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Skriven 2005-09-04 22:25:00 av Gary Britt (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 6932 av Glenn Meadows (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Katrina
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From: "Gary Britt" <zotu@nospamforme.com>

The New Orleans evacuation plan specified the city buses and school buses would
be used to transport people without transportation.  All the people at the dome
and convention center.  30,000 of them wanted to leave and could have been
transported in 1 or two bus trips.  The New Orleans City government didn't
follow their plan and never tried to use the buses.

Lots of people seem to be blaming Bush, making false claims of racism, idiots
in the main stream media calling for resignation of Chertoff, and yet NONE OF
THESE PEOPLE LAY ANY BLAME ON THE STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT, and that's where
most of the blame belongs, imho.

That's the only point I'm really trying to make.  If you want to say, hey the
locals screwed up and the feds were 24 hours later than they might have been
otherwise but that's what happens in a disaster this size, I don't have a
problem with that.

I agree with you and Denny Hastert we should rebuild New Orleans somewhere else
and let the current location be made into an underwater habitat for fish and
other forms of life.

Gary


"Glenn Meadows" <gmeadow@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:431ba742$1@w3.nls.net...
> With what, 36 hours notice, get enough buses to move those who
> couldn't/wouldn't leave?  How would you know how many wouldn't leave?  I
> don't think NO was even given a Hurricane warning till about 36 hours
before
> it hit.
>
> 20/20 hindsight is always perfect.  It's always an "if we would have,
could
> have done this or that" situation.  The reality in my mind is that there
is
> no way that you were going to get those who decided to stay, out in the
time
> available.
>
> Personally, I think they should let the river and lake reclaim the area,
and
> build a new city 50 miles upriver.  The next time it happens, and it could
> just be later this season, what do you do then?
>
> --
>
> Glenn M.
> "Ellen K." <72322.1016@compuserve.com> wrote in message
> news:abbmh19occrcbe6ukpq1lvnd5uhon13aep@4ax.com...
> > 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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