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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:09:07 -0400, Phil <dogglebe@yahoooo.com> wrote:

>Here's a portion of the Katrina timeline, as per CBC News:
>
>http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/katrina/katrina_timeline.html
>
>Aug. 28, 2005
>Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 260 km/h winds, and heads
>for the northern Gulf coast. Mayor Nagin orders a mandatory evacuation
>for New Orleans, but 10 shelters are also set up, including the
>Superdome, for those unable to leave. Evacuation orders are posted all
>along the Mississippi coast. Alabama Governor Bob Riley declares a
>state of emergency.
>
>Aug. 29, 2005
>Katrina, now a Category 4 hurricane with 230 km/h winds, makes
>landfall near Buras, La., at 6:10 a.m. CT (7:10 a.m. ET). U.S.
>President Bush makes emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana and
>Mississippi, freeing up federal funds. Katrina rips two holes in the
>Superdome's roof, with some 10,000 people inside. At least eight Gulf
>Coast refineries shut down or reduce operations. Airports close in New
>Orleans, Baton Rouge, La., Biloxi, Miss., Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola,
>Fla. Hundreds of flights are canceled or diverted.
>
>Aug. 30, 2005
>The death toll in Mississippi rises to more than 100. Two levees break
>in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 per cent of the city
>and rising in some areas to six metres deep. Many people climb onto
>roofs to escape. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco says everyone
>still in New Orleans - an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people - must be
>gotten out. Crowds swell at the Superdome and the convention centre in
>New Orleans. Rescuers in helicopters and boats pick up hundreds of
>stranded people in New Orleans, and reports of looting begin to
>emerge. About 40,000 people are in American Red Cross shelters, not
>including in New Orleans. President Bush cuts short his vacation.
>
>
>Read August twenty-ninth carefully.  The day the hurricane reached New
>Orleans, Bush took action.
>
>
>Phil
>======

Oh please.

Here is a much more detailed timeline that reflects just how much
"action" the Bush administration took.

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline