Katrina Coverage

Remember Aaron Broussard's tearful appearance? "An emotional moment and a misunderstanding" informs us that Broussard's timeline was off by a week. That points the blame for what happened squarely to both the nursing home owners and to the local authorities for failing to make sure that they'd evacuated the home.
Previously: "Aaron Broussard’s WalMart story discredited".
There's […]

The AP story "Monstrous Hurricane Heads for New Orleans" has a date of Monday, August 29, 2005; 2:50 AM, although what timezone and whether that's accurate is not known. It's also available here under the title "New Orleans flees as Katrina approaches Gulf Coast" and with a date of 8/28/2005 8:02 AM, although I'm pretty […]

The WaPo article "New Orleans Mayor Faces Tough Questions" has a few questions for Nagin, but it doesn't appear to have asked him or his associates to answer them. Perhaps they're just trying to give him a heads up. The WaPo does, however, show that they're "down":
Until Nagin spoke out, Yancy Brown, a native of […]

AP:
He's been called an idiot, an incompetent and worse. The vilification of federal disaster chief Michael Brown, emerging as chief scapegoat for whatever went wrong in the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, has ratcheted into the stratosphere. Democratic members of Congress are taking numbers to call for his head.
"I would never have appointed such a […]

In a tearful appearance on Sunday's Meet the Press, the president of Jefferson Parish, Aaron Broussard, alleged:
Let me give you just three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn't need them. This was a week ago. FEMA–we had 1,000 gallons […]