Some of the time line.....for Katrina.
And BTW, President Bush declared LA a disaster area Saturday, August 27, 2005.... before he did the other states....
Sunday, August 28
12:40 am CDT (0540 UTC) - Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 4 intensity.
7 am CDT (1200 UTC) - Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 5 intensity.
9:30 am CDT (1430 UTC) - President Bush calls Governor Blanco, says he is “very concerned about the storm’s impact”, and urges Blanco and Nagin to order a mandatory evacuation. The Mayor and the Governor had a press conference scheduled for 9:30 AM during which they announced the mandatory evacuation. It seems apparent that the phone call from President Bush did not cause them to call for a mandatory evacuation. "We're facing the storm most of us have feared," Nagin told an early-morning news conference, the governor at his side. Katrina was now a Category 5 hurricane, set to make landfall overnight. Minutes earlier, Blanco had been pulled out to take a call from the president, pressed into service by FEMA's Brown to urge a mandatory evacuation. Blanco told him that's just what the mayor would order." [21]
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10 am CDT (1500 UTC) - National Weather Service issues a bulletin predicting "devastating" damage.
10 am CDT (1500 UTC) - Mandatory evacuation is ordered for New Orleans City by Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco[23].
Noon CDT (1700 UTC) - Louisiana Superdome opened as a "refuge of last resort".[24]
1 pm CDT (1800 UTC) - In the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina quickly strengthens to a strong Category 5. At its peak, hours from landfall, hurricane hunter planes measured 175 mph sustained winds, with gusts to 216 mph.
President Bush declares a state of emergency in Alabama [25] and Mississippi [26], and a major disaster in Florida [27] under the authority of the Stafford Act.
President Bush meets in videoconference with National Hurricane Director Max Mayfield to discuss hurricane Katrina while at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. [28] [29]
Governor Blanco makes arrangements with the Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico for National Guard reinforcements, however the federal authorities do not issue the required authorisation for these reinforcements until September 1.
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Second landfall
Monday, August 29
6:10 am CDT (1110 UTC) - Hurricane Katrina makes a second landfall near Buras, Louisiana, United States with 145 mph winds.
8 am CDT (1300 UTC) - New Orleans: Rising water on both sides of the Industrial Canal [30].
9 am CDT (1400 UTC) - New Orleans: 6-8 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward [31].
10 am CDT (1500 UTC) - Hurricane Katrina makes a third landfall near Pearlington, Mississippi, United States with 125 mph winds after crossing Breton Sound.
11 am CDT (1600 UTC) - New Orleans: 10 feet of water in St. Bernard [32].
10 am MST (1700 UTC) President Bush appears at the Pueblo El Mirage RV Resort and Country Club in El Mirage, Arizona for a Medicare event as the hurricane makes second landfall. [33] He adds, "I want to thank the governors of the affected regions for mobilizing assets prior to the arrival of the storm to help citizens avoid this devastating storm." [34]
2 pm CDT (1900 UTC) - New Orleans officials publicly confirm 17th Street Canal breach [35].
3 pm CDT (2000 UTC) - New Orleans Homeland Security Director Terry Ebbertt said “Everybody who had a way or wanted to get out of the way of this storm was able to."[36]
Governor Blanco sends 68 school buses into New Orleans from surrounding, unflooded parishes, to begin evacuating those left in the city.[
KP Note: Much more at the link -- but don't just look at Wiki...Look at the articles linked to this...
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