Posted on 09/04/2005 1:00:05 PM PDT by coffee260
Here is the site of the State of Louisiana's "Emergency Operations Plan".
http://www.loep.state.la.us/plans/EOPSupplement1b.pdf
http://www.loep.state.la.us/plans/EOPSupplement1a.pdf
You need only read from page 7 to about 16 to see who is responsible for this mess. It is the Parish Presidents and the other local and state elected officials.
Do not blame anyone until you read this!!!
Nagin is quoted as saying " I didn't use the schoolbuses to evacuate because they didn't have toilets"..
No snack lunch either.
9-11: Major failure of government
Border Crisis: Major failure of government
Hurricane Katrina: Major failure of government
We have a problem.
That's why Broussard was crying and whining on tv this morning. More deflection and CYA.
Oh, no, wait, that was a comic book.
Great post! and bump
What a fantastic timeline. Just fantastic.
Nagin also failed to warn the elderly and infirm to bring their own evacuation bus if they wanted to escape alive.
"I need troops, man. I need 500 buses.” Nagin said.
I'll show you a picture of where your buses are, you pea-brained fork-off!
If you'd used them to get people out, you would have saved the buses as well!
Another bump for reality versus spin.....
Great resource. Thanks.
Very informative and interesting read. Way to go TP.
I'll bet NO and local government have never deployed their buses to evacuate the needy in previous hurricanes until AFTER the storm. They want to save the buses. It's about money.
Criminal negligence.
Thank you so much, and bump.
"9-11: Major failure of government
Border Crisis: Major failure of government
Hurricane Katrina: Major failure of government
We have a problem."
Never have we needed people to take personal responsibiltiy on themselves as today.
Everyone who remained expects the government to do it, to fix it, to hold their hand, for them.
That you demorats and fifty years of dependency.
I'm not sure this is at all accurate. I have read that the Bush administration contacted Blanco on Friday evening and requested that she allow FEMA to take over the evacuation and relief effort. She refused, saying that to allow them to control the effort would be like declaring federal martial law and she compared it to sending troops into Iraq.
I'm not going to do your homework for, but I think that you had better go back and do a little checking.
Ping
Nice job!. However, you missed the mayor's order to commandeer all buses immediately and evacuate the elderly and infirm 24 hr prior to katrina's arrival. ...He didn't?...Bad mayor, bad mayor.
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