Posted on 03/21/2006 4:16:23 PM PST by Mogengator
NEW ORLEANS — As hurricane season approaches, the city doesn't have an emergency shelter, and local officials are asking for federal help to get people out of harm's way if another disaster strikes. Residents who can't leave town on their own ahead of an oncoming storm during hurricane season, which begins June 1 and runs through November, will be asked to board buses at the city's downtown convention center. They'll then be shuttled to shelters in outlying areas.
"The emphasis will be on survivability, and that means getting out of the impact area," said Terry Ebbert, the city's director of homeland security.
Ebbert said he fears that without federal help, citizens could be stranded in the city with nowhere to go. Neither New Orleans nor Louisiana has the resources to evacuate and shelter large numbers of residents, and the federal government has not yet committed needed aid, Ebbert said. (Related story: Nagin backs plan to allow all residents to rebuild)
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Completely incapable.
Isn't the stadium still standing. Tell em to take a soggy school bus to it and shutup.
They still got the dome don't they...? ;)
Help is on the way... /sarc.
http://www.bet.com/News/naginrebuilding.htm??Referrer=%7B03CE5360-2620-42CB-AD7E-77E4249C5FB7%7D
Nagin: 'Rebuild at Your Own Risk'
By Tracy Stokes and Cherrie V. Reid, BET.com Staff Writers
Posted March 21, 2006
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Meanwhile, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, in Cuba this week, criticized Washington for refusing Fidel Castro’s offer to send doctors to the Gulf Coast region after Katrina struck last August, flooding neighborhoods mainly populated by poor Blacks, Reuters reported.
Farrakhan said he wants to make sure Gulf residents are better prepared, since the U.S. government failed them, Reuters reported.
"After Hurricane Katrina and the failure of federal and state government, we felt it was our duty to come to Cuba to learn disaster management from the Cuban people who have had many hurricanes and have not lost lives," he said.
Farrakhan said he plans to share this knowledge with impoverished Black, Hispanic and Native American communities.
We were told that getting city employees to work on sunny days was problematic. How can NO execute any plan?
And so it begins,,,,setting up for another disaster, people are incapable, just too freakin' stupid to get themselves out of harms way, I am sooooooooooo sick of NO and all the whining, make it go away, hopefully the next storm will wipe it off the map permanently.
White folk already know to get the heck out of the way and head for higher ground.
it's the curse of liberalism....
If they ever solve "the problem", liberals will have nothing to complain about and run to the government for help, ergo "the problem" must continue indefinately.
We'll be hearing about New Orleans for years, maybe decades to come, and it will always be our fault.
Thats the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline..
LOL, your exact words shot through my mind as I read this!
>>>>"We'll be hearing about New Orleans for years, maybe decades to come, and it will always be our fault"<<<<
I will always blame LBJ.
TT
According to your home page you believe in morals and ethics and doing the right thing and yet you wish that a major American city be wiped off the face of the earth. Would that include killing all of the good innocent people down there as well? Interesting.
Aw Jeez, where is that pix of the guy saying Aw jeez, still hadn't seen it by post 12....
What these people are doing is IMMORAL, and yes I do believe NO should be wiped off the face of the earth, all the "good" "innocent" people have left the city, they are the ones that were capable of figuring out how to get out of harms way.
All of the good people have left. Are you sure about that? You are without a doubt one of the most uninformed posters I have ever seen on free republic. I gave you a chance to think about what you said and you just expanded on it.
Why should federal help be needed for a municipal problem? While I applaud all the college kids who gave up their spring break to help, a couple of them predictibly spouted the party line. The able bodied residents who chose to remain there, need to pitch in.
Now is the time for each resident to think for themselves. Adopt an elderly neighbor or a family, if you have transportation. Set up some kind of neighborhood watch type meetings, and discuss evacuation, especially the old folks, and the disabled.
If they can, why not NOLA?
Just exactly what is it you expect people to do? NO has been handed billions of dollars yet they want more and probably more after that. FEMA is not in the nursemaid business. Citizens are expected to take some responsibility for themselves and at least show some effort, something which is obviously lacking in NO. Can't you understand after 6 months and all we've seen is outstretched hands for more free gimmee's so the rest of the nation is now sick of the sound of NO. The people in the other States, Florida, Mississippi,Alabama and Texas have managed to help themselves and start rebuilding their lives, why can't the people of NO do the same, or is everyone in that State incompetent? I'm very aware how callous this sounds but d**n it, enough is enough. Katrina wasn't GWB's fault and it's not the rest of the nation's fault. If you want to lay blame, put it where it belongs.....on the shoulders of the crooked State officials of LA.
Frankly I've learned to not expect to much from a lot of freepers and that's kind of sad. What I would expect however is for freepers to try and educate themselves a little bit on a subject. I find it ironic that probably 90% of posters on this site refuse to believe anything put out by the mainstream media and yet can't wait to fall for everything put out on this subject. As someone from south Louisiana I can assure you that what you see represented on television is NOT the majority of the people in New Orleans or Louisiana.
A lot of people are taking responsibility and trying to get on with their lives. To wish that an entire American city be wiped off the map in a disaster to me is beyond the pale. I will always think that and if that makes me in the minority then so be it.
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