Can someone help find the Governor's letter to *

[patrioticliberal]

DID the governor of Louisana declare a "State of Emergency". An apparent right winger or at least a misinformed person tried to lay this on me , that she didn't ask for help and Bush was trying to call her to sign the papers or something.

[jody]

1. Go to Blanco's site below

http://gov.louisiana.gov/

[patrioticliberal]

4. do you know a good place

For a 'hurricane timeline'

Randi mentioned these, but I didn't copy down the URLs

[firefox]

5. Links

The four-page letter is at the website listed above- http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf

Here is one timeline- http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

[patrioticliberal]

6. Thanks..I think they're just uninformed, not a rightwinger necessarily n/t

[jody]

7. firefox's time line link is excellent and visit my link in reply #3. n/t

[teach1st]

2. She declared disaster

Beginning, Friday, the 26th.

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=3771630&nav=0RY4do3n

http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=973

President Bush's declaration:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

Also, the best way to approach this is to ask the apparent freeper to prove his or her point.

[jody]

3. You might want to read "The Steady Buildup to a City's Chaos" at

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529.html