Documents Show Govt Forewarned on Katrina

[G_j]

(Government ignored 'intelligence' on Katrina)
in case you missed this in LBN..

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-5567016,00.html

Documents Show Govt Forewarned on Katrina

Tuesday January 24, 2006 1:03 PM

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government had advance warning of the danger and potential damage from Hurricane Katrina before the storm hit, newly released documents show.

Despite early warnings, plans to evacuate people from New Orleans in the approach of a catastrophic storm were only 10 percent complete a month before the devastating hurricane that accounted for more than 1,100 deaths.

``If you think soup lines in the Depression were long, wait till you see lines'' at collection points in New Orleans, Transportation Department regional emergency officer Don Day said at a July 29 briefing with federal and state authorities.

``We're at less than 10 percent done with this ... planning when you consider the buses and the people,'' Day said at the briefing, according to notes taken by contractors Innovative Emergency Management Inc. of Baton Rouge.

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[bryant69]

1. Some days you don't know whether to laugh or cry

Bryant
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[Stephanie]

2. and yet George didn't know it was a disaster until three days after it hit

[Christa]

4. He was on holiday

most probably too intoxicated to know anything :eyes:

[Ron Day Voo]

3. Well...

...to be fair, I remember we were told the same thing in 1993. We spent 3 weeks in New Orleans for our vacation that year--it was wonderful and exotic. We took many differtent swamp/cemetery/city tours. On our GrayLine city tour, we were told about the levees as a matter of course. We were told about how the city was below sea level and what would happen as a result of a head-on hurricane landfall.

It sure wasn't any mystery to anyone; the tour guide said they'd known for DECADES.