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IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & SE Louisiana
IEM press release ^ | June 3, 2004 | IEM

Posted on 09/03/2005 10:56:42 PM PDT by XHogPilot

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To: XHogPilot
They can run but they cannot hide. They wanted to make this political instead of being Americans and joining in the rescue efforts? What it to be party politics rather then SOLVING the problems. Fine. We do it SO much better then them I would think the Hysteric Leftist would LEARN not to play this game. GREAT Job XHogPilot
141 posted on 09/04/2005 5:39:24 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you try to be smarter, I will try to be nicer.)
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To: xzins
I guess this falls under the heading of "better late than never."

No Sir. This falls under the heading of Good ultimately triumphing over Evil. The Media, in failing to to it's job as a "objective" public watch dog is letting the real culprits of this abject failure of the system get away with their evil because they are so busy pointing fingers at the THIRD responders (the Feds) What we are doing ins trying to make as many people aware as possible just where the real problems are. The Media instead of questioning the failure of the 1st (City) and Second (State) responders want to use this as a political football. Most of us would been more then happy to let this political fight wait until AFTER the Recuse and recovery efforts were complete. However, those people in the City of NO and the State of LA and the National Democrat Party are NOT willing to do that. WE have a MORAL obligation to stand up and say NO this is WRONG. As, I think it was Judge Oliver Wendel Holmes once said "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing".

142 posted on 09/04/2005 5:49:36 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you try to be smarter, I will try to be nicer.)
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To: Howlin
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:fOSzsMPLMvIJ:www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091904ccktWWLIvanFlaws.132602486.html+Ivan+exposes+flaws+in+N.O.%27s+disaster+plans+&hl=en

Get this out to as many people as possible. This is gold.

143 posted on 09/04/2005 5:52:11 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you try to be smarter, I will try to be nicer.)
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To: XHogPilot
The plan sounded so good --- on paper.

And the politicians sold it to the MSM and public.

Just a slight flaw in it, though: When it became necessary to implement it, it only existed on paper.

[Where did all the HSD and similar appropriations of funds go? They sure didn't go into N.O.'s efforts to implement a disaster program when it was needed. Yet, I'd bet, $millions of tax dollars (state and Federal) were received by N.O. and Louisiana to 'establish' disaster preparedness programs. Where did the money go?]

We need a full, independent, impartial investigation of this and other 'funded' planning committees. Where did all the $Billions spend in LA and throughout the Nation for developing disaster preparedness go?

Some reports have said that the NOLA spent their portion of funds on a casino, not on the waterway protective development for which the money was appropriated.
144 posted on 09/04/2005 5:59:34 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: kcvl
recognition gives the community of Isle de Jean Charles a fighting chance to stay afloat

Amazing how much Freeper can find that PAID "journalists" seem unable to. Thanks for the info.

145 posted on 09/04/2005 6:00:40 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you try to be smarter, I will try to be nicer.)
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To: EBH

I am reading where they contracted to do this work, I see where they did several workshops to get a better handle on what should be in the plan...but I don't see where it was ever actually written, approved, and implemented! These plans are for public consumption and knowledge; where is the IEM Plan?


146 posted on 09/04/2005 6:07:19 AM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: XHogPilot
This kind of privatization of FEMA services will be the focus of a lot of news coverage and hearings in coming months. Over the decades since it was established, FEMA built up a corps of disaster experts in-house. When FEMA was folded into DHS, many moved to other agencies or ended up working for these consultant firms where their expertise was then rented back to FEMA.

We're going to see a lot on FEMA and how disasters are handled out of Congress this fall.
147 posted on 09/04/2005 6:29:13 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: claudiustg
---Clinton's FEMA Director, James Lee Witt, ... And now the Governor's bring him down to be in charge of the recovery!

Sad to say but better him than Ms. Governor.
148 posted on 09/04/2005 6:31:11 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: hole_n_one
CLINTON: Well, I do believe we have to -- we probably have to wait a little bit for the emergency to die down and for us to deal with it before we know that. I know that in 1995, some people drowned and I know that we started a levee improvement program...

Protecting the 'legacy'. But Clinton refused to fund it fully. If he had, it would have been closer to complete or maybe even done. Clinton had money for Kosovo and Bosnia and Somalia and the money to bomb aspirin factories. But not for NOLA.

That's why he's acting like no one is to blame. He's afraid they'll (rightly) blame him.
149 posted on 09/04/2005 6:47:08 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: XHogPilot

And yet another version of the plan....see

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477009/posts?page=18#18

Placing the responsiblity squarely in the lap of the Mayor.

Also read down to about the shelter list...Note* the list was not for public knowledge, just dang.


150 posted on 09/04/2005 7:16:33 AM PDT by EBH (Never give-up, Never give-in, and Never Forget)
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To: XHogPilot; All

Piece of the puzzle #6 pointing to Nagin and Blanco as the real disasters and the blame for the tragedy:

1] Failed to learn lessons from Ivan

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091904ccktWWLIvanFlaws.132602486.html

2] Failed to heed warning from President Bush's--the President ordered Blanco to evacuate before the storm hit.

#3] Failed to heed the Director of National Weather Ser., who called Nagin Sat night, shocked that Nagin failed to heed warnings and pleaded with him to get the evacuation starte

#4] Demographic info (and photots) proving that Nagin had more busses per person than your typical city (based on demographic data) and photos proving busses lined up in mass, drowned in water since Nagin failed to utilize them.

See posts #54 and #34 at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476006/posts?page=54#54

#5] Welfare checks were set to be delivered arond the same time as Katrina was expected, a major reason why the people did not evacuate. Nagin failed to take this into account. He could have promised the people that they woudl be taken care of and urged them /FORCED THEM, to tleave the city.

Until TV or radio transcripts can be pulled showing Nagin pleading with people to evacuate, and until we see film footage of policemen forcibly moving people onto busses to get them out, we can't remove this blame from the local officials.

#6] And now this. Just think--Blanco just named Witt to head up another task force! Morons doing more moronic things.

Clearly, the blame falls on the Numnut Nagin and Bozo Blanco.

What major piece has been left off this list? Anybody?


151 posted on 09/04/2005 7:18:42 AM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: XHogPilot

Are you refering to the Witt plan? If so, it's rather unthinkable that he would now be asked to jump and front for the governor.


152 posted on 09/04/2005 8:30:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: Howlin

Dunno how long ago I said that this was looking like the 1977 Chicago blizzard. They too supposedly had a plan that was developed by a DemonRAT-linked outfit, one that was missing until well after the storm.


153 posted on 09/04/2005 8:33:25 AM PDT by steveegg ($3.00 a gallon is the price you pay for ANWR! Start drilling or stop whining! - HT Falcon4.0)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Good post.


154 posted on 09/04/2005 8:41:09 AM PDT by CajunConservative ("Dems can bus people to the polls but can't bus them out of danger to save their lives.")
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To: DoughtyOne
...the Witt plan? If so, it's rather unthinkable that he would now be asked to jump and front for the governor.

Unbelievable, isn't it. James Lee Witt Associates was part of the IEM team.

Link

155 posted on 09/04/2005 8:59:32 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Ouch. I hadn't connected him to that. Thank you.


156 posted on 09/04/2005 9:02:40 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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To: kcvl
In May of 2004, IEM included James Lee Witt Associates, LLC in their proposal to the Federal Emergency Management Agency for developing a FEMA Catastrophic Plan for Southeast Louisiana and the New Madrid Seismic Zone.

Is this separate from any individual contract work they did for the city itself?

157 posted on 09/04/2005 9:08:28 AM PDT by Dolphy
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To: Howlin
What is the source url of your post 121?

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:fOSzsMPLMvIJ:www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091904ccktWWLIvanFlaws.132602486.html+Ivan+exposes+flaws+in+N.O.%27s+disaster+plans+&hl=en

Why?

This article is quite timely, 11 months after it was written. Ivan revealed clearly identified flaws in New Orleans Hurricane plans, yet nothing was changed. In fact, the mayor was indignant when change was suggested. It appears Governor Blanco's and especially Mayor Nagin's response to Hurricane Katrina was preconditioned with arrogance. Unfortunately, nature does not conform to politicians wants or commands...

158 posted on 09/04/2005 9:33:14 AM PDT by XHogPilot (Islam is The Death Cult)
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To: CajunConservative
Let's add one more piece of puzzle to post #151:

Proof #7:

Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the Pentagon's National Guard Bureau, said two-thirds of the police in New Orleans have abandoned the force amid horrific conditions.

I can't see any other city in the USA where 2/3 of the police officers would abandon their jobs. This shows once more the corrupt squalor of New Orleans, courtesy of Mayor Nagin and his inability to get a grip on his city, both before the hurricane and during the aftermath.

159 posted on 09/04/2005 9:45:00 AM PDT by Dont_Tread_On_Me_888 (Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
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To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888

Also a large portion of the police department didn't show up for work and the AG indicated that anti-looting laws would not be strickly enforced.


160 posted on 09/04/2005 10:19:25 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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