...or directly via...
http://tiadaily.com/php-bin/news/showArticle.php?id=1026
Also a good one to read -
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478273/posts
Posted on 09/08/2005 12:00:32 PM PDT by JZelle
The mayor of New Orleans, a harsh critic of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina, is coming under increasing fire for exacerbating the disaster by not properly implementing his city's emergency-management plan. A high-ranking Department of Homeland Security official, who asked not to be identified, yesterday said local leaders have known for years that the city's levees were not adequate to protect the Big Easy if it was struck by a Category 3 or greater hurricane. The official, who also questioned the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) slow response to the disaster, said Mayor C. Ray Nagin knew the National Weather Service had issued an alert Aug. 28 saying a hurricane warning was in effect for the north-central Gulf Coast, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain. The weather service alert called for maximum sustained winds of 160 mph with higher gusts and a coastal storm surge flooding of 18 to 22 feet above normal tide levels, along with "large and dangerous" battering waves. The alert said some levees in the greater New Orleans area "could be overtopped." The official said Mr. Nagin waited too long to order a mandatory evacuation and later blamed others, including President Bush, for the resulting destruction and loss of life.
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This article is poor.
About the school bus story, nowhere does it say the school busses were to be activated for evacuation. If not in the plan, and should have been, it's the planners' fault.
Nagin's criticism of the federal govt was in relation to the "chain of command" with the state govt. on post-hurricane evacuation, the Superdome horror. It was a problem indeed.
Maybe the wrong can of worms got opened this time.
Using the principle of "clean hands", one who is of greater culpability cannot easily charge one of lesser culpability of committing outrages.
This has in no way stopped the "suicide bombers" that have been trying to get George W. Bush since about December 2000. These hurlers of invective and blasphemers of the truth do not CARE about their personal safety, the mission is much more important than anyone's personal destiny.
Bush is wrong, and should be punished in some significant way, so goes the thinking, and all other objectives should be subordinate to that one dictum.
But in their overreaching eagerness to tie something, anything, to the Bush Administration, some of the most implausible arguments are raised, and the wildest of accusations are made, that are 1) totally contrary to fact; and 2)probably the very thing the accusatory parties are doing themselves.
Why the hell doesn't the GOP keep saying BUSH SAVED LIVES by telling that dumbass governor to evacuate NOLA
THey are beyond DUMB
"The City of New Orleans will utilize all available resources to quickly and safely evacuate threatened areas. "Close enough.
"close enough"
But not good enough. Plan should have been specific.
Agreed. Should have been written in crayon with lots of pictures so that even a booger-eatin' motard like Nagin could have followed along as it was read to him.
And in really big letters: 'Pretend like you might actually have to do this and be prepared to do it."
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