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Skriven 2005-09-04 22:20:28 av Ellen K. (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6906 av John Cuccia (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Katrina
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From: Ellen K. <72322.1016@compuserve.com>

I understand the delay after the fact (although since the hit was PREDICTED
they should have started getting ready ahead of time).  I even understand not
preparing for a cat 5 storm, since they are so rare.  But I think some kind of
mass transportation could have been organized to get at least some of the other
20% of the population out of town.

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:35:25 -0500, John Cuccia <jcuccia@bigfoot.com> wrote in
message <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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