Weatherlawyer wrote:
Katrina forecasters were remarkably accurate Levee breaks, catastrophic
damage predicted, contrary to Bush claims
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 5:39 p.m. ET Sept. 16, 2005
MIAMI - For all the criticism of the Bush administration's confused
response to Hurricane Katrina, at least two federal agencies got it
right: the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center.
They forecast the path of the storm and the potential for devastation
with remarkable accuracy.
The performance by the two agencies calls into question claims by
President Bush and others in his administration that Katrina was a
catastrophe that no one envisioned.
For example, Bush told ABC on Sep. 1 that "I don't think anybody
anticipated the breach of the levees."
Brown Blames La. Governor, N.O. Mayor
Tuesday September 27, 2005 3:46 PM
AP Photo NY108
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former FEMA director Michael Brown aggressively
defended his role in responding to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday and put
much of the blame for coordination failures on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen
Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
``I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Gov.
Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down, get over their differences, and
work together,'' he told a congressional panel. ``I just couldn't pull
that off.''
Brown, who for many became a symbol of government failures in the
natural disaster that claimed the lives of more than 1,000 people,
rejected accusations that he was too inexperienced for the job.
``I've overseen over 150 presidentially declared disasters. I know what
I'm doing, and I think I do a pretty darn good job of it,'' Brown said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlates...305703,00.html
What 150 presidentially declared disasters?
And perhaps more importantly: What happened next?
Meanwhile, in the West Wing (they will never sell another series of
that will they?) the President, bloated on banana skins and slipping on
monkey poo, voids his cavity of plantains in preparation for his next
holiday.