Posted on 09/02/2005 12:29:42 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
"they couldn't take all those people to Texas in a bus without bathrooms!"
LOL You must be kidding..
All those people now wading in sewage, and he worried about bathrooms?
Life is one big insane asylum.
Mods, could you please list the Freeper who put up that pulled thread so we can dog him/her for a link?
lol, I'm working on a rough spreadsheet over here, trying to figure out how long it will take to get the remaining folks out (i'm using the figure of 60,000 people, mileages to San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston, 100 MCI/Greyhound and 300 School Buses).
I reduced the expected speed of the school buses, simply because they will have to stop along the way so folks could use the facilities. The speed of both types of vehicles was also reduced to allow for the folks to stop and eat, if they can.
since I'm not sure how many have left, I'm using the number of people from earlier
I'm up here in MA and even our forecasters were predicting a direct hit to NO, we knew that around Thursday, they also said the storm could veer a little left or right, but NO was DEFINETLY in the path, apparently nagin and blanc-o could not grasp what a DIRECT HIT meant or IN THE PATH. I wonder how these idiots are sleeping at nite knowing they have killed thousands of their fellow citizens.
Thursday, Aug 25: NWS Reports that Category 4 Hurricane KATRINA had changed course and now was headed straight for New Orleans. Former NOAA and NWS directors urge evacuations. Reponse from Mayor Nagin or Governor Blanco: NOTHING.
Friday, Aug 26: Katrina, building strength and still headed for N.O. FEMA officials urge plans for evacuation on part of city and state administration. Reponse from Mayor Nagin or Governor Blanco: NOTHING
Saturday, Aug 27: Katrina bearing down, increases in strength to Category 5. President George W. Bush in his radio address, urges people to flee New Orleans. Finally, Mayor Nagin orders a "mandatory evacuation". Too late
Sunday, Auh 28, 1,500 school buses stand idle in the city of New Orleans as those with cars and other means flee the city and its environs. Those too poor to flee are abandoned by Mayor Nagin. The buses remain idle. Hurricane Katrina, miraculously reduced to Category 4, slams New Orleans.
Aug 29-Sept 1: Massive flooding kills thousands of people in the city who were left to drown by Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco. The 1,500 buses which could have been used, and the roads they could have been driven on, are also flooded and rendered useless.
JUDGE FOR YOURSELF. MAYOR NAGIN AND GOVERNOR BLANCO HAVE BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS. Incompetance bordering on involuntary manslaughter. PUT THE BLAME WHERE IT BELONGS!
LOL!!! How silly of me not to get it, so sorry!!! LOL! These people are unbelievable.....
Excellent!
This has been posted at FR for awhile. Drudge picked it off this site. He didn't come up with the idea.
Not to say, I don't appreciate his exposure about it.
As an aside: here's a couple of links that explain how the governor requests federal help.
All this Bush bashing is unreal.
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=994
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=973
Exactly, af_vet_rr, there is no excuse for having no plan.
Look at this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475951/posts
How in the world was the Mayor of New Orleans supposed to pin this disaster on President Bush if he took pre-emptive action?
You people don't know beans about passing the buck.
Guess I'm just too dumb to be in politics.
Hey. Nothing personal. Some of us just weren't born with the blame-shifting gene.
That would have meant committing local funds to pay the drivers, even paying drivers to move all those school buses to higher ground. The local leaders instead acted in ways that would guarantee that the Feds would pick up the tab, even if it meant delays.
Those buses would have been able to have carried literally THOUSANDS of people out of the city before they were trapped in the flooding - and, surely this is not the only group of NO buses that now set as a silent testimony against the "leaders" of NO who now mumble-mouth and curse at President Bush. ANYONE could look at that gigantic hurricane on the weather map for HOURS before it hit and know that it was literally of Biblical proportions. - It is my understanding that President Bush tried very hard to convince these guys that the city needed to be EVACUATED. I am sick of the blame game, though, every which way, although glad Drudge mentioned it considering the mayor's foul mouth about the President. NOW IS THE TIME FOR ANYONE WHO IS SIMPLY A MOUTH TO EITHER HUSH UP AND GET OUT OF THE WAY OR PICK UP A BOTTLE OF WATER AND FOOD AND DELIVER IT TO SOMEONE, or do something constructive.
Even if they had been struck by such a storm before, why is it people think all these storms are the same. This monster didn't just hit dead on, it was such an obvious monster.
People need to take a look at the big picture.
Wolf Blitzer chimed in, "these are scenes reminiscent of Africa, not America"....Cafferty chimed in "embarassing"..
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Idjits ... Bad as this has been managed, you CANNOT make the aftermath of a level 4 hurricane and an entire city flooded look anything *but* bad. My God, it's a huge NATURAL disaster.
As for ... 'scenes reminiscent of Africa' hmmm, that's more a comment on the color of the skins of the victim than anything else. Would they say that if the astrodome was filled with white middle-class evacuees???!??
Nagin, over-reacting and over his head, failed to do the math.
Commandeer 1000 school buses and public transit buses, which is quite possible if you just get most of the buses available in the area...
1000 buses going from New Orleans to Baton Rouge could transit 4 times ... and get 200,000 people out *in a single day*.
Here's the catch: They have to *organize* it. Get the transit and school bus drivers collect them, organize the convoys, come to superdome, etc.
Nagin is whining but not organizing. If he organized, he wouldnt have to make a comment to a journalist. It shows.
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