Net Llama! wrote:
On 09/08/2005 07:15 PM, Jerry McBride wrote:
On Friday 09 September 2005 12:44 am, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Friday 09 September 2005 12:01 am, Robert Hemus wrote:
> > For a macho, cowboy, grab 'em by the horns, (or balls if he knew
where
> > to look?) why when this was brewing into a #5 hurricane headed for a
> > city that is below sea-level and he wasn't being asked for help he
> > didn't get on the phone and start telling the Mayor of NO and the
> > Governors of Louisianza, Mississipi, and Alabama "Why the Hell
aren't
> > you fools doing something?" BTW what can a mayor do except tell the
> > citizens to pick up and evacuate? He sure didn't have the resources
> > locally to go get every body in harm's way.
> > Bob
>
> The thing that blows me away is... all those that decided to
"weather it
> out". I watched in shock at the numbers of people tha lived next
door to
> the levies(sp) that had to be lifted out by helicopter.
>
> Wow! No one down there had a bit of common sense!? Below sea level?
yup
> and below lake level too...
Alot of them had no transportation. Some were just stupid.
We talked about this at work, alot. They had a total of eight days
warning that a class 5 hurricane could hit them, right in the nose.
Even with my bad bad back and knees, I could have walked out of there
in time. Maybe not eight days before, but 3 maybe 4 days... yup.
walked where? if you have little or no money, and no transportation,
where are you going to go?
I am not convinced those questions mattered. I remember several
hurricanes that threatened NOLA since the Scientific American article
about how vulnerable a place it is. All previous hurricanes have looked
bad but at the last minute they petered out or changed course or somehow
missed hitting NOLA squarely. (This one missed also, but it was big
enough that close was good enough.)
I suspect that simple human complacency and cussedness were the main
reasons that folks stayed behind. If the mayor had wanted, he could
have provided bus transportation out for many. I suspect that no one
believed NOLA would be hit until they were under water. Then they had
keister level alligators. It is just as silly to make excuses for
people as it is to cuss them for being people. In the end, they are in
exactly the same situation you claim they were in to start with. Little
or no money, no transportation, and no place to go.
-- Alma
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