FEMA Follies
Sep. 7th, 2005 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmation"WASHINGTON (AP): The government's disaster chief waited until hours after Hurricane Katrina had already struck the Gulf Coast before asking his boss to dispatch 1,000 Homeland Security employees to the region – and gave them two days to arrive, according to internal documents.
"Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims."
(AP story via WWL)
Note that in '69, President Nixon mobilized the National Guard BEFORE Hurricane Camile actually hit.
And the country had the Vietnam War going on at the same time.
Also, a UPI story of Nagin's latest evacuation order entitles it "Roust begins of New Orleans squatters"
How does one become deemed a "squatter" in one's own home?
I HOPE the order is designed to give law officers the power to force evacuation of criminals and it will be very selectively used, rather than to force people from their homes who are actually set with enough supplies as emergency planners long told them to be.
"Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims."
(AP story via WWL)
Note that in '69, President Nixon mobilized the National Guard BEFORE Hurricane Camile actually hit.
And the country had the Vietnam War going on at the same time.
Also, a UPI story of Nagin's latest evacuation order entitles it "Roust begins of New Orleans squatters"
How does one become deemed a "squatter" in one's own home?
I HOPE the order is designed to give law officers the power to force evacuation of criminals and it will be very selectively used, rather than to force people from their homes who are actually set with enough supplies as emergency planners long told them to be.
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Date: 2025-09-07 04:39 pm (UTC)Original link is dead and no copy at archive.org, but found this text copy on an old blog: https://jesseshunting.com/threads/roust-begins-of-new-orleans-squatters.86109/
Text copy:
Roust begins of New Orleans squatters
NEW ORLEANS, Sep 07, 2005 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- As many as
10,000 New Orleans residents who didn't, or couldn't, escape Hurricane Katrina
will be removed from their homes beginning Wednesday.
Tuesday night, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the order, citing the danger of fires and
the growing threat of disease from standing water contaminated by toxic
chemicals and rotting corpses.
A fire broke out in a mansion in the city's historic Garden District Tuesday,
and authorities fought it the only way possible, using helicopters to dump huge
buckets of water from above, the New Orleans Times Picayune reported.
Meanwhile, President George Bush and members of Congress promised full
investigations into the government response to the Aug . 29 storm that affected
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, with Bush suggesting that "bureaucratic
obstacles" were partly to blame.
Vice President Dick Cheney was scheduled to visit the region Thursday to assess
the recovery effort.