[Verbatim From MEMA] PEARL–Hurricane Ike is expected to bring significant tidal surge to Hancock Harrison and Jackson counties even though the storm is heading toward the Texas coast.
The following are times for the strongest possibility of flooding at high tide:
--8:55 a.m.…
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[Gustav] - So Far, So Good: Whew
It's 2:04 p.m. Monday, and Gustav didn't turn out to be the monster we feared. Thank God. It's raining here in Jackson, and we're keeping our eyes out for tornados. Our biggest challenge in the city is caring for evacuees in the shelters. There is early evidence that the shelter…
by DonnaLadd on 09/01/08 at 01:03 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
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[Katrina] - Hurricane Katrina: Two Years Later
As our state and our Louisiana neighbors face the two-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina with many thousands of people still living in FEMA trailers, and the possibility of another hurricane looming, the Jackson Free Press pauses to send a prayer to all the victims of a devastating hurricane. Click here…
by DonnaLadd on 08/29/07 at 07:58 AM Comments (10) -- Read More...
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[Katrina] - FEMA: PR 146 MS FIRE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE $137,000
Here's our first press release from FEMA/verbatim
MISSISSIPPI FIRE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE MORE THAN $137,000 IN FUNDING THROUGH FEMA'S ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT PROGRAM
ATLANTA – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded $137,588 in Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to local fire departments and emergency medical services organizations in the state of Mississippi. Nationally, the fiscal year (FY) 2007 AFG awards, which will be distributed in phases, will ultimately provide over $490 million to fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical service organizations throughout the country.
by DonnaLadd on 08/17/07 at 02:50 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
MISSISSIPPI FIRE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVE MORE THAN $137,000 IN FUNDING THROUGH FEMA'S ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT PROGRAM
ATLANTA – Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded $137,588 in Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to local fire departments and emergency medical services organizations in the state of Mississippi. Nationally, the fiscal year (FY) 2007 AFG awards, which will be distributed in phases, will ultimately provide over $490 million to fire departments and nonaffiliated emergency medical service organizations throughout the country.
by DonnaLadd on 08/17/07 at 02:50 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Barbour Calls Special Session on Coast Housing
[verbatim statement] (JACKSON, Mississippi) * Governor Haley Barbour announced today he has called a Special Session of the Mississippi Legislature for Thursday to ask legislators to reduce the cost of construction of new homes on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
by DonnaLadd on 10/02/06 at 02:30 PM Comments (4) -- Read More...
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[Barbour] - Barbour Overblowing Katrina Progress Claims
Read JFP's KatrinaBlog
Bill Minor takes Gov. Haley Barbour to task this week over the myth that the Coast is in such better shape a year after Katrina:
Presidential non-candidate Haley Barbour was recently up in Iowa, the presidential testing ground,…
by DonnaLadd on 08/25/06 at 09:55 AM Comments (44) -- Read More...
Bill Minor takes Gov. Haley Barbour to task this week over the myth that the Coast is in such better shape a year after Katrina:
Presidential non-candidate Haley Barbour was recently up in Iowa, the presidential testing ground,…
by DonnaLadd on 08/25/06 at 09:55 AM Comments (44) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - A Louisiania Journalist on Life After Katrina
Read a piece by our new friend, Scott Jordan, of the The Independent Weekly, the Lafayette, La., alternative newspaper and a new member of the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. And as you read this piece, please recall that this is one of the small, locally owned publications that the…
by DonnaLadd on 08/24/06 at 11:11 AM Comments (0) -- Read More...
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[Katrina] - Barbour Adds Gulf Coast to Special Session
Earlier this week, Gov. Barbour announced a special session to allot corporate welfare to a North Mississippi project. After criticism that his call was ignoring dire needs on the Coast, he expanding the call to include issues vital to the Gulf Coast, which is struggling a full year after…
by DonnaLadd on 08/22/06 at 02:26 PM Comments (7) -- Read More...
by DonnaLadd on 08/22/06 at 02:26 PM Comments (7) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - New Katrina Reports Rips Bush ... Again
Don't we know it. AP is reporting:
A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if…
by DonnaLadd on 04/27/06 at 08:06 PM Comments (8) -- Read More...
A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if…
by DonnaLadd on 04/27/06 at 08:06 PM Comments (8) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - $11 Million Slated for Agencies, Bay St. Louis, Waveland
[Just in from Lott's office/vertim] WASHINGTON - Federal funding totaling more than $11 million is slated for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts in Waveland, Bay St. Louis and includes federal assistance for two Mississippi State Agencies, U.S. Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran said today. "Hurricane Katrina impacted virtually every Mississippian…
by DonnaLadd on 04/24/06 at 02:35 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
by DonnaLadd on 04/24/06 at 02:35 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Sun-Herald and Times-Picayune Win Pulitzer Prizes
The Sun-Herald in Biloxi and the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, two newspapers that showed amazing courage, and begged the world to pay attention to the immediate effects of Hurricane Katrina, have won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, the Pulitzer Board announced today. The Times-Picayune also won the Pulitzer Prize…
by DonnaLadd on 04/17/06 at 02:47 PM Comments (10) -- Read More...
by DonnaLadd on 04/17/06 at 02:47 PM Comments (10) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Bill Minor Rips Sid Salter, The Chipper, et al
Columnist Bill Minor rips the Ledge's Sid Salter a well-deserved new one over his playing into the partisan Mississippi-vs.-Louisiana rhetoric. This has been one of the toughest political games to watch since Katrina: one victim state pitted against another one. And it started immediately. (We also like the way…
by DonnaLadd on 03/08/06 at 09:55 PM Comments (55) -- Read More...
by DonnaLadd on 03/08/06 at 09:55 PM Comments (55) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Testimony of Gov. Haley Barbour about Katrina - March 7
[verbatim]
Testimony of Governor Haley Barbour to U. S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
March 7, 2006
Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Committee:
Thank you for this opportunity to join you today to discuss the worst natural disaster in our nation's…
by DonnaLadd on 03/08/06 at 09:50 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Testimony of Governor Haley Barbour to U. S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
March 7, 2006
Mr. Chairman and distinguished members of the Committee:
Thank you for this opportunity to join you today to discuss the worst natural disaster in our nation's…
by DonnaLadd on 03/08/06 at 09:50 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned *Before* Katrina
So much for passing the buck:
In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to…
by DonnaLadd on 03/01/06 at 11:40 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to…
by DonnaLadd on 03/01/06 at 11:40 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Will Mississippi Go ‘Blue’ After Katrina?
Buried in a story today by The Clarion-Ledger's Ana Radalet is an intriguing question: How many new Democratic voters will Mississippi gain due to Louisiana evacuees? One also has to wonder how many "red" voters the GOP is going to lose on the Gulf Coast due to the terrible…
by DonnaLadd on 02/26/06 at 11:07 AM Comments (1) -- Read More...
by DonnaLadd on 02/26/06 at 11:07 AM Comments (1) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - 1,500 Feared Dead in Phillipines Mudslide
A big day for prayers. AP is reporting:
A rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud in the eastern Philippines on Friday, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in sludge three stories high. At least 23 bodies were recovered, but 1,500 people were…
by DonnaLadd on 02/17/06 at 11:57 AM Comments (0) -- Read More...
A rain-soaked mountainside disintegrated into a torrent of mud in the eastern Philippines on Friday, swallowing hundreds of houses and an elementary school in sludge three stories high. At least 23 bodies were recovered, but 1,500 people were…
by DonnaLadd on 02/17/06 at 11:57 AM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - White House Knew of Levee Break Night of Storm
The New York Times is reporting:
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush administration officials said they had been caught by surprise when they were told on Tuesday, Aug. 30, that a levee had broken, allowing floodwaters to engulf New Orleans. An examination of documents shines…
by DonnaLadd on 02/10/06 at 03:52 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Bush administration officials said they had been caught by surprise when they were told on Tuesday, Aug. 30, that a levee had broken, allowing floodwaters to engulf New Orleans. An examination of documents shines…
by DonnaLadd on 02/10/06 at 03:52 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Is Bush Neglecting the Gulf Coast?
USA Today reports today that many Coast residents feel slighted by the State of the Union address:
Many Gulf Coast residents spent Wednesday angrily counting the words President Bush devoted to their storm-battered region in his State of the Union speech. The tally: Bush addressed 165…
by DonnaLadd on 02/02/06 at 10:12 AM Comments (1) -- Read More...
Many Gulf Coast residents spent Wednesday angrily counting the words President Bush devoted to their storm-battered region in his State of the Union speech. The tally: Bush addressed 165…
by DonnaLadd on 02/02/06 at 10:12 AM Comments (1) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - White House Was Warned About Katrina’s Potential
The Clarion-Ledger is reporting:
Although President Bush said no one could foresee Hurricane Katrina's destruction, documents show the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's likely impact days before the hurricane hit. Several lawmakers lashed out at the Bush administration on Tuesday for failing to…
by DonnaLadd on 01/25/06 at 01:46 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Although President Bush said no one could foresee Hurricane Katrina's destruction, documents show the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's likely impact days before the hurricane hit. Several lawmakers lashed out at the Bush administration on Tuesday for failing to…
by DonnaLadd on 01/25/06 at 01:46 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
[Katrina] - Grisham: Silent Nights on the Gulf Coast
This may be the best thing John Grisham has ever written, today in the New York Times. This is the last section, but read the whole thing:
Unlike New Orleans, where the floods were heaviest in the poorer neighborhoods, the Gulf Coast experienced damage that cut…
by DonnaLadd on 12/25/05 at 12:43 PM Comments (0) -- Read More...
Unlike New Orleans, where the floods were heaviest in the poorer neighborhoods, the Gulf Coast experienced damage that cut…
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