en dat werd deze week ondertreept !quote:Corporate-America @ work.
quote:Hurricane Vince Advisory Number 2
Statement as of 5:00 PM EDT on October 09, 2005
...Vince becomes a hurricane while passing northwest of the Madeira
islands...
...Mainly a hazard for marine interests in the far eastern
Atlantic...
At 5 PM EDT...2100z...the eye of Hurricane Vince was located near
latitude 34.2 north... longitude 18.6 west or about 535 miles...
865 km... east-southeast of the Azores. This position is also
about 125 miles... 200 km... northwest of the Madeira islands.
Vince is moving toward the northeast near 6 mph... 9 km/hr. A
continued northeastward motion and a gradual increase in forward
speed are expected during the next 24 hours.
Maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph...120 km/hr...with higher
gusts. Little change in strength is forecast tonight... but Vince
is forecast to gradually weaken on Monday.
Hurricane force winds extend outward up to 15 miles... 30 km...
from the center... and tropical storm force winds extend outward up
to 80 miles... 130 km.
Estimated minimum central pressure is 987 mb...29.15 inches.
Repeating the 5 PM EDT position...34.2 N... 18.6 W. Movement
toward...northeast near 6 mph. Maximum sustained
winds... 75 mph. Minimum central pressure... 987 mb.
The next advisory will be issued by the National Hurricane Center at
11 PM EDT.
Forecaster Knabb
Mmm zouden die agenten niet beseffen dat Hurricane season nog niet is afgelopen ?quote:Op maandag 10 oktober 2005 16:11 schreef MartijnA3 het volgende:
Politie slaat een oude man in elkaar:
http://www.latimes.com/ne(...)ll=la-home-headlines
http://news.yahoo.com/s/a(...)rina_insurance_fraudquote:"I can tell you we are aware of those kind of allegations and we have seen claims where we view the fire as suspicious," said Allstate spokesman Bill Mellander.
"There has been an increase, or spike, in the number of claims in fire losses compared to what we would normally see," said State Farm Insurance spokesman Morris Anderson.
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The rash of fires is concerning because we have a lot of homes that did not have insurance or had the wrong insurance," said Lt. Allen Carpenter, director of the fraud investigation unit for the Louisiana State Police.
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The main type of homeowners' fraud that usually turns up after a hurricane is "claim padding," said Frank Scafidi, Director of Public Affairs at the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
"The policy owner has some damage, but during the period following the storm before adjusters get there they enhance it," he explained. "They knock the rest of the fence down, pull off the rest of their shingles."
Two types of automobile fraud are turning up — people passing off flood-damaged vehicles as undamaged and people claiming losses they did not have.
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Tips about people filing fraudulent claims have been pouring in from the public, Scafidi said.
voor meer, inclusief een kaartje van de diaspora zie: http://www.epodunk.com/top10/diaspora/quote:Hurricane Katrina blew down or flooded the homes of about 3.2 million people along the central Gulf Coast, including 1.3 million in metropolitan New Orleans and 250,000 in Gulfport and Biloxi.
"I'm safe in Orlando, Florida. Getting ready to go to San Diego. A mandatory evacuation order was issued for New Orleans, and authorities scrambled to provide emergency shelter for about 500,000 Americans. Perhaps an equal or greater number were staying with relatives or friends. Katrina caused the biggest mass migration in U.S. history, surpassing the 1927 flood of the Mississippi River. In terms of numbers permanently displaced, the only event that might have been bigger than Katrina is the Civil War.
Gezonde kick, en we laten het topic even open.quote:Op dinsdag 24 januari 2006 13:29 schreef multatuli het volgende:
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Bron: Yahoo news/ Associated Pressquote: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 confidential video footage.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."
The footage — along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press — show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.
Linked by secure video, Bush's confidence on Aug. 28 starkly contrasts with the dire warnings his disaster chief and a cacophony of federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.
A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" about the levees and then-
Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown told the president and
Homeland Security Secretary
Michael Chertoff that he feared there weren't enough disaster teams to help evacuees at the Superdome.
"I'm concerned about ... their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall.
Some of the footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 conflicts with the defenses that federal, state and local officials have made in trying to deflect blame and minimize the political fallout from the failed Katrina response:
_Homeland Security officials have said the "fog of war" blinded them early on to the magnitude of the disaster. But the video and transcripts show federal and local officials discussed threats clearly, reviewed long-made plans and understood Katrina would wreak devastation of historic proportions. "I'm sure it will be the top 10 or 15 when all is said and done,"
National Hurricane Center's Max Mayfield warned the day Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast.
"I don't buy the `fog of war' defense," Brown told the AP in an interview Wednesday. "It was a fog of bureaucracy."
_Bush declared four days after the storm, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" that gushed deadly flood waters into New Orleans. But the transcripts and video show there was plenty of talk about that possibility — and Bush was worried too.
White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Brown discussed fears of a levee breach the day the storm hit.
"I talked to the president twice today, once in Crawford and then again on Air Force One," Brown said. "He's obviously watching the television a lot, and he had some questions about the Dome, he's asking questions about reports of breaches."
Louisiana officials angrily blamed the federal government for not being prepared but the transcripts shows they were still praising FEMA as the storm roared toward the Gulf Coast and even two days afterward. "I think a lot of the planning FEMA has done with us the past year has really paid off," Col. Jeff Smith, Louisiana's emergency preparedness deputy director, said during the Aug. 28 briefing.
It wasn't long before Smith and other state officials sounded overwhelmed.
"We appreciate everything that you all are doing for us, and all I would ask is that you realize that what's going on and the sense of urgency needs to be ratcheted up," Smith said Aug. 30.
Mississippi begged for more attention in that same briefing.
"We know that there are tens or hundreds of thousands of people in Louisiana that need to be rescued, but we would just ask you, we desperately need to get our share of assets because we'll have people dying — not because of water coming up, but because we can't get them medical treatment in our affected counties," said a Mississippi state official whose name was not mentioned on the tape.
Video footage of the Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.
"We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event," Brown warned. He called the storm "a bad one, a big one" and implored federal agencies to cut through red tape to help people, bending rules if necessary.
"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."
Bush appeared from a narrow, windowless room at his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table. Hagin was sitting alongside him. Neither asked questions in the Aug. 28 briefing.
"I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.
A relaxed Chertoff, sporting a polo shirt, weighed in from Washington at Homeland Security's operations center. He would later fly to Atlanta, outside of Katrina's reach, for a bird flu event.
One snippet captures a missed opportunity on Aug. 28 for the government to have dispatched active-duty military troops to the region to augment the National Guard.
Chertoff: "Are there any DOD assets that might be available? Have we reached out to them?"
Brown: "We have DOD assets over here at EOC (emergency operations center). They are fully engaged. And we are having those discussions with them now."
Chertoff: "Good job."
In fact, active duty troops weren't dispatched until days after the storm. And many states' National Guards had yet to be deployed to the region despite offers of assistance, and it took days before the
Pentagon deployed active-duty personnel to help overwhelmed Guardsmen.
The National Hurricane Center's Mayfield told the final briefing before Katrina struck that storm models predicted minimal flooding inside New Orleans during the hurricane but he expressed concerns that counterclockwise winds and storm surges afterward could cause the levees at Lake Pontchartrain to be overrun.
"I don't think any model can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not but that is obviously a very, very grave concern," Mayfield told the briefing.
Other officials expressed concerns about the large number of New Orleans residents who had not evacuated.
"They're not taking patients out of hospitals, taking prisoners out of prisons and they're leaving hotels open in downtown New Orleans. So I'm very concerned about that," Brown said.
Despite the concerns, it ultimately took days for search and rescue teams to reach some hospitals and nursing homes.
Brown also told colleagues one of his top concerns was whether evacuees who went to the New Orleans Superdome — which became a symbol of the failed Katrina response — would be safe and have adequate medical care.
"The Superdome is about 12 feet below sea level.... I don't know whether the roof is designed to stand, withstand a Category Five hurricane," he said.
Brown also wanted to know whether there were enough federal medical teams in place to treat evacuees and the dead in the Superdome.
"Not to be (missing) kind of gross here," Brown interjected, "but I'm concerned" about the medical and mortuary resources "and their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe."
Waar komt dit vandaan? (m.a.w.: bron?)quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 01:08 schreef Doderok het volgende:
Er is een video opgedoken van de laatste briefing die Bush en Chertoff kregen over de verwachte gevolgen van Katrina.
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Bron toegevoegdquote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 01:24 schreef Dubbelzuurrr het volgende:
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Waar komt dit vandaan? (m.a.w.: bron?)
Welnee, dan valt ie gewoon nog eens een landje binnen. Iran, of zo.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 08:11 schreef Solopeople het volgende:
Schandelijk, als het waar is. Dit zal wel de nekslag worden voor de populariteit van Bush gok ik zo.
Ohja. Niks beters voor je populariteit dan een fikse oorlog op olierijk gebied inderdaad.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 08:17 schreef Lord_Vetinari het volgende:
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Welnee, dan valt ie gewoon nog eens een landje binnen. Iran, of zo.
Oldest trick in the book: Leid je volk af van binnenlandse problemen door in het buitenland aan de slag te gaan.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 08:20 schreef Solopeople het volgende:
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Ohja. Niks beters voor je populariteit dan een fikse oorlog op olierijk gebied inderdaad.
Geloof je het zelf? In het Midden-Oosten werkt dat misschien wel.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 08:20 schreef Lord_Vetinari het volgende:
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Oldest trick in the book: Leid je volk af van binnenlandse problemen door in het buitenland aan de slag te gaan.
bronquote:Video: Bush wist van omvang Katrina
Een video die woensdag door de Amerikaanse media is uitgezonden bevestigt dat de Amerikaanse president Bush al eerder op de hoogte was van de naderende ramp in New Orleans door de orkaan Katrina. De video is woensdag, zes maanden na de ramp, vrijgegeven.
Te zien is een bespreking - via videolink - van Bush met Michael Brown, het voormalige hoofd van de federale rampenbestrijdingsdienst FEMA.
Brown vertelt op 28 augustus, een dag voordat Katrina in alle hevigheid in New Orleans toesloeg, aan Bush dat het ‘op zijn zacht gezegd een grote wordt’. Het hoofd van het Nationale Orkaan Centrum, Max Mayfield, uit zijn zorg dat de dammen rond New Orleans het niet zullen houden.
Na de ramp kwam er erg veel kritiek op de FEMA, omdat het agentschap te langzaam zou hebben gereageerd. Brown moest aftreden.
Ernst
Het Witte Huis hield zich op de vlakte en zei niet goed op de hoogte te zijn geweest van de ernst van de dreigende ramp. Vier dagen na het overtrekken van de orkaan zei Bush dat ‘niemand had verwacht dat de dammen het zouden begeven’.
Bush vierde tijdens de briefing door Brown vakantie op zijn ranch in Texas. Hij stelde geen vragen, maar zei alleen dat hij ‘de lui op staatsniveau er van wil verzekeren dat wij geheel voorbereid zijn’. Begin februari werd al bekend dat Brown zijn bevindingen op 28 augustus had overgebracht aan een 'hoge functionaris in Washington'. Hij zei dit tijdens een getuigenis tegen de speciale staatscommissie die de trage hulpverlening na Katrina onderzoekt. Naar nu blijkt sprak Brown met president Bush zelf.
Links:
Bekijk de video
FEMA
Dossier: Katrina
O shit.... wat een puinhoop hebben ze gemaakt.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 01:08 schreef Doderok het volgende:
Er is een video opgedoken van de laatste briefing die Bush en Chertoff kregen over de verwachte gevolgen van Katrina.
Bron: Yahoo news/ Associated Press
De video zelf staat ook online http://news.yahoo.com/fc/us/hurricane_katrina
Dus de pers had de mensen moeten redden? de pers moet geen verslag meer doen van rampen?quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 10:09 schreef CeeJee het volgende:
De pers moet weer eens naar de politici wijzen, als er iemand de hulpverlening hebben dwarsgezeten waren zij het wel. Zie de smeekbede van Mississippi dat alle hulp naar New Orleans ziet verdwijnen waar een paar duizend mensen die te lamlendig zijn te evacueren voor de camera ziiten te klagen. En de verhalen over moordende plunderbendes die de hulpverleners laat wachten op het leger om de niet bestaande massamoorden te stoppen.
In Amerika ook, getuige de laatste zes jaar. Maar nu de meeste Amerikanen, hopelijk en waarschijnlijk, het misdadige karakter van dit regime kennen, zal het niet zo snel lukken.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 09:54 schreef klez het volgende:
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Geloof je het zelf? In het Midden-Oosten werkt dat misschien wel.
En het is trouwens natuurlijk gewoon een eenzijdig beeld, geschetst door de liberale media:quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 19:55 schreef Monidique het volgende:
O, maar het antwoord zal snel komen, hoor: hij werd niet gewaarschuwd voor het breken van de dijken, maar voor het overspoelen. Zie hier, weer een verdraaing door de media geopenbaard!.
[ bron ]quote:Apparently as a rejoinder to the new video, the White House yesterday suddenly sent around a transcript that it previously said didn't exist, from a conference call on the following day. It includes a second-hand account of Bush's activities from Michael Brown, the Bush-appointed FEMA director who later resigned in disgrace, describing the president as engaged, watching TV and asking questions.
White House spokesman Trent Duffy said this yesterday: "I hope people don't draw conclusions from the president getting a single briefing. He received multiple briefings from multiple officials, and he was completely engaged at all times."
beetje laat. Maar weet jij welke groep wetenschappers in de docu voorkwamen? Nederlanders of een groep uit de VS?quote:Op donderdag 2 februari 2006 21:53 schreef francorex het volgende:
Zo dadelijk op BBC 2 het documentaire programma Horizon. Aanvangsuur 2200.
Wetenschappers onderzoeken, hoe het mogelijk was dat " the levee's " het begaven in New Orleans.
Precies. bush past het toe.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 08:20 schreef Lord_Vetinari het volgende:
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Oldest trick in the book: Leid je volk af van binnenlandse problemen door in het buitenland aan de slag te gaan.
Dus volgens jouw waren er geen schietincidenten? Geen plunderingen? De organisaties gaan niet helpen als het op die manier zo levensgevaarlijk is. lijkt me logisch dan de orde er eerst moet zijn. Is ook wel zo effectief voor de hulpverlening.quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 10:09 schreef CeeJee het volgende:
De pers moet weer eens naar de politici wijzen, als er iemand de hulpverlening hebben dwarsgezeten waren zij het wel. Zie de smeekbede van Mississippi dat alle hulp naar New Orleans ziet verdwijnen waar een paar duizend mensen die te lamlendig zijn te evacueren voor de camera ziiten te klagen. En de verhalen over moordende plunderbendes die de hulpverleners laat wachten op het leger om de niet bestaande massamoorden te stoppen.
Fox News is toch de enige onafhankelijk zender?quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 20:10 schreef Monidique het volgende:
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En het is trouwens natuurlijk gewoon een eenzijdig beeld, geschetst door de liberale media:
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[ bron ].
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,186525,00.htmlquote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 22:22 schreef One_of_the_few het volgende:
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Fox News is toch de enige onafhankelijk zender?![]()
Sure beats an oval office blow job.quote:Op vrijdag 3 maart 2006 01:35 schreef DionysuZ het volgende:
het is eng om te zien hoe weinig media er over berichten. Hier een CBS filmpje.. Clinton moest voor veel en veel minder bijna zijn biezen pakken.
Video Shows Blanco's Assurances on Leveesquote:After AP's broadcast this week showing some of the Katrina briefings, the
Homeland Security Department refused Thursday to release videos from five other days immediately before and after Katrina hit. The agency insisted last year — in response to AP's requests under the Freedom of Information Act — there were no such tapes. Now it acknowledges more tapes exist.
"We do have tapes," DHS spokesman Russ Knocke said. "We have the tapes from the v-tels (video teleconferences), and we've provided the transcripts — they've been in the public domain for months."
quote:In fact, the National Weather Service received a report of a levee breach and issued a flash-flood warning as early as 9:12 a.m. that day, according to the White House's formal recounting of events the day Katrina struck.
Not until the day after Katrina roared ashore did the White House confirm that its surge had, in fact, breached the levees — a delay that critics charge held up repair efforts and allowed the deadly flooding to worsen.
Ach, ongeacht wat Brown ermee denkt aan te kunnen tonen, is het duidelijk dat vooral Bush alle nalatigheid kan worden verweten. Zowel Brown als Chertoff doen er na dit filmpje niet echt veel meer toe, dus de quote is weinig veelzeggend.quote:Op vrijdag 3 maart 2006 14:12 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
This briefing video was almost certainly leaked to AP by former FEMA Director Brown. Brown is making the case that he was not a wholly incompetent boob, but rather a semi-competent boob stripped of all real authority and hung out to dry by Michael Chertoff
Ik heb Bush nog nooit vertrouwd. Ik vertrouw sowieso maar weinig mensen...quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 23:33 schreef Toffe_Ellende het volgende:
Zijn er nog mensen die Bush nog steeds vertrouwen? Nog steeds geen regelrechte leugens van hem en zijn crew opgemerkt? Wat moet Bush nalaten te doen om uberhaupt impeacht te worden?
Hij had de tape ook niet kunnen lekken..quote:Op zaterdag 4 maart 2006 03:30 schreef Dubbelzuurrr het volgende:
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Ach, ongeacht wat Brown ermee denkt aan te kunnen tonen, is het duidelijk dat vooral Bush alle nalatigheid kan worden verweten. Zowel Brown als Chertoff doen er na dit filmpje niet echt veel meer toe, dus de quote is weinig veelzeggend.
doofpot....quote:Op zaterdag 4 maart 2006 12:21 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
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Hij had de tape ook niet kunnen lekken..
Volgens mij heeft hij niets verkeerd gedaan. Onder de Freedom of Information Act heeft het publiek recht op inzage. Het lijkt me dat eerder het Homeland security Department de wet overtrad toen ze ontkenden dat deze tapes bestonden.quote:Op zaterdag 4 maart 2006 12:21 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
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Hij had de tape ook niet kunnen lekken..
Dus het is veelzeggend dat Brown ineens geen vriendjespolitiek beoefendquote:
quote:As Republican political strategists scramble to find a message – any message – that will ring true with voters, GOP leaders in Congress admit privately that control of their party by right-wing extremists makes their recovery all but impossible.
“We’ve made our bed with these people,” admits an aide to House Speaker Denny Hastert. “Now it’s the morning after and the hangover hurts like hell.”
quote:Op vrijdag 3 maart 2006 14:12 schreef Sebastral het volgende:
This briefing video was almost certainly leaked to AP by former FEMA Director Brown. Brown is making the case that he was not a wholly incompetent boob, but rather a semi-competent boob stripped of all real authority and hung out to dry by Michael Chertoff
Oe, dat excuus zal lastig te verkopen zijn,quote:Op donderdag 2 maart 2006 19:55 schreef Monidique het volgende:
O, maar het antwoord zal snel komen, hoor: hij werd niet gewaarschuwd voor het breken van de dijken, maar voor het overspoelen. Zie hier, weer een verdraaing door de media geopenbaard!.
[ bron ]quote:Breaching and Overtopping
Overtopping is a term used to describe the situation where the water level rises above the height of the levee or floodwall and consequently overtops, or flows over the structure. A breach is a break in the levee or floodwall. A prolonged overtopping can actually cause a levee or floodwall breach. In general, a breach can lead to more significant flooding than an overtopping since breaches take time to repair and until repaired continue to allow water to flow until the water level has receded below the height of the breach. Overtopping, on the other hand, will stop as soon as the water level recedes below the top of the levee or floodwall. Although the consequences are significantly different, from outward appearances, it is often difficult to differentiate a breach from an overtopping.
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