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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
FEMA was ready the weekend of Katrina - but they are placed under the command of local authorities.
In this case, the local authorities didn't have a *clue* at all. On top of that, all roads but one or two into the city were unusable after Katrina, and the airport was unusable.
Thanks for the good news.
it's beyond the city of NO. The city of NO is water damage..the Miss Gulf Coast..30 miles..10 blocks back is slab and rubble.
It is sickening to see how low the MSM has sunk.
By the way, did anyone see this kind of drilling with the governor of Louisiana? Did anyone ask her why it took so long for the evacuations to begin? I must have missed that news conference!
There are reports that looting and violence have begun in the Gonzales area. The sherriff denied this is going on, and pledged that all police resources were deployed and ready to stop any widespread violence to spread throughout the Gonzales area.
It's starting to get a bit freaky. My baby is sick. I am leaving the house in 30 minutes to take my son to the doctor in Gonzales. I will probably report back on what I see when I get back, if I get the chance. There is so much work to do at the house. I still have 6 trees lying in the yard, clearing brush off the drive. etc.
Ok, good to know.
It's ancient e-mail urban legend, and has been posted (and pulled) as a thread on FR hundreds of times.
It's pure nonsense and wouldn't work.
Capslock also has an "off" position.
This is, unfortunately, unprecedented. A plan that would have been appropriate to deal with an Andrew or Camille level of destruction would have been woefully inadequate to deal with the current situation in LA/MS.
It may be that they actually did have a plan, but that plan completely fell apart when it ran smack into no communications, no access, the loss of key transportation routes, and a scope of disaster that was off the 'bad' end of the scale for any reasonable planning.
By way of comparison, we've heard for four years now about DHS planning for a N/B/C attack. But if a nuke went off in a major US city than is already beset by transportation choke points (i.e. NYC, Seattle, SF), do you really think that the response 3 days later is going to resemble a well-oiled machine?
I only have a few minjutes but BR is having trouble. WE are only leaving here in twos, car jackings, evacuees roaming, hubbys hospital has armed guards, it is incredible. I can't sort out rumors from fact.
Everyone seems to be breaking down, crying and enraged.
Hsve to disagree here. Every one of us in hurricane areas knows full well the 72 hour rule. We are now in the 72 hours following the storm today. FEMA was staging prior to landfall.
They wanted to make sure they could dump their bus sewage tanks with a cover story this time...
Hey, thanks for posting this. It's been proven to NOT WORK through basic economics, and hey - guess what - many of the companies can't get oil because of the disaster in NO right now.
You're all heart. Maybe one day you'll be in a disaster and lose everything and somebody will offer you a job picking stringbeans...better start practicing :-)
Good idea, at least the people could get some info. Of course, the thugs have guns and would probably try to steal the PA system, so the truck needs to have soldiers on it in protective gear.
Please - now is not the time for hysterical leftist schemes
May posted, just got back to online:
FROM WWL:
Updates as they come in on Katrina
11:48 AM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
Tom Planchet
11:44 A.M. - St. Bernard Parish official Walter Leger - thousands still trapped in St. Bernard. Thousands more are staying on the levee and are being taken by ferry to Algiers.
Praying for you right now.
Be Careful
post when you get back!!
Sounds like something the DUmmies dreamed up.
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