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Hurricane Katrina
Within four days of Katrina's landfall on Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, President George W. Bush signed a 10.4 billion aid package and ordered 7,200 National Guard troops to the region. -
Hurricane Katrina
Hundreds of firefighters from other cities who volunteered to help in the response were rerouted to Atlanta, where they sat through two days of presentations on sexual harassment and the history of FEMA before being sent to New Orleans. -
Hurricane Katrina
FEMA Director Michael Brown, who resigned over his handling of the response, later told a group of students that the White House only wanted to federalize the response in Louisiana, where the governor was a Democrat, and not in Republican-led Mississippi in order to embarrass Louisiana officials. Brown said the White House believed they had a chance to “rub Kathleen Blanco’s nose in it.” -
Hurricane Katrina
An investigation by Congressional Republicans, while placing most of the blame on the Bush administration, singled out New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin for not ordering an evacuation of the city until less than 24 hours before Katrina’s landfall. Nearby Plaquemines Parish had ordered an evacuation a day earlier. -
Hurricane Katrina
The federal government didn’t waive the Stafford Act, which requires localities to contribute 10 percent of the cost of reconstruction and clean-up projects, until May. -
Works Cited
10 facts about the Katrina response. POLITICO. (n.d.). https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/10-facts-about-the-katrina-response-081957#:~:text=Within%20four%20days%20of%20Katrina’s,additional%20%2451.8%20billion%20in%20aid.