Tin fish rusting in Lake Nagin. Attaboy, Mayor!
Posted on 09/04/2005 1:30:47 AM PDT by neverdem
Saturday September 3, 2005 8:31 PM
By The Associated Press
A day-by-day look at Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.
Wednesday, Aug. 24:
- Tropical Depression 12 strengthens into Tropical Storm Katrina over the Central Bahamas; a hurricane warning is issued for the southeastern Florida coast.
Thursday, Aug. 25:
- Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida between Hallandale Beach and North Miami Beach as a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds.
Friday, Aug. 26:
- Katrina weakens over land to a tropical storm before moving out over the Gulf of Mexico. It grows to a Category 2 hurricane with 100 mph winds, veering north and west toward Mississippi and Louisiana.
- 10,000 National Guard troops are dispatched across the Gulf Coast.
Saturday, Aug. 27:
- Eleven people dead in Florida from hurricane-related causes.
- Katrina becomes a Category 3 storm, with 115 mph winds; a hurricane warning is issued for Louisiana's southeastern coast, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain, and for the northern Gulf coast.
- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declares a state of emergency and urges residents in low-lying areas to evacuate.
- Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour declares a state of emergency. A mandatory evacuation is ordered for Hancock County.
- Coastal Gulf residents jam freeways and gas stations as they rush to evacuate.
Sunday, Aug. 28:
- Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds and heads for the northern Gulf coast.
- Nagin orders a mandatory evacuation for New Orleans. But 10 shelters are also set up, including the Superdome, for those unable to leave.
- Evacuation orders are posted all along the Mississippi coast.
- Alabama Gov. Bob Riley declares a state of emergency.
Monday, Aug. 29:
- Katrina, a Category 4 hurricane with 145 mph winds, makes landfall near Buras, La., at 6:10 a.m. CDT (7:10 a.m. EDT).
- President Bush makes emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi, freeing up federal funds.
- Katrina rips two holes in the Superdome's roof. Some 10,000 storm refugees are inside.
- At least eight Gulf Coast refineries shut down or reduce operations.
- Airports close in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Biloxi, Mobile and Pensacola. Hundreds of flights are canceled or diverted.
Tuesday, Aug. 30:
- The hurricane death toll in Mississippi rises to more than 100.
- Two levees break in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 percent of the city and rising to 20 feet deep in some areas. Many people climb onto roofs to escape.
- Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco says everyone still in New Orleans - an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people - must be evacuated. Crowds swell at the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center.
- Rescuers in helicopters and boats pick up hundreds of stranded people in New Orleans. Reports of looting emerge.
- About 40,000 people are in American Red Cross shelters, not including New Orleans.
- Bush cuts short his vacation to focus on the storm damage.
Wednesday, Aug.31:
- Nagin offers a startling estimate of New Orleans' death toll: ``Minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands,'' he says.
- ``At first light, the devastation is greater than our worst fears,'' says Blanco, Louisiana's governor.
- The looting grows exponentially. Thieves use a forklift to smash into one pharmacy. Blanco asks the White House to send more people. New Orleans police are called off search-and-rescue missions to combat out-of-control looting.
- Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt declares a federal health emergency throughout the Gulf Coast, sends in medical supplies and workers.
- Army Corps of Engineers estimates it will be at least 30 days or more before New Orleans will be pumped out.
- Bush authorizes a draw-down from the nation's Strategic Petroleum reserve.
- Gasoline prices surge above $3 a gallon and shortages crop up.
- Five offshore Louisiana oil rigs are reported missing and two more are adrift.
- An estimated 52,000 people are in Red Cross shelters. An additional 25,000 are in the Superdome, where conditions are worsening by the hour.
- An exodus from the Superdome begins, with the first buses leaving for Houston's Astrodome, 350 miles away.
- Pentagon mounts one of largest search-and-rescue operations in U.S. history, sending four Navy ships with emergency supplies.
- Water levels stop rising in New Orleans. Engineers work to close a 500-foot gap in a failed floodwall.
Thursday, Sept. 1:
- Looting, carjacking and other violence spreads, and the military decides to increase National Guard deployment to 30,000.
- Outside the New Orleans Convention Center, the sidewalks are packed with people without food, water or medical care, waiting for buses that do not come. Tempers flare.
- Nagin, the New Orleans mayor, calls the situation critical and issues ``a desperate SOS'' for more buses.
- Crowds at the Superdome swell to 30,000 with another 25,000 at the convention center. The first refugee buses arrive at the Houston Astrodome. Elsewhere, 76,000 people are Red Cross shelters.
- Violence escalates. Rescue boats are stolen by marauders, shots are fired at helicopters evacuating hospital patients.
- Doctors at two New Orleans hospitals plead for help, saying food, water and power are almost gone. Helicopters evacuate up to 600 patients but an estimated 1,500 others remain stranded.
- The death toll in Mississippi hits 126.
- Bush asks his father and former President Clinton to lead a fund-raising campaign for hurricane victims.
- Texas agrees to take in 75,000 hurricane evacuees.
- Six hundred massive sand bags arrive to help shore up New Orleans' broken levees.
Friday, Sept 2:
- Bush tours hard-hit Gulf coast areas and acknowledges the failure so far of government hurricane relief efforts. ``The results are not acceptable,'' he says.
- Thousands of National Guardsmen arrive in New Orleans in truck convoys carrying food, water and weapons.
- Congress approves $10.5 billion to cover the immediate rescue and relief efforts.
- The United States and European nations tap oil-and-gasoline stockpiles for 2 million barrels a day, hoping to stem gas shortages.
- Explosions rock a chemical storage plant in New Orleans and other scattered fires break out.
- Fifteen airlines get permission to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans to San Antonio.
- Texas opens two more giant centers for victims after the Astrodome fills up. States as far away as Utah, West Virginia, Wyoming and Michigan offer to accept refugees.
- More than 50 nations pledge hurricane assistance.
Saturday, Sept. 3:
- Bush orders more than 7,000 active duty forces to the Gulf Coast.
- More than 25,000 residents have evacuated from New Orleans since Friday, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says.
- Coast Guard says has it has rescued 9,500 people since Katrina hit.
Tin fish rusting in Lake Nagin. Attaboy, Mayor!
An article today explicitly stated that the governor of Louisiana still hasn't declared a state of emergency as of this evening. Look for the washington post article, it lists some unbelievable explanation for why they refused to allow the feds to take control.
Of course, AP conveniently leaves out that President Bush flew over New Orleans on Wednesday. Would that make it look like he was involved too early, since the levee had broke only on Tuesday?
Are these the same buses? (Lower right hand corner)
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24426968.jpg
I read some of the Washington Post detail. It looks like the blame Bush mantra from the MSM is starting to fizzle.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476915/posts
That's the story you mentioned....
NO Those are different buses!!!
Howlin finds YET MORE BUSES the mayor did not deploy!!!
Superb photo of "Lake Nagin"! Wow - look at the petrol slick at about 5 o'clock. Looks like they were gassed up and ready to go. So if Nagin tries to tell us later that he couldn't get petrol...
The AP also conveniently forgot:
Aug. 28: Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation.
http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:RGrwXIfpv8UJ:www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/WEATHER/08/28/hurricane.katrina/%3Fsection%3Dcnn_topstories+president+bush+called+blanco+mandatory+evacuation+new+orleans&hl=en
Yep, the original story is only in google cache.
There are 279 buses in that pic. What's the capacity of a school bus? 35-40? More? 9,765 people @ 35 people per bus.
11,160 at 40 per bus... Toss in a pail for Nagin's toilet concerns, stop at walmart, loot a shower curtain,coloring books for the kids, and hit the road.
I guess he forgot about those. I haven't come across the pic yet, but there are another 345 public transit buses kicking around somewhere as well.
That is the second link in comment# 1. The bias of the MSM will only be exposed by using them to source their own hypocrisy and incompetence.
David Brooks could be correct about The Bursting Point, but care for the little guy and dem behavior does not compute.
It looks like there's almost 250 buses under water. The mayor could have moved tens of thousands of people with those buses ahead of time.
What part of "mandatory evacuation" didn't they understand?
You get out somehow and go to a Red Cross shelter. The friggin DemonRAT mayor or governor uses those school buses to get them to somewhere safe.
It's like what part of "illegal alien" don't DemonRATs understand?
The people I feel sorry for are those that followed the mandatory evacuation order, left, and lost everything they'd owned. My heart goes out to them.
I guaran-damn-tee none of those looters were registered Republicans.
I'm more convinced of that than ever, after listening to these Boston DemonRAT liberals bash Bush in the days since the levees broke.
I don't know who the DemonRAT equivalent of Rush Limbaugh is, but all the DemonRATs up here talking the same points and marching in lockstep.
Maybe it's just network news or CNN. My Foxnews went out on my cable and I've been forced to watch CNN. It's burning a hole in my gut.
National Hurricane Director had to call Nagin at home Saturday night to plead: "Get people out..."
Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | Sun, Aug. 28, 2005 | BY MARC CAPUTO, DAVID OVALLE AND ERIKA BOLSTAD
Posted on 09/03/2005 2:14:14 PM CDT by joinedafterattack
MAYOR CRITICIZED EVEN BEFORE LEVY BREAK. National Hurricane Center Director had to call Nagin at home Saturday night to plead: "Get people out of New Orleans." "The criticisms of Nagin came from above as well. Numerous officials urged him to evacuate the city, but he worried about the legality of ordering people out when New Orleans has few safe hurricane shelters. Also, National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield in Miami called Nagin at home Saturday night and told him: Get people out of New Orleans.
''I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation,'' Mayfield said. ``New Orleans is never going to be the same.''
When a grim Nagin issued the mandatory evacuation order Sunday, he said: ``We are facing a storm that most of us have feared . . . God bless us.''
whole story
Great link. Thanks for posting.
Wednesday, AUGUST 31
Faced with widespread rooting in New Orleans, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco is asking residents of the hurricane-ravaged city to spend today in prayer.
Blanco says, "That would be the best thing to calm our spirits and thank our Lord that we are survivors." She added, "Slowly, gradually, we will recover; we will survive; we will rebuild."
Some of the looting is taking place in full view of police and National Guardsmen. New Orleans Police say one officer was shot in the head by a looter, but was expected to recover.
On Canal Street, dozens of looters ripped open the steel gates on clothing and jewelry stores.
Looters at a Wal-Mart brazenly loaded up shopping carts with items including microwaves, coolers and knife sets. Others walked out of a sporting goods store on Canal Street with armfuls of shoes and football jerseys.
http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=3786929&nav=EyB0dxCY
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Bump this story for future reference.
On Friday I was accused of being partially at fault for the Fed failure to act quickly, simply because I am white. I was told that if the same thing had happened to Seattle, the Feds would have been there with massive relief two days earlier.
School bus capacity is about 60.
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin declared a state of emergency on Sunday and ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city as Hurricane Katrina churned toward the city with maximum sustained winds of nearly 175 mph.
All of Orleans Parish falls under the order except for necessary personnel in government, emergency and some other public service categories.
People who are unable to evacuate were told to immediately report to a designated shelter.
"I wish I had better news for you, but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared," Nagin said. "I do not want to create panic, but I do want the citizens to understand that this is very serious and it's of the highest nature."
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation.
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Statement on Federal Emergency Assistance for Louisiana
Red tape keeping much of military on sidelines (Katrina's wake)
Hasn't CNN found a way to make the google cache disappear as well?
There is this, from August 28th
http://www.gov.state.la.us./Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf
The kid who took a busload to Houston - with the passengers pooling their own money for gas and other supplies - got 80 on that bus.
He said the buses were sitting there, the keys were on a board and, although he'd never driven a bus before, he started it up, and drove it off the lot.
Many more men and women should have done the same. The order should have come from the mayor, but failing that, the grown ups should have acted.
Thanks for the ping to this thread. It's fascinating to watch the truth re-vealed.
While I'm no lawyer, that does seem to ask for help on an emergency basis. Whether that's supposed to include emergency assistance for the flooding of NOLA, emergency rescue, potable water and rations for those evacuated as well as those still in the city, military assistance, etc., I don't know. We'll probably have another commission after FEMA's after action review and report.
The Governor's page has a link to the Governor's press conference from Saturday indicating that she believes that she is in charge of the 12,000 plus NG (5,000 from La. and the rest from 29 other States) on the ground. ("Federal Law prohibits active duty military from participating in law enforcement.")http://www.gov.state.la.us./
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks, cgk... I knew I had heard this, but the MSM has somehow ignored/forgot/run away screaming from this reality: that Bush urged the governor to declare a state of emergency and full evacuation. I wonder why this has been filed down the memory hole...
----"I was told that if the same thing had happened to Seattle, the Feds would have been there with massive relief two days earlier."----
The worst disaster in Seattle would be another 9.3 quake on the offshore fault zone. Would devastate Vancouver (Canada), Seattle and Portland. I don't plan on seeing any help for 10 - 14 days.
Ping.
There is at least one flat-out lie in this chronology. President Bush signed the emergency order for Louisana on the morning of the 27th effective the 26th, not on the 29th as shown here.
they, the residents and govt., had plenty of notice to do something,
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