If you’re interested in these sorts of things, NPR’s All Things Considered put together a long timeline of the events leading to and following the landfall of hurricane Katrina. Atrios has links up to the transcripts and information. NPR , of course, has audio of Part 1 and Part 2. They go through most of the local and federal efforts and detail several different things I, quite frankly, didn’t know. I’ll have more on this later this weekend.