Posted on 08/30/2005 2:17:49 PM PDT by Bigh4u2
Governor: New Orleans Needs to Be Evacuated Tuesday, August 30, 2005
BATON ROUGE, La. — With conditions in the hurricane-ravaged city of New Orleans rapidly deteriorating, Gov. Kathleen Blanco (search ) announced late Tuesday that people now huddled in the Superdome and other rescue centers need to be evacuated.
"The situation is untenable," Blanco said during a news conference. "It's just heartbreaking."
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This has nothing to do with them being democrats. As I said, I'd take Ed Koch or Oscar Goodman in a crisis over more than a few republicans out there.
It's a matter of personal strength and judgment, not party affiliation.
I thought the President was going to have an announcement today...something about the military taking over the recovery in NO, et al.
Did I dream this?
I don't think NO will be a viable city for a long time to come ... where's all that water going to go? It won't just drain away ...
Wait! The President has to apologize to Cindy Sheehan BEFORE he worries about the hurricane!
Wait a minute - the hurricane was a huge diversion created by Cheney/Rove to take focus off of everybody's all-American, Cindy Sheehan. I knew it!
Never understood that mentality. What is so important about a leader getting in the way of things just for a photo opportunity? President Bush can't just "stand on a rescue vehicle in the middle of New Orleans" without having an entire entourage of Secret Service agents, news media and other hangers-on turning a rescue mission into a full-blown circus and causing a huge disruption to the efforts of those who are trying to get these people help. Now how is that providing leadership?
And I don't get this "visting the scene to observe the damage" either. Why does Bush have to fly to New Orleans to see the damage when every single cable news station in America is showing footage 24/7?
I was only involved in one natural disaster. It was the Blizzard of '78 that paralyzed the coastline of New England for three weeks. I remember then Gov. Mike Dukakis flying overhead in a National Guard helicopter. Whoop-de-doo. I'm sure that helicopter could have been put to much better use than to fly around some dorky sweater-wearing bureaucrat who had presidential aspirations.
Ummm....you better revise that theory....."every Cajun HAD a skiff."
Amen!---Send Rudy!
It's a shame that part of the story is how bad the local leadership looks.
My gut tells me that things are about to take a turn for the worse.
Great Idea except that during hurricane season there aren't any cruise ships around. Most head for Alaskan inside passage cruises.
4 big cruise ships holding 2500 passengers would take care of the 10,000 people. At an average cruise ticket costing $1500, that'd be a $15 million / week charter trip.
>> Send several cruise ships to the docks in New Orleans. Load the stranded people on these floating hotels and take them to Baton Rouge or other Gulf Ports. It is possible to do and quick.
No carrier would risk having his assets stripped to the frame, not to mention the likely rioting on board that would occur.
Other gulf ports would likely need to set up containment facilities, otherwise their communities will be plundered and burned.
This is as bad of a situation as I have seen in my life.
New Orleans may well be lost for ever.
Why not use military landing craft. The ones that run up on the beach.
They have protected props, shallow water capable.
Ferry people up to the levee around the Lake and transfer them to larger craft.
Get one of the Nascar dudes, they are used to lots of horsepower.
LVM
Well, I'm with you except to send in Rudy. It's not his city, he doesn't know it or how it runs well, and in any case, bringing in an outsider her and now is not a good thing.
No, there has to be a good natural leader in the state. Rudy isn't a genie who we should call on in a jam. To do so doesn't give the fine people of Louisiana enough credit.
President needs to appoint a General/Admiral to go in there and order folks around. Someone needs to take over. Prayers for all those folks who need help getting out of there, especially the elderly and ill.
Louisianians have been screaming for years about the leeves and they haven't done a single thing. This rest squarely on the La. politicans shoulders. Lets see how quickly they start passing the buck.
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