Posted on 09/03/2005 7:20:14 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
We also need to publicize the fact that the Clinton admin. nixed the levi upgrade that would have protected the city from a level 4 or 5 hurricane.
Well if the Convention Center and the Superdome had always been designated as "disaster shelters" then they should have been equipped with provisions for such an emergency. Nothing to "deliver" to the shelter. Keep them ON SITE.
This is a failure on the local scale.
Blanco should be recalled asap.
No levee can hold. Any earth levee will only buy you time. When the water table is signivicantly higher on one side than on the other, the water will immediately begin seeping through the ground to the lower side. It is only a matter of time before there is a blowout and the water will start gushing, then eroding a larger hole, then the whole thing collapses. The only way to hold back the water is a perfectly impermeable barrier that goes all the way down to bedrock. Even that may not work for long depending on how porous the bedrock is and how well anchored the barrier is to the bedrock. And you and I as tax payers would never agree to such an expense.
Their linking The New Orleans flood to Iraq (witness Lord Ho Ho, Michael Moore's, "letter" about the National Guard stationed in Iraq) shows the poltiical points they are trying to sway with the sheeple. Cindy Sheehan eventually left no doubt that she was a barking moonbat long before her son was killed in action. The same as Nick Berg's dad. This storm comes at a good time, to sweep that embarassing fiasco fron the front pages.
Perhaps he should be looking at Bill Clinton's military cutbacks which deploys more of the reserves and National Guard.
And speaking of Cindy's Crawford tent village which could feed thousands. Why haven't they set up a relief camp for the evacuees? They are still trailing Cindy around on her cross country trek to DC.
Now, let's see the Marxisstream Media ignore THIS...
"National Hurricane Director had to call Nagin at home Saturday night to plead: "Get people out..."
From: Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | Sun, Aug. 28, 2005 | BY MARC CAPUTO, DAVID OVALLE AND ERIKA BOLSTAD
do you have a link for that
You are the one complaining about the job that the "president" did/is doing.
That accomplishes NOTHING to aid the people still in the water.
Whine all you want.
bttt
Yes saved the city. For whatever reason, the levee broke after the storm. At this critical time, who was inspecting the levees? Why were repairs stopped at night? Why weren't all available resources thrown at the broken levee?
AP ^ | Aug. 27, 2005 | Staff
Posted on 08/28/2005 1:23:07 AM EDT by Anti-Bubba182
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana on Saturday because of the approach of Hurricane Katrina and his spokesman urged residents along the coast to heed authorities' advice to evacuate.
Ed. comment: Thought I'd accentuate an already good post...
And then they blame the government once they do arrive.
The President has said that we will rebuild NO. That clearly means levees that that can withstand Cat V storms and/or raise NO ..... dig deep into your pockets .....
Bump for later reference.
As a West Pointer, I've got to disagree with you about the Corps. I am 100% sure the District Commander has all the studies and reports that shows every weakness in the system and it's faults. I am also sure that was properly submitted to all needed parties. BUT by law, the Corps is responsible for the waterways and it's Commanders are responsible for everyone and everything his command does OR FAILS to do. A levee failed. A city was destroyed. Thousands died. That Commander HAS to answer for all his actions and inactions from the time the President declared an emergency to the present.
I am concerned about 2 things
1) That thousands of our fellow citizens were in danger of death and the only thing conservatives seem to give a damn about is the president. There is no care or concern shown for their plight.. "let them eat cake" .
2) I am concerned about the job OUR GOVERNMENT did.
This is the same group of keystone cops that will have to respond when a terrorists nuke goes off a few miles from your house , or the terrorists bomb the dam that saves your city from flooding .
The world now knows we are a country without a plan or a clue .
If this did not leave you very afraid you are very short sighted .
If this tragedy did not touch your heart so deeply that other people's political objectives pale in the face of it , then sir you are a heartless conservative that mocks the conservative's so called pro life position. The living need to be found and helped, to hell with the political future of anyone until they are all safe
I saw a movie years ago called "Red Dawn". It starred Patrick Swayze (pre "Ghost" and "Dirty Dancing"), Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, and others. It dealt with a Russian invasion on American soil, and a determined effort by American teenagers (including the aforementioned) to stop them. Of course, there were reprisals against American citizens, but every time the Germans and Russians attacked, the effort of the good guys to defeat them intensified.
Well, in the course of the movie, when the Russians were taking losses, one of the Russian commanders made a speech that laid out a strategery that I think has parallels for us:
"You can only win a war by exterminating the enemy. Do you know what we are fighting? We are fighting Wolverines...small, ferocious animals. For them, you need a hunter. And you know, I am a hunter.
"From this moment on, there will be no further reprisals against citizens. This was stupid. Impotence. Comrades, if a fox stole your chickens, would you slaughter your pig because he saw the fox? No. You would hunt the fox, find where it lives and destroy it! And how do we do this?
"Become a fox."
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