Remember New Orleans
Three years ago today, Hurricane Katrina roared through the Gulf of Mexico and struck the United States coastline with an estimated force equal to a 20-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes.
Follow the link for a timeline of events surrounding the greatest natural and governmental disaster of our age, courtesy of blogofneworleans.com, the blog run by that city’s great alternative weekly, the Gambit.
Citizens there are again preparing to evacuate, as tropical storm Gustav battered Jamaica this morning, en route to the warm waters of the gulf, where forecasters predict it will strengthen into a hurricane as it moves toward the mouth of the Mississippi River.
April 25, 2008
Earth To McCain, It’s 2008
Three years after Hurricane Katrina devastated Louisiana, The New York Times reported this morning that Senator John McCain, during a visit to New Orleans yesterday, was critical of the Bush administration’s handling of the disaster. “Terrible and disgraceful,” said McCain and ticked off a long list of mistakes by the current administration, saying there were “unqualified people in charge, there was a total misreading of the dimensions of the disaster, there was a failure of communications.”
Gee, John, are you certain you’re not making that observation a little too hastily?
