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- The bar that defied Katrina defies Hurricane Gustav
- NEW ORLEANS AFP — Johnny White's, the New Orleans bar that famously stayed open during Hurricane Katrina, was on Monday full of customers who chose to stay for a stiff drink instead of fleeing as Hurricane Gustav struck the region. "We never close," proudly reads a sign inside the...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- 'No excuses' for staying in New Orleans: top Bush aide
- AUSTIN, Texas AFP — A top aide to US President George W. Bush warned Monday of "weaknesses" in New Orleans' levee system and said anyone who stayed in the city in the face of Hurricane Gustav had "no excuses." "There should not be any excuses. If people stayed in...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Press Gaggle by Dana Perino and FEMA Administrator Dave Paulison
- Aboard Air Force One En Route Austin, Texas AUSTIN, Texas -- 9:34 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Okay, we're on our way to Austin, Texas. I'm going to just give you a little bit about the schedule, and then turn it over to Dave Paulison, the Director of...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- President takes pains to prepare for Gustav
- WASHINGTON -- President Bush, faced with the prospect of a second monster hurricane striking the still-battered Gulf Coast on his watch, checked in with governors and federal officials Saturday to make sure Washington was doing all it can. He prepared for the possibility of travel to the region and designated...
- Research articles 2008-08-31
- Louisiana Recovery Authority director: Hurricane recovery entering
- The recovery from the 2005 hurricanes is entering its "final stage," said the executive director of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. "We are now moving forward into the final stage of recovery and proving that great things are happening all around us," Paul Rainwater said. "School by school, block...
- Research articles 2008-08-25
- DICE DoD's Interoperability Communications Exercise: if you aren't prepared—you're rolling the dice
- Since 1988, the Defense Department's Interoperability Communications Exercise has been the only DoD exercise whose primary purpose is to certify systems for joint interoperability. This year, the Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) hosted the civil response portion of DICE at its base of operations at Fort Monroe, Va.,...
- Research articles 2008-07-01
- Title 10 domestic humanitarian assistance: New Orleans
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On Thursday, 1 September 2005, the 2d Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, was alerted to deploy to New Orleans to assist in humanitarian relief operations following Hurricane Katrina. Coming out of a year-long deployment in Iraq, the Black Jack Brigade had lost a significant percentage of its officers...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- FEMA, Katrina, and operations research: better operations management would have helped FEMA in preparedness and response work before Hurricane Katrina—and still could now
- In the wake of the poor government response to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster, many questions have been asked about why the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA, along with a host of other federal, state, and local emergency management agencies, performed so ineffectively. What went wrong? What is the...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Report says U.S. Katrina response fails to meet its own human rights
- The U.S. government's insufficient efforts to prevent families from being uprooted post-Hurricane Katrina, its inadequate emergency response, and the still-lagging recovery fail to meet internationally recognized human rights principles the Bush administration has promoted in other countries. That's the finding of "Hurricane Katrina and the Guiding Principles on...
- Research articles 2008-01-16
- Applying lessons of Hurricane Katrina
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the early morning of August 29, 2005, the eye of Hurricane Katrina reached the coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. While the winds at landfall were assessed as only Category 3, the span of destruction and accompanying storm surge reflected the hurricane's earlier Category 5 strength. Tropical...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Recovering from Katrina: a work in progress—2007: Gulf Coast states have improved local emergency management, but more is needed to upgrade overall performance as the region struggles to recover from the storms of 2005
- The American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA's) Hurricane Katrina Task Force continued its multiyear study of the disaster and its management, providing its second report at the 2007 ASPA annual conference. The task force examined areas that have improved and those that still need to, as the Gulf Coast states...
- Research articles 2007-12-22
- Nov. 19-25
- Nov. 19 A Post-Katrina Crime Mystery, 7 p.m. at the Jefferson Parish East bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. in Metairie. Author Eric Spindler will discuss and read from her novel "Last Known Victim." A question and answer session and book signing will follow the discussion. Copies...
- Research articles 2007-11-19
- Interpreting recent changes to the standing rules for the use of force
- I. Introduction On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast Region, causing unprecedented devastation and widespread flooding. (1) In response, thousands of National Guard Soldiers deployed to the area to provide assistance. In addition, the President ordered U.S. Army active-duty units to immediately deploy to the...
- Research articles 2007-11-01
- Press Gaggle by Dana Perino
- Aboard Air Force One, En Route Miramar, California SAN DIEGO -- 10:14 A.M. EDT MS. PERINO: The President is on his way to Southern California. I have brought Fran Townsend, who is the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism. She will give you a quick...
- Research articles 2007-10-25
- Press Briefing by Dana Perino
- WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Briefing Room 12:49 P.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Hello. I have two announcements and then a scheduling update, and then we'll go to questions. First of all, this is a statement by the President that we will release, so this is in his words:...
- Research articles 2007-10-24
- White House: Katrina lessons applied to California fires
- WASHINGTON AFP — The White House worked Tuesday to assure the US public that it had learned its lesson from the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, as it now grappled with devastating fires in California. "I think that there were lessons learned from Katrina, especially in regards to early...
- Research articles 2007-10-23
- Responding to national disasters and emergencies: a contract and fiscal law primer
- Future Defense Support to Civilian Authorities DSCA planning and execution must consider the nondoctrinal use of military forces, yet remain within the constraints of federal law and regulations. (1) I. Introduction Since the beginning of our Nation, the U.S. military has been called upon to respond to all...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Is more information always better? An experimental study of charitable giving and Hurricane Katrina
- 1. Introduction The devastation resulting from Hurricane Katrina has elicited unprecedented levels of charitable giving on the part of the general public. In just the first 11 weeks following Katrina, private charities donated approximately $2.7 billion, and $62 billion was appropriated by Congress (Frank 2005). Though motivations for giving...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- The political, economic, and social aspects of Katrina
- 1. Introduction Disasters, whether man-made or natural, represent a "natural experiment" for social scientists. As one business leader put it to us on one of our first research trips in February 2006 to New Orleans after the storm, "Heck, I understand it is not every day that you can...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Determinants of government aid to Katrina survivors: evidence from survey data
- 1. Introduction Natural catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina are unfortunate natural experiments for evaluating otherwise unobservable events such as the effectiveness of government disaster aid. Katrina was arguably the greatest natural disaster in modern U.S. history. The damage stretched across 90,000 square miles an area roughly the size of Great...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
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