Where Can I Find a Timeline for Hurricane Katrina

[texastoast]

Does anyone know the timeline of events from the time that Katrina was bumped up to a Category 5 through say, a week, after the storm hit?

I want to be able to answer the blame game people at work here who are saying Bush was not the problem--it was the Louisiana governor.

Thanks!



:hi:

[Stephanie]

1. here's mine >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4746182

[Stephanie]

5. self delete

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Here's a rough one

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4724523

I think Eloriel has a thread that pulls it all together?

[SteppingRazor]

3. The most important date for your purposes would be Friday, Aug. 26...

That's the day Blanco requested federal aid and asked for a declaration of a federal state of emergency for the State of Louisiana, and got nothing.

On edit: Mind you, that's two days before the storm hit New Orleans.

Also on edit: My bad. Blanco declared a statewide State of emergency Aug. 26, then asked for the feds to doo the same on Aug. 27.

[Pirate Smile]

4. Here is one from Think Progress.

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

[yewberry]

6. One that goes through 9/3:

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

[madame defarge]

7. From Talking Points Memo

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/katrina-timeline.php

[moodforaday]

8. More timelines

Hurricane Katrina Timeline
http://www.katrinatimeline.org/

BASETREE -- Visual Timeline: Katrina versus Bush
http://www.basetree.com/articles/katrina-versus-bush.html

Timeline of Hurricane Katrina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Hurricane_Katrina

Hurricane Katrina timeline - dKosopedia
http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina_Chronology

TPM Hurricane Katrina Timeline v. 1.0
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/katrina-timeline.php

[moodforaday]

9. To answer the blame game

this is useful:

The Raw Story | Nonpartisan congressional research report finds Louisiana governor took necessary steps

All necessary conditions for federal relief were met on August 28. Pursuant to Section 502 of the Stafford Act, "he declaration of an emergency by the President makes Federal emergency assistance available," and the President made such a declaration on August 28. The public record indicates that several additional days passed before such assistance was actually made available to the State;

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Nonpartisan_congressional_research_report_finds_Louisiana_governor_took_nece_0913.html

[pitohui]

10. timelines, hell, what abt the mississippi governor

i would be curious to know the reason why there was no fema response and ppl were left starving & trapped in moss point, mississippi for 11 days after katrina

they would not have received help yet if not for an SOS published on nola.com, the new orleans online newspaper

both states had widespread areas that went w.out aid

how can this be blanco's fault

it's either barbour is equally to blame or (reality) the commander in chief of the united states should be the one in control of fema, nat'l guard, etc, i don't know want to hear from another know-nothing abt how the all-powerful freshman governor of louisiana stopped the nat'l guard in its tracks

what if we were at war or something, the nat'l guard can't roll over one little old cajun lady?

[karlrschneider]

11. Here's a pretty good meterological one (no politics, you'll have to fill

in those details)

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/at200512.asp

[texastoast]

12. Thanks, thanks and thanks, everyone

These are great!