Hurricane Katrina Coverage

It looks like we're in for another round of hearings on the Hurricane Katrina response in Congress: Excerpts From Senate Hearing on Response to Flooding.

Because of the over 70 Katrina related posts on this blog, visits always appear to increase with the Katrina-related events in Washington.

A 'Hurricane Katrina' 'Special Series' section has been added to the side panel to assist visitors seeking Katrina related posts.

Here's are some of the highlights of this blog's coverage of Katrina:

• Hurricane Katrina: Just how much energy is in a hurricane?
• Providing assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina responsibly
• Exploring the relocation option for Hurricane Katrina victims
• Discussions on alternatives to rebuilding New Orleans: Continues to be the most popular post on this site with several hits a day regardless of events in Washington.
• What the MSM is not telling us
• The Federal/State of Louisiana emergency response agreement: A detailed look at the roles and responsibilities for local, state and federal agencies in disaster relief.
• Varifrank: 10 Things I learned From Hurricane Katrina: provides some very thoughtful analysis. Example:

  4. Civilization has a 24 hour shelf lifeModern humans think that the conditions they live in are natural; that people are nice and that they have no need for police forces or weapons and that peace in their neighborhoods will exist forever even with no authority imposed on it. Hurricane Katrina hits and 24 hours later its “lord of the flies”. Civilization, like fresh fish, tends to go off very quickly when there is no refrigeration. You should plan accordingly.

• Looking for holes in this thesis on the so-called lack of federal response in New Orleans
• $62,000 per person in federal aid and counting in Katrina
• Red Cross stopped from delivering aid by Louisiana Officials
• The hits keep on coming: Army's engineers spent millions on Louisiana projects labeled as pork
• Jean Schmidt is off to a fiscally irresponsible start as the Congresswoman for Ohio's 2nd District
• Mayor Nagin's ineptitude during the disaster is starting to border on the criminal...at least manslaughter
• Journalistic Malpractice
• Katrina: No bid purchases
• For those of you wondering how we got to Hurricane Ophelia from Katrina...
• Congressman Flake explains his vote against the $50 billion Katrina disaster relief
• Insanity: Repeating the same behavior and expecting different results
• Katrina Waste: At least $33,000 per person in cruise ship housing costs
• PorkBusters: Start of the movement to target wasteful spending and redirect it towards Katrina relief
• New Blog: Pork Reports from the Heritage Foundation
• Dammable Pork by John Stossel
• Details on Federal and State Response to Katrina
• Louisiana Senators ask for 1/4 of a trillion dollars for reconstruction
• DeLay totally clueless; Declares 'victory' in war on budget fat: This is marked the start of DeLay losing his support from fiscal conservatives.
• "To protect everything is to protect nothing."...Holman W. Jennkins, Jr.; Wall Street Journal Editorial
• Hey, Big Spender!: Peggy Noonan takes on our 'throw money at it' President.
• "It's all vital. There's not anything in here that we would consider a wish list or pie in the sky. This is what we really believe is essential." : To this very day, only one media outlet has covered this outrageous statement by Senator Landrieu.
• Tom DeLay's words ring hollow
• Congressman Mike Pence must be doing something right. Gets taken to the woodshed by Speaker Hastert
• First WaPo now Investor's Business Daily: Start Saying 'No'
• CNN: New Orleans Levee Problems Might Not be a Federal Issue After All
  Roger Simon on MSM and Katrina
• More on the Mississippi Attorney General and his efforts to rewrite contract law
• "No one was buying FEMA hats after 9/11, because FEMA is essentially a mop-up agency."
• Alternative energy sources used in Katrina recovery
• More on the so-called 'slow response' in New Orleans
• Katrina Disaster Relief Credit Cards
• Congresswoman's Schmidt's 'Talk'...now we await the 'Walk'
• Congressman John Boehner supports "Hurricane No Pork Pledge". Will Jean Schmidt take the pledge?
• Hugh Hewitt makes the case for Journalistic Malpractice on PBS
• Katrina Waste: Frozen water everywhere but in the spot you'd think
• Dallas Newspaper Flip-Flops on Pork
• More questioning the Katrina cruise ship contracts
• Rebuilding in New Orleans:"...negligent homicide"
• Let's see Senator Dorgan offer to fix the oil rigs in the Gulf
• Now we can say FEMA screwed up
• Des Moines Register editorial on Katrina cruise ship contract
• FEMA to re-bid contracts issued in aftermath of hurricanes
• Senator "It's all vital.." Landrieu throws a hissy fit.
• Actual cost of Katrina 6 month cruise ship contract could be as high as $100,000 per person
• Pork Gumbo
• Congress boosts funding for border patrol and seeks more accountability for Katrina aid
• Speaker Hastert: 'Talk'...now we await the 'Walk'
• Jean Schmidt votes to support Gasoline for Americas Security Act
• Jean Schmidt signs "No Pork Pledge"
• Flip-Flop alert
• Senator Ted Stevens throws a hissy fit
• Start of a trend towards sanity: Allstate Corp. will scale back its homeowners coverage in the Gulf Coast region after Hurricane Katrina caused it to take an ''unacceptable" loss of $1.55 billion in the third quarter, the insurer's chief executive said yesterday.
• President on Spending: Yada, Yada, Yada
• Flip Flop Alert: Bush reinstates Davis-Bacon
• Katrina Cruise Ship Update
• So now those school buses were FEMA's responsibility?
• Katrina:"News reports suggesting the government is paying $2,980 to $3,500 for the blue plastic tarps, when the usual going rate is only $300..."
• Report from Jean Schmidt's Town Hall Meeting
• Washington Times: Louisiana's frivolous spending continues even after hurricane disaster
• CSPAN: Grandstanding on a Grand Scale (Updated with archive video and Barbara Boxer's Publicity Stunt)
• Talk About Conflict of Interest!
• "... examine without sentimentality or fear of political incorrectness what was done.."
• The second wave of Katrina's disaster: Waste, Fraud and Corruption
• Katrina Disaster Area: Our Pompeii for future generations
• Congressional Katrina Hearings and Bush throwing money at New Orleans
• Realism starts taking root in Louisiana's flood plains