Mayor Nagin transcript

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Originally Posted by daddydirt

O’Brien>> What date was this?

N>> I don't know.

O>> When did you say that?

N>> Whenever air force one was here.

so that conversation took place on Fridy August 2nd - 6 days after the NWS warning, 5 days after the levee broke. a bit late, no?

Originally Posted by drakonix

The use of public transportation for such evacuations is in the emergency plan of every city with such resources available. I have been a volunteer disaster service worker in Alameda County, California for over 30 years.

so you must have been in the SF '89 earthquake - so was i. i have a pretty good impression of that recovery, and have also seen FEMA do some good things as well here in Hurricane Alley, NC. so, i'll make this my last thought on the subject as well - katrina was big, well-anticipated, and as devastating as any terrorist attack on the largest port in the country. the response and recovery should have been strong, well-planned and federally managed from day 1. that's what Homeland Security was supposed to do, why we created this vast new bureacracy that ate FEMA. obviously, it did not go down that way.