WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 - The White House was told in the hours before Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans that the city would probably soon be inundated with floodwater, forcing the long-term relocation of hundreds of thousands of people, documents to be released Tuesday by Senate investigators show.
A Homeland Security Department report submitted to the White House at 1:47 a.m. on Aug. 29, hours before the storm hit, said, 'Any storm rated Category 4 or greater will likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching.'
The internal department documents, which were forwarded to the White House, contradict statements by President Bush and the homeland security secretary, Michael Chertoff, that no one expected the storm protection system in New Orleans to be breached.
'I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees,' Mr. Bush said in a television interview on Sept. 1. 'Now we're having to deal with it, and will.'
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
White House Was Told Hurricane Posed Danger - New York Times
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I'm glad that there are documents that are about to come out that show that folks did anticipate exactly this but it pisses me off that documents have to come out to show this. I mean, I said that it would happen. And if I, who have no meteorlogical degrees, know that it could happen then surely someone at the white house should have known it. In addition, the year before a cat 3 threatened New Orleans and all these same issues were brought forward, so it wasn't like this storm was a surprise.
Even the Dutch, hell everybody, knew that a cat 4 would flood that city. I am to believe that the president of the United States didn't? Grrr.
well, i dont think that's the problem...them knowing. They KNEW, they're just getting called on LYING.
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