Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Katrina disaster updates

Fri, 02 Sep 2005 18:29:53 -0700

In a message dated 9/2/05 7:03:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And he dropped the ball.

Being president means you have to be ready to have
things thrown in your lap at the last minute.  That's
one of the things we hire a president to do.

See, nobody's blaming him for the apparently flawed
original evacuation efforts, but rather for being so
slow to pick up the slack when it became obvious what
was happening.
He didn't get the ball till Wednesday. If you will recall, Monday everybody thought NO had dodged the bullet and all they needed was a couple of days to clean up and start restoring electricity. Then on Tuesday  the levee broke. The Mayor and Governor spent a day assessing the situation and then called for help. National Guard doesn't just appear, the governor of the state has to call it up and it takes time for Guardsmen to report  for duty. Remember they were in their homes as well cut off from communications and electricity like everybody else. How they got organized and in there today looks like a minor miracle to me. Had the idiots that decided to start taking shots at rescue workers, police, doctors, bus drivers, helicopter pilots. not done so, the rescue work  on Wednesday would have been more productive and possibly less agonizing for everybody else, while the National Guard was organizing. The Snipers probably slowed down rescue efforts at least a whole day if not more. I heard one report that a helicopter with supplies was getting ready to land when a bunch of thugs came out with guns and the pilot got scared and lifted of and left. That's probably why you didn't see choppers coming in and dropping off food and water. They weren't going to risk their lives until law and order was restored.

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