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...prepared to handle the magnitude of the devastation. Its incompetent performance under the leadership of Michael Brown, who had no credentials or experience, reflects poorly on President George W. Bush, who was responsible for Brown's appointment. The majority of the blame, though, lies with local officials. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has a lot to answer for. Much of the grief his city experienced could have been prevented by responsible preparation...
Noero asked around, looking for others who were planning to stay put, but the more she talked, the more it became apparent that she should heed Mayor C. Ray Nagin’s plea to evacuate. That evening, she circled the streets in the New Orleans neighborhood of Uptown looking for gas, but the lines were so long that she simply jumped on the interstate to the neighboring parish to get fuel. She cruised the banks, trying one empty ATM after another before finally finding cash...
...going to try to work squads toward each other so when you meet you'll know you're done," says Mitch Ross, a team leader briefing the search groups on what part of the town they'll take. The local police and fire chiefs arrive with Westlake Mayor Dudley Dixon, who says he had no idea the Ohio USAR team was coming but thanks them for being there. Dixon gives the team what proves to be its most important briefing point of the day, about the downed power lines that entangle so many of the residential streets. "Everything...
...resident re-entry plan drew the ire of, among others, President Bush and his Katrina recovery director, Coast Guard Vice Admiral Thad Allen, who argued it was premature in light of the city's still ravaged and polluted state. Nagin in turn rebuked Allen for acting like "the federal mayor of New Orleans." ("We've since buried the hatchet," Nagin insists.) But, writes New Orleans Times-Picayune columnist Stephanie Grace, the fracas arose chiefly because "Nagin didn't line up the support he needed before opening his mouth, and he didn't take care of the specifics...
...Katrina demanded far more than business acumen-more than any mayor could be expected to rise to, say Nagin's defenders. He is credited with ordering a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans before the storm hit, but has made several missteps as well, including a failure to get enough buses to people stranded in flooded neighborhoods, his baffling four-day disappearance during the second week of the crisis when he went to Dallas to rent a house for his family and his overwrought estimate that the city's death toll could be 10,000 instead of the likely finally tally...