Posted on 09/24/2005 1:13:44 PM PDT by Graybeard58
What did you say?
Wolf Blitzer went nuts yesterday questioning a FEMA official on this topic. It seemed he thinks a better job could be done moving more than 2 million people out of a city with two major Interstates that were useable only to the north and west. What a dumb shit. The MSM will be doing back flips trying to figure a way to pin the orderly RITA process on bad planning.
"Do you know for a fact that all the elderly and infirmed were evacuated from Houston?"
Don't know about Houston, but everyone south of Houston evacuated the elderly and infirm. That was reported on the Galveston Daily News web site. (They even had one story about buses being at one city (La Marque), with the hired drivers doing a Nagin. They found volunteer drivers -- and the folks got out. The bus that burned was taking people from Bellaire, btw.
Yep a disaster in some peoples eyes....... but few deaths, people not stranded in rising water, very little looting, etc. A little more complicated than moving some 1/2 million or so when you are trying to move some 3 or more million..
Now all that said I doubt any evacuation plan for a major populated area will get the people out in a short time. I think that is evident with the two sister hurricane evacuations.
The New Orleans area has one road out of town and got 1.1 million people out before the storm hit.
The New Orleans MSA has 1.3 million people.
Then there's this: In an age of terrorist danger and with memories of the nightmare in New Orleans still fresh, the Texas exodus raises a troubling question: Can any American city empty itself safely and quickly?
NO, DUMBASS. That's the whole point those of us spouting off about logistics since LA screwed up Katrina so bad have been trying to make to you morons in the press.
uhm . . . yeah . . . I just love being called an idiot, that really helps my self esteem. ;-)
Then the next time some sort of hurricane hits, everybody can just teleport to some other city that is unaffected by the hurricane.
Teleportation is the answer. Either that, or build super-wide highways that are about a half mile wide. Wasn't Texas talking about building some of these wide roads?
Three roads out of town. I-10 East, I-10 West and the highway north over Lake Pontchartrain.
Nagin failed to get the sick and infirm out of town. Galveston evacuated all hospitals, as did League City, Texas City, Webster, Pasadena and south Houston hospitals and nursing homes.
Apparently, New Orleans evacuated no hospitals, and few nursing homes.
You've got a bit of a chip on your shoulder in trying to defend Nagin and Blanco. Anybody with two eyes could see the difference between the Texas mobilization and the "you're on your own" evacaution of New Orleans.
*LOL*
Something went very wrong in the Houston Evacuation.
You're stuck on stupid. It took longer to get from Houston to Austin in Rita because more people were evacuating!
This has been explained to you several times, yet you can't seem to get it.
Very little went wrong with the Houston evacaution, and your attempt to denigrate it won't change what people clearly saw.
The New Orleans MSA has 1.3 million people.
While there are three roads out of New Orleans there are not three that are safe and effective for an evacuation.
I-10 East goes straight to Mississippi and would interfere with the Evacuations from the Mississippi gulf Coast.
The Causeway? Would you take a 26 mile bridge over that lake while a hurricane was approaching? One stalled car and thousands would be killed by storm surge.
That leaves I-10 West as the only viable route out of town.
Well good for you and I'm glad you made it safely both ways. Glad you got to spend some time on the Texas roadways and hope you enjoyed the trip. We always enjoy people spending money with us. Come again and drop a few more dollars.
Lucky I did not have to leave Houston but I had friends and family that did.
"I just love being called an idiot, that really helps my self esteem. ;-)"
Well, before feeling too bad, just remember that your enemies are a measure of your quality. Anyone without any probably isn't worth a bucket of warm spit.
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