Katrina Coverage

Monday 8/29, early morning: hurricane strikes
Monday 8/29, later that morning: Fox might have broadcast news of the break(s)
Monday 8/29, early afternoon: breaches reported to NO authorities [1]
Monday 8/29, 6pm : confirmed in a summary distributed by the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness [1]
Monday 8/29, "later in the day" : Blanco finds out […]

Here.

From the left comes this site. Hey, cute domain name even if it might be infringing on a trademark. It's got a blog, a timeline, links to far-lefties like Hatrios, and a body count chart. Despite that, it gets even lower traffic than this site.

There's a timeline and a CNN transcript here dealing with Bush using Katrina to take the opportunity to drive down American wages.
See also this excerpt from 9/21's Lou Dobbs show.

Here. It covers July 23, 2004 to, at post time, Sep 15.

The AP has a timeline here running between Aug 24 and Sep 3.
There's a bit of a timeline here, and it also has snippets or links to various documents from late August.

Piecing together the unconfirmed timeline presented in "Key military help for victims of Hurricane Katrina was delayed" we get:
- Aug 29: landfall; "levee breaches" occur
Aug 29 3:22:00 PM - Navy says USS Bataan is standing by.
- Aug 30: Michael Chertoff goes to Atlanta for a "previously scheduled briefing on avian flu"
- Aug 30: "[Chertoff] aides […]

Here. At present, however, it only goes up to Sep. 2.

I might have already linked to this, but it's worth a second one. With "rebased" pictures it's here, and with the original Yahoo pics it's here. Grab the whole thing while you can.

Snopes says this is false:
New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco refused President Bush's pleas to declare an emergency in Louisiana before Hurricane Katrina struck.
The timeline they provide… isn't in temporal order, so I've corrected the below (assuming they have their facts correct that is):
- On Friday (26 August), Governor Blanco did […]