Posted on 09/01/2005 7:40:07 AM PDT by finnman69
Thats a good point.
"What we are seeing is the end result of forty years of the "Great Society" come home to roost."
So right, Ben! LBJ's Legacy coming to fruition -- LIVE -- on national television!
You nailed it.
Good one!
There was a very sensible fellow on the causeway being interviewed by Shepherd, I think. (My, Shep isn't so glib now. I've always kind of liked him.) The fellow said, "they drive by here all day. They won't stop--they act like they're going to run us down. All we want is to be given some instructions. Don't they have bullhorns? We need information, and where to go. All we have is one rumor after another."
HELLUVA ARTICLE! I like the Darth Vader analogy....good writer.
Granted, there are much bigger pumps out there but that should give you an indication as to the sheer enormity of the task at hand. We are talking many BILLIONS of gallons of water spread over an area of about 60 square miles that is 15 feet deep in places.
The point is, I just don't see how we are ever going to drain out all this water.
Agreed. They need to communicate to the people stranded that have no other access to information.
I have wondered since Saturday why that mayor in NO did not get those people out of there. He seems to have lost his ability to direct any of the recovery efforts. I haven't seen him on TV since Sunday. Why? They should have used whatever mode of transportation to get people out, cars, buses, etc., I think they thought they would be spared again and relied on poor planning by previous people to do nothing. There have been a few emergency planning people who said on Sunday that it would be chaos--why weren't they listened to? That Mayor and Governor will show up only to take credit for what Washington had to ultimately do for them.
Ummm this isn't a Homeland Security issue.
Ummm this isn't a Homeland Security issue.
I still don't understand how hard it would be to set up a way station, bring in food and water and tents, then send in semis with flatbeds, or trains with flatbeds to bring the people out.
I read that one of the rail lines is above the flood, rescuees could be dropped there and hauled in.
Find some large facility, like an army base, as a semi permanent place to take people till it all can be sorted out.
Been wondering about that myself. Wouldn't it just be easier to start over then rebuild at this point?
It might not have started out that way, but it is now.
My question: If the Superdome was supposed to house so many people, why wasn't it set up from the start to do so? How in the world could anyone justify crowding people into this place knowing that it might be cut off for days with no resources?
I'm getting madder the more I think about it. I will do anything to avoid ending up in a shelter during a crisis.
There are several hundred thousand unused shipping conatiners in Newark, Charleston, MO and other ports. These can be easily retrofitted with a couple of windows, residential entry door and a HVAC system. These can be lined up in the old Army base and it can make a splendid refugee camp.
This is the same malignant mindset that made Russians unable to fend for themselves after the fall of the USSR. We MUST NOT allow the 50-year push toward government-sponsored dependency to sabbotage our country. This is a living example of what it does to people. Can you imagine living your life in that cage called "The Projects" in NO? Thanks to "compassionate" liberals, they are fed and housed like animals, and then we wonder why some turn out to be animals. Can you fathom how hard it is to be a decent person in that environment? It was heart-warming to hear on CNN that in the shelter in Baton Rouge housing 5000, the second biggest request after information on their missing relatives was a request for Bibles.
Did you happen to see the MSNBC footage of NO female cops shoplifting with the worst of them in Walmart? That was unbelievable!!!!
after I finished ROFLMFAO, I got to thinking that Jambalaya would be another story altogether...
NOBODY in New Orleans management (city/state disaster relief planning) EVR THOUGHT about "What happens to the epople IN the Super Dome AFTER the flooding (IF) the DOme were cut or itself flooded out.
Their thinking STOPPED after the thought "Well, we will send them to the Super Dome for shelter if they can't get out of town."
(Most likely, there wasn't EVEN basic "bomb shelter" Civil Defense-provided tons food and and water pre-stored INSIDE the Dome for catastrophies!)
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