I am doing a social project and need an acctul time frame for when the world responded to Hurricane Katrina for example, when did donations start coming in, when were we made aware?
Little know is that Hugo Chavez of Venezuela sent thousands of gallons of gasoline to help, free of charge. While Bush slept, NBC News was reporting the absence of aid 2 days after the hurricane hit. Japan and other countries offered and sent aid, as well.
February 27th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
America’s George Bush slept at the switch.
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February 27th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Little know is that Hugo Chavez of Venezuela sent thousands of gallons of gasoline to help, free of charge. While Bush slept, NBC News was reporting the absence of aid 2 days after the hurricane hit. Japan and other countries offered and sent aid, as well.
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February 27th, 2010 at 7:52 pm
At least 100 countries, some of them very poor countries, offered aid and money. In addition many NGO’s also offered relief immediately. The US Gov were very slow indeed to respond to offers. However the international response was immediate and generous.
For example, an urban search and rescue team from Vancouver BC chartered a plane and flew immediately to the area. They were working there for 2 or 3 days before any of the US agencies could get to the area they were working in. They saved many lives.
Another example, the Dutch were very quick to offer their expertise to fix the levies. Cruise ships were ready to divert right away and house the homeless.
Disasters like that trigger an immediate all hands on deck response, and that is what happened. Well, that is what happened as far as other nations were concerned. The US seemed inexplicably slow to get off the pot, although with a disaster area so huge it was an immense challenge for sure. It was quite shocking really, watching people dying and no rescue in sight, and seeing fat white guys with guns threatening the New Orleans poor people trying to flee across the only bridge to safety.
The US gov were incredibly slow to set up coordination of the aid offered and refused many offers because they couldn’t handle coordinating it, and refused the involvement of agencies that had the expertise in coordinating relief efforts. So aid that was immediately available went to waste.
Check out this site for info on what different countries offered.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internation…
This is a good Washington Post article which describes the aid situation in some detail, including some timelines.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801113.html
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February 27th, 2010 at 8:33 pm
The US Navy had a task force following behind the hurricane, they began rescue operations as soon as it was safe to fly. The Coast Guard started rescue operations at the same time. President Bush offered help prior to the hurricane hitting and the Governor of Louisiana waited days before accepting it.
This became a political balloon, there were massive floods in the upper midwest that were probably as devastating, yet we hear little about them.
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