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IEM Team to Develop Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & SE Louisiana
IEM press release ^ | June 3, 2004 | IEM

Posted on 09/03/2005 10:56:42 PM PDT by XHogPilot

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To: HAL9000
Let's make sure that gets posted on every thread blaming President Bush, the military or anyone else for this mess. It seems the "PLAN" either didn't work or wasn't implemented.
61 posted on 09/03/2005 11:44:28 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: dfwgator

"Reminds me of a Far Side cartoon where a brick is thrown through a window, containing a note, "Windows Broken? Call 555-1212"

Sounds like the main POA of all of the Rat Disaster Planners.


62 posted on 09/03/2005 11:45:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: HAL9000

I don't suppose they're doing it gratis, huh?


63 posted on 09/03/2005 11:46:10 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: claudiustg

He is bagging bodies?

>>And now the Governor's bring him down to be in charge of the recovery!


64 posted on 09/03/2005 11:49:24 PM PDT by BurbankKarl (u)
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To: Howlin
Here is an excerpt from GOVERNOR BLANCO STATEMENT on JLWA's web site -

I want to introduce you to James Lee Witt. Mr. Witt ran the Federal Emergency Management Agency for eight years from 1993 to 2001. He has more than 25 years of disaster management experience.

I have asked Mr. Witt to advise and assist me and Gen. Landreneau on the recovery effort.

As FEMA director, Mr. Witt turned was credited with turning that agency around. His leadership is proven, his experience is extensive and he is an asset to this recovery effort.

I'm sure he doesn't give away his "services".

65 posted on 09/03/2005 11:50:27 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: kcvl
check this out from the enviromentals

http://www.saveourwetlands.org/let-jamesleewitt1.htm

November 17, 1998
CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECIEPT REQUESTED


Mr. James Lee Witt
Director of FEMA
Federal Center Plaza
500 “C” Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20472
RE: Approximately 2,600 flood plain acres schedules for development on North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, St. Tammany Parish, Slidell, Louisiana, East of I-10, T10S, R14E, titles Oak Harbor East and Lakeshore Estates

Dear Mr. Witt:

Unfortunately, this once vast coastal estuary was permitted to be drained illegally and possibly criminally, by various government agencies. In regard to the historic background and documentation drainage of this area, enclosed is a letter from SOWL attorney Arthur Lemann IV to Col. Frank Ellis and Lt. Gen. Joe Ballard dated March 26, 1998.

In line with the New Orleans Corps’ policy of permitting large scale developments on the North Shore of St. Tammany Parish in wetland-flood plains, without requiring an EIS under NEPA, the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers recently granted permits to St. Tammany Holding Corporation to develop a mega residential-commercial development in this area, extremely susceptible to hurricane tidal surges.

The devastation to lives and property from the coming flood to this area will be a disaster to all tax payers, and to our federal treasury, subsidizing federal flood insurance. It will, of course, result in increased insurance rates to all Louisiana taxpayers. And there might even come a time, when the federal government might have to buy out the homeowners in this vast flood plain. The resulting loss to all of us could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

SOWL is attempting to stop development in this flood basin and on September 21, 1998, filed suit in Baton Rouge (Time Picayune press clipping enclosed).

SOWL has also drafted a lawsuit hopefully to be filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans against the New Orleans District of the Corps of Engineers for violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, and Administrative Procedure Act.

SOWL is also requesting a United States Congressional and Senate investigation, relating to the destruction of Louisiana wetlands acting as barriers to flood surges, and the resulting economic chaos to our federal subsidized flood insurance program.

In the meantime, SOWL requests your agency to survey this area, to insure all height and FEMA building requirements are mandated upon the present and future builders. It’s our understanding that a Holiday Inn is presently being constructed. Also, Slidell based O’Neil Theaters plan to build a movie megaplex in this flood plain (See Times Picayune press clipping enclosed dated November 14, 1998).

SOWL requests your agency to immediately contact St. Tammany Holding Corporation, Holiday Inn, and O’Neil Company’s President Mr. Tim O’Neil, the City of Slidell, the St. Tammany Parish Police Jury and any and all other to insure all FEMA requirements are mandated.

SOWL is not only concerned about the environment, but also about the economic well- being of SOWL’s over 1,200 tax paying Louisiana citizens being forced to subsidize corporate buildings in our Louisiana flood plain coastal-estuary-wetland areas.

Please advise.



Sincerely yours,
SAVE OUR WETLANDS, INC.


LF/kcm
Enclosures
cc: Louisiana State Attorney General
Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana
Louisiana Insurance Commissioner, Jim Brown
Arthur Lemann, IV, Esq.
Melinda Leonard, Esq.
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation
Earth Justice
Tulane Environmental Law Clinic
66 posted on 09/03/2005 11:50:41 PM PDT by Mo1
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To: Howlin

$500,000 is pocket change. Billions are coming.


67 posted on 09/03/2005 11:50:49 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: claudiustg

But what is her real story? That is what I'm wondering.


68 posted on 09/03/2005 11:54:49 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: HAL9000

Why doesn't she mentioned today that Mr. Witt's firm supposedly drew up the plans to prevent this diaster?


69 posted on 09/03/2005 11:55:21 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: XHogPilot

This thread needs to go to Rush and Drudge.


70 posted on 09/03/2005 11:55:27 PM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that it was President Bush that had called and urged the state to order the evacuation.


71 posted on 09/03/2005 11:55:32 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: XHogPilot
Miserable Failure
72 posted on 09/03/2005 11:55:51 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe (North Texas Solutions http://ntxsolutions.com)
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To: SierraWasp; BOBTHENAILER; Ernest_at_the_Beach

Look at this.

Maybe rats who live in Glass Palaces shouldn't be throwing rocks at GW.


73 posted on 09/03/2005 11:56:19 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: dfwgator; HAL9000; kcvl; Grampa Dave; Mo1

Now what we need to do is find out if the "plan" IEM came up with is the one that NO "gamed" last year -- Hurricane Pam, is that what it was?


74 posted on 09/03/2005 11:57:03 PM PDT by Howlin (Have you check in on this thread: FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread)
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To: kcvl

But then out of the other side of her mouth she refused to call martial law so he could take over.


75 posted on 09/03/2005 11:57:58 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: HAL9000
He has more than 25 years of disaster management experience.

When you create disasters you get a lot of experience managing them.

76 posted on 09/03/2005 11:58:16 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Well cover my butt with petals and call me rosey


77 posted on 09/03/2005 11:58:43 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (Polls = Proof that when the MSM want your opinion they will give it to you.)
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To: Howlin

"Why doesn't she mentioned today that Mr. Witt's firm supposedly drew up the plans to prevent this diaster?"

Why hasn't any mediot from the MSM mentioned this dual connection?


78 posted on 09/03/2005 11:58:56 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (Jamie Gorelick is responsible for more dead Americans(9-11) than those killed in Iraq.)
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To: dfwgator

The consultant's motto "When you see the light at the end of the tunnel, make more tunnel."


79 posted on 09/03/2005 11:59:13 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: XHogPilot
The plan they wrote is a joke.

I posted this on another thread:

I just skimmed that plan.

Good Lord!

It looks to me like one of those generic plans you find in a textbook somewhere, or crib from some disaster recovery seminar.

One quick example: the plan goes from discussing mandatory evacuation directly to discussing return of the population, without any recognition that it might take weeks to pump the water out of the New Orleans basin.

It reads like a South Park episode: 1. Steal underpants. 2. ??? 3. Profit.

Sheesh.


80 posted on 09/04/2005 12:00:08 AM PDT by filbert (More filbert at http://www.medary.com)
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