Buttercup Blogs

Saturday, August 27
5 am EDT - Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 3 intensity.
5 pm EDT - Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin host a mid-afternoon press conference, in this confrence Nagin calls for a voluntery evacuation.
Governor Blanco requests that President Bush declare a major disaster for the State of Louisiana.
7pm EDT - National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield briefs Bush and Key leadership on Hurricane Katrina. Tamara Lush, " For forecasting chief, no joy in being right ," St. Petersburg Times , 30 Aug 2005.
Sunday, August 28
12:40 am CDT - Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 4 intensity.
7 am CDT - Hurricane Katrina reaches Category 5 intensity.
9:30 am CDT - The Governor had a press conference, in wich she called for mandatory evacuations.
10 am CDT - Mandatory evacuation is ordered for New Orleans City by Mayor Nagin. Nagin orders first-ever mandatory evacuation of New Orleans New Orleans Times-Picayune , 31 Aug 2005
1 pm CDT - In the Gulf of Mexico, Katrina quickly strengthens to a strong Category 5. At its peak, hours from landfall, hurricane hunter planes measured 175 mph sustained winds, with gusts to 216 mph
President Bush declares a state of emergency in Alabama and Mississippi , and a major disaster in Florida
Second landfall
Monday, August 29
6:10 am CDT (1110 UTC) - Hurricane Katrina makes a second landfall near Buras, Louisiana, United States with 145 mph winds. Hurricane Katrina Intermediate Advisory Number 26A National Hurricane Center , 29 Aug 2005
8 am CDT (1300 UTC) - New Orleans: Rising water on both sides of the Industrial Canal.-Raymond Seed, et al, “Preliminary Report on the Performance of the New Orleans Levee Systems in Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 ,” Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (University of California – Berkeley ), 2 Nov 2005
9 am CDT (1400 UTC) - New Orleans: 6-8 feet of water in the Lower Ninth Ward. —John McQuaid, " Katrina trapped city in double disasters ," New Orleans Times-Picayune , 7 Sep 2005.
10 am CDT (1500 UTC) - Hurricane Katrina makes a third landfall near Pearlington, Mississippi, United States with 125 mph winds after crossing Breton Sound. —"Hurricane Katrina Advisory Number 27," National Hurricane Center , 29 Aug 2005.
11 am CDT (1600 UTC) - New Orleans: 10 feet of water in St. Bernard.
President Bush: I want to thank the governors of the affected regions for mobilizing assets prior to the arrival of the storm to help citizens avoid this devastating storm. —"President Participates in Conversation on Medicare ," White House , 29 Aug 2005.
2 pm CDT (1900 UTC) - New Orleans officials publicly confirm 17th Street Canal breach. —John McQuaid, " Katrina trapped city in double disasters ," New Orleans Times-Picayune , 7 Sep 2005.
3 pm CDT (2000 UTC) - New Orleans Homeland Security Director Terry Ebbertt said “Everybody who had a way or wanted to get out of the way of this storm was able to." patriotpost.us/news/katrina.asp

Immediate aftermath
Tuesday, August 30
12 pm CDT - Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff becomes aware that the New Orleans levee breaches cannot be plugged

10 pm CDT - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announces that the planned sandbagging of the 17th Street levee breach has failed. 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater.

Wednesday, August 31
Morning: Governor Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana orders that all of New Orleans, including the Superdome, be evacuated.
Governor Blanco commandeers hundreds of buses from across Louisiana using her executive powers, and those buses eventually evacuate more than 15,000 people stranded in New Orleans. The school buses evacuate most people on Wednesday and Thursday
Governor Blanco says, in an interview on FNC, that she will request President Bush to send Federal troops to help restore law and order in New Orleans. The Governor says that she should have requested them sooner

11 pm EDT (0300 UTC) - U.S. government weather officials announce that the center of the remnant low of what was Katrina has been completely absorbed by a frontal boundary in southeastern Canada

This timeline is a preview to a interview i will be posting on this site. Ehlonna is an IMM on waterdeep. She lives in Slidell, Louisiana, a community on the northeast side of Lake Pontchartrain. She will share her amazing story with me. I know very little about her, but when the storm was going on, i would always ask her what was happening. I remember her being afraid of the situation she was put in because of the storm. I am almost done with the interview. I will try to have it up as soon as possible.