Posted on 09/03/2005 12:37:22 PM PDT by nwrep
Read the article below from AP. Fed. response was immediate and timely - within 24 hrs., contrary to recent revisionism:
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As dawn broke on the day after Hurricane Katrina's landfall, emergency officials in the Gulf Coast states faced the sobering reality of the storm's devastation. With confirmed deaths now past 50, Mississippi's governor warned that the toll in one county alone could rise to 80.
The death toll soared with the grim discovery of numerous bodies in the remains of a Biloxi, Mississippi, apartment complex. Authorities said the count of lives lost is certain to rise as rescue workers reach victims in other flood-ravaged neighborhoods.
Even with Katrina swirling away to the north as a tropical storm, two different levee breaches in New Orleans sent a churning sea of water coursing through city streets.
"The hurricane was scary," Scott Radish told The Times-Picayune. "All the tree branches fell, but the building stood. I thought I was doing good. Then I noticed my Jeep was under water."
Across the Gulf Coast, boats rescued people clinging to rooftops, hundreds of trees were uprooted and sailboats were flung about like toys after Katrina crashed ashore yesterday in what could become the most expensive storm in U.S. history.
The federal government began rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, along with doctors, nurses and first-aid supplies.
The U.S. Defense Department sent experts to help with search-and-rescue operations.
"We pray that the loss of life is very limited, but we fear that is not the case," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.
New Orleans, relieved to have missed the brunt of the killer hurricane, found itself dealing with a second, creeping disaster on the day after the storm.
"Having watched them for years, this is exactly what I expected from the two of them."
Are you in Nebraska? I was there when Ben was Governor. Of the two, Ben might be the better.
Where is the outrage?
Is Tim Russert going to demand the Gov's or Mayor's resignation?
Is jessie jackson going to scream murder to democrats?
Will 60 minutes expose this?
No, it is only for FR to spread the truth.
I went through that document and it appears to be a request for after-the-fact clean up and funding. Standard FEMA stuff. Nothing about command and control of evacuation and carrying out search and rescue operations. In fact, I went through it line by line and it appears that every single request in that document was fulfilled early on.
What specific request that Gov Blanco made in that document do you think did not get fulfilled?
"Now, a nation at war as we are, should have been up and running Tuesday at the latest."
How do you think that would be physically possible?
And, even if it could be done by tasking crews around the clock to do, there are people stranded that need rescuing.
And tasking people to restore oil production would make the moonbats go bonkers.
They'd scream that oil was more important than people.
Still looking for a loophole so you can blame Bush?
It's not going to work this time.
Because he royaly screwed up. But his mistakes, however awful they were, don't excuse the mistakes made by FEMA.
It wasn't Nagin's fault that a search and rescue team from Virginia had to go home because they couldn't be cleared into LA. It wasn't Nagin's fault that resources haven't been released because FEMA can't get the paperwork done. It wasn't Nagin's fault that emergency vehicles from Florida couldn't be brought into the impacted areas because FEMA and the GSA couldn't agree on how to handle it.
I'll keep saying it, government across the board, city, state, federal, was completely unprepared for this sort of event. That's inexcusible. At all levels.
Read the tag line.
"I am not looking to cast blame"
You already did, do you even read what you post?
"Look, I am not saying that Blanco and Nagin were competent. In fact they were incompetent as was Bush."
The pictures of the buses, the fact that these buses were 1.2 miles from the dome, and the data that Travis and others have found re the evacuation plan show massive $crewups by du Mayor.
The evidence won't matter to the willfully blind.
"...limiting their deployments overseas..."
Yes. The concept for the National Guard, as I have generallly seen it, is not for use in multiple overseas skermishes. WWII was a different matter. If one wants to volunteer for any and all military actions around the world, let it be in the Army, Navy, Marine Corp, Air Force. Let volunteers for the guard know that they are not volunteering for everything that comes along. For those who want to volunteer 'part time' for anything, let them do so through the Reserves.
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