In storm, N.O. wants no one left behind [To poor - "You'll Be on Your Own"]

New Orleans Times-Picayune ^ | July 24, 2005 | Bruce Nolan

[goldstategop]

I keep hearing Democrats insist on the need for "a plan." There sure wasn't one in New Orleans. I must have missed the news.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[coconutt2000]

Now I know why all those people were stealing TV's and DVD players. They were wondering what was on those DVD's they got before the hurricane hit.

[t2buckeye]

"The primary message is that each person is primarily responsible for themselves, for their own family and friends," Truehill said.


Wow! Sort of changes things for Nagin and BLanco, doesn't it? And contrast THIS story by the NO paper and the recent editorial calling for resignations of everyone...
Verrrrry interesting!

[t2buckeye]

Somebody should this to the paper's editorial board who just insisted that Bush fire everyone.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

"EVERYONE IS ON THEIR OWN ?"

I bet that's the first time the welfare group heard THAT one! No wonder there was chaos.

[tflabo]

""EVERYONE IS ON THEIR OWN ?"

Including all you school buses too.!

[djsunzi]

The URL for this link is on the Times Picayune site:

http://www.nola.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news-10/1122184560198030.xml?nola

[willieroe]

Strange, isn't it, that the paper's headline editor chose a headline that totally de-emphasized the thrust of the article.

[tazman3]

Doing some research and stumbled on this. Not totally off topic.

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html

Some juicy bits here for later use. A lot of folks don't remember what was said days ago (not you, those OTHER folks). This stuff is priceless and a good 'local' resource.

[Dems_R_Losers]

Oh. My. God.

If this is not the ultimate rope to hang Ray Nagin, I don't know what is. No wonder he looked like looked like he had just swallowed poison in his news conference when he finally announced the mandatory evacuation.

DVDs???? Poor people don't have DVD players. Old people sure as hell don't have them. (My 80-year-old parents, who are not poor, do not even have a VHS player, nor do they want one.) And THEY DO NOT HAVE CARS.

Bottom line, the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority has almost 400 buses. They can hold 40-50 people each. That's 16-20,000 per trip. If those buses had taken just 5 trips on Saturday and Sunday to Baton Rouge, they could have moved close to 100,000 people. And that doesn't even count the school buses. And God knows they could have at least moved the damn things to high ground so they could have been used to get all those folks away from the Superdome and Convention Center.

Much blood is on these people's hands.

[willieroe]

Thanks for your help!

[djsunzi]

how did you get it on FR in the first place? you typed it out by hand? :)

[popdonnelly]

The people of New Orleans might do better on their own without the help of the Mayor, the Governor, and the Times-Picayune.

[willieroe]

No, did a NewsBank search, but it's a subscriber feature.

[popdonnelly]

The Democrats in Louisiana know that they totally screwed up, which is why they want to shift the blame to Bush. And their fellow beasts in Congress will help them.

[Chaguito]

Let's see...

500 buses x 40 souls/bus x 4 roundtrips per day x 2 days = 160,000 souls.

[JRios1968]

In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation.

What do they call these?

"But we don't have the transportation."

They don't have it now!

Their message will be distributed on hundreds of DVDs across the city. The DVDs' basic get-out-of-town message applies to all audiences, but the it is especially targeted to scores of churches and other groups heavily concentrated in Central City and other vulnerable, low-income neighborhoods, said the Rev. Marshall Truehill, head of Total Community Action.

Well, now we know why so many looters...oops, I mean "dispossessed" were stealing DVD players and plasma TV sets...they needed to waych the DVD!

[tazman3]

thanks.

Archived for later.

[grellis]

Truehill, Wilkins and others said emergency preparedness officials still plan to deploy some Regional Transit Authority buses, school buses and perhaps even Amtrak trains to move some people before a storm.