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...left town with six friends, driving to Memphis to stay with one of their families. It was supposed to be a “hurricane vacation,” a chance to get out of New Orleans while yet another storm drove past the city. Last September, for Hurricane Ivan, Noero rode with some frat buddies all the way to Houston, where they went to concerts and bars as if they had planned the trip all along...
Every single purchase during a natural-disaster-relief operation is billed to a four-digit federal code. In accounting terms, Hurricane Charley was known as 1539 and 1543. Ivan had nine codes, starting with 1548, one for each state affected by the emergency. Hurricane Katrina is such a vast and expensive undertaking that it has been assigned 45 separate codes: 1602 for Florida, 1603 for Louisiana, 1604 for Mississippi and 1605 for Alabama, plus one for every state taking in evacuees. For months and perhaps years to come, those codes will be used by the Federal Government...
...share of the blame falls on local and state officials. The people that run New Orleans do not even seem to have read their own emergency response plan, which explicitly warned of thousands of poor residents that could be left behind, or learned anything from the experience of Hurricane Ivan in 2004, during which time the poor and sick were also abandoned in the city. Louisiana officials (Senator Mary Landrieu’s threat to literally “punch” their critics notwithstanding) should have to answer why, if levy repairs were so positively critical, they could...
...their credit, Nagin and state officials did pull off a complex traffic-evacuation plan that weekend, which involved reversing the traffic flow on three interstates. A similar scheme led to massive gridlock last year during Hurricane Ivan. Officials had just finished a new plan, weeks before Katrina. For people with cars, it worked beautifully. An estimated 80% of the population evacuated, which--if true--is a major accomplishment in any city--but especially in New Orleans, where residents have to travel at least 80 miles to get out of harm...
...damage, the real squeeze on the consumer's wallet may not be felt until winter when natural gas prices are certain to be higher, since U.S. utilities rely on natural gas for 16-18 percent of their fuel for electricity generation. Then there's oil. After Hurricane Ivan had severely damaged seven oil platforms and key pipelines buried 20 to 30 feet deep in underwater mudslides near the mouth of the Mississippi, President Bush tapped into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, a move the Administration dubbed "an exchange" since it called for the supplies to be replaced. Political critics are pressing...