Incompetence at the Municipal and State Levels
Posted on | September 5, 2005 |
Flying Monkey-Right Blog has done his homework and put together a timeline of events. Recall that I said there was plenty of blame to go around?
(Saturday, August 27, 2005 early)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announces New Orleans may be directly hit.(Sunday, August 28)
President Bush calls Governor Blanco and urges her to evacuate the endangered areas. Publicly, he urges all those living in the path of the hurricane to put their personal safety ahead of all other concerns. He even takes the unprecedented step of declaring states in the path of the oncoming storm federal disaster areas ahead of time.(Sunday, August 28 at 10 PM)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts the path of the hurricane.(Sunday, August 28 at 10:48 PM)
New Orleans Mayor orders evacuation - yet he doesn’t move the buses (see picture), and does NOT ask that the 1,500 Guard troops that have been called up, be deployed.(Monday, August 29 at 6:10 AM)
Katrina makes landfallNational Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield warns that New Orleans would be pounded throughout the day Monday, and that Katrina’s potential 20-foot storm surge was capable of swamping the city.
(Tuesday, August 30th, morning)
Some pumps begin to fail, and the first two levees break. Eastern evacuation routes are washed out. The LA Times reports that inmates have taken over the City Jail.CNN(Tuesday night)
A day after Hurricane Katrina dealt a devastating blow to New Orleans, Mayor Ray Nagin blasted what he called a lack of coordination in relief efforts for setting behind the city’s recovery.“There is way too many fricking … cooks in the kitchen,” Nagin said in a phone interview with WAPT-TV in Jackson, Mississippi, fuming over what he said were scuttled plans to plug a 200-yard breach near the 17th Street Canal, which is allowing Lake Pontchartrain to spill into the central business district.
(Wednesday, August 31 8:30 AM)
The water from Lake Pontchartrain continues to flow through the now 500-yard breach in the 17th Street Canal.(Wednesday, August 31 at 8:04 PM)
In the face of looting, rape, and murder, Nagin finally declares martial law with respect to Miranda rights only, but not to “shoot to kill. During this period, police are attacked by armed gangs of thugs - eventually 200 New Orleans police officers resign, rather than return to their job.(Thursday, September 1)
Three-and-one-half days after the events began, Governor Blanco finally uses her emergency authority to commandeer school buses to rescue the flood victims, after the city has been in anarchy for days, and dead bodies are piling up in the streets.Unfortunately, all the school busses in New Orleans that could have been used are under water.
Everyone has been coming down on the feds but I don’t think anyone can ignore the incompetence on the state and municipal levels either.
Good work Dennis K.
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