Posted on 09/04/2005 1:00:05 PM PDT by coffee260
I've said it over and over again. Rats think Bush is God or at least Superman.
There was nothing for the dems to gain by saving lives.
As an elderly black woman said when she arrived in Houston. People know us when they want our vote but they never deliver anything and we are of no use to them.
Just adding my own thread ot the Mix.
Why Didn't Louisiana Follow it's Required Emergency Plan?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1477374/posts?page=40
Regards,
Joe
And according to Nagin and Blanko, it is all the Bush's fault. Someone could have at least provided krappy MRE's and water so those poor people at the Superdome wouldn't starve to death and get dehydrated!
Oh, wait! According to the timeline:
Sunday, August 28th: “To help keep them fed and hydrated, the Louisiana National Guard delivered three truckloads of water and seven truckloads of MREs — short for “meals ready to eat.” That’s enough to supply 15,000 people for three days, according to Col. Jay Mayeaux, deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Emergency Preparedness.
Man, don't even get me started on the buses/transportation things being cried and boo-hooed about by Nagin and LA State Rep. Karen Carter on Friday, Sept. 2nd when on Wednesday, Aug. 31, Gov. Blank-mind herself said in an interview on Good Morning America (?!!)
“We’ve sent buses in. We will be either loading them by boat, helicopter, anything that is necessary.”
and since Bush and the Feds have been doing such a lousy job, just exactly where did she get all these buses from, you ask? According to the timeline, the were provided by [taaa-daaaa] the Feds: "FEMA is providing 475 buses for the convoy". Remember, this was on Wed. 8/31
Of course, we also find LA Department of Social Services Secretary Ann Williamson listed as saying that the buses should start rolling later Wednesday. About 475 vehicles have "been arranged" to ferry the evacuees to Houston. "Been arranged" by WHOM, Secretary Ann? Certainly not the LA bureaucrats.
We have to assume that those buses had toilet facilities and kitchenettes in them, or Mayor Ray wouldn't have let his esteemed citizens board them, as he claimed later that he didn't use school buses because they didn't have bathrooms.
Gasp! Now they will have to charge young Jabbar with major civil rights violations for each of those seventy some people he drove to Houston to safety in a school bus that Mayor Ray wouldn't use because it lacked toilet facilities. Young Jabbar is going to be in the graybar hotel for a loooooong time.
This timeline is great! Thanks for posting it. I'm gonna refer back to it many times, I'm sure. Maybe some of the Congressional investigation committees can refer to it also when they are formed at the behest of Mayor Ray, Gov. Blank-mind and Sen. Landwhoo-hoo.
You are so right and I've done my share of screaming at the TV with intermittent gasping hand wringing this past week. The fact is the truth will never change the minds of those who choose to perpetrate lies. That's the bad news. The good news is that they are the same people who hated Bush before and the same ones who will hate him tomorrow. Politically, NOTHING has changed. All the libs are still libs and all of us are still us...Thank God.
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City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan http://www.cityofno.com/SystemModules/PrintPage.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26
A. Evacuation Time Requirements
Using information developed as part of the Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Task Force and other research, the City of New Orleans has established a maximum acceptable hurricane evacuation time standard for a Category 3 storm event of 72 hours. This is based on clearance time or is the time required to clear all vehicles evacuating in response to a hurricane situation from area roadways. Clearance time begins when the first evacuating vehicle enters the road network and ends when the last evacuating vehicle reaches its destination.
Messed up again---it was page 13....#5--I'll go now....
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Bookmark - this is great. And with all the bashing going on on all sides, I think the most important lesson is some big bad things can happen and even if your gov't is prepared to help - don't count on it. (At least for awhile).
Welcome to Free Republic.
bttt
Probably should have posted this here instead of the Live Thread:
What with all the Democrat revisionism flying around, I've been reading the earlier Hurricane live threads. Starting around the 1300 page of Thread III, reports came in about evacuation orders and the governor's hesitation and Mayfield's stern warnings.
One odd thing though, one freeper mentioned the governor asking the president for federal assistance and an emergency order on 8/27---and the president granting the request. Yet at the state's official website the request is dated 8/28. Does anyone know, were there two different requests?
Someone take a look at the press releases from the gov of LA website.
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