Monthly Archive: September 2005

At night, the stranded shine flashlights that make it easier for Coast Guard crews to spot them … For Skarra, flying at night over the city of New Orleans presents an image as surreal...

Chaos and gunfire hampered efforts to evacuate the Superdome, and, Superintendent P. Edward Compass III of the New Orleans Police Department said, armed thugs have taken control of the secondary makeshift shelter at the...

At the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Canal Street, Phyllis Patrick said she and other hotel guests were in “dire straits.” The hotel has been trying to bring in buses to evacuate them, but she said...

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent...

January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management. April 2001: Budget Director Mitch Daniels announces the Bush administration’s goal of...

Specialists in the Netherlands expressed surprise that New Orleans’s flood systems were unable to restrain the raging waters … “I don’t want to sound overly critical, but it’s hard to imagine that [the damage...

Venezuela, a target of frequent criticism by the Bush administration, offered humanitarian aid and fuel. Venezuela’s Citgo Petroleum Corp. pledged a $1 million donation for hurricane aid … in Moscow, a Russian official said...

[US President George Bush]”I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees.” Obviously not a subscriber to Scientific American.