Friday afternoon and a big ass convoy of supplies and troops made it to the people at the convention center and most of the dome was evacuated at this point plus shortly before this those thousands of people on the freeway that the helicopters were dropping off and the bad condition people were being relocated with helicopters got a convoy of buses(because prior it was hard for the buses to even get there) to start pulling them out. Does no one realize the magnitude of what it takes to evacuate 10s of thousands of people or to find and pull them out of "rumble", each bus holds how many people? Plus they have been using Amtrak and some flights now that the airport has dried out enough to actually be used. It was estimated(as per their local news interview with a professor earlier today) before this ever happened that maybe 10k people per day could be evacuated from the city if something like this occured yet certain seems that number was passed when I watch the local news about amount of people bused in. Levee breaks on Tuesday, so what is that 72 hours to get trucks organized, get the trucks loaded, get the troops organized as well and get them loaded and then drive them there and navigate the rumble to get to the destination and that assumes they had not done any of those things prior bet they did or it would have been more than 72 hours. Prior to the convoy arriving helicopters have been doing their best to drop supplies as they come in. Their number one priority on the first through days was rescue people from the flooded areas and from watching the news I see an enormous amount of helicopters and boats working on that task and the buses started I believe 48 hours later. Plus the government already dispatched three ships how many days ago, and probably back when everyone probably did not grasp the magnitude of what was happening. Just like most people in this world, everyone wants to point a damn finger at someone or something specific, christ there are people saying all day how this is racist and if all those people were more white than not then it would have happened quicker. It is so easy to sit back and look at anything and think of how it could have been done better, does not matter if it is a disaster or just someone else code on a CFM application. The bigger the job one is looking at, usually the less of the variables they are aware of and fully take into account.
I almost want to think that the Coast Guard is the only entity involved in this that has done a "great" job. On 9/2/05, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It was probably not entirely clear to anyone, the governor, the president, > or the National Guard, just how bad things were on Monday. It's getting to > be Friday evening. What was your excuse again? I see no particular reason > why the president could not have made a phone call to the Pentagon after > the > news broke on Tuesday that the levees had broken. > Dana > On 9/2/05, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Matthew wrote: > > > Instead of looking just at the Pres to blame for all of it, you should > > > research what the state government was communicating to the Federal > Gov > > > > I agree completely. To be clear, this was a failure of gov't on every > > level: city, county, state, and federal. My point is, while I can > > understand that maybe the Governor is hamstrung, the President isn't. > > He should be able to cut through all of the red tape; that's the > > purpose of his executive authority. > > > > As to "being him", I don't need to be him to see that the NO relief is > > a major fek up. If I was him, I'd use executive authority to get > > troops and supplies in there fast. He's not chose to do that. > > > > In defense of that decision, it may be because, in reviewing that > > option, his people felt the actual aid would get to people just as > > fast by messing with nothing. That is, yes the train started slowly, > > but it's almost up to speed. > > > > However, even if that's the case, he's not doing much good as a > > symbolic leader either. I don't hear the, "I'm bringing the full > > resources of the US government to bear ... blah blah blah" Instead > > he's going to tour and has said the effort is "insufficient". That's > > not reassuring when you're starving to death. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172420 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
