SPECIAL: What led to Katrina?

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 6:57 AM on September 8, 2005.

An exclusive interactive timeline on the makings of an unnatural disaster.

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"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." -- Grover Norquist

During the course of the past week you've become intimate with the disastrous response of the Bush administration to Hurricane Katrina. Click on the timeline below [created by Eric Morse] to access an interactive timeline of the repeated warnings and deliberate decisions that led to the tragedy (be patient, it may take a minute to open).

How governmental mismangement turned Katrina into a national disaster

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Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.

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Bridget [Report this comment] Posted by: Bridget on Sep 7, 2005 5:17 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Excellent work! "Drowning in a Bathtub" is a must see piece. Bridget in Colorado [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Bridget Posted by: Evan Derkacz thank you [Report this comment] Posted by: brie on Sep 8, 2005 10:22 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] i feel like everything is coming to the surface now~ good morning america, time to wake up! this interactive timeline was extremely helpful in putting the pieces together. i look at all the facts and am speechless... thanks alternet for providing such resources. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] This is just the beginning... [Report this comment] Posted by: editor on Sep 8, 2005 11:10 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Great work...I wish the media was willing to get their feet dirty telling this story. Where is Anderson Cooper now? Who will tell the "other" story....the story of prevention? By all accounts, the 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. Yet, in spite of that, the federal government came back this spring with the steepest reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in history. Because of the proposed cuts, the Corps office imposed a hiring freeze. Officials said that money targeted for the SELA project -- $10.4 million, down from $36.5 million -- was not enough to start any new jobs. I heard the Senate was seeking to restore some of the SELA funding cuts for 2006. But now it's too late. Spread the word. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Stretch the Bathtub a Little Further [Report this comment] Posted by: jnorton on Sep 9, 2005 4:34 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Eric Morse's "Drowning in a Bathtub" timeline is a simple, powerful tool to help people understand what happened. I hope he will extend it into September and illustrate the "payoff" for all the neglect of a crisis just waiting to happen. I think it would be particularly helpful to show who was able to leave NO and why, and what the response was in the wake of Katrina, when most of those who remained in the city were black and poor. Isn't it ironic that the greatest act of terrorism ever committed in the USA was committed by us. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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