WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?...
Posted on 09/02/2005 12:29:42 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?... New Orleans Lost Opportunity
WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES, MAYOR?...
I'll double-check the NOAA site. One moment.
Speaking of common sense...if I had the money I would send the governor a truckload of bullhorns and tell her "Now talk to your stranded residents!" She kept going on about communications being down and journalists kept saying people at the dome and the convention center didn't know anything. By golly I would have found me a bullhorn and done some commmunicating at the scene!
Apparently they were also dependant on cell phones rather than radios or other devices that might stay up in a storm. Hope Verizon gave them a good deal.
Sad to say, my alleged brain was in ''Sunday, August 27'' mode...which doesn't work too well, eh?
;^)
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Glad to assist...you did the legwork, I just tagged along. :)
*snort*
Yes, it is indeed hindsight to ask that now! But is it not a reasonable and valid question to ask of the very ones, who were the elected leaders of this city and state?
Is it not these very ones who directly bear the responsibility for the welfare of the communities in which they serve?
In fact, how can this question not be asked; especially in light of the undeniable fact, that every one in America(who has at least an 9th grade education) knew that it was a scientific fact, that should a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane hit the city of New Orleans, (which has been warned for at least 8 decades) this very scenario would most likely occur.
An intelligent and reasonable person would think that the Anointed in Power there, would have had enough common sense to have developed a "comprehensive disaster plan" that would have taken into account a worst case scenario,which would include using all means the city had available, to evacuate their people before such a storm hit!
There is no reasonable excuse for this human calamity in New Orleans. The warnings have been there for decades, and the evidence that nothing meaningful was done by the city or state to prepare for it is undeniable.
So the question is valid! Why were the buses not moved to higher ground, so as to be made available for evacuation in the likely event, the worst were to occur?
Here's another valid question? Why didn't the state and local leaders become proactive in disaster planing for the city of New Orleans, when they knew for so long, that what has happened, was someday bound to occur?
I'm waiting.......... What's that you say?
Oh... I see......There wasn't enough federal funds or resources available to the state and local governments, so the state and local leaders couldn't do anything.
Yeah: Sounds reasonable to me!
I heard that story. Such behavior is repulsive.
Has anyone else heard the "refugees" refer to the school buses as "cheese buses", I heard one guy comment that theys wuz gonna send in da cheese buses man, da cheese buses, shoot.
Hello??????? I gather you prefer sitting in the astrodome with no food, water, facilities, as opposed to being bussed somewhere with a/c, food, etc.
"Wolf Blitzer chimed in, "these are scenes reminiscent of Africa, not America"....Cafferty chimed in "embarassing".."
And they are.
Good point.
"One word, indecision."
Another word: incompetents. The mayor and his thugs.
Don't you get it? President Bush was supposed to swoop in on Air Force One and give them all a lift, along with a steak and lobster dinner and an in-flight movie.
CNN IS READY TO RUN A REPORT ON THE ONLINE BLOGS AND HOW RACISM IS PLAYING A PART IN THIS EVACUATION..ANY BETS FR ISN'T MENTIONED????
my apologies..it's cnn HEADLINE..
If someone on FoxNews said this it would be "racism".
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