1:45AM CDT — FEMA REQUESTS AMBULANCES THAT DO NOT EXIST;
11:20 AM CDT — FEMA STAFF WARNED BROWN THAT PEOPLE WERE DYING AT THE SUPERDOME;
NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS ARRIVE IN LOUSIANA, MISSISSIPPI, ALABAMA, AND FLORIDA;
TENS OF THOUSANDS TRAPPED IN SUPERDOME; CONDITIONS DETERIORATE;
PRESIDENT BUSH FINALLY ORGANIZES TASK FORCE TO COORDINATE FEDERAL RESPONSE;
JEFFERSON PARISH EMERGENCY DIRECTOR SAYS FOOD AND WATER SUPPLY GONE;
80,000 BELIEVED STRANDED IN NEW ORLEANS;
3,000 STRANDED AT CONVENTION CENTER WITHOUT FOOD OR WATER;
PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY DECLARED FOR ENTIRE GULF COAST;
BUSH SURVEYS DAMAGE FROM AIR FORCE ONE;
CHERTOFF “EXTREMELY PLEASED WITH THE RESPONSE” OF THE GOVERNMENT;
4PM CDT — BUSH GIVES FIRST MAJOR ADDRESS ON KATRINA;
7PM CDT — CONDOLEEZZA RICE TAKES IN A BROADWAY SHOW;
8PM CDT — FEMA DIRECTOR BROWN CLAIMS SURPRISE OVER SIZE OF STORM.
The very next morning Bush said he never expected the Levees to break. Condoleeza Rice went to the US open in Queens, New York and then shoe shopping and 5 days after this catastrophe hit the Gulf Coast, there was still no command center set up.
The whole timeline is here.I will never be able to fully get over how badly this crisis was handled. The storm was awful, but its aftermath was the tragedy.
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Raine
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