Keep this Katrina Timeline handy to counter the lies they are spreading.

[madfloridian]

Governor Blanco declared an emergency on August 26th.

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

Here are the two events from August 26th alone. (Katrina hit on August 29th.)

KATRINA TIMELINE
Comment on the timeline here.

Friday, August 26
GOV. KATHLEEN BLANCO DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN LOUISIANA:

GULF COAST STATES REQUEST TROOP ASSISTANCE FROM PENTAGON: At a 9/1 press conference, Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, commander, Joint Task Force Katrina, said that the Gulf States began the process of requesting additional forces on Friday, 8/26.

Here is the complete, documented timeline which they can not spin and lie away.

[madfloridian]

1. Kick for all the Rush listeners visiting us today.

Kick so you can see the truth about it. Keep the website, Rush listeners, so that when they try to spin something else you can find the answer here.

[Felix Mala]

2. I printed the page from the White House in case it "accidentally"

vanishes from their website.

[windbreeze]

3. Compare with this timeline..

San Francisco, April 18, 1906.
The earthquake struck at 5:13 AM.

By 7 AM federal troops had reported to the mayor.

By 8 AM they were patrolling the entire downtown area and searching for
survivors.

The second quake struck at 8:14 AM.

By 10:05 AM the USS Chicago was on its way from San Diego to San
Francisco; by 10:30 the USS Preble had landed a medical team and set up an
emergency hospital.

By 11 AM large parts of the city were on fire; troops continued to
arrive throughout the day, evacuating people from the areas threatened by fire
to emergency shelters and Golden Gate Park.

St. Mary's hospital was destroyed by the fire at 1 PM, with no loss of
life, the staff and patients having already been evacuated across the bay to
Oakland.

By 3 PM troops had shot several looters, and dynamited buildings to make
a firebreak; by five they had buried dozens of corpses, the morgue and the
police pistol range being unable to hold any more.

At 8:40 PM General Funston requested emergency housing - tents and
shelters - from the War Department in Washington; all of the tents in the U.S.
Army were on their way to San Francisco by 4:55 AM the next morning.

Prisoners were evacuated to Alcatraz, and by April 20 (two days after
the earthquake) the USS Chicago had reached San Francisco, where it evacuated
20,000 refugees.


Of course, the technology in 1906 was fairly primitive, and the U.S. was a
much poorer country.


<<posted to a group I belong too>> I have no link for the above..except for this, which really lays it out in exact terms.

www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/06timeline.html

windbreeze

[madfloridian]

4. Another kick.

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

[AbbyR]

5. I used it today when I got this email from a freeper:

I just cut and pasted the timeline. I doubt if he reads it. This is what he sent:



On Friday night, August 26, 2005 before the Hurricane hit, Max Mayfield
of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of
calling Mayor Nagin of New Orleans and Louisiana Governor Blanco
personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New
Orleans and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after
the NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before it was
destroyed.

President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his
advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a
state to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the
Posse Comitatus Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act).

Just before midnight Friday evening the President called Governor Blanco
and pleaded with her to sign the request papers so the federal
government and the military could legally begin mobilization and call
up. He was told that they didn't think it necessary for the federal
government to be involved yet.

After the President's final call to the governor she held meetings with
her staff to discuss the political ramifications of bringing federal
forces. It was decided that if they allowed federal assistance it would
make it look as if they had failed so it was agreed upon that the feds
would not be invited in.

Saturday, August 27, before the Hurricane hit, the President again
called Blanco and Nagin requesting they please sign the papers
requesting federal assistance, that they declare the state an emergency
area, and begin mandatory evacuation.

After a personal plea from the President, Mayor Nagin agreed to order an
evacuation, but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the
governor still refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing
federal action. In frustration the President declared the area a
national disaster area before the state of Louisiana did so he could
legally begin some advanced preparations.

Rumor has it that the President's legal advisers were looking into the
ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass the Constitutional
requirement that a state request federal aid before the federal
government can move into state with troops - but that had not been done
since 1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to
use before the disaster.

Throw in that over half the federal aid of the past decade to New
Orleans for levee construction, maintenance, and repair was diverted to
fund a marina and support the gambling ships. Toss in the investigation
that will look into why the emergency preparedness plan submitted to the
federal government for funding and published on the city's website was
never implemented and in fact may have been bogus for the purpose of
gaining additional federal funding. As we now learn that the
organizations identified in the plan were never contacted or
coordinating into any planning, though the document implies that they
were.

The suffering people of New Orleans need to be asking some hard
questions as do we all, but they better start with why Governor Blanco
refused to even sign the multi-state mutual aid pack activation
documents until Wednesday, August 31, which further delayed the legal
deployment of National Guard from adjoining states. Or maybe ask why
Mayor Nagin keeps harping that the President should have commandeered
500 Greyhound busses to help him when according to his own emergency
plan and documents he claimed to have over 500 busses at his disposal to
use between the local school busses and the city transportation busses -
but he never raised a finger to prepare them or activate them.

This is a sad time for all of us to see that a major city has all but
been destroyed and thousands of people have died with hundreds of
thousands more suffering, but it's certainly not a time for people to be
pointing fingers and trying to find a bigger dog to blame for local
corruption and incompetence. Pray to God for the survivors that they can
start their lives anew as fast as possible and we learn from all the
mistakes to avoid them in the future.

[texpatriot2004]

6. A DU thread about countering the DISINFORMATION

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4639631

[texpatriot2004]

7. kick n/t

[ladylibertee]

8. YUP YUP

We are all paying close attention.I can even say I have confidence that some Democratic leaders are never gonna let this one down. They better not anyway.

[lildreamer316]

9. Kick n/t