Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00169)

MAX TOLD BROWN by Rich Lowry

Yesterday I was wondering why Michael Brown would say he thought 
Katrina would be a "typical" and "standard"
hurricane, when anyone watching Max Mayfield on TV last Sunday would 
have know that we were potentially facing a catastrophe. Turns out 
he didn't even have to turn on TV. Mayfield told him personally 
according to the Washington Post: 

While Chertoff said the levee breach that flooded New 
Orleans "exceeded the foresight of planners," Max Mayfield, director 
of the National Hurricane Center, said Brown and other top federal 
officials were briefed as much as 32 hours in advance of landfall 
that Hurricane Katrina's storm surge was likely to overtop levees 
and cause catastrophic flooding. 

"They knew that this one was different," Mayfield said yesterday. "I 
don't think Mike Brown or anyone else in FEMA could have any reason 
to have any problem with our calls. . . . They were told. . . . We 
said the levees could be topped." http://tinyurl.com/ajz92

Lowry's comments are quoted from:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/05_09_04_corner-archive.asp

Who is Rich Lowry?? See:
http://www.nationalreview.com/masthead/masthead-lowry.asp