

 

 Dancing on the graves of black people

 

 Bush racism in NO - BS! Racism was 1994 and thy name was Bill.

 

 "I bet you those buses were running on election day!" -- Janice, an African American woman, age 55, is all fired up against the Democrats in Louisiana. Said "I bet you those buses were running on election day!"

 

 A Barrier That Could Have Been (environmentalist suit stopped New Orleans project)

 

 Flying Blind The last thing Louisiana needs right now is mosquitoes.

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Second Amendment Sisters Re: Gun Confiscation in New Orleans

 

Limbaugh read a letter claiming that dead officer’s wife and children were raped and mutilated.

 According to the Chicago Tribune -

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 Interdictor Blogger on NRAnews now -- This whole thing bothers me to no end. ... I can't even fathom what could be in store for us if our own government would disarm us in the face of danger and not allow us to protect ourselves.

 

 Minutes From June 5 Meeting Of Orleans Parish School Board: Using School Buses In Evacs

 

 Hurricane Katrina: Scapegoating the White Guy

 

 Black refugees ask if Utah will really accept them -- This title, and the comments of Larry Andrew in the first couple of paras, say volumes more about the culture of the undeclass in New Orleans than it does about anybody in the entire state of Utah.

 Someone needs to inform these people of the TRUTH about Red State America, instead of the CRAP they've heard from the Jesse Jacksons and Kweise Mfumes of the world: everyone who behaves in a civilized manner in Red State America is welcome, regardless of skin color. Everyone who behaves in an uncivilized manner is not welcome, regardless of skin color.

 

 William F. Buckley Jr.: Post-Katrina Doublethought

 

 Hurricane Katrina Predictions

 

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 Will Somebody Say Thank You? (Michael Reagan)

 

 For cause of U.S. hurricanes, science supports president

 

 In Poll, Most Say Abandon Flooded Areas

 

 Dispatch From New Orleans The people who won't evacuate.

 

 WASHING AWAY  ~2002 | Special Report - Times Picayune

 

 The Left's False Assault on President Bush

 

 Mountains of debris may remain for years (Enviro-nazi meltdown in 3...2...1...)

 

 Answers to many questions posed by the damage of Katrina

 

 Say, Let's Make New Orleans a Federal District (like Washington DC)

 

 Traffic jumps at smaller ports as result of Hurricane Katrina

 

 New Orleans port stirs again

 

 Sordid racial politics (Liberals: It's silly to blame Katrina for the hurricane. Blame Bush.)

 

 Hurricane Politics: The Chiles' Gambit...

 

 Flashback: Mexico Orders Massive Evacuation of Coast [Mayor Uses 500 Buses to Evacuate Tourists]

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Thank you for all the effort and time. Bookmarked.

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Thanks for stopping by-

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 Best Friends at the Frontlines: Time running out for our boat in St Bernard Parish

 Best Friends Animal Society ^ |

 

 

 

 Notes From Under Water: The struggle to survive the disaster in New Orleans -- things have degenerated into Road Warrior-like conditions ... Kingfish is waiting for "the crickets," as he calls them, to find it and loot it. It's made him a bit crazy. Or maybe not so crazy. He and his friends are armed to the teeth, with nine-millimeter pistols and all manner of shotguns: over-and-unders, side-by-sides, pumps--the works... WITH ALL HIS BLUSTER AND CRICKET-TALK, Kingfish is a bit of a cocked-fist altruist. In addition to loading weapons, he's spent the week saving animals and people... (Things are so dire in New Orleans that citizens have taken to calling cable television personalities over police or medics.) -- they shrug the shrugs of men who don't seem to have fallen that far, perhaps because they didn't have that far to fall.

 

 A friend sent me this slide show and it's the very best I've seen. It focuses on the quarter and the cbd. What is most striking to me are the scenes the day after compared to the scenes 3 days after.

 http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=14ewb3ap.b147fdut&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1

 

 Stories Now Emerging (Katrina aftermath)

 

 Welcome To Mississippi - First Hand Account of Relief Worker -- Understatement of the year?

Pulpwood haulers (lumberjacks to you Yankees) who showed up at Interstates and main feeder hi-ways heading south. Started cutting up the downed trees with their own chainsaws, and loading them up with their hydraulic boom hauling trucks. Opening the way south for our relief effort...nobody called them....they just showed up and started doing what had to be done. Welcome to Mississippi.

The same thing happened here when Hurricane Isabel passed through. Both pros and just plain people immediately started clearing the roads – neighbors helping neighbors cleared the back roads and access roads to homes.

A far cry from New Orleans.

 

 Police in Suburbs Blocked Evacuees, Witnesses Report -- The following is a blog entry on 9/2/05. See post 28.

 Here are more links about the paramedics' story about Gretna. On 9/2, a MSM story appeared supporting the general outline of some of what they said.

 

 Local Firefighter Recounts Scene in New Orleans (LAFD)

 

  Lavish tastes of card-carrying lowlifes --

 

 Why do some in the media demand to publish photos of dead people? -- For the same reason they DON'T publish photos of the 9/11 dead. They do whatever they think will lessen support for Bush.

 

 The Case for a Cover-Up (Definitely worth reading)

 

 New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin crosses party lines, endorses Republican Bobby Jindal 11/04/03

 

 Commentary: Words in Katrina's Wake -- Having seen Andrew's devastation firsthand, I can say this is far worse. Andrew was a shotgun shell fired at a paper target. Katrina is an atom bomb fired at the same target.

 

 Anderson Cooper stupifies Eddie Compass -- "Notice how often the Democrat Party sells out the loyal African-American."

 It is critical for the Dems and Hillary's chances for the presidency that the American public not be left with the image of failed female leadership in a time of crisis.

 

 For the KATRINA CRIME DENIERS, links to eyewitness accounts of murder, rape, shootings, etc. -- Here are first hand accounts by soldiers for all the doubters out there, Spc. Philip Baccus of the 527th Engineer Battalion, Spc. Cliff Ferguson Army Times

 

 VA-Alert - New Orleans Disarming the Public!

 http://asjewelers.com/FRstuff/Katrina/Gun_grab_big.wmv

 This whole fiasco in NO is outragous. The media swarming the scene is allowing us to see the lies of the local government even if the media hasn't quite caught on that the state and city officials are dangerously incompetant boobs.
During same press conference the city offcials stated that no emergency workers had gotton sick from the water - the same water they claim is worse then the bubonic plague for any citizens who remain.

 Holdouts to Be Removed From New Orleans -- "They shot our dogs!" Miller, a 54-year-old housewife, said --

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481470/posts?page=247#247

-- at least in St. Bernard Parish, police are now shooting people's animals right in front of them, if the people will not evacuate.

 "By midmorning, though, there were no immediate reports of anyone being taken out forcibly, police said."

 Hide your wepons, the government is coming to protect you.

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 New Orleans Mayor Faces Tough Questions

 

 Power teams attack outages (Mississippi)

 

 The future of New Orleans: The way of Babylon?

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Explosive Residue Found On Failed Levee Debris (Major Moon Bat Alert)

 

 New Orleans ignored its own plans

 

 John Stossel: Before New Deal, Mutual-Aid Societies Ubiquitous, Effective

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New Orleans Gun Confiscation is Blatantly Illegal

 

 An anxious quiet settles over those determined to wait

 

 Is T. Ebbert [NOLA DHS chief] responsible for delay in large-scale response to levee breach? -- Just watched a legal expert on Fox go thru the disaster event by event. Based on the Law Gov Blanco is legally liable. If lawsuits are filed, there is no way she can duck it.

 

 Katrina-hit states turn to security firms

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 Stupid before the storm

 

 N.O. Police Say They Are Regaining Control (and grabbing guns)

 

 Crisis deepened in Orleans because of local v feds standoff(drudge developing)

 

 Katrina freeing criminals? [La. police records destroyed]

 

 No Show Blanco - Nothing but lies and more lies.

 

 Nancy Pelosi Charges Katrina Cover-up(Barf!) -- Oh, yes there's a Katrina cover up all right. The press and the Liberals have covered up for Governor Blanco.

 

 Watchmen stand vigil in city’s wealthiest homes

 

 Evacuees Surprised With Home (feel good story)

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 Documentation of Louisiana Officials Blocking Aid to New Orleans

 

 Alright, after seeing the following two links I am beginning to feel differently entirely. I had not seen the following two links until today, audio for ABC and video for CNN (for those of you I pinged, here are the links):

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I retract my earlier posts regarding waiting to see. Now I have three different experiences saying the same thing. After seeing these in conjunction with the video yesterday of the older lady...I am more convinced now that the order is to disarm law abiding citizens who are safe in their homes, homes that are dry and in good shape, people who are well provisioned and safe and only wanting to defend their homes.

 Left-wing venom exceeds Katrina's fury ("Democrats seem increasingly unhinged"...)

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 Mary Mary Quite (to the) Contrary

 

 We Shut Down the Bridge

 

 Permian Basin hangs out 'help wanted' sign for evacuees (Big Oil helping, hiring)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481821/posts

 

 Transcript: Pathologist Michael Baden w/Van Susteren (NOLA - Disease / Evacuations)

 

 

The Katrina Economy: It's Actually Going to Be Pretty Good

 

 Critics are wrong about the hurricane - FEMA isn't the first response team and Oprah is no expert

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 National Geograhic Article Eerily Predicts New Orleans Storm Damage Almost a Year Ago.

 

 Breaux: New Orleans must be rebuilt --  "Fine. Gather your constituents of LA and get on with it. Leave the US taxpayers out of it. We're tapped"   One thing is clear: the money should not be placed in the hands of Louisiana pols. In such a tremendous project, there will be huge waste anyway.

 

 Katrina, the race card, and the welfare state

 

 Give me $20,000. Gimme what the -- :"$20,000 dollars so we can start over I mean gimme what the fxxx I deserve. I didn't ask to be bused here like we didn't ask to be put on slave ships."

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 I am just now getting off the floor. That was one of the most telling moments we have seen. Unscripted and a real glimpse at how the Welfare State mentality rules the lives of many in this disaster and the country in general.  I am sick of I owe anyone anything. This has turned into a Democratic Free-For-All atmosphere.