Posted on 09/03/2005 10:07:13 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
For a bureaucracy, the feds were moving like lightning in a bottle, (and the corporate and charity groups were moving at lightning speed) while the state EMA groups were slugs stuck in sewage.
Kudo's to My Favorite Headache for putting out a "first person" account! Must be the total pitts when you know what you were told was true (the cell phone call), and no other way to back-up was available - except time itself.
Yep, I remember Hugh Hewitt was railing against that thread.
re: shortage of news about MS deaths:
There are a lot of people who are out of contact with their friends and relatives in MS. For most, that lack of contact is because phones are down. For some unknown percentage, the lack of contact is because the people are dead
The Gulf Coast is a big area. If the news media broadcast lots of stuff about large numbers of deaths, you would have hundreds of thousands of concerned people clogging the roads to the affected areas to go and find out what happened to their relatives and friends. I don't think the government wants that while theyre still working on rescue efforts
Click on the skycopter tour of the coast links on this site. MS has been utterly devasted along the entire coast
http://www.wlbt.com/
Nobody wants numbers like I have been hearing to be true. But there is a legal process that is being followed and Haley is going to creep those numbers up daily as time goes along.
Nobody wants numbers like I have been hearing to be true. But there is a legal process that is being followed and Haley is going to creep those numbers up daily as time goes along.
A little vindication for MFH! Nice to see after all the flack in the earlier thread.
Senator Vitter said 10,000 in NO would be a place to start with number of dead. I suspect this will far surpass the worst hurricane loss in the USA which was the 1900 Galveston hurricane that killed 8,000.
I don't know if they have reporters there or not, they are too busy calling President Bush a racist because NO wasn't evacuated.
Thanks for the post!
I expect it will go higher. It's going to take time to scour the woods and go through the rubble. It's so sad that it hard to take it all in.
I love it when a lady pings the list. Female pings are much more graceful than our crude male pings.
This post was not meant to be my comment- it should have been been italicized as it is not my thoughts - it is a quote from another thread - I couldn't be that crass. I might ask questions, but cannot begin to imagine what it must be like to be on the MS coast.
It SHOULD be possible for FEMA to take what they know for sure about some localities and make a model that would predict the death toll to within 10%.
Makes you wonder what we will be told about a bioterror attack.
The numbers are easy to fudge, as long as you never issue a comprehensive list of the names of the dead. If there's a list, then anybody who knows about names that are not on the list can start raising a stink on blogs all over cyberspace.
But as long as they just say "XXX deaths" how can you tell, unless you or a group of friends can compile a list of names that's bigger than XXX?
A bit belated...like the rescue response supposedly is.
If I can stand on an off ramp or overpass; and vehicles can come IN past me, then I can damned sure walk OUT, to where they are coming from. One priority, among several others, is those who can't get to that ramp.
Read the Constitution, please.
The blame the Feds crap is so old, the chain of command should be explained on FR home page.
Well, aren't you the sweetest thing.
You two are true Southern Gentlemen, make no mistake about that. ;o)
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