I still see no mention of water being dropped. Nor anything about buses going around before the flood trying to evacuate people, was that you talking about that? Quick reality check: where do you get your news? I do see that some food has made it to the convention center, finally.
Dana On 9/2/05, Aaron Rouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Protect your mail server with built in anti-virus protection. It's not only good for you, it's good for everybody. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=39 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172435 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
