Katrina Coverage

"Rescuers awed by ruin revealed as water recedes" isn't as in-depth as it could be, but:
… Flying over St. Bernard's Parish, the flight crew surveyed empty streets covered knee-deep in mud. Piles of destroyed cars were scattered all over the unidentifiable streets. While some homes were down to their foundations, others somehow had withstood Katrina's […]

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The Dispossessed of New Orleans Tell of Their Medieval Nightmare
New Orleans a 'ghost town' as rescue efforts kick in
Superdome exodus: boats, ambulances, deuce-and-a-half trucks
Rapes, killings hit Katrina refugees in New Orleans
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From "The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos" comes this Sunday, August 28 news that should give some slight pause to the race-baiters:
Minutes earlier, Blanco had been pulled out to take a call from the president, pressed into service by FEMA's Brown to urge a mandatory evacuation. Blanco told him that's just what the mayor […]

From "The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos" comes this Sunday, August 28 news:
At the Superdome, city officials reckoned that 9,000 people had arrived by evening to ride out the storm. FEMA had sent seven trailers full of food and water — enough, it estimated, to supply two days of food for as many as […]

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 […]

From Hugh Hewitt:
The Fox News Channel's Major Garrett was just on my show extending the story he had just reported on Brit Hume's show: The Red Cross is confirming to Garrett that it had prepositioned water, food, blankets and hygiene products for delivery to the Superdome and the Convention Center in the immediate aftermath of […]

The Guardian asks whether some of the horror stories coming out of the Superdome are fact or fiction.
Unfortunately, "Mayor says Katrina may have claimed more than 10,000 lives. Bodies found piled in freezer at Convention Center" has confirmation of some of these incidents:
Arkansas National Guardsman Mikel Brooks stepped through the food service entrance of the […]

Nine Australian tourists were among those in the Superdome; one of them says it was "like being in a Third World country, in a maximum security prison":
Women among their group had been harassed and grabbed by marauding men. Faeces lined the toilet walls. There had been suicides, rapes and murders. It was "like being in […]