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"It took four days for FEMA to get its first people into South Florida after Andrew"
Boston Globe ^
| August 26, 2004
| By Brendan Farrington, Associated Press
Posted on 09/02/2005 1:45:44 PM PDT by InspiredPath1
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"It took four days for FEMA to get its first people into South Florida after Andrew" - I can't remember any reasonable person berating Clinton for FEMA's "slow" response after Andrew.
To: InspiredPath1
It will always take four days to respond to anything of this magnitude. Having rescuers shot at will not improve things.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:48:26 PM PDT
by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: InspiredPath1
I can't remember any reasonable person berating Clinton for FEMA's "slow" response after Andrew.
I have a sneaking suspicion that was because Clinton wasn't president when Andrew hit.
To: InspiredPath1
But, but, but, but... aren't there white people in south Florida?
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:48:56 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. - Patrick Henry)
To: InspiredPath1
"It took four days for FEMA to get its first people into South Florida after Andrew" - I can't remember any reasonable person berating Clinton for FEMA's "slow" response after Andrew.Reasonable - and realistic - people don't wait for, or expect, the federal government to save them. It's a bureaucracy; by definition, it is slow, cumbersome, inefficient and corrupt. It matters not who is in power; the faces my change, but the playbook stays the same.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:49:06 PM PDT
by
DeeOhGee
(It's not what you know, it's what people THINK you know.)
To: InspiredPath1
FEMA=Suits with a assured paycheck, did you expect them to do something?
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:50:08 PM PDT
by
hadaclueonce
(shoot low, they are riding Shetlands.....)
To: InspiredPath1
I responded to Andrew with the EPA and we could not get in for three days and it was chaos for two more assigning tasks and triaging sites to investigate. And sucked to be there let me tell you. Everyone was armed though and signs made it clear what would happen. Now there's a difference.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:51:06 PM PDT
by
doodad
To: backhoe
It took 4 days for FEMA to get into South Florida after Hurricane Andrew.
This article puts to bed the lie being perpetrated by the race baiters in the press today that the New Orleans victims weren't being helped in a timely manner because they are black.
You might want to make sure this makes your archive list.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:51:29 PM PDT
by
Peach
(South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
To: InspiredPath1
Well the thing is, the larger the scale of the disaster the longer it takes to get in.
This is bigger than anything before it.
Particularly with all the flooding and all the destroyed roads/bridges. That greatly reduced access both in and out.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:51:35 PM PDT
by
DB
(©)
To: hadaclueonce
Fire them all and give the job to Rudy Giuliani to rebuild FEMA.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:51:41 PM PDT
by
Siobhan
(Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.)
To: InspiredPath1
I think that the improvement of the response after Charlie has a lot to do with the state of FLorida, having lived through Andrew, improving their plans. That's the problem here too. This is the first REAL test of Louisiana's hurricane plans and obviously, they did not do well.
Perhaps FEMA was better able to respond after Andrew because the STATE was better able to respond
To: Strategerist
Damn, i feel like a fool. I meant only to compare the media's reaction then to now. Sorry.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:52:01 PM PDT
by
InspiredPath1
(I'll shut up now.)
To: InspiredPath1
"The old FEMA and the new FEMA, you cannot imagine the difference." I think there is also a difference when state and local government recognize in advance what realities may occur. That was true with Jeb Bush in Florida when 4 hurricanes trashed the state just last year. This was also true this week with Haley Barbour in Mississippi.
I don't think it was true in Louisiana.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:52:02 PM PDT
by
Real Cynic No More
(Al-Jazeera is to the Iraqi War as CBS was to the Vietnam War.)
To: sandbar; Captain Kirk
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:52:16 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(Proud "Free Traitor" & Capitalist Pig)
To: DeeOhGee
Clinton got pounded after Andrew. The looting was massive and if you don't remember the houses that weren't blown down were burned down by their owners.
Miami was much worse then NO and I remember at Homestead AFB the military looted the BX and Shoppette because it took 30 days for help from the outside to arrive.
To: InspiredPath1
There was a very negative media reaction against Bush I at the time, and it apparently contributed to Bush losing the election.
Interesting thing is that I've seen multiple posts from different people who believed Clinton was president during Andrew.
To: InspiredPath1
As the military axiom goes:
"Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics."
It takes a certain amount of time to mobilize and move thousands of personnel, move thousands of military vehicles and move tens of thousands of tons of supplies from Point A to Point B.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:54:12 PM PDT
by
Polybius
To: america-rules
Never ceases to amaze me the ability of people to mis-remember stuff when they really want to.
To: DeeOhGee
And after Andrew citizens were doing everything they could to help each other. I was in Broward but of course Dade County was hit way worse. And there wasn't the flooding like in New Orleans. But people should always have at least a 4 or 5 day supply of food and water, batteries, etc., just like they tell us. And of course, don't shoot at the rescuers.
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:54:55 PM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: america-rules
If Clinton was pounded after Andrew, then I'll eat my computer monitor. George HW Bush was President during Hurricane Andrew (August 1992).
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posted on
09/02/2005 1:55:05 PM PDT
by
DeeOhGee
(It's not what you know, it's what people THINK you know.)
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