Posted on 09/02/2005 9:57:05 PM PDT by America's Resolve
BY his own admission, things are going badly for Sheriff Harry Lee and his crisis management efforts.
Outside his mobile headquarters truck, two officers grip a stepladder while a third stands on the top rung waving his mobile telephone in the air, searching for a signal.
Inside Sheriff Lee, of Jefferson parish in New Orleans, is sitting at a table, fuming.
He is doing his best to alleviate the biggest catastrophe he will ever witness, but lacks even the most basic of resources.
He cannot communicate with his own officers -- his officers can barely communicate with each other -- because the overloaded radio frequency keeps jamming.
The chain of command for Louisiana's hurricane rescue plan has missing links. There is tension between the numerous agencies involved in the relief effort, and some of Sheriff Lee's deputies are so overwhelmed and demoralised that they are giving up.
"It's not getting better -- it's getting worse," he says. "This is probably the largest national disaster in the history of the US and the co-ordination that should be in effect all these days after the event just isn't happening. It's lack of proper planning and lack of co-ordination. There are plenty of Indians, but no chiefs."
Two kilometres from his command post, a section of Highway 10 has become a giant refugee camp. The evacuees are gradually being taken away in buses and trucks to shelters as far away as Houston, Texas.
But some have started turning up at his door, pleading for food and for water.
Some have not had a drink since Tuesday.
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While i disagree that $3.50 a gallon is gouging, (every country in europe, and every country in central and south america that doesn't own oil reserves regularly pays more than that, and has been for several years now), we're in complete agreement about the reasons their are people staying behind in N.O. The sense of security, even if a delusion of the mind, is more than what lies beyond.
Amen! All of the above. I LOVE Iowa city. Great city for walking around in and you can still walk around, even after dark in this University town.
Yes it was. That statement proves you know nothing of the American Revolution. Nor basic economics. You are advocating for a Mussolini style fascist republic, there is nothing conservative about your position.
They'd rather live in health conditions that would make a billy-goat puke, than walk 5/10/15 miles to get away from it? And this is before the shootings, knifings, rapes, robberies, beatings and all the other Mardi Gras fun of good ol' NOLA???
Again, foreign to my thinking thankfully.
Prices rise, during panic buying. There WAS isolated panic buying.
Since you are unaware of the fact that Katrina hit the port in New Orleans, please let me inform you that it did. Drilling and refining has been shut down. The flow of oil has been disturbed. When supply is disrupted, of ANY commodity, the price rises. When there is a glut, the price falls.
When our government imposes caps on prices, the commodity falls.
And FYI.....the net rule is, that when someone uses Hitler or Nazi, in a debate, as refutation, that person immediately loses. CONGRATS on your "uber alles" loss! :-)
People who are buying gas in Pa.,Cal.,N.Y.,Ill.,Iowa, etc. aren't "dying".
The people, who have died/are dying in Miss.,Al.,and La. aren't selling gasoline and their deaths have nothing whatsoever to do with corporations or gas stations around the country making money on the increase in gas prices.
WHO,IN THE USA, WAS DYING THREE WEEKS AGO, WHEN THE PRICE OF GASOLINE WAS HOING UP?
Foreign to my thinking also. But you and I aren't suffering from life long poverty, distrust of outsiders, health conditions, lack of education and wits, caring for small children, caring for sick relatives, knowing you live in a crime ridden area as it is, etc. If walking 10 miles for help required 2 of those miles to go through the ghetto of Newark, NJ(all I could run at full speed safely without winding or tripping myself), or walking more than 1 mile moving my bedridden grandfather(triple bypass and stent surgery) and non ambulatory grandmother, I would stay put also.
NY last year with the massive power failure is an example of that.
And then calling the people who are trying to help them racist.
OTOH, the blackout which occurred in between those two, say some nasty busy; sadly.
All I can tell ya sheriff is that Socialism is a bummer. Nanny states don't work.
"Only a thin blue line seperates us from the jungle".
And hence the Founding Fathers thus created the Second Amendment.
Lock and Load, boys and girls!
" I'm old enough to remember the last time a President tried to control the price of commodities by fiat. It didn't work out so well."
Yep, Nixon's(and Ford's) W(hip)I(nflation) N(ow) price controls.
Ain't "moderate" Republicans grand?
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"That was probably Chief Compass, the head of the N.O. Police Department."
Yeah, I heard him talking with Geraldo.
Barney Fife had more resolve. Both were acting like scared little school girls.
No pillars of strength here, folks.
That and fifty cents MIGHT get you a cup of coffee, LOL!
"It didn't happen in NYC."
Well the communications did break down, NO should have learned from it.
Don't recall hearing any NY police quitting though?
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