Katrina Coverage

This report contains this unconfirmed bit:
…Eastern Jefferson parish, the most highly populated area which sits next to New Orleans, consists mostly of reclaimed marsh and swamp. A series of drainage canals criss-cross the parish. These end at huge pumping stations (18 of them, costing tens of millions of dollars) that pump out rainwater from the […]

CNN offers their take in "Racism, resources blamed for bridge incident". It doesn't appear to be original reporting so much as a compilation of what was said on various CNN shows including Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown.
Gretna police chief Arthur Lawson says that Gretna was locked down, and had no resources to take care of […]

This one was posted on Sep. 8 and is called "Surviving hurricane no vacation for tourist":
On Aug. 30, the group tried to rent a bus, but the plan fizzled.
"We heard FEMA confiscated the buses for their own use," he said.
The streets were becoming more dangerous, with looters roaming around. "We could hear gunshots in the […]

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 NYT article "Police in Suburbs Blocked Evacuees, Witnesses Report" discusses the strange incidents on the Crescent City Connection, over which evacuees from New Orleans tried to get to promised safety in Gretna. See Gretna Police "trapped survivors in New Orleans" for the more trustworthy UPI version of events, and see "Building communism under the […]

As previously discussed, Gretna Police "trapped survivors in New Orleans". That post contains the following from UPI:
[Chief of the City of Gretna Police Department Arthur Lawson] said that once the storm itself had passed Monday, police from Gretna City, Jefferson Parrish and the Louisiana State Crescent City Connection Police Department closed to foot traffic the […]

From "Cops trapped survivors in New Orleans":
Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city…
"We shut down the bridge," Arthur Lawson, chief of the City of Gretna Police Department, confirmed to […]

The liberals are passing around what purports to be a first-person account of living through the hurricane, as narrated by two paramedics who claim they were in NO for a convention. There was such a convention, and the two authors appear to be paramedics. Larry Bradshaw is from the SEIU, and Lorrie Beth Slonsky […]

The 9/2 article "St. Louisans survive lawlessness in French Quarter" contains the following event which presumably occured on Weds. Aug 31:
A group of about 200 Monteleone guests decided to try to walk out of the city to the east, and got to the on-ramp at the Crescent Connection bridge, where they were met by Gretna, […]