Text 6909, 81 rader
Skriven 2005-09-04 13:56:48 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6906 av John Cuccia (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Katrina
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From: "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com>

>I don't see how it could have been otherwise.

The national guard should have been there almost from the beginning (just after
the storm blew through), and they weren't. That enough to say that it should
have been otherwise.

I don't know why they weren't, but to blame the local governments only is bogus
because a state of emergency was declared before the storm and when that is
done, the feds are supposed to be in control. (department of homeland security
and FEMA)  I definitely don't blame Bush only either...

This all looks like a problem in our homeland security/military structure and I
do hope Bush goes about fixing whatever the problem is.

- Bob Comer

"John Cuccia" <jcuccia@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:dmbmh15abg1hmb9a7b4p995p3u07t889fp@4ax.com...
> Well, sure, with hindsight I have to agree with the critics that
> maintain hat the levee system should have been designed to withstand
> Category 5 storms, but it wasn't.
>
> To be honest, I'm not sure that 5-6 days to start bringing a semblance
> of order to an operation of this size can be considered poor
> performance.    Hell, despite GaryB's insistence that the mayor should
> have picked up the phone to call his bus drivers to work, it has taken
> that long to build out an emergencey communications system.
>
> I think that the response in the first several days can honestly be
> called a "cluster fuck", but with a disaster of unprecedented
> magnitude, I don't see how it could have been otherwise.
>
>
> On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:23:35 -0700, Ellen K.
> <72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote:
>
>>With 20/20 hindsight I have to agree with the critics who are saying the
>>government should have brought in buses to evacuate those who couldn't
>>get out on their own.
>>
>>On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:04:47 -0700, Ellen K. <72322.1016@compuserve.com>
>>wrote in message <rfddh1t44178t3r0u3ghqmet0ps69dc50e@4ax.com>:
>>
>>>Today's paper said 80% evacuated.  I agree that that's really pretty
>>>good.
>>>
>>>Sad to read they are looting the Wal-Mart.
>>>
>>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:22:03 -0500, John Cuccia <jcuccia@bigfoot.com>
>>>wrote in message <0v3ch11t52ph3cutdv8vv1meba0sms6ggh@4ax.com>:
>>>
>>>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:23:24 -0400, Richard B. <TDNBW@barktopus.com>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:27:46 -0700, Ellen K.
>>>>><72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>The people interviewed were old and poor (and probably black but of
>>>>>>course the newspaper wouldn't print that part).
>>>>>
>>>>>Ellen,
>>>>>
>>>>>Having lived most of my life on the coast and having experienced quite
>>>>>a few storms and a couple of major ones, I found anyone who wanted to
>>>>>leave could, with little ingenuity, get the hell outta Dodge.
>>>>
>>>>Ingenuity isn't one of the strengths of a lot of the people who
>>>>couldn't leave.  g. Many didn't even know there was a storm coming.
>>>>Hell, as late as the 10AM advisory on Friday New Orleans wasn't in the
>>>>3-day probability cone for a strike.  By 5PM Friday New Orleans was
>>>>starting to come into the picture, but how do you get the word to a
>>>>million people on Friday night/Saturday morning.
>>>>
>>>>It looks like about 75% of the population of the metro area evacuated.
>>>>I doubt you'd do better than that anywhere.
>

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