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Posted on 08/30/2005 1:34:04 PM PDT by NautiNurse
I will. Thanks! He is a pretty bright guy. It was tough being his kid!
Per CNN: Another levee about to fail. Did not say where.
Excellent job of fingerpointing there. Very useful at this time. Your critique alone may completely save the day.
Your plan that you filed... to deal with this specific problem... that's on file with the city of New Orleans so that you can embarrass them with it...? That's going to be available, right? Boy oh boy... will you ever have the last word on them.
> THe Dutch had a storm in 1953 that breeched dikes and killed thousands - They have developed incredible technologies for breakwaters since then.
I think we were talking apples and oranges. I have no opinion on how prepared we will have seemed in retrospect, as far as preexisting infrastructure. You may have a good point there. In fact, on another thread, I argued that even investing in a below-sea-level city, rather than relocating it, makes no sense to me, as even superior technology is still subject to the whims of nature.
My point earlier this thread was that actions taken by authorities in the few days leading up to and since Monday will not deserve the criticism that many here want to throw at them
Anita Vogel on FNC now talking about "buses on the interstate picking up people". are all the roads into NO impassable, or not?
Just reporting in that I am home, it's a mess, but intact, we just got the power on within the hour, and we are counting our blessings.
Bad PR for the airlines? haha....one or two of them might go under because of Katrina....I bet on Delta
That isn't what I said.
I said the mayor, the Gov should have ordered up every available vehicle for an evacuation of NO to points west and north on Sat AM.
The airlines did what airlines do. And that is suspend service.
That just reminded me...does anyone know if the World War II Museum suffered much damage?
Ouch. Dunno how they'd get 60,000 people out of there in 12-18 hours.
Don't know your agenda but if you think the Governor has done a good job then I have a desert for sale in the center of New Orleans!
In what way is he in trouble?
< Aaron Brown on CNN just reported that President Bush is returning to DC from vacation, then said, snidely, "Its good to know the White House is paying some attention."
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I think that negates all the glowing reviews CNN has gotten on this thread today.
Portions of the interstates (10 & 610 in particular) are elevated.
It's worse than any of us could have ever imagined.
A deputy at Orleans Parish prison, his wife and four children have been taken hostage by rioting inmates.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473793/posts
"Haley Barbour: I talked to President Bush on the phone three times today..."
Something tells me W is "the man" in Mississippi.
Anita tells the truth...there was one road to Crescent City that was open......although you might have to get wet to get to the onramp.
No, you can't force every idiot. But while they got the contraflow system working on the highways since the last storm, they made no effort to get the willing ones among the 100,000 non-car types out. A quicker evacuation decision combined with buses (and trains on Saturday) could have reduced most of those staying to the usual idiots. On Brendan Loy's site, there was a link to another blogger who's mother-in-law was at a nursing home in Metaire. By the time, they issued the mandatory order, it was too late to get the nursing home patients out. The nursing home director admitted that he made the wrong decision on Saturday and that the lack of an evacuation order influenced him.
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