Was forgetting to use the hundreds of school buses to evacuate people Saturday and Sunday part of the disaster plan or did they just do that ad hoc?
Posted on 09/02/2005 6:20:49 PM PDT by HAL9000
Well, ya know, Clinton would have been able to do it! /sarcasm
susie
Could you please be more vague?
You can't leave by I-10. It goes over the twin span, which is gone.
Yeah, a long, long time ago. I was just a little bitty thing, so I don't remember it much. I used to live in Lake Charles; I wonder if it flooded much there?
"What's being done to filter out the criminal elements before they ship them up here to Texas?"
I would not worry about that too much. Texas isn't New Orleans. I have lived in Texas 26 years. One thing that has taught me is that Texans are willing to give most anyone a chance -- and are probably tougher than any other folks in the nation when it comes to slapping down those that abuse the chance they are given. We will be really nice to the honest folk that came here needing help -- and really hard on the criminals that think generous equals soft.
That's it. I can't read anymore. I'm not sending a cent to New Orleans. I'll just send my check directly to Catholic Charities in Mississippi.
F&$ k Reuters, what a cheap shot to blame Bush.
I'm with you. People should not blame the President who is telling them before to evacuate the city before its too late.
I do think, no I KNOW there are grateful people who are thankful for everything that has been done for them in this disaster. It just seems that the media (including my once beloved Foxnews) have not had the inclination to show much of that. I am so cynical about ALL media now.
susie
Was forgetting to use the hundreds of school buses to evacuate people Saturday and Sunday part of the disaster plan or did they just do that ad hoc?
The average person can go about two weeks without food, and judging from some of the fat asses I saw on TV most of these people could go a month without starving.
I don't believe any of these people were starving after five days.
This pisses me off. They don't like Bush now, how about we wait as long as we did to go in as we did to go into IRaq. Why don't we wait another ten months or so, and pass a few UN resolutions before sending in aid. Ungrateful bastards.
It took just as long as it did during hurricane Agnes. People were on their roofs then, too. People didn't start looting or killing each other, either. They were as grateful as hell when the troops showed up. They said "Thank you", not "F you."
Those people were suppose to evacuate. They didn't. Now, people are trying to help them as much as they can. There is no magic wand.
You're totally ignoring the brave people who are down there in great numbers wallowing in the sewer water to save those who decided to stay with their "stuff." Give the good people helping down there a little credit for a change. They're human, too, and they're being hassled and shot at. They're doing the best they can.
There is a difference between being "abandoned" and being "stranded".
In respect to the Federal Government, these people are now stranded just like the crew of a sinking unsafe ship is stranded during their wait for the Coast Guard.
The Federal Government has only a few days warning to move thousands of men, heavy equipment and thousands of tons of supplies to any potential natural disaster point anywhere in the U.S. That is being done.......But such massive logistics effort takes time.
In respect to the City of New Orleans and its Mayor , these people were abandoned.
The Mayor of New Orleans has had years of warning to plan for this. The current nightmare scenario has been predicted for years if and when New Orleans, a city below sea level, was ever hit with a Category 5 hurricane:
Would New Orleans Really Flood in a Major Hurricane? How is that possible?
The Mayor of New Orleans is now whining about the inevitable time that the logistics of the massive relief effort is taking and complaining that the poor without automobiles were left to suffer.........Presumably by the Federal Government and therefore by Bush.
However, the Mayor has known for years that poor people without adequate transportation could not safely stay in New Orleans during a Category 5 hurricane and he did NOTHING to evacuate them.
With all that prior warning and with local resources at the scene and available, there was one task that was never done or even attempted by the Mayor ..........Namely, the complete evacuation of the city's poor population to areas on higher ground.
The Mayor is now playing the demagogue and angrilly saying that the people suffering are the poor blacks who did not have automobiles to evacuate. However, prior to the hurricane and with ample prior warning of the consequences of leaving people in the city, the Mayor had his buses all parked in orderly rows.
WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?... New Orleans Lost Opportunity
Not exactly demonstrating "starving Ethiopian" weight standards, are they?
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It ruins the surprise.
"I'll just send my check directly to Catholic Charities in Mississippi."
That's exactly what I concluded I would do.
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