Posted on 09/04/2005 8:36:47 AM PDT by Our_Man_In_Gough_Island
Several posters here and elsewhere have also noted the over-reliance on private transport and have suggested buses and rail as equally important ways of leaving the disaster zone in advance.
A car in every driveway! A driveway in front of every house! A house for every family!
I can just hear the cries now.
Yep - bet they characterize what went wrong.
Unfortunately the media is going to get worse with this now that the hurricane is over. Remember it didn't take long for the libs to politicise 9-11.
Smart girl.
Exactly the same thing that is to be done with the "over"class during a FEMA crisis. In fact, erase the whole notion of "classes'" it has no place at a time of crisis. It's artificial and divisive, and puts the focus in the wrong place: blame instead of solutions.
This time around ignoring them and giving them last priority did not work.
Is that what happened? Did someone somewhere actually "ignore them and give them last priority"? I doubt it. The fact is, there are a lot of poor in New Orleans. Most of them are black. Their sheer numbers mean that most of the stranded would be black; most of the CITY is black! If they live in areas that are hardest hit, and consequently, most difficult to get to, then it seems only natural that they would be the hardest to extract.
Where, then, must our plans be changed?
Analyze where the breaches are most likely and plan evacuation routes based on a variety of scenarios. To hell with the "underclass/overclass" nonsense. This is about effectiveness, not racial politics.
better plans need to be made for the underclass in future disaster scenarios.
I'll say it again: better plans need to be made for ALL people in future disaster scenarios, including the encouragement of individual initiative rather than passive expectation.
I am ashamed of the fools who put you in office.
The unmitigated gall! I want these people who are maumauing this held accountable - called to testify before Congress. And I want that Senator who threated the President hauled in by the Secret Service for a lengthy interrogation, if not jailing.
Good advice. I'll go work on my writing instead :D
Free birth control is one practical solution.
I hate to advocate larger government, but it seems as though time has come for some verifiable process to ensure the local governments are prepared for this type of disaster instead of just throwing money at them. I hate to use NCLB as an example, but there should be an inspection of emergency preparedness tied to the receipt of federal funding. That will crack the whip on the Boss Hawgs running these Dem festering swamps of corruption.
The N.O. Police department was complaining that their radios didn't work after the storm went through. After 4 years and countless millions in federal funding how can this be possible?
The inspection process works well for the military, there are too many lives at stake to leave this up to boobs like Mayor Nagligent.
If we sent troops in beofe the storm to forcibly pull out the 50,000 people and took them to safe ground, and the storm didnt hit..you'd be hearing screams of gestapo, and racists formt he same idiots now yelling ..no way you can win..
This infuriates me. Are you aware that in some of the low-lying suburbs, rescues are only now starting? Those are white people out there. Blacks have received preference, perhaps not entirely because they're black, but because they're in the main part of the city. Nevertheless, if there has been ANY racial preferences in this (and I don't believe there was), it was not against blacks. Take your article and stuff it.
Somewhere, there should be more pics of parked city buses. There are several "bus barns" in the city, and literally hundreds of buses. NO had one of the best public transportation systems I've seen in any city, except possibly San Francisco and New York.
I count 200 plus buses in one pic alone....lets say 10% were down for maintenance. Fill em up and head for east , west and northern destinations as far as fuel allows and find shelters. If I'm not mistaken those would hold 40 plus people each, that's just one shool parking lot in the area.
8000 folks minimum saved per parking lot. Add the city transit system busses etc etc . I would add that any such future storm or impending crisis clearly predicted should warrant the immediate closure of inbound traffic on the Interstates and make all lanes available outbound. Seems a lot of folks could have been saved if "any plan" was allowed to proceed....improvised or not.
Looting SHOULD have been anticipated. It should be in any city, because more often than not, it happens. Disasters are considered looting opportunities for a certain type of person, and New Orleans has more than its share of them. Shoot, I'm not on ANY disaster planning committees, but when we knew the city was on the hurricane hit-list, I told Freepers there WOULD be looting. Someone should pay me what they're paying the doofus of a mayor.
Nope don't think it will happen unless FR forces it. Revealing that would be good for Pres. Bush and bad for every LIBERAL/LEFTIST/DEMOCRAT/SOCIALIST/PINKO SOB around the globe and that includes the MSM.
We need every Black conservative screaming this from the rooftops.
IMO, so far the left has been quite successful in turning this into a race issue.
If Black conservatives can't make themselves heard over the drumbeat of the libs, I am afraid we will lose some of the ground we have gained.
Despite their own disaster plan, despite knowing that they had a large population of poor people in the city, despite knowing that a large number of them use public transportation to get around, they shut the city bus service down at noon on Sunday, let the school buses stay in the parking lots, and left people to die.
I realize this is CYA time for the demonrat leadership in LA. We CANNOT afford to allow Sharpton and Jackson line their pockets on this issue.
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