FEMA’s Initial Screw-Up
The original Federal Disaster Declaration issued on August 27th included every parish in Louisiana except those likely to be struck. It does not include New Orleans or the surrounding area.A second Disaster Declaration that included New Orleans was not issued until August 29th.These are from the White House site. They screwed up. The tip of Louisiana was the last area to receive a disaster declaration.
Nothing was being sent to New Orleans until after the storm because there was no authorization.
Update: The area in yellow are those parishes included in the 08/27/2005 declaration:
September 7, 2005 Comments Off on FEMA’s Initial Screw-Up
Post It Notes
Not necessarily the news:
Egypt held its first election in which more than one name was on the ballot for President. While initially skeptical, after a conversation with Karl Rove President Mubarek was convinced that it looked good and wouldn’t make a difference in the outcome.
During a super-secret, cross-your-heart, deep background briefing conducted in the “cone of silence”, a senior administration official who can’t remember his own name claimed that the fact that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides over the impeachment hearing for the President, had nothing to do with the request to conduct the confirmation hearings for John Roberts during the funeral service for Justice Rehnquist.
During his survey of the devastation on the Gulf coast, Vice President Cheney will be staying at the Convention Center in New Orleans. Mr. Cheney’s decision was based on the fact that even though people were watching live television shots of the Convention Center it took the government three days to find it, making it the most “undisclosed location” in the country.
A senior aide said that the government suspected voodoo was involved, or “one of those ‘invisibility cloaks’ we’ve been hearing about.”
The delay in the Federal response to the disaster was explained today when a member of the White House staff discovered the Louisiana governor’s request for Federal assistance in the lint trap of the dryer.
A spokeman remarked, “You know how it is. Someone hands you a note while you’re on vacation, and you put it in your pocket. Next thing you know it gets thrown in the washer.”
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