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Leaked Katrina memo increases pressure on FEMA chief
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| 9/7/05
| Jenny Booth
Posted on 09/07/2005 2:27:50 PM PDT by Crackingham
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To: Crackingham
"would have never appointed such a person"
Yeah, they would have appointed a big campaign contributer.
To: Crackingham
Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), waited until five hours after Hurricane Katrina had struck before putting out an appeal for staff to help deal with the disaster, it emerged today. Katrina's strike wasn't the big problem. Five hours after Katrina struck, New Orleans was in tolerable shape. The catastrophe didn't occur until after the levees broke.
To: Crackingham
Mr Knocke said the 48-hour period was to ensure workers had adequate training.They should have been trained years ago. They should be so well trained that they can go into automatic without thinking. After a crisis is no time to start training.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:32:55 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: Crackingham
Ok, someone fill me in. I was under the impression that this memo was about volunteers, not the regular workers? Did I misunderstand?
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:34:00 PM PDT
by
MizSterious
(Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
To: SolidSupplySide
Expect more and more blurring between these two events:
Katrina's strike and the levee breech.
To: mtbopfuyn
They should have been trained years ago. They should be so well trained that they can go into automatic without thinking. After a crisis is no time to start training. Exactly. What happens when there is another terror attack? Will everyone need 2 days of training then too?
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:35:25 PM PDT
by
conserv13
To: SolidSupplySide
The thing is, they should have expected the levee to break.
They should have been prepared for it. And even after it broke and the city was flooding, the response was slow.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:36:49 PM PDT
by
conserv13
To: Crackingham
So, Brown brings any a lot of people pre-hurricane (because you don't want to put a lot of people in the path of the storm) Then after the storm hits sees how bad it is and asks for additional help, seems like the right thing to do. What is the problem?
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:37:23 PM PDT
by
jbwbubba
To: Names Ash Housewares
There needs to be more info about the training. Who was being trained and for what?
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:39:01 PM PDT
by
RTINSC
To: conserv13
The thing is, they should have expected the levee to break. They should have been prepared for it. And even after it broke and the city was flooding, the response was slow. Nagin knew the Levee was only designed for a Cat3 storm the City should have been fully evacuated BEFORE the hurricane hit. Nagin failed simple as that.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:42:07 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: SolidSupplySide
Yeah. And didn't they kinda need to know just where she struck? I think it sounds like a very fast response.
To: Crackingham
What utter bullshit.
They've got to wait until the storm passes to assess the damage so they can decide what needs doing, and where it needs to be done.
The only criticism I haven't heard is that they didn't hire Miss Cleo to tell them the exact storm track a week in advance.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:48:46 PM PDT
by
George Smiley
(This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
To: MizSterious
I don't know about the "volunteer" aspect, but I read that he was getting people who would need training at least from outside his department.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:51:53 PM PDT
by
maryz
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To: Echo Talon; Congressman Billybob
Nagin knew the Levee was only designed for a Cat3 storm the City should have been fully evacuated BEFORE the hurricane hit. Nagin failed simple as that. But even if it were not fully evacuated, if the buses had been used to start an evacuation and parked in other cities as the minutes from the June 5, 2005 NO school board meeting recommended, there would have been 400-500 NO school buses in working order that could have been used to continue the evacuation.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:54:13 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
To: maryz
Have any of these articles today specified how many FEMA assets were on the ground Monday and prior. I can't seem to find that info.
To: Crackingham
Remarkable. The article is much longer than the main text of this very short memo. From the article, I had expected a lot more than the rather innocuous memo turned out to be.
I find the article vastly overblown and worthy more of a very low grade tabloid than a serious newspaper. More sloppy journalism from the MSM.
To: SolidSupplySide
I think the problem is FEMA was slow to understand the ramifications of the levee breach. They thought they'd dodged it with the hurricane.
This article does not provide enough info to comment.
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posted on
09/07/2005 3:00:24 PM PDT
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
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