Posted on 09/02/2005 7:37:54 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate
Edited on 09/02/2005 7:51:53 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Maybe Mayor Nagin would like to explain this picture before he and the rest of his democratic fellow travelers continue to blast the fed's.
An aerial view of flooded school buses in a lot, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in New Orleans, LA. The flood is a result of Hurricane Katrina that passed through the area last Monday.(AP Photo/Phil Coale)
This is the debate disaster planners should have had ten years ago.
I agree with everything you said.
why didn't the mayor use these to bus people out instead of sending them to the superdome
They've actually gotten very accurate with their forecasts. They expected a northward turn to this hurricane and I sweated in Panama City, hoping it would wait. It did wait and that waiting put NO in the kill zone Friday night with a forecast for strengthening to a strong Cat 5.
The way I do the math, Friday night is more than 50 hours before landfall. That time could have been used to better advantage. All that night, I read post after post screaming at the mayor and governor to DO SOMETHING. They finally did, when Bush called them.
Yesterday I was watching some video footage from the CNN web site...it was the little rescue boats going zooming through two feet of water to "rescue" people who couldn't manage to get their feet wet...when I noticed something very peculiar....I "rewound" the video several times to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing...as the camera was focused on the guy driving the boat, they were passing by a rail yard with several passenger train coaches just sitting there...not even in water!!! They were just sitting in a siding, pretty as could be.
While there are some areas where train tracks are under a few inches of water, I've seen pictures from the Union Pacific showing that the rail lines into New Orleans are in tact...
Also I'm absolutely amazed at how many very nice cars are lining the streets and road of NO, now under water. Maybe they just couldn't afford the gas to leave....
Mayor Nagrin's emergency plan for NO: BLAME BUSH.
Except for the levy that was in danger--I heard the opposite report.
opps, caught again by the Spelling Police.
I promise to penance, just don't report me to the mods!!!
Thanks for pointing that out.
Don't know .. Maybe the MSM should ask the Mayor that question ??
You brute! Those buses aren't air conditioned. Substandard for evactuees.
Actually, that's what a lot of us did when we lived in Gulf Coast cities, not just New Orleans. When we bugged out ahead of hurricanes, we loaded our van up with as much important stuff as possible--legal papers (including and especially insurance), irreplaceables (photos, etc.), a few keepsakes, some valuables, and enough clothing to last for a week or so. Now I wonder if that would have been enough, seeing that some of these folks might need much more than a week's worth of clothing.
We always knew, though, when we drove off, that we might not see the house or its contents ever again. It's a heartbreaking experience, even if you've done it several times--but it makes more sense than sticking around.
Unfortunatley, it was not well sourced when I posted originally.
OR seatbelts.........wouldn't be legal, too great a liability..........
Silly me! How could I be so insensitive! Crackers?
It's not my plan, it's not the fed's plan. It's the plan put together by the New Orlean victims of previous hurricanes. You tell me how many Cat 5 hurricanes, not "potentially dangerous storms", have headed straight at NO. They knew Friday it was going affect NO.
FOX is too stinkin' busy letting us all know that the looters are only looting because they're "desperate and depressed." Not a good morning for my television set, although I haven't put my foot through it YET.
BTTT!
Oh, great. Now you are throwing racial epithets at me! :)
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