[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.

[js1138]

It will always take four days to respond to anything of this magnitude. Having rescuers shot at will not improve things.

[Strategerist]

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.

[thoughtomator]

But, but, but, but... aren't there white people in south Florida?

[DeeOhGee]

"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.

[hadaclueonce]

FEMA=Suits with a assured paycheck, did you expect them to do something?

[doodad]

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.

[Peach]

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.

[DB]

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.

[t2buckeye]

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

[Real Cynic No More]

"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.

[Clemenza]

Ping!

[Polybius]

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.

[DB]

The election was in November of 92'... Clinton wasn't President until January of 93'...

[anonymoussierra]

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"I know people are superman everything has to be one day now now now; aboslutely politician’s reporter's politician in fore lost their mind."

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thank you all

[doc30]

Andrew taught a lesson to Florida and people here take storm preparations very seriously. Last year, emergency response was very well done. It seems NOLA decided not to learn from Florida's experiences and now suffers much more than it could have been. Hopefully, things will change there for the better.

[Vinnie]

It rained for about 2 weeks after Andrew also.

A local restaurant drove a semi down there to feed Homestead Fla.
When they got to Cutler Ridge the NG stopped them and told them any farther south and they were on their own. They couldn't provide security. They would likely be mobbed.
The semi turned around and drove back to NC.

[citizencon]

>I can't remember any reasonable person berating Clinton for FEMA's "slow" response after Andrew.<

Wonder where Democrat-operative(aka NBC reporter) Andrea Mitchel got her facts when she proclaimed the other day that FEMA was doing a lousy job until Clinton came into office and suggested it was inept again under Bush II.

[MinuteGal]

Bring in tough-as-nails Bernie Kerik (former NYC Police Commissioner). He headed the largest police force in the world.

As head of FEMA, he'd knock heads together and cut the mass of bureaucratic red tape that paralyzes disaster relief.

Enough of the DC-type pansies!

Leni

[SolarisRocks]

Does that mean the billions extra that we gave FEMA after 9/11 was wasted since it doesn't appear to have improved response time at all?

[Itzlzha]

Hmm...but Je$$e Jacka$$ Jr says "Jackson Blasts Bush Over Katrina Aid (IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME)" and....
"Racism is partly to blame for the deadly aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Rev. Jesse Jackson said, calling President Bush's response to the disaster "incompetent."

The civil rights leader said the flooding that caused thousands to be trapped inside the city was caused by a lack of federal funding for its levee system and hurricane planning. The resulting tragedy, he said, has largely hit New Orleans' black residents, because they were too poor to evacuate before the storm hit. "There's a historical indifference to the pain of poor people and black people" in this country, he said.

Hmm...Je$$e Jacka$$ Jr...what is your reply to this?...

"It took four days for FEMA to get its first people into South Florida after Andrew"

So...was X-42 Krintong a Racist too, and by proxy Hillary (Gee, might as well accuse G_d of Racism too!)...or are you just looking to up your "Poverty Pimp Cred"...

Where was the Congressional Black "Pimps and Ho's Roadshow"...Caucus...when the people of MS, AL, and LA needed them? They sure are quick to BUS THEM from Precint to Precint when it's time to commit VOTER FRAUD....but the buses just sat now didn't they...

Just a little more, Poverty Pimps...the tipping point has passed, and we are starting freefall descent...things are going to become "interesting" for these scumbags very soon...