Posted on 09/07/2005 3:35:54 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
Just heard on FOX that Blanco refused to allow supplies to be brought to the stadium, "Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water!"""
Having said that the decision and reasons for it may have some merit if the folks were already being supplied with food, water, and medics from Louisianas LOHSEP.
ANY RELATION? Post-159=MG Bennet Landreneau Post-165=Dwight Landreneau
Mary Landrieu's BROTHER is Lt. Governor!!!!
I heard it was Bush that reused to even talk to her or even look at her. Can you blame him. Incompetence should be humiliated.
Last week I let the FEMA hire-ups have it over what I thought was FEMA's screwup in not figuring out how to get water and food to the "stadium people".
If this report turns out to be true, I profoundly apologize to those running FEMA. And I want to see Blanco in an orange jumpsuit for this outrage.
As You post, the Gay NJ Governor(maybe still in the closet at the time) gave the most important state security position to his gay Israeli Lover who had zero experience in State or Federal or even Mall or single store security~ !
Daily Kos: Clinton cut trip short BEFORE Floyd hit
U.S. President Bill Clinton said his administration was doing all it could to answer the threat from Hurricane Floyd off America's Southeast coast during a press conference with New Zealand's Prime Minister Jenny Shipley in Christchurch, New Zealand, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1999. Clinton is cutting his overseas trip by a day so he can return to Washington to deal with the pending hurricane. He and other Pacific Rim leaders were in New Zealand to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.
do NOT fall for it!
First we have:
On September 16, 1999, Hurricane Floyd, a storm extending 300 miles with sustained winds of 96--110 miles per hour, made landfall in North Carolina, dropping up to 20 inches of rain in eastern regions of the state. Rain from Hurricane Floyd, combined with rains from Hurricane Dennis beginning on August 30 and Hurricane Irene on October 17, caused extensive flooding along the Neuse, Tar, Roanoke, Lumbar, and Cape Fear rivers, affecting an estimated 2.1 million persons. This report presents data about injuries, illnesses, and deaths during and following Hurricane Floyd in North Carolina and identifies the leading cause of death as drowning involving occupants of motor vehicles trapped in flood waters.
And where was Bill Clinton?
Remarks on Hurricane Floyd in Honolulu, Hawaii - Brief Article
September 15, 1999
Good morning. Let me first say it's good to be back on American soil after a very good week at the APEC conference in New Zealand. I'm especially anxious to get back to Washington to help to deal with the problems caused by Hurricane Floyd.
I have just had telephone calls with our FEMA Director, James Lee Witt, who has been giving me regular updates. And as you know, the storm currently, in its rain form, is battering Georgia, Florida, North and South Carolina, and is targeting the entire Northeast.
These States are now engaged in the largest peacetime evacuation in our history. Yesterday I announced emergency declarations for Florida and Georgia. Today I am issuing similar declarations for South Carolina and North Carolina. I have just spoken with both Governor Hunt of North Carolina and Governor Hodges of South Carolina. I've assured them that we would do everything we can to help them, and they've given me updates on the problems that they expect to encounter, particularly problems for the farmers in those areas, who, if there is severe flooding, could well lose their entire crops.
Let me commend the efforts of FEMA, the National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center, and the other Federal agencies and State and local officials who are working around the clock to protect people and property. Their efforts, along with new technologies, have enhanced our ability to predict and prepare for these storms. I hope that every citizen will heed the warnings of the officials and the recommendations to take every action to protect their families and stay out of harm's way. Meanwhile, we will continue to take extraordinary :measures to protect lives and property from Hurricane Floyd.
Hawaii! Exactly where he was when Katrina hit!
just a hunch...but I think Mary Landrieu is somewhere behind all this
LOL!
One thing that doesn't make sense to me: wouldn't a "magnet" be *good* because they wanted to get the people out of their houses and out of the city, and the locations where the Red Cross would set up would be likely staging areas to then evacuate people?
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WH, I noticed that name similarity also, but I believe it is a common name in the South.
Didn't Gov. Blank-o and Nagin TELL the people to go to the Superdome??
you'll soon be hearing the famous liberal response since the heat IS being turned up....."LET'S MOVE FORWARD" ...watch..it ain't far off
Doogle
Then why are his ratings so low right now?
SHE needed 24 hours to make an emerency decision. GOD what a spineless idiot.
How awful. I heard Waveland was hit very hard by the surge... it's all gone? :(
LOL, that was a mistake. the media will be all over the story now.
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