Thousands feared dead....babies dying in the Superdome....rats feasting on
corpses lying in the streets....only 2,000 National Guardsmen initially
deployed (when there should have been 20,000).
At least 20 oil rigs and platforms are missing in the Gulf of Mexico. "Over
91 percent of normal daily crude oil production in the Gulf - 1.5 million
barrels - is now shut down, and more than 83 percent of natural gas
production." Ten or more airports face closure on account of jet fuel
shortages. Service stations, particularly in the South, are running dry,
due to panic buying and pipeline ruptures.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/new-orleans-imagery.htm
http://alt.ngs.noaa.gov/katrina/089I30C_KATRINA.HTM
http://www.radioreference.com/wiki/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/42309.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4207202.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ex88s
http://tinyurl.com/9o96a
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2005/08/31/disaster_preparation/index_np.html?x
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html |