Katrina:
Sans Flames, September 08, 2005
A friend of mine who is the White House correspondent for Tribune Television's multiple stations just returned from a few days in New Orleans. This is one of the many pictures he emailed me. Grant's brief commentary on what he saw: "Just back from New Orleans. It was an awful city before the storm hit; it's Hell now." I've asked for permission to post a few more of his pictures. Some show school buses...
Blanco: Nagin Should Have Used the Buses, September 05, 2005
Is Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babbling Blanco distancing herself from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin over his failure to use his city's hundreds of buses to evacuate his city's poor before Hurricane Katrina struck? Perhaps:New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin is facing criticism for not using buses to evacuate citizens before Hurricane Katrina struck. In the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin did not use hundreds of buses that were sitting in bus yards,...
Foreshadowing, September 05, 2005
When Hurricane Ivan narrowly missed New Orleans in 2004, it gave people a glimpse of the effectiveness of New Orleans' pre-planning for evacuating the city, and for providing shelter to people who couldn't or didn't leave. It's rather chilling to realize that, a year later as Katrina approached, the city still had no point-by-point plan plan for using its transit and school system buses to evacuate its poorest residents....
More Unused Buses, September 04, 2005
Junkyard Blog is looking at high-res satellite photos of flooded New Orleans and finding more buses that Mayor Ray Nagin failed to use to evacuate the city's tens of thousands of poor residents before Hurricane Katrina hit, costing perhaps thousands of lives. It is also mentioned that the New Orleans airport would have many shuttle buses that could have been used to help more people leave the city before Katrina struck. UPDATE: More bloggers are...
Bush Not To Blame For Levee Failure, September 03, 2005
You can put to rest the conspiracy-theory rumblings of some leftwingers that "Bush budget cuts" for levee improvements and a study of upgrading New Orleans' levees are to blame for levees breaking and New Orleans being flooded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The allegation simply doesn't stand up to the scrutiny of cold, hard facts......
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