re: What's the truth on Katrina/Blackwater, etc.

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I was at Building 35 at Jackson Barracks when the storm passed. For those of you unfamiliar with Jackson Barracks - it is the "end" of the city next to Arabi - it is a thin slice of land that intersects and runs perpendicular to N. Claiborne/W. Judge Perez and St. Claude in the Lower Ninth Ward. After the levees failed, we were inundated and much of the Louisiana National Guard command and control personnel had to be evacuated, which took much of the rest of Monday. I was evacuated to the Superdome around 2100 or 2200, via boat to the river levee and UH-60 to the dome.

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I like to tell visitors that if you want to see what $325 million dollars looks like, go to Jackson Barracks today...I can't comprehend why the new buildings in Areas B-E aren't built a lot higher than they are!!!

This is a great response with a lot of truth...I want to do a research paper one of these days on what happened with the Louisiana National Guard...where the F*** was Benny Landrineau because Kathleen Babineaux Blanco had folded like a cheap tent before the storm hit...

She also didn't comprehend the public affairs battle that she totally screwed up...she should have allowed reporters with the state rescue effort to show that Louisiana was helping itself...