To: jla; WorkingClassFilth; Gail Wynand; Brian Allen; Wolverine; Lonesome in Massachussets; IVote2; ...
2 posted on
09/05/2005 5:22:40 AM PDT by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
Good work as always, Mia T-- I'll pass it on.
4 posted on
09/05/2005 5:29:09 AM PDT by
backhoe
("The Drowned World" John Brunner)
To: Mia T
As in Tim Russert 'Katrinaed' the Bush Administration...
7 posted on
09/05/2005 5:35:25 AM PDT by
sonofatpatcher2
(Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: Mia T
I watched them lining up in front of SuperBowl on Sunday and said to myself: I'd rather die 'walkin on the road... 'headin north.
9 posted on
09/05/2005 5:39:49 AM PDT by
johnny7
(“And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”)
To: Mia T
10 posted on
09/05/2005 6:03:25 AM PDT by
Wolverine
(A Concerned Citizen)
To: Mia T
The Mayor had enough time to call in city employees (or even ask for volunteers) to grab the school and greyhound buses and dispatch them throughout the city to pick up people who wanted to leave before Katrina and had no other means of transport.
The police could have been knocking on doors telling people where the nearest buses were and, if necessary, offering to take them to the location.
This should have been a part of the evacuation plan. The plan as written was vague, failing to identify locations where buses would go, failing to identify shelters in Louisiana which would could take people from the buses, failing to identify who would drive the buses, etc.
Every major city needs such a detailed plan.
One of my main beefs with Homeland Security is they failed to notice that the New Orleans plan was stupid and the Mayor and Governor were grossly incompetent so they needed their hands held.
Have we learned anything from this?
How many other cities have unworkable plans in the event of a terrorist attack or natural disaster.
Who is reviewing these plans?
The solution is not to hire more Witless consultants and contractors but for people to read the current plans in their communities and demand they be made usable and coherent.
Homeland Security should also be reviewing these plans and giving suggestions to the locals on how to make them better.
I hope every Freeper now understands, if they didn't "get it" during the Y2K scare, that they need to be self-sufficient during a crisis.
That includes trying to live in areas with neighbors who "get it" as well as stockpiling the necessities.
Anyone who believes the government will save them in time is looking at a fool in the mirror.
Demand the best from your public officials but be prepared for the worst.
14 posted on
09/05/2005 7:04:50 AM PDT by
cgbg
(A cigar a day keeps secular Puritans away.)
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