(Hat tip: Jason Van Steenwyk)
(Here's a link to the committee's final report).
Some items from the PM article:
MYTH: "The aftermath of Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history."– Aaron Broussard, president, Jefferson Parish, La., Meet the Press, NBC, Sept. 4, 2005
REALITY: Bumbling by top disaster-management officials fueled a perception of general inaction, one that was compounded by impassioned news anchors. In fact, the response to Hurricane Katrina was by far the largest–and fastest-rescue effort in U.S. history, with nearly 100,000 emergency personnel arriving on the scene within three days of the storm's landfall.
MYTH: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."– New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin, press conference, Aug. 28, 2005
REALITY: Though many accounts portray Katrina as a storm of unprecedented magnitude, it was in fact a large, but otherwise typical, hurricane. On the 1-to-5 Saffir-Simpson scale, Katrina was a midlevel Category 3 hurricane at landfall. Its barometric pressure was 902 millibars (mb), the sixth lowest ever recorded, but higher than Wilma (882mb) and Rita (897mb), the storms that followed it. Katrina's peak sustained wind speed at landfall 55 miles south of New Orleans was 125 mph; winds in the city barely reached hurricane strength.
Read the whole thing.
1 comment:
Yes Katrina was not the strongest hurricane but if you've noticed no Category 3 Hurricane Hurricane had hit New Orleans in some time. Unfortunatly the funds the federal government gave Louisiana for rebuilding their levees were very low. The city was fine until the 5 or so NEW levees broke. I am 21 years old and I saw three of the 5 in my lakeview area be built buy the bush admistative funds all of the old ones worked fine and I am sick and tired of people talking about New Orleans events like they know what happened. No one tells you those were all NEW levees that broke so maybe you should talk about that intead of acting like this wasnt really a tragic event because it was and you shouldnt think lightly on it. Think about if you lost your home and then think about your mother, father, grandmother, sister, brother, cousins etc etc all lost their homes and then comment again on how it wasnt that serious of an event
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