Month: September 2005

(Dubya) Down in the Flood (apologies to Blind Boy Grunt) Crash on the levee, Water’s gonna overflow, Swamp’s gonna rise, No boat’s gonna row. Now, you can train on down To williams point, You can bust your...

Well, that is just a way of putting it, but they do not have a good track record here. South Florida was hit by Katrina when it was still a Category 1 hurricane.   They are being screwed in many ways because FEMA screwed up...

From an LA Times article: On Capitol Hill in recent years, several Democrats warned that more money should be marked for the protection of New Orleans. For instance, in September 2004, Landrieu said she was tired of hearing...

I was reading through the FEMA updates this past week, both leading up to Katrina making landfall on the Gulf Coast and after. Here is the link for that update in case you can’t read the threat level on the screen grab:...

The good, reality-based folks at factcheck.org have taken on the task of examining the history of the New Orleans levee concerns and the slashed funding that has been so widely reported. Administration officials can no longer...