timeline.

[starkyld]

this is the best, most exhaustive timeline of hurricane katrina events and recovery that i've found thus far (although keith olbermann's take on it is also impressive--quicktime). the site that compiled it is, admittedly, progressive, but all of the sources check out and it's not high on rhetoric (relatively-speaking). it's definitely worth a

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[bizetsy]

This is fascinating. One question: are any of the newspaper quotations from Op-Ed pieces? I'm asking because if so, I think noting that would make sure that no one takes that away from the credibility later, aka "that was someone's opinion".

Thanks for sharing this.

[starkyld]

that's a really good point. i went through the entire list and formatted the links into this entry. out of all of the newspaper pieces, only one was an editorial, and it's the one that pretty much reads as though it was an editorial (the nyt piece that describes bush's demeanor during his news conference). the rest were mostly news articles, with a few gossip columns and one or two newspaper blog entries thrown in. those are marked as such. a number of the times-picayune pieces came from the breaking news section, which is fairly straightforward and objective rather than editorialising, but is written blog-fashion (as it is, you know, breaking news).

there you go. i made a few minor corrections and they're noted now in the midst of the timeline.

[cieldumort]

Great quotes. Clearly, the entire Bush administration has been grossly negligent all along... going back all the way to putting Mike Brown in the position of leading FEMA, and allowing Homeland Security to further complicate things by diverting focus from actually protecting us, to "fighting the war on terror," and also by adding even more layers of bureaucratic bullshite along the way...

As for the state and local governments.. it has been long-known and reported that Louisiana has some of the most corrupt politicians, anywhere. All one has to do to see the evidence of this is to look no further than the void of local and state pre-planning for "the Big One"... such as all those school buses that were left parked and unused.. niiice

If we do not see many officials loose their jobs (at the least!!!) behind all of this, I will admit to having lost any faith in our system. Truly.

[jacesan]

There was a plan. "Leave the poor people to their own devices." Pretty fucked up plan IMO.

[cieldumort]

Morally, I fall on both sides of that particular part of this disaster: Personal accountability and our tax-funded government's obligations

Too many welfare-mentality people only know how to live a life subsidized by taxpayers, and have little or no impetus to be responsible. Too many government officials only know how to live a life removed from keeping their oaths to serve "we the people." It's two-sided coin.

Yeah...

[jacesan]

Now if we could just figure out a way to help earthquakes target the lower class, we could probably have nature-assisted gentrification here in the Bay Area as well.

[pucette]

This. Makes. Me. SICK.

[starkyld]

horrifying, isn't it?

i went through all of the sources. they all check out. i'd be happy to edit in any corrections that anyone has for me, but, taken just on the surface, this entire timeline is INCREDIBLY damning.

in another time and place, heads would roll.

[njdinergirl]

Thanks for posting this and all the other hurricane stuff. I've been interested in all the Katrina stuff you posted, and was reading about it in the weeklies at work.