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The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris
at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.
KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685
There's so much information and discussion out there right now and I'm trying to keep up...thank you to everyone for their support and as soon as I know more I'll definitely take you up on any offers to help.
Oh, and how can I not post this—while people were dying in the streets the air conditioning was on to protect art?????
NOMA survives intact
By Dante Ramos and Doug MacCash
Staff Writers
The New Orleans Museum of Art survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath without significant damage.
But when Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives arrived in the area Wednesday, NOMA employees holed up inside the museum were left in a quandary:
FEMA wanted those evacuees to move to a safer location, but there was no way to secure the artwork inside.
Six security and maintenance employees remained on duty during the hurricane and were joined by 30 evacuees, including the families of some employees.
Harold Lyons, a security console operator who stayed on at the museum, said FEMA representatives were the first outsiders to show up at the museum in days.
They immediately tried to persuade staffers to leave the building. That would have left no one to protect the museum's contents and no one inside the museum had the authority to give that order, Lyons said as he inspected the grounds.
Museum Director John Bullard was on vacation and assistant Director Jacquie Sullivan had taken a disabled brother to Gonzales.
"We can't just leave and turn out the lights on the say-so of someone we don't know,'' Lyons said.
The phones inside the museum had failed. Lyons asked a reporter to pass a message to Sullivan as soon as possible.
Interviewed by telephone, Sullivan said she had been in close contact with emergency management officials all day Wednesday. State Police had promised to take her back to the museum at 7 a.m. Thursday, she said.
City Park was littered with fallen trees, but evacuees' cars, clustered around the museum's walls, were mostly unscathed. The museum itself was spared any wind damage and floodwaters had not reached the building.
Inside, the museum's generators whirred away, providing air conditioning to preserve the priceless artworks inside.
Sullivan said museum workers had taken down some pieces in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden before the storm.
But a towering modernist sculpture by Kenneth Snelson was reduced to a twisted mess in the lagoon.
And finally, this is a rather unbelievable discussion of the "looted"/"found" photo captions that have been widely circulated: http://www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/looters.asp
at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.
KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685
There's so much information and discussion out there right now and I'm trying to keep up...thank you to everyone for their support and as soon as I know more I'll definitely take you up on any offers to help.
Oh, and how can I not post this—while people were dying in the streets the air conditioning was on to protect art?????
NOMA survives intact
By Dante Ramos and Doug MacCash
Staff Writers
The New Orleans Museum of Art survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath without significant damage.
But when Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives arrived in the area Wednesday, NOMA employees holed up inside the museum were left in a quandary:
FEMA wanted those evacuees to move to a safer location, but there was no way to secure the artwork inside.
Six security and maintenance employees remained on duty during the hurricane and were joined by 30 evacuees, including the families of some employees.
Harold Lyons, a security console operator who stayed on at the museum, said FEMA representatives were the first outsiders to show up at the museum in days.
They immediately tried to persuade staffers to leave the building. That would have left no one to protect the museum's contents and no one inside the museum had the authority to give that order, Lyons said as he inspected the grounds.
Museum Director John Bullard was on vacation and assistant Director Jacquie Sullivan had taken a disabled brother to Gonzales.
"We can't just leave and turn out the lights on the say-so of someone we don't know,'' Lyons said.
The phones inside the museum had failed. Lyons asked a reporter to pass a message to Sullivan as soon as possible.
Interviewed by telephone, Sullivan said she had been in close contact with emergency management officials all day Wednesday. State Police had promised to take her back to the museum at 7 a.m. Thursday, she said.
City Park was littered with fallen trees, but evacuees' cars, clustered around the museum's walls, were mostly unscathed. The museum itself was spared any wind damage and floodwaters had not reached the building.
Inside, the museum's generators whirred away, providing air conditioning to preserve the priceless artworks inside.
Sullivan said museum workers had taken down some pieces in the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden before the storm.
But a towering modernist sculpture by Kenneth Snelson was reduced to a twisted mess in the lagoon.
And finally, this is a rather unbelievable discussion of the "looted"/"found" photo captions that have been widely circulated: http://www.snopes.com/photos/katrina/looters.asp
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