Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:31:13 +0200 From: Alfred de Tavares <[email protected]>
Arre...Ali...baba....! Whatever, then, went wrong in New Orleans??? Mario responds: Now, Tio, wait just a minute. What happened in Nawlins had nothing to do with weather forecasting. The folks down in Nawlins knew exactly what was happening. The problem was that the local mayor and the local Governor were so incompetent that they did not take appropriate action to face up to the threat and evacuate the city in time. Surely you saw the pictures of hundreds of school buses standing idle that could have been used for this purpose. Then they tried to blame the President whereas the primary responsibility lay with the locals. The local Governor during Katrina was so embarrassed by her performance that she did not even run for re-election. Subsequently amcho Bobby Jindal was elected and he has since dealt with numerous hurricanes where he was nationally acclaimed for organizing the response, making sure that the same Mayor did now what he was supposed to do but did not before Katrina, which included evacuation when called for.
