True Story of New Orleans and Louisiana State Governments' Monumental & Deadly Failure Surfacing

From the City Of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan:
website of the City of New Orleans

" The safe evacuation of threatened populations when endangered by a major catastrophic event is one of the principle reasons for developing a Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. The thorough identification of at-risk populations, transportation and sheltering resources, evacuation routes and potential bottlenecks and choke points, and the establishment of the management team that will coordinate not only the evacuation but which will monitor and direct the sheltering and return of affected populations, are the primary tasks of evacuation planning. Due to the geography of New Orleans and the varying scales of potential disasters and their resulting emergency evacuations, different plans are in place for small-scale evacuations and for citywide relocations of whole populations.

Authority to issue evacuations of elements of the population is vested in the Mayor. By Executive Order, the chief elected official, the Mayor of the City of New Orleans, has the authority to order the evacuation of residents threatened by an approaching hurricane. "

(Tip o' the Hat to Captain's Quarters)

As rescue workers bring thousands of NOLAns to safety and crews begin to pump out the floodwaters, more facts are surfacing concerning the complete break down and failure of the local and state government leadership in Louisiana ---- the deadliest example of such a breakdown in American history.

As we stated in our previous article, THE PRE-HURRICANE EVACUATION AS WELL AS THE SECURITY AND RESCUE OPERATIONS FOR THE FIRST 72-96 HOURS AFTER A HURRICANE DISASTER ARE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS!

As it turns out, New Orleans did have a pre-hurricane evacuation plan for the poor, they just did not follow it!

IT IS OUTRAGEOUS THAT THE MAYOR, THE GOVERNOR and now, U. S. SENATOR MARY LANDRIUEX OF LOUISIANA SHOULD BE TRYING TO POINT THE BLAME FOR THIER OWN MASSIVE & GROSSLY NEGLIGENT FAILURES AT THE PRESIDENT.

The following links will back up what we have been saying now since the beginning of this disaster when the city and state failed to call for the evacuation early enough and failed to take the steps necessary to evacuate the poor.


Katrina Time Line
From American Daughter blog

Washington Post: Governor Refused to Act
Little Green Footballs blog

Chrenkoff
Sins of (a) Commisson

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The Racists Who Cry "Racism":
Lack of Automobiles, Not Race, Determined Who Got Out of NOLA and Who Stayed
Vanishing Automobile Tip o' the Hat to BlogHouston & Houston's Clear Thinkers

Important Transit Lessons for Houston from New Orleans Disaster
Anne Lineham BlogHouston

One of the Effects of Mass Transit Choices in New Orleans
Tom Kirkendall Houston's Clear Thinkers

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The LOCAL Making of Disaster and Death:
Delusional Local Politics
Bryan Preston

Katrina: Why Didn't Nagin Follow His Own Plan?
The Captain's Quarters

Disastrous Response from Local and State Officials
Sister Toldjah

Brad DeLong Reports on the Now-Infamous Times-Picayune New Orleans Evacuation "Plan"
Tip o' the Hat to Instapundit

Austin Volunteers Report Pattern of "No First Responders" from NOLA Eyewitnesses
Richard Lawrence Cohen Blog Tip o' the Hat to The Brazosport News

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Three Observations from PowerLine:
New York Times Opposed Funding for NOLA Levee Project on "Environmental" Grounds
PowerLine

A Realm of Madness
PowerLine

The Limits of MSM Carping
PowerLine
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