HURRICANE KATRINA- archive of links

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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.

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

4,210 posted on 09/01/2005 1:37:35 PM EDT by Stand Watch Listen

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181 posted on 10/09/2005 12:49:41 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Hurricane relief workers say they witnessed Bourbon St. beating

Gun sales up since hurricanes (CA) -- This is quite a phenomenon since all the footege of the looters in NO ran endlessly on the MSM.
My niece and nephew in Florida, boomer peaceniks, went out and bought their first guns last month, and have been down at the firing range learning how to use them. They are well-off, and have a lot of property to protect. Never thought I'd see the day that they would arm themselves.
MSM are probably sorry now that they showed the chaos in New Orleans 24/7 for two weeks. It opened a lot of eyes of former no-gun people.
They'll never put this genie back in the bottle.

182 posted on 10/11/2005 4:38:31 PM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

183 posted on 10/11/2005 4:39:57 PM PDT by backhoe (The 1990's? The Decade of Fraud(s)™...)

184 posted on 10/13/2005 2:34:03 AM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Pump workers say they wanted to stay -- Southwest Kenner flooded solely because of Broussard's decision to shut down the pumps.
Williams Boulevard from I-10 north to near the Lake flooded solely due to Broussard's decision to shut down the pumps.
The Old Metarie Basin flooded because waters from the 17th Street Canal Breach ran south around the 17th Canal Pump Station. Old Metarie would have flooded whether the Jefferson Pumps were running or not.

Design flaws blamed in flooding -- design flaws and even a missing floodgate contributed to the drowning of the city.

TAKING THE WHEEL (The school bus that didn't flood)

185 posted on 10/17/2005 2:29:32 AM PDT by backhoe

186 posted on 10/22/2005 3:20:26 AM PDT by backhoe

187 posted on 10/23/2005 5:23:56 PM PDT by backhoe (Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into the Dawn of Information...)

188 posted on 10/25/2005 4:49:38 AM PDT by backhoe

Rev the choppers: It's time for a coup (Blanco Alert!!!) -- We will not only have the benefit of Edwards' administrative skills, but put an end to all that speculation in Congress that Louisiana might steal the Katrina relief money. With Edwards in charge, there will be no doubt, and we'll just have to put a graft item in the budget.

Fed memos put Katrina body blame on Blanco

189 posted on 10/28/2005 1:33:06 PM PDT by backhoe (-30-)

Houston We Have a Problem [LA] -- Another delivered the basic message that the Legislature was there to take care of government, and the private sector would have to wait for whatever crumbs were left.

Exactly why government is the problem.

WHO'S KILLING NEW ORLEANS? (Lengthy, but worthwhile)

Businesses that relocated to Houston consider staying

190 posted on 10/29/2005 5:09:03 AM PDT by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))

191 posted on 11/04/2005 3:39:20 AM PST by backhoe

192 posted on 11/04/2005 8:09:42 AM PST by backhoe

193 posted on 11/06/2005 4:57:39 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)

194 posted on 11/08/2005 4:44:59 PM PST by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))

195 posted on 11/09/2005 12:43:02 PM PST by backhoe

Criminal Probe Set for New Orleans Levees -- Seriously, this is the big story that MSM has been trying to supress as long as it could because it doesn't play into the "Bush killed the blacks" theme.

Floodwalls in Swampy New Orleans `Like Putting Bricks on Jell-O'

196 posted on 11/10/2005 4:51:02 PM PST by backhoe

New Orleans at Night

Pattern of Denial in Baton Rouge

Gulfport [MS] after Katrina resembles frontier times -- At night, restaurants ... are packed, with hourlong waits for tables and a lively, manly bar scene....

"Arrrrgggh matey, send the wench with some grog!"

197 posted on 11/21/2005 2:11:12 AM PST by backhoe

198 posted on 11/21/2005 2:51:07 PM PST by backhoe (The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))

199 posted on 11/23/2005 5:04:43 PM PST by backhoe

200 posted on 11/25/2005 5:01:43 PM PST by backhoe

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