This post will remain at the top of the page for a while, so get used to it.The new posts are below this one. Donate for Katrina relief!Thursday, September 1, is Blogging for Katrina Relief day. More to come as we get organized. A good source of infomation about overall relief efforts, besides here, is [...]
Iraq Weekly Update 8-31-2005 [PDF file]On August 24, Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) in Baghdad responded to two separate insurgent attacks on police and civilians. The ISF tracked a group who assaulted a Baghdad police station, as well as another who ambushed police and civilian vehicles with rocket-propelled grenades. The ISF killed three and captured one [...]
I was in tears by the end of this story. How do we deserve men such as this?Michael YonIn order for leaders of Kurilla’s rank to know the pulse of the Iraqi people, they must make direct contact. There’s a risk in that. But its men like Kurilla who can make this work. Even and [...]
WWL TV Q.1. How long will it take to get the water out of New Orleans?A.1. We are unsure. A number of factors play into this. First, Lake Pontchartrain is at roughly 4.5 feet above sea level and falling. The city is at a lower elevation so water will continue to flow into it until [...]
FEMAFEMA deployed 23 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams from all across the U.S. to staging areas in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana and is now moving them into impacted areas.Seven Urban Search and Rescue task forces and two Incident Support Teams have been deployed and prepositioned in Shreveport, La., and Jackson, Miss., including teams from Florida, [...]
National GuardSpecial Forces boat crews were prepared to leave their Florida homes and conduct search and rescue operations in flooded, devastated communities in Mississippi or Louisiana or wherever they were needed. A joint force team from Florida was ordered to go to Jackson, Miss., to help that state manage its recovery from the effects of [...]
Unbelievable reporting continues from Josh Britton. On-the-spot reporting from the front lines, in this case evac triage.Josh BrittonI had the opportunity to speak with Steve Backstrom, the regional public health Emergency Response Coordinator with the LA Office of Public Health. Backstrom is heading up the special needs shelter which, I discovered, is playing a critical [...]
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New Orleans: I Hardly Knew You
Aug 30th, 2005
The Corps of Engineers, et al, is going to make a valiant attempt to fill the levee breaches which are flooding the New Orleans basin. Best case, the catastrophe we now have. Worst case, Atlantis.The huge pumps which we’ve all heard so much about can pump one inch of water per hour from the basin. [...]
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