For example, Cuba offered to send 1,586 doctors and and at least 26 tons of supplies and equipment, but it was never used.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/05/katrina.cuba/
It’s said that people have to make everything about politics in times that truly matter, where people need help.
Allied countries offered 4 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But ONLY million has been used. http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/05/katrina.cuba/
Standing outside his restaurant in the city’s Faubourg Marigny district, Dale DeBruyne prepared for Gustav the way he did for Katrina — stubbornly.
"I’m not leaving," he said.
DeBruyne, 52, said his house was stocked with storm supplies, including generators.
"I stayed for Katrina," he said, "and I’ll stay again."
"This is the real deal, not a test," Nagin said as he issued the order, warning residents that staying would be "one of the biggest mistakes of your life." He emphasized that the city will not offer emergency services to anyone who chooses to stay behind.
Predictions are for a cat 5 hurricane. Cat 4 or 5. Doesn’t matter. Katrina should have been a wake up call for anybody living in the NO area. If people decide to stay, they’re gambling with their lives.
While stationed on the Island of Guam I had no other choice but to stay on island through the typhoons that struck. I remember Super Typhoon Paka very well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Paka
I guess he’s gotta do what he’s gotta do. He’s obviously a gambling man because he loves playing Russian Roulette. 
Good grief does anybody know anything about how are government works? Federal goverment can not step in until the state asks for help. And LA knew the hurricane was going to hit them for about 3+ days so why didn’t they ask for help before the hurricane hit? Why did they wait till afterwards? B/c if you read the news that day and in the following weeks, the fed gave ~ billion dollars to LA. And now you have Dems running around saying Bush didn’t do anything. He should have helped sooner. Why doesn’t he care. Like I stated before, Bush could not step in into the governor of LA, which is by the way a Dem, asked him for help. When she did ask for help though, noticed Bush sent military trucks in with food, medicine, and supplies to those people in New Orleans.
And for all those who said the fed could have done a better job, like one of the users stated below, how in the world do you plan for a whole city to become wiped out?
hey map that would have been nice but we have a balance system for a reason. If the Federal gov decided to do that with Katrina, then that means they can just but in whenever they feel like it into state business. That is what you are stating.
Guy stays in parking garage during hurricane Katrina
23 years of hurricane photography rolled into one 4 minute classical score; filmed by this world’s most experienced hurricane intercepter
News reporters get owned in hurricane force winds during Hurricane Ike. Some funny footage I put together during the hurricane. What else are ya gonna do while it’s raining outside??
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 may rise or fall, but the price level will definitely rise.
B. Real GDP will definitely fall, but the price level will definitely rise.
C. Real GDP may rise or fall, but the price level will definitely fall.
D. Real GDP will definitely rise, but the price level may rise or fall.
I think it’s A, because only the price level changes in the long run, correct?
I was In Broward County and this hurricane hit and left the lower half of Florida without power for about 2 weeks. It was right before Katrina or the one after it? I just can’t remember anymore..
http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~maue/tropical/
According to this, global hurricane activity is at a thirty year low. I admit I am just a dumb redneck, so I wanted all you self proclaimed climate surgeons to help me. You people keep telling us that worldwide, hurricane activity has increased, even though it has decreased to a whisper here in the Atlantic.
Go ahead, explain this one away…
Another point for the skeptics camp for not using a blog.
Starbuck, honestly I have trouble keeping up with these people and their "science."
Dr. Al Gore and his hockey stick graph was the "in" thing last decade.
After Katrina, they warned of more and more class 5 hurricanes.
Now they claim, that even with the poles defrosting, which should logically mean more rain, we will have another dust bowl era?
And they wonder why they are not taken seriously?
Less hurricanes is, less hurricanes.
Which contradicts what these climate scientists have been saying.
And how can these people look into their crystal balls and prognosticate 50 years into the future, when they could not see this coming?
By "you people" I am referring to, dana 1981, anarticice, paul, and any other self proclaimed climate surgeons who regularly post on this forum. They love to remind me that I am just being provincial, and not looking at the world as a whole.
I eagerly await their response to this contradiction.
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 may rise or fall, but the price level will definitely fall.
B. Real GDP may rise or fall, but the price level will definitely rise.
C. Real GDP will definitely fall, but the price level will definitely rise.
D. Real GDP will definitely rise, but the price level may rise or fall.
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Ride Hamilton shows the FIFTH 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: We see the flooded neighborhoods of New Orleans as they sit for weeks and even months. Cars and houses emerge from the oily brown waters like ghosts or monuments as the flood slowly drains away. Then in …
Ride Hamilton shows the SECOND intense video excerpt from his in-progress Hurricane Katrina Documentary. The only tapestry of stories filmed LIVE as it was happening. THIS PODCAST: Ride evacuates Robert Smallwood to the Convention Center, leaving him to be airlifted out. Elsewhere… Every morning Capt. Kenneth Kirsch sends out several Urban Search and Rescue teams to scour EVERY SINGLE HOUSE in New Orleans for bodies and those that might be left behind. Ruel Douvillier leads his USAR unit …
Just three weeks until Hurricane Season begins. Do you think this season will be really bad or not bad at all?
I live in Louisiana, and we haven’t got hit since Katrina. So it makes me wonder if we’ll get hit again this year. I wouldn’t be suprised with all this crazy weather lately.
It’s already August and still not so much as a tropical storm has made landfall. It’s almost as if Mother Earth is granting us immunity after Katrina.
But I mean, come on.. at least one category 1 to give me a few days off of work. And we just got new hurricane shutters.
What do you guys think?
HI! my name is ruby, i am 16 and my mom says that i have been suffering from PTS Post Traumatic Stress. But i’ve been fighting with it for 5 really really long years! i went through katrina, and it was hell for me, but i got through it some what, and then last year gustav hit. and that brought it all back and since then it has been a every day fight with it! hurricane season is one month away!
i’ve been going crazy trying to find a way to make it easier on me but nothing is working!
-i’ve kept a blog *privet so it’s more like a journal* just so i could keep track of my thoughts on this, and try to stay semi normal.
-i’ve got alot of pets and i’ve been dealing with them alot! you know as an anit-pts thing. it’s not really working because when i deal with them it’s more like "I do not have a record of you yet… lets go make one!" i’ve made records of my pets that way if any of them get’s lost i have all of there information with me at all times.
i know what has caused it. or at least i am pretty sure of it.
when we do go, we stay at my uncles house. it’s hell. my life is sorda insane, i go to sleep at 3AM and wake up at 11PM
do school, train my budgie, clean cages, break and write in journal, and work wth pets more. out there it’s nothing litke that it’s go to bed at 10PM and wake up at 5AM, eat 4 times a day, and they do not watch TV nor do they allow us to so i do not know what is going on, they don’t have internet, and the nearest place that does is 3 hours away! and radios don’t get great signals out there. i have to stay in the house because i am allergic to the bugs they have they also make my pets stay outside, so i don’t get to play with them. it’s just hell but that’s all mom goes to.
i’ve been in panic mode for the past 3 months, i do not know what to do!
i have gone to mom and she tells me that it’s my fault because i focus on it to much but i do not! i try my hardest to get away from it but sometimes the TV will air something about it and i’ll sorda freak out.
i want help from a therapist or something but mom won’t let me, and everytime i try to talk to my doctor about it she tells me to be quiet….
please help me i don’t know how much longer i can keep fighting with this
I decided this could be a significant storm, despite many people defying the odds and disregarding warnings. Therefore it seemed like a historic thing to try and capture the essence of the weekend Ike hit Texas. Hope you enjoy!! (Really I just wanted to see if I could get a large number of hits without the video having “sex” in the title)
Lack of coordination and confusion in the wake of Katrina has raised many questions. There are many religious groups that provide hurricane, tsunami, and earthquake relief, and, as always during disasters, various public officials became the scapegoats for our general lack of preparation for mega-disasters. Such an army could have multiple purposes: first, forming a command post, giving logistical support, providing a "war room" to supply coordination and strategy, and offering coordination of voluntary efforts with the approval of all involved. Secondly, serving as a prototype for a permanent worldwide relief force to supplant armies of destruction on the theory that, as we become more committed to the daunting task of relieving human suffering, we collectively become more reluctant to add to it through war! Everybody could help. A "positive heroism" ethic might replace militarism and gang ethics. The education and engineering corps of the this army could quickly set up schools..
i live on the southwest coast…which is basically where it’s projected to.
i’m used to super bad hurricanes. do you think fay will turn into at least a category 3 hurricane? or is too early to tell?
thanks!
i’ll keep watching the news/weather channel though 
yah usually they never turn out thaaat bad.
(except for katrina obviously)
the worst one for me was charley.
will the National Hurricane Center retired the name? Dont they usually do for monster storms such as Katrina and Camille?
Hurricane Katrina video from Slidell, LA as a 15 foot storm surge battered the area. TornadoVideos.net storm chasers were trapped on a second floor balcony in Slidell before catching a ride on a fishing boat, and hitch-hiking back to Oklahoma City. Check out TornadoVideos.net for more insane tornado and hurricane footage.
Hmm..Another "terrorist" attack? A Katrina-like disaster? In my opinion…its for the next self-inflicted wound commited by our government to be blamed on terrorists…but what do YOU think?
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2008/020308Prison.htm
Prison’s for your families. How does that sound? atleast they won’t split you up before they shoot you down.
Ride Hamilton shows the FIRST 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 stands on Lake Pontchartrain on the eve of Katrina. The next day, Ride grabs his cameras and starts filming. Quickly he discovers everything save a few neighborhoods is destroyed or flooded. He meets …
Watching the Saubat’s house flood in Chalmette during Hurricane Katrina. See the water go from 0 to 14ft. My neighbor stayed for the hurricane and video taped my house for as long as possible. Thanks to Mr. Ray Dacula.