Go to NPR www.npr.org to hear recordings of actual conversations between the Governor of Louisiana, the Mayor of New Orleans, FEMA officials and others as they planned for and responded to Hurricane Katrina. Available are hours of conversations that transpired, beginning days before Katrina hit. Walter Maestri, the emergency manager from New Orleans’ Jefferson Parish gave the tapes to NPR because, he said, he thought the American people needed to hear our government at work.
You can hear the story and listen to the recordings by clinking on this link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4859329