Text 6915, 91 rader
Skriven 2005-09-04 14:40:16 av Geo (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6909 av Robert Comer (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Katrina
===================
From: "Geo" <georger@nls.net>

How long would it take to get the national guard back from Iraq?

Geo.

"Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:431b354e$1@w3.nls.net...
> >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.
> >
>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5
 * Origin: Barktopia BBS Site http://HarborWebs.com:8081 (1:379/45)