aerial of your pic:
and a huge aerial, showing more buses:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24426968.jpg
Posted on 09/04/2005 10:47:00 AM PDT by NWO Slave
Touche!!!
I love our military. I think it is amazing that they accomplished so much in such a short time, actually. If the left had their way, we wouldn't even have much of a military. My question to them: if not the military, than who? Can you imagine any other organization doing the job that they are currently doing in the Katrina ravaged cities?
A couple of Freepers have said that Nagin didn't want buses that didn't have bathrooms on them. I'd like to see some sort of confirmation on that. If it's true, considering how who is left is wading in raw sewage....
aerial of your pic:
and a huge aerial, showing more buses:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/katrina/24426968.jpg
ZOOM in on the very lower right corner. MORE buses underwater, empty.
ZOOM bottom left-center - more buses.
Taken from: Hurricane Katrina Base Map Index Page
Ray is a stupid, stupid man. That said, did the casino/crime/tourism stringpullers want someone smart?
I WANT AN APOLOGY FROM BLANCO AND NAGIN!!1
APOLOGIZE NOW
"I'm not one of those drug addicts.."
A racist view of the black and poor.
The people running La. and NO need to be lynched.
Where are the aldermen of New Orleans? Those gentlemen should have been right there in the Superdome, taking charge and showing some leadership. I didn't see any of them being interviewed on TV. I suspect that they followed the mayor's example and departed the area posthaste, along with the other rich black and white folks.
They and their families are no doubt holed up in luxury far away from New Orleans, waiting for the mess to be cleaned up so they can go back to business as usual.
What is he mayor of, now? There is no reason why New Orleans has to be rebuilt as a slum. Let's sort out those who can benefit from opportunity from the crooks and drug addicts and get them the benefits of a self-reliance culture in the states where they are relocated. Let's not recreate crime infested slums.
Mayor of WHAT?
New Atlantis.
I might add no one has mentioned how many floors are in that parking structure either. Since the roof is full I would imagine so are the other floors. Many of them vans and trucks I'm sure. Hundreds more vehicles that could have been used to get people out.
The photos show that the in-bound lane to New Orleans was unused and NOT OPENED TO OUT-BOUND TRAFFIC. This is significant as it severely impacted the spped of the evacuation.
The Freeper does not know how to get the images posted.
Does anybody have a secure web site and a Hotmail address he can send the photos to so they can be posted?
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FreepMail to Polybius...........
Well, here is some more information on those pictures. The time stamps were in military time, so, here are the times.
These picture of the causeway, and other live webcams anyone could have seen in New Orleans before, during, ( I don't know now ) maybe, after the storm. These pictures were taken in ( I guess, 3 min or 5 mins apart) .
The first pictures cleary shows all of the vehicles coming out from NEW ORLEANS, and the inbound lanes wide open with no traffic at all ( either way ) on it.
1 # Picture time stamp. 8 / 28 / 2005 - HR : 16:21:02 PM
2# 8/28/05 - HR : 16:25:25 PM.
3# 8/28/05 - HR : 16:34:31 PM.
4# 8/28/05 - HR : 17:04:34 PM.
5# 8/28/05 - HR : 18:52:19 PM.
I was mistaken before, these pictures were taken last Sunday evening.
From picture 1 to 3 , you can see many vehicles getting out of New Orleans, and there are very dark ominious cloud in the sky, and from picture 3 to 4, the traffice starts to clear to a trickle, and the clouds clear up some, but, in the last picture, there are no vehicles on the N.O. causeway.
I just checked some of the pictures, only in one picture, do I see only one vehicle going inbound back into New Orleans.
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You know, at first, I thought he was referring to Marion Berry.
Before Atlantis Sunk it was populated by an advanced population.
I do not think New Orleans should be mentioned in the same sentence as Atlantis.
1. Nagin did NOT order a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans until late Sunday morning, just hours before tropical storm force winds came in to the city. By then it was too late to get many folks out. This is important. President Bush declared a disaster area early on Saturday and urged immediate evacuation, but did not have the power to order people to leave. If Nagin had ordered a mandatory evacuation Saturday and gotten those buses rolling, thousands might have been saved from death and misery.
2. By the time the mandatory evacuation order was given, everyone with a TV knew it was past time to go, including probably most of the bus drivers in the city. They were apparently never told to stand on alert in case they were needed to get people out. This should have been standard procedure when any hurricane enters the Gulf of Mexico. Pay them an extra $500 if you have to, but you have to make sure you have the drivers or the buses will not do you much good.
It would have been relatively easy to open up contraflow on I-10 to only city and school buses at first. They could have made several trips at least to Baton Rouge, and the last buses out could have kept going on to Texas. LSU has a large basketball arena, field house, student center, and other facilities that could have been used as shelters for thousands. Baton Rouge lost power but not water, so those people would have had water and sanitation. If the evacuation had first focused on the sick and elderly, they could have been taken to hospitals throughout the state. I simply cannot fathom that the City of New Orleans had nobody capable of figuring this out!
Excellent article and it points the finger right where it belongs, to the Mayor. It also should point the finger at the people at the State level who were also responsible before they start pointing fingers.
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