1 YEAR AGO "Ivan exposes flaws in N.O.'s disaster plans" Mayor & Gov. fail to learn lesson

Associated Press ^ | September 19, 2004 | By KEVIN McGILL

[joinedafterattack]

Mayor Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco failed to develope better evacuation strategy for New Orleans after Hurricane Ivan in exactly one year ago.

[adam_az]

Send this to Drudge - EVERYONE - to make sure he doesn't miss it

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[Hodar]

"If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature," said Joe Cook of the New Orleans ACLU.

Let's analyze this logic of Mr. Cook's for a second.
1. Don't eat poison - oops, I warned you so if you do it, it's my fault.
2. Smoking is unhealthy, so if you do it, it's my fault
3. Don't drink and drive; if you do it, it's my fault

And people wonder why Americans believe that the greatest threat that our country is going to see is not some terrorist; but the ALCU.

[PeteB570]

This needs to be sent and resent to all the MSM talking heads. Of course they will ignore it because....

THEY MUST BLAIM BUSH

[RoseofTexas]

Forgive me for not reading the whole article as it comes from the APresstitutes. I've learned to read everything Ap puts out with skepticism. But if the headlines are correct, I'M SHOCKED AP LET THIS ARTICLE GO TO PRINT! SCHOCKED I TELL YOU! They been a willing accomplice of the rat machine for years to tear down our president!

[devane617]

September 19, 2004 -- I love the date on this apocalyptic warning. Everyone knew it was coming, but no one believed it would happen on their watch.

[Glacier Honey]

It's still Bush's fault

If Kerry would have been elected - this would have never happened!!!

(Sarcasm)

[NonValueAdded]

Deja freakin vu ... no way can they plead ignorance, none. Note the helping hand of the ACLU in all this ... IIRC, there were some words from Nagin early on about not being able to call the emergency if they didn't have the place to put the people. I suspect we will find that fear of lawsuits gave just enough pause to miss the narrow window of opportunity they had. At some point the question will be asked about what was done between Ivan and Katrina and the answer will be "little or nothing."

[beansox]

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[Names Ash Housewares]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/flpc21109012015

[flashbunny]

the entire governmental structure of new orleans and LA needs to be investigated by the feds- were federal dollars misused? Did they fail to plan?

We need to demand a new orleans commission.

[roaddog727]

Looks to me like NO needs a new mayor and LA needs a new Gov.

Impeach both for incompetence.

[the invisib1e hand]

someone needs to tell the mayor of no that the president's job is to run the country, the mayor's job is to run the city.

This is all so Clintonesque on the part of hizzonordamayor.

[Soul Seeker]

Okay, who sunk into AP and filed this? I'm shocked this got through!

[JustAnotherOkie]

How do you spell malfeasance.

I would like to think they should learn how to 'Sing the Blues'.

[mtbopfuyn]

"They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Latonya Hill, 57, said at the time. "If I can't walk it or get there on the bus, I don't go. I don't got a car. My daughter don't either."

Well, Latonya, it's very simple. You have fair warning so if you and your daughter can't put your two brains together to figure out how to get to higher ground then you die. Use that bus token for more than a trip to the store for smokes.

[jackv]

I haven't seen hide nor hair of that crybaby, cussin mayor today. He should be out on the street offering aid and comfort instead of diverting the media's attention from his failures by placing blame on Bush or FEMA!!

[speekinout]

I think you are overreacting to the fact that this came from the ACLU. I almost never agree with them, but this time they are right. NO has asked for evacuation in the past, and they had ample opportunity to find out why not everyone did, and to fix the problem.

They did nothing.

Past experience should have been more than enough to tell them they needed a plan to bus people out. That would have been much easier last Sat. than it is today.
They could have Medi-Vac'd out the most seriously ill from the hospitals last Sat.

They did nothing.

[JustAnotherOkie]

Yes it would have, but the MSM would have covered the problems up.