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Skriven 2005-09-04 16:02:34 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6915 av Geo (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Katrina
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From: "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com>

There are 10,000 guard troops at least in Louisiana that took nothing but a
phone call from the Governor to call them out.  They are still waiting for that
call.  Even today the Governor hasn't called.

Gary

"Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:431b3ffd@w3.nls.net...
> How long would it take to get the national guard back from Iraq?
>
> Geo.
>
> "Robert Comer" <bobcomer@mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:431b354e$1@w3.nls.net...
> > >I don't see how it could have been otherwise.
> >
> > The national guard should have been there almost from the beginning
(just
> > after the storm blew through), and they weren't. That enough to say that
> it
> > should have been otherwise.
> >
> > I don't know why they weren't, but to blame the local governments only
is
> > bogus because a state of emergency was declared before the storm and
when
> > that is done, the feds are supposed to be in control. (department of
> > homeland security and FEMA)  I definitely don't blame Bush only
either...
> >
> > This all looks like a problem in our homeland security/military
structure
> > and I do hope Bush goes about fixing whatever the problem is.
> >
> > - Bob Comer
> >
> > "John Cuccia" <jcuccia@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> > news:dmbmh15abg1hmb9a7b4p995p3u07t889fp@4ax.com...
> > > Well, sure, with hindsight I have to agree with the critics that
> > > maintain hat the levee system should have been designed to withstand
> > > Category 5 storms, but it wasn't.
> > >
> > > To be honest, I'm not sure that 5-6 days to start bringing a semblance
> > > of order to an operation of this size can be considered poor
> > > performance.    Hell, despite GaryB's insistence that the mayor should
> > > have picked up the phone to call his bus drivers to work, it has taken
> > > that long to build out an emergencey communications system.
> > >
> > > I think that the response in the first several days can honestly be
> > > called a "cluster fuck", but with a disaster of unprecedented
> > > magnitude, I don't see how it could have been otherwise.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 10:23:35 -0700, Ellen K.
> > > <72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>With 20/20 hindsight I have to agree with the critics who are saying
the
> > >>government should have brought in buses to evacuate those who couldn't
> > >>get out on their own.
> > >>
> > >>On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:04:47 -0700, Ellen K.
<72322.1016@compuserve.com>
> > >>wrote in message <rfddh1t44178t3r0u3ghqmet0ps69dc50e@4ax.com>:
> > >>
> > >>>Today's paper said 80% evacuated.  I agree that that's really pretty
> > >>>good.
> > >>>
> > >>>Sad to read they are looting the Wal-Mart.
> > >>>
> > >>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:22:03 -0500, John Cuccia <jcuccia@bigfoot.com>
> > >>>wrote in message <0v3ch11t52ph3cutdv8vv1meba0sms6ggh@4ax.com>:
> > >>>
> > >>>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:23:24 -0400, Richard B. <TDNBW@barktopus.com>
> > >>>>wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:27:46 -0700, Ellen K.
> > >>>>><72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>>The people interviewed were old and poor (and probably black but
of
> > >>>>>>course the newspaper wouldn't print that part).
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>Ellen,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>Having lived most of my life on the coast and having experienced
> quite
> > >>>>>a few storms and a couple of major ones, I found anyone who wanted
to
> > >>>>>leave could, with little ingenuity, get the hell outta Dodge.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Ingenuity isn't one of the strengths of a lot of the people who
> > >>>>couldn't leave.  g. Many didn't even know there was a storm coming.
> > >>>>Hell, as late as the 10AM advisory on Friday New Orleans wasn't in
the
> > >>>>3-day probability cone for a strike.  By 5PM Friday New Orleans was
> > >>>>starting to come into the picture, but how do you get the word to a
> > >>>>million people on Friday night/Saturday morning.
> > >>>>
> > >>>>It looks like about 75% of the population of the metro area
evacuated.
> > >>>>I doubt you'd do better than that anywhere.
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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