President George Bush's political agenda " indeed his very standing as his country's leader " was on the line as Congress returned yesterday with anger and embarrassment at the botched response to Hurricane Katrina stretching across normal party divides on Capitol Hill.Cornwell, Rupert...
Weathering the Storm: A Social Marketing Perspective on Disaster Preparedness and Response with Lessons from Hurricane Katrina The devastation of New Orleans as a result of Hurricane Katrina presents an opportunity and an obligation to examine the human and social factors that influenced the nation's ...
The Katrina effect.(George W. Bush response to Katrina Hurricane )Glass, Andrew J
Officials, even including PresidentGeorge W. Bush, seemed unaware of just how bad things were in New Orleans and elsewhere: how many people were stranded or missing; how many homes and businesses had been damaged; how much food, water and aid was needed. Katrina had left in her wake what...
Widespread criticism of the federal response to Katrina led to the resignation of Michael D. Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), anddid lasting damageto the reputation of President Bush, who was nearing the end of a month-long vacation at his ranch in Crawford,...
The federal government and President George W. Bush ___for what people thought was a slow response to the disaster. The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) resigned amid(在…中) the fighting afterwards. Katrina was just one of four major hurricanes to hit the U.S. durin...
response to natural disasters. In particular, the evacuation of the Superdome after Katrina was immensely more complex than previous drills or exercises had envisaged. Many elements of the information infrastructure were damaged by the flood waters and high winds. Servers were off-line, generators ...
The response of the group to Hurricane Katrina proved their capability to tackle disasters. It notes the significance of the decision of President George W. Bush to sign a law allowing religious schools to receive federal aid as part of the hurricane recovery package to Catholic schools. ...
Today the sheep have been ordered to bleat “Katrina wasn’t Bush’s fault”.mark • September 6, 2005 3:30 PM From a non US point of view: We see people dying and all I hear and see on TV/radio/internet is people arguing about whose fault it is. The response has been pitiful...
In the immediate aftermath of Katrina, federal officials—including Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), who later resigned over his handling of the Katrina response, and President George W. Bush—claimed that the catastrophic failure of the levees in New Orlean...