--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > In a message dated 9/1/05 1:11:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > The time to organize a total evacuation is > > *before it's needed*. No plans were made to > > evacuate those who couldn't get out on their > > own. > > > > > The majority of the people there now are people that chose > > > to "ride out" the hurricane for whatever reason they had. > > > > Not true. Most of them were too poor to get out. > > No car, no money to hire one, no place to go, no > > money for a hotel if they could get out. The bus > > station shut down Saturday night. Some of them > > were sick or elderly. > > > > I sure can agree with you on the fact that the time to organize > > for evacuation is before! All states are supposed to have > > evacuation plans and if they don't, they , the state elected > > officials, need to be held accountable. I'll disagree with you on > > those not getting out not being able to. I'll agree there > > would have to be a certain percentage who absolutely had no way > > out. But Judy, I don't know if you have ever lived in a hurricane > > prone region. It is very common for people to reject all warnings > > to leave and ride out the storm thinking they will be safe. > > Good lord. I'm well aware of that, because such > people are interviewed on the news after every > hurricane. And of course there were some like > that in New Orleans. > > But a large proportion of the population of New > Orleans is *grindingly* poor.
"Grindingly poor". Is it the grindingly poor that have painfully skinny children? > All the people > who went to the Super Dome and other local > shelters, obviously, were unable to leave. > Nobody would willingly stay in a shelter if they > could get out. > > <snip> > > Then you have to ask yourself if there are thousands that have no > > transportation to get out, how on earth do you have a plan ready > > to be able to pick everyone of them up over a large city within a > > few hours to get them to safety? > > They had 36 hours' warning. If they had had a big bus > convoy ready to go, and a set of sturdy shelters just > outside the city that were at least on higher ground, > if not out of the hurricane's path, they could have > gotten most of them who wanted to leave out. > > An important component of this, of course, would be > a system to get the information out about where to > get the buses. A lot of people apparently didn't > get the word even where to get buses to take them > to the Super Dome and the other local shelters. > > It's certainly a tall order, but *not* doing it, > clearly, has resulted in a far taller one. > > Oh, yeah, and considering how totally incompetent > FEMA has been at evacuating folks after the fact, > doesn't it make you feel real comfortable about > what would happen if terrorists set off a dirty > bomb or a chemical attack in some other big city? ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
