a map in my own mind

According to a CNN article on Tuesday, September 27,

Former FEMA director Michael Brown aggressively defended his role in responding to Hurricane Katrina on Tuesday and put much of the blame for coordination failures on Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

“My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional,” Brown told a special congressional panel set up by House Republican leaders to investigate the catastrophe.

Here’s what I don’t get. How come he didn’t know until Saturday? I’m not saying that Louisiania was dysfunctional at all. But if Michael Brown was inclined to think they might be, how come it took five whole days to decide?

I understand that deciding is a problem for alot of people. But if you are in a position that requires you to react… like say an emergency management job… then I think maybe a mean time between action and reaction should be something less than five days.

Katrina was a big problem, requiring a big action. And I understand requiring more than five minutes to decide what to do. But waiting five days? That just seems excessive.

I wonder how long it takes Michael Brown to choose an entre from a two page single spaced menu?

Here’s a link to a site that has given me a great deal of mindless pleasure. Grab hold with your cursor and sling the figure into the bubbles. www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

Here are direct links to the pages I found posted by the New Orleans Times Picayune for the days since Hurricane Katrina.

The links which follow go directly to each page of the paper. The photographs are amazing. The editorials — usually found in the last couple of pages — send a very clear message to the rest of the country.

Wednesday, August 31

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a1.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a2.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a3.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a4.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a5.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a6.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a7.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a8.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a9.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a10.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a11.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a12.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a13.pdf

Thursday, September 1

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a1.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a2.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a3.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a4.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a5.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a6.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a7.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a8.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a9.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a10.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a11.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a12.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a13.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a14.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a15.pdf

Friday, September 2

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a1.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a2.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a3.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a4.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a5.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a6.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a7.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a8.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a9.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a10.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a11.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a12.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a13.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a14.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a15.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a16.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a17.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090205/a18.pdf

Saturday, Septmeber 3

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a1.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a2.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a3.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a4.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a5.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a6.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a7.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a8.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a9.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a10.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a11.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a12.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a13.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a14.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a15.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a16.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a17.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090305/a18.pdf

Sunday, September 4

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a1.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a2.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a3.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a4.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a5.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a6.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a7.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a8.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a9.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a10.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a11.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a12.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a13.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a14.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a15.pdf
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090405/a16.pdf

I’m so impressed that the New Orleans Times -Picayune Newspaper got back to publishing so quickly.

Here’s the link to the first page of the pdf from Wednesday, August 31

www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/083105/a1.pdf

I can’t seem to find a way to access the 14 page pdf all at once. Maybe because it would take a long time for a lot of people to be able to download it an see it, so it’s just be uploaded one page at a time.

Anyway, you have to change the end of the address to.. a2, a3 etc. so you can see the whole edition.

And if you change the part before that to 090105/a1.pdf etc..
www.nola.com/hurricane/katrina/pdf/090105/a1.pdf
then you can step thru subsequent on line editions.

What an amazing story. What amazing pictures!