Found it!

This must be the administration's source on the whole bullet-dodging business:

Chattanooga Times Free Press
Area mostly dodges Katrina’s bullet
Abstract: Strong winds from the rem nants of Hurricane Katrina con tinued to rip through parts of Southeast Tennessee on Tues day, toppling trees that knocked out power and blocked sec ondary roads, officials said. "We’ve got trees ...
Date: 08/31/2005

That's from the only headline reference I could find on Lexis Nexis to the dodging of bullets from August 29-31. It's a day late and a state away, but hey, there was some resemblance to what Gen. Myers and Michael Chertoff claim to have seen. Guess they're not liars or idiots after all. My bad!