The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA:
Disaster Planning or Planning a Disaster?
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The
Big Disconnect
-
US Won't
Let Canada Help Katrina Victims
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FEMA: Brown finds out about the Convention Center on TV (Audio
here if the video disappears) They only found out on THURSDAY!!!
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FEMA screws up again! Wrong city!
- FEMA: Does
this look a little
out of date to you? (Check the dates on the publications)
- Happily, at least some FEMA employees got labor day
off. Compare
Sunday's and
Monday's "National Situation Update" At least they changed the day and
date.
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FEMA: Blame the Victim
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Homeland Security
bars Red Cross from delivering food
-
Florida airboaters are not allowed to assist.
- Twenty police and six medical volunteers
turned away by FEMA
- FEMA cuts communication
lines for Jefferson Parish.
- Excerpt from above- Chertoff: "New
Orleans dodged the bullet".
Newspaper front pages for 30 August 2005
- FEMA Rap
for Kidz (On site)
- Allbaugh steps down as
director of FEMA to manage a company to support other companies wanting to
do business in Iraq.
Michael Brown is appointed FEMA director even though he had no
previous disaster management experience.
Brown was fired from his previous job because of mismanagement.
Brown's work at
International Arabian Horse Association
- FEMA does not fund Louisiana's
pre-disaster mitigation funding request
- FEMA recognizes that
Katrina has the possibility of being a major storm
-
DHS
's Chertoff argues that Katrina scenario did not exist.
- Twenty police and six
medical volunteers
turned away by FEMA
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About 100 people die after being rescued from their roofs and not
provided food, shelter, or water.
-
Florida airboaters are not allowed to assist.
-
Homeland
Security bars Red Cross from delivering food
- FEMA:
Exhaustion and Illness adding to Death Toll
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FEMA cuts communication lines for
Jefferson Parish. Sheriff reconnects lines and posts armed guards.
- Apparently, FEMA
employees took off on Monday since
Sunday's
and Monday's
reports are the same page (except for the date). These are real links, not
like my highlighted links.
- Aid Agencies Need
Help
-
Five ways to fix FEMA
-
The
only lifeline was Wal-Mart
- It's
the Governance, Stupid!
- Mayor Ben Morris of Slidell, La: "FEMA
better bring weapons if they are taking our materials"
-
Chertoff, not FEMA delayed the Federal response
- FEMA
grant program ends. Were the funds distributed fairly?
- Unable to keep up with demand,
FEMA closes
relief station
- October 8th! FEMA
wrong number
- FEMA
in chaos at the start, memos show
- The
government has no plans for disaster relief
-
FEMA ignored warnings (Oct 21 2005)
- Read Brownie's e-mails. "I
am a fashion god"
- FEMA gives 150,000 Katrina victims
15 days to leave hotels
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FEMA forced to extend housing benefit.