Posted on 09/10/2005 10:20:09 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
"and the head of Florida wildlife..."
What is the proper title of such an official in Florida? Chief alligator?
for later
This is a rational, well-written article with a lot of good points.
I have to assume that because it is from Florida that the democrats will decry it as a partisan political attack, even though it does not mention political parties or politics, and merely discusses states and their emergency preparedness plans.
It has to be sickening to try to run the country when half the elected representatives are actively trying to screw everything up for partisan political purposes.
What has happened to people? There is no way to prepare for what we've never experienced; why don't they just shut up and get to work?
We usually use wood and FIRE to make our smoke signals.
How can you not prepare for this? The forecasts of what would happen to NO if a hurricane hit it have seem to be dead-on so far.
In my opinion, the lack of planning for something so obvious is criminal.
I AGREE THEY WAS RUNNING JEB BUSH DOWN AFTER HAURRICANES BUT IT DID NOT WORK. WHAT THEY ARE TELLING IS MISSISSIPPI HAD DAMAGE FROM ONE END TO OTHER OF THIS STATE. NOT MANY IN MISSISSIPPI HAD POWER AND I MEAN NONE. THIS LIKE NOTHING THAT HAS EVER HIT THIS COUNTRY. NOT MATTER HOW PREPARED WE WAS MANY THING WOULD GO WRONG. NEW ORLEANS IS ANOTHER STORY FOR THEM TO NOT USE BUSES TO GET PEOPLE OUT IT NUTS AND NOT LETTING IN RED CROSS AND SATVATION ARMY IS CRIMINAL. MISSISSIPPI COAST IS GONE AND HATTIESBURG AND MEERIDIAN IS IN BAD SHAPRE AS IS MOST OF THE STATE. WE LIVE IN PEARL, MS. AND WE STILL HAVE POWER PEOPLE FROM MI., GA., ARK., AL., AND PEEN IN OUR CITY IF 30,000.
ALL MEDIA NEED WAS TELL ABOUT NEW ORLEANS AND EVEN NORTHERN LA. WAS DAMAGED VERY BAD. WE HAVE FAMILY WHO LIVES AT COAST.
IF THEY HELP ANY CLOSER THEY WOULD BE GONE LIKE 1ST. RESPONDERS AT WTC BOMBING.
But Gov. Bush defended FEMA.
"If we weren't prepared, and we didn't do our part, no amount of work by FEMA could overcome the lack of preparation," he said. Natural Hazards Center director Kathleen Tierney agreed, saying emergency planners in the Gulf states should have taken a tip from the jazz legends that made New Orleans famous.
"Organizational improvisation" is essential to cope with unpredictable events such as Katrina, Tierney said.
Too bad Democrats can't comprehend these simple, straight to the point words. Because emocrats offer no sollution but to blame others who weren't responsible, this should be a WAKE UP CALL to people living in states in disaster prone regions, DO NOT ELECT democRATS, unless you want to swim towards dry land with them.
Strange isn't it that when cities or states want to build a new arena, aquarium or other high cost project they will send delegations to Hawaii or Las Vegas or wherever at public expense to study how others did it. They'll get even more grandiose ideas for wasting the taxpayers' money. But when it comes to disaster planning, they couldn't be bothered to even ask someone who has done a successful job of it.
Maybe in your world people don't take the time to prepare for the unexpected, but most of us do. If I'm going to take a trip someplace I've never been before, I'll sure as hell ask around amongst my friends and family for someone who has SOME idea of what I'm getting into so I can prepare myself.
Florida offered to help their neighbors prepare for something they (Florida) could be considered as "subject matter experts" on. Their neighbors refused, like the fools they are seen as now. Sadly, others are suffering, and paying, for the foolishness of the leaders of these states.
Just think, if they had accepted the help offered, most of the work having to be performed now (like recovering the dead) would be unnecessary, and they would not have to "just shut up and get to work."
Well, unless you just want to create a pointless blaze, you also need a wet blanket.
Notice those corrupt "leaders" in NO have no problem implementing the land and gun grab plan. Nagin, Blanco and their pals should be in leg irons and an orange jump suit right now, entering a plea.
Mobile, Alabama was hit by Katrina's stronger East side, yet Mobile's pre-hurricane planning, disaster plan, relief plan, and state/federal cooperation went by the book. Result: no news from Mobile, Alabama (no lootings, no riots, no rotting corpses, you know...what makes news for liberals).
New Orleans, hit by the weaker West side of Katrina, discovered that it had no responsible state or local leadership.
Quite a contrast. Same storm.
Why ruin a perfectly good blanket? just use green grass clippings, or leaves- build a fire in a metal garbage can, get it smoking, and use the lid.
Hey, that's not a bad idea! Indians didn't have garbage cans, and I wasn't creative enough to improvise. =)
Good article
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The Indians wouldn't have built a city in a swamp either, and even if their ti-pi's blew away, they'd just run a heard of buffalo over a cliff and make new ones.
I don't know why the didn't use a buffalo hide for their smoke signals though, sleeping on that stinky, (and valuable) blanket after couldn't have been pleasant.
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Nonsense.
Nothing could have prevented this short of divine intervention.
For over five years now as weather forecasting has taken on dimensions of crisis-proportions people have been burning out and tuning out; they simply can't comprehend the potential of disaster and refuse to spend sleepless nights concerning themselves with what has never happened to them before.
And, anyway, they have more important things to do - like walking the dog and getting laid.
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