Surprise! (Not!)
Now, about that notion that President Bush and his administration had “not foreseen” the disaster that Katrina caused in Louisiana. The truth, it turns out, is even more troubling:
In fact the President, along with FEMA director Michael Brown and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, participated in a video conference briefing by the National Hurricane Center — on the Sunday before Katrina hit New Orleans. The Seattle Times has a good story on it.
You may remember that Mr. Chertoff, for some reason anxious to separate the hurricane winds from the flooding caused by breaching of the levees, told the nation that the damaging combination of hurricane and flooding was totally unexpected by the government.
But wait: According to the Times, Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said “the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it could bring were made clear during the briefings and in formal advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise buildings.”
And, finally, this: "We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It's not like this was a surprise. ... "
In fact the President, along with FEMA director Michael Brown and Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff, participated in a video conference briefing by the National Hurricane Center — on the Sunday before Katrina hit New Orleans. The Seattle Times has a good story on it.
You may remember that Mr. Chertoff, for some reason anxious to separate the hurricane winds from the flooding caused by breaching of the levees, told the nation that the damaging combination of hurricane and flooding was totally unexpected by the government.
But wait: According to the Times, Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said “the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it could bring were made clear during the briefings and in formal advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise buildings.”
And, finally, this: "We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It's not like this was a surprise. ... "
posted by The Voice | 3:56 PM
2 Comments:
If only Clinton were the president this would have been the equivalent of a nice summer rain.
This obviously begs the question: what exactly did Clinton do about it while he had the chance? Where are the Clinton levees?
You worship at the feet of a man. Not much of one, but a man. Clinton is your god. Your blindness is sadly pathetic.
Keep up the blogger-wannabe efforts. You keep me in stitches.
This has nothing to do with Bill Clinton, or George the First, hurricanes don't always kill people , people sometimes kill people with their arrogance, and incompetence. The person who posted the is simply unable or willing to hear the truth, The Goverment failed because it set out to fail. President Bush wants the States to take over as much of the Goverment as the people will allow, and fall back on charity(s) and bake sales to do the rest. Oh and by the way Who does George W always call when he needs the people of our country to put forth the best efforts for others, Bill Clinton. After all W did get elected twice, he's not stupid, W does know somethings well.
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