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

[bonfire]

Ping list BIG TIME.

[VeniVidiVici]

After reading this no wonder the Democrats are against "No Child Left Behind".

[lonestar67]

someone needs to get a hold of this DVD.

The video clips of local officials would be invaluable in placing blame at the end of this torrid affair.

[ckilmer]

The Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan specifically stated that people without private transportation were to be transported on public buses.

There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.

At 70 people per bus that is 28,000 people per round trip that could have been taken out of the storm surge area in the 48 hours prior the Katrina striking.

After the storm hit, what makes you think that buses sent from outside of New Orleans could drive through the flooded mess any better than the 145 New Orleans city buses that were parked 1.2 miles away from the Superdome?

Was Scotty supposed to beam the outside buses to the Superdome and them beam them back out so that they would not have to drive through impassable roads?

The time to evacuate those 200,000 low-income people on public buses OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE was BEFORE the Category 4 storm struck.

That was what the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan for New Orleans specifically called for.

The Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor did NOTHING to carry out that portion of the plan. They left 200,000 low-income resident abandoned and they now blame the Federal Government for not having Scotty beam down a massive logistics effort after a human disaster of their own making.

[bonfire]

I will just NEVER EVER get over this. That picture should be shoved in the Mayor and Gov's face over and over and over again.

[finnman69]

Nagin was criminally negligent.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

An RTA emergency plan dedicates 64 buses and 10 lift vans to move people somewhere; whether that means out of town or to local shelters of last resort would depend on emergency planners' decision at that moment, RTA spokeswoman Rosalind Cook said

TEXAS sent 500 buses how many times?

[WestSylvanian]

From the start of the rooftop evacuations, I've noticed something peculiar. Healthy, muscular black guys have been plucked off the roofs of what appear to be rather substantial houses. I've been up on the roof of my own house for repairs numerous times and I know how big it is. These houses are two or three times as large. They have solid looking roofs with newish shingles. How is that people in such circumstances lack transportation or the means to leave the city? These aren't shanties and their owners certainly weren't destitute.

It appears to me that Coast Guard and Army guys are risking their lives to rescue lots of fools who had plenty of opportunity to leave New Orleans and refused to do so. And taxpayers are footing the bill. Infirm elderly, poor people with no means to leave--by all means we should do everything to help these hapless victims. Perfectly healthy idiots who refused to leave are a disgrace.

[finnman69]

We better get thse DVDs out telling folk they are on their own. Yeah, thats a good plan

[Yaelle]

Also, the city could have made one lane of the highway expressly for buses during the pre-storm evacuation. (In addition to making all lanes outgoing ones.)

[finnman69]

[IronMan04]

Nagin was criminally negligent.

He warned the people a month before the storm hit that they were on their own and had to be responsible for themselves. What is Criminal about that?

[mylife]

Bombshell

[flashbunny]

"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. "

Forget about an exit strategy for iraq - what happened for the 'exit strategy' for new orleans?

Wait, that was the responsibility of liberals, so it can't be mentioned.

[GW and Twins Pawpaw]

They have really screwed the pooch on this one. None too soon either. Liberalism is a virulent cancer upon our society.

[sionnsar]

"But we don't have the transportation."

What about all those school buses now under water...?

Frankly, if the evacuation and relocation of the poor out of the hellhole environment we were hearing NO was (before the storm), into a situation where they can (and do) help themselves up into the mainstream... this will be a good thing.

[ChadGore]

This is Fuuuuuuny. A DVD ? My 10 year old nephew knows how to burd a DVD.

How cute.

[ChadGore]

Attn: LA FREEPERS ! WE NEED THIS DVD !

The world needs to see, on film, the "you're on your own" on film !

[ChadGore]

re:Perfectly healthy idiots who refused to leave are a disgrace.

Here's the process:

Reality: Cat 5 in the gulf ?
Reaction: I'll stay

Reality: Cat 4 on my house ?
Reaction: I'll stay

Reality: Leeve topped?
Reaction: I'll stay

Reality: Fresh water gone?
Reaction: I'll stay

Reality: Food gone?
Reaction: I'll stay

MSM films him saying "Where's the help" ? ? ?

[finnman69]

Actually, he barely told the city to evacuate as it was with minimal notice and he never did bother to get the message out the people are on their own.

And isnt it negligent to leave the population on their own?