
Barbour issues executive order 939 at 11:00 a.m., Saturday August 27, 2005 for evacuation of over one million Gulf Coast residents in Mississippi, and deployment of seven hundred and fifty National Guard troops equiped with disaster relief logistical supplies. Hurrican Katrina makes land fall in Louisianna, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida approx. 8:00 A.M, Monday August 29. On Friday, September 1, Gov. Blanco of Louisiana was attempting to organize statewide search, rescue, and relief plans. Barbour in Mississippi however had appointed former Netscap CEO, Jim Barksdale as his recovery czar and by Sept. 1 st had displaced people moving into mobile homes, restored ninety percent of the electrical grid and was supplying clean water, food, and medical care to those who needed it. Mississippi suffered the displacement of over one million residents with every costal city sustaining ninety percent flood damage . AP and USA Today describbed the damage to the state as "staggering" and that it had been pounded to "smitherines". Underestimation of Barbour's veracity based soley on personal proclivity may prove to be a misapprehension.
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