Look, I detest FEMA more than anyone. I lived in NOLA after Katrina.
But even though it failed big-time, federal emergency management services are still needed…

I lol’d at one of the comments on the CNN blog: ”And the Titanic didn’t need lifeboats?”

Paul is toast. He should quit now before he embarrasses himself in his (10th? 11th?) presidential run..
Source:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/27/ron-paul-we-dont-need-fema/#more-172609

Katrina and Ike?
and what are some new auto manufacture trends made to lower use of oil?

08/29/2005 Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA - Video on Canal Street - Katrina Raw Master 16. To license this footage, visit www.stormchasingvideo.com 08 Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA - Video on Canal Street and North Peter Street. Footage of hurricane force winds from Katrina slamming into the downtown area across the street from Harrah’s Casino and Hotel on Canal Street. Raw footage with lots of high winds and debris flying through the air as the hurricane winds rip apart the city.

08/29/2005 Hurricane Katrina, Biloxi Mississippi, Part 1 of 6 of the raw footage shot during Hurricane Katrina. Footage shot before, during and after Katrina mad landfall with the 28 foot high storm surge that destroyed the coastline. Footage shows the storm surge moving into the area while people are taking shelter at the Mississippi Coat Coliseum Arena as the storm destroys the region.

08/29/2005 Raw B-Roll footage shot during Hurricane Katrina in the New Orleans, LA French Quarter. POV footage while driving in the French Quarter as the hurricane rips apart the area. Additional tripoded video at the intersection of Dauphine Street and Conti Street. POV footage continues around the French Quarter until the intersection of Conti Street and Royal Street where whiteout condition from the high winds were slamming into the area and blowing debris through the air.

DVD For Sale: www.UltimateChase.com Storm Chaser Mike Theiss and Jim Reed takes you up close and personal with Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina video, NOAA Research Hurricane Hunter Flight. - Hurricane Katrina NOAA CC. To license this footage, visit www.stormchasingvideo.com “stock video” “archive footage” “Hurricane Katrina” “New Orleans” hurricanes 2005 Video Title Hurricane Katrina video, NOAA Research Hurricane Hunter Flight. Full Description: Raw master video from a National Weather Service NOAA Gulf Stream V high altitude research aircraft. NOAA hurricane hunter is not the same as the US Air Force Hurricane Hunter. Shot on 08/26/2005. Screen Format: 16:9 Video Format: Standard Definition License Type: Rights Managed

Part B - 08/29/2005 B-Roll aftermath footage shot around the New Orleans, LA International Airport that shows the huge difference in the damage depending on the location around the metro area. On the south side of the airport along Airline Highway, there is no flooding, only damage from the high winds. While the south side of the airport was high and dry, the north side of the airport at Williams Blvd. and Veterans Blvd. was flooded with several feet of water and the water was still rising. Footage includes cars floating in the high water and people walking in the high water while large police truck drive through the flooded roadways.

By important I mean like big, powerful. Not just some random storm.
I have to compare a hurricane to Hurricane Andrew and Katrina.

Part A - B-Roll video of Hurricane Katrina as the storm starts to hit the Lake Pontchartrain Levee in Kenner, LA. The winds from Katrina start to pick up and the water starts to rise as the hurricane pushes the water to the south side of Lake Pontchartrain and the water starts to rise into a parking lot and over the lake wall. Footage shots include tree’s blowing in the wind and a stop sign being torn apart by the winds of the hurricane. Video also includes footage of the Kenner, LA police out patrolling in the middle of the storm to secure the area around the Pontchartrain Center.

www.UltimateChase.com Exclusive video shot by Mike Theiss from ground zero of Hurricane Katrina’s historic 28 foot storm surge that ripped through Gulfport, Mississippi on August 29th, 2005. This video has a time stamp to give a complete and accurate timeline from the Holiday Inn beachfront hotel located directly on the beach in Gulfport. Also, included are shots from the Theiss-Device which is a camera housing designed by Mike to be placed in a place that would be too dangerous from any human to survive. This 13 minute video will give you a sense of just how bad Katrina was on the Gulf Coast without actually putting you in harms way !!! To see the entire version of this video about 2 hours in duration please purchase the DVD “Battle at the Beachfront”. http Jim Reed and Mike Theiss hope this documentation helps enforce a sense of storm awareness and a respect for the power of mother nature. When local officials ask you to evacuate just think of this video and ask yourself do you want to risk being put in a situation like this ?

08/29/2005 Raw B-Roll footage shot during the escape from New Orleans, LA as the city begins to flood from Hurricane Katrina as the levees failed. Footage shot on the western side of the eye wall as New Orleans, LA is still being slammed by the hurricane force winds. POV Footage with flying debris as the cameraman navigates through the flooding to try and get out of the city before being trapped by the rising flood waters. Footage from St. Bernard Avenue and North Claiborne Avenue to Canal Street, then over to Tulane Avenue and Broad Street. Then the drive continues at Earhart Blvd and Washington Ave as the Washington Avenue Canal spills over its banks. Video ends at the South Carrollton Avenue entrance to Interstate 10.

Filmed with a Standard 8 movie camera. Shows flying debris, roof sheeting coming off, boats washed ashore, buildings demolished in Townsville, Queensland, Australia. Restored and sound effects added. Contact me for more details.

Katrina or Charley anymore. Katrina destroyed d@mn near 2 whole states, killed thousands of people. Charley destroyed 3 Florida counties, killed about 40 people, some of whom died from complications and aftermath of the storm. Ike was what, a cat. 2 at most?? Charley and Katrina were cat. 5’s!!! I was here for Charley. It destroyed my whole city, my school, it destroyed my house, I’m still making repairs after 4 years… 6 months after Charley hit, my father died, now i’m the only person to make repairs on my home, and my grandmothers house! Katrina did so much more damage that ike and charley, but compared to katrina and charley, ike was nothing, and those morons in houston want to b*tch about a few broken windows in a stupid building! God, count your blessings you selfish morons. At least your buildings are still standing, unlike the rest of ours.

Sorry, I do not mean to offend anyone, I just really needed to vent, and am hoping that some will understand what I mean.
Every hurricane is not the same. And there is no possible way that ike is anywhere near the damage that Katrina wrought.
And that is true, most of that money was wasted. My alma mater wont have a real building until at least 2012, and Charley hit in 2004. But they got the football field done in 6 months. Oh, and all those pretty lampposts along the bridge.
PG, on the river.
9/11 is an entirely different subject. No one ever talks about that either anymore though, you do have a great point. Why dont we ever talk about it anymore? Out of sight, out of mind. Just like the natural disasters. And, we had an hours notice at most when charley hit, because it was supposed to be about 120 miles north of us. We didnt have much of a choice of leaving or staying.

tipjoy.com www.hurricanetrack.com This is the third part of my three part series of videos from the “Tracking the Hurricanes: 2005″ DVD of hurricane Katrina. This video picks up 47 days after Katrina along the battered coast of Mississippi. We make our way to Waveland where my colleague and I were going to ride out Katrina in the “safety” of the fire department (make sure you watch parts one and two to understand the sequence of events). We interview fire chief David Garcia as we drive through an almost completely flattened Waveland. The video does not begin to convey the enormity of the devastation there. I end the Katrina section with a music tribute that I composed and performed myself just for the DVD. I think you will find it moving. You can learn more about our work at www.hurricanetrack.com

Everyone knows how this happened.
Bush/Cheney planned 9/11. BUT, they could not blame Iraq directly, so they called OBL, and told him he would be the fall guy. OBL agreed, as he did with the Clintons on the Cole, the Embassies, and previous WTC attack.(Bush was behind all those attacks, too, shhh) They don’t want you to know that either.
Then, after getting Saddam, they would stay there for years after, to control the oil supply. Pay no attention to how much oil we bought from Iraq prior to the invasion.
Also, the government’s secret Hurricane producing machine would create a storm so severe that it could wipe out an entire city. New Orleans was chosen, so the government could use a hurricane as an excuse to raise oil prices. So Bush is behind Katrina TOO!!!
The attacks in Spain, London, and all over the world were orchestrated by Bush, to make people believe we’re in a war on terror. Watch Tony Blair’s bank account after he leaves office. He was in on it too.
IT IS SO OBVIOUS!

Ride walks with Janice White of the Red Cross in GROUND ZERO of the 9th Ward, talking about what the public is not being told and has been left unknown to the rest of the world. She is amazed when finding an intact glass bowl, yet the house around it is completely destroyed. New Orleans Firefighter Adam Woodruff digs through the rubble on his daily USAR mission, however Urban Search and Rescue has turned to Recovery of the more than 1000 missing bodies. He tells how the houses he scours for cadavers is no different than his own in New Orleans East - even as a first responding Firefighter - like over 80% of the rescuers and city itself, he lost everything he owns as well. In Arabi, a grandmother Ride meets cries as she mourns the loss of the 100s of photographs she took of her grandchildren. Elsewhere at GROUND ZERO of Lakeview, Ride talks to another woman, whose mother’s house was directly in front of the levee break. She searches for a single whole teacup - anything in one piece to bring back to her mom. In this episode, we see how personal loss is, and nearly no one in the city was immune - firefighter or civilian, rescuer or victim. ABOUT THE FILM MAKER: Ride Hamilton was the only photo-journalist to never evacuate - and stay living and participating in the New Orleans community throughout Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the electricity-less, water-less, and MRE, heat, and mosquito-filled months afterwards. While instantly becoming a citizen first-responder and the …

When Hurricane Katrina headed for New Orleans, I realized this was the storm of the century and a once in a lifetime opportunity presented itself. With my brothers prodding and little to no planning, we hopped in the car to Biloxi, MS. Top winds were estimated to be 95 mph sustained at our location. Part 1 of 2.

7 minutes of additional footage from 26 hurricanes at various locations in N. America and the Caribbean

• Only 2 percent of the federal government’s hurricane-related funding went toward education recovery.

• The costs of hurricane destruction in K-12 and higher education were estimated at .2 billion, but only .2 billion in federal funding had been committed to restoring physical structures and property. Some rebuilding funds have come from the local and state levels and insurance, but several projects are unfinished.

• Displaced students re-enrolled in schools in 49 states, but a lack of adequate federal funding meant that schools with the greatest number of displaced students had insufficient classrooms, staff and supplies to support them. The report found that as many as 15,000 K-12 public school students and 35,000 college students in Louisiana and Mississippi missed school last year due to lingering problems associated with Katrina.

• Nearly one out of every six students in Louisiana’s public colleges and universities dropped out for the 2005-06 school year. In the 2006-07 school year, more than 26,000 students from Louisiana public colleges and almost 9,000 Mississippi college students remained out of school.

SPOTLIGHT: KATRINA PET AND ANIMAL RESCUE FOOTAGE! Ride Hamilton shows the FOURTH intense video excerpt from his in-progress Hurricane Katrina Documentary. The only tapestry of stories filmed LIVE as it was and STILL IS happening. It covers in tragic, emotional, and honest detail - everyday of the storm from DAY ONE to TODAY. ——————— THIS PODCAST: Ride walks with Janice White of the Red Cross through the worst hit area of the 9th Ward. He asks, “Why is the section locked off?” She answers, “There’s too many dead bodies in these houses, and we also don’t know which ones may fall down on you.” She continues, “Maybe by December we can find the bodies and let residents in.” Then, Ride continues with the dedicated pet and animal rescue volunteers as they try to save a dog desperately trapped between houses that are collided together. It’s literally a maze of wood, nails, metal, and debris. The dog was spotted by boat weeks ago, and now as some land is beginning to dry, the pet rescue volunteers come back to try again to rescue this same dog. Alas, it is still trapped, and all they can do is leave food and water. ——————— ABOUT THE FILM MAKER: Ride Hamilton was the only photo-journalist to never evacuate - and stay living and participating in the New Orleans community throughout Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the electricity-less, water-less, and MRE, heat, and mosquito-filled months afterwards. While instantly becoming a citizen first-responder and …

I have lived in New Orleans for 7 months. Obviously there is not a huge supply of used furniture, household goods, etc., in the city due to the extensive damage from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. With that said, does anyone know of any good used stores, still up and running, or newly opened in the area? I am looking for great old furniture, pottery, etc.. Any information would be greatly appreciated!

Ever since 2004 and Katrina these idiot Meteorologist predict a busy hurricane season, I think they are buying into the global catastrophe theories that the Discovery channel is burning out. I want a job where I make 100000. a year, wrong 90% of the time and still don’t get fired.

You’ve considered two different economic shocks resulting from Katrina:

1) An aggregate supply shock: Katrina increased energy prices and temporarily reduced U.S. productive capacity.
2) An aggregate demand shock: Government responded to the hurricane with massive expenditures on aid and rebuilding.

What does the aggregate supply and aggregate demand model predict about the combined impact of these shocks on the U.S. economy?

A. Real GDP will definitely fall, but the price level will definitely rise.

B. Real GDP may rise or fall, but the price level will definitely fall.

C. Real GDP may rise or fall, but the price level will definitely rise.

D. Real GDP will definitely rise, but the price level may rise or fall.