New Orleans Ignored Its Own Plan

The Washington Times ^ | September 9, 2005 | DaraLundy

[Daralundy]

The city of New Orleans followed virtually no aspect of its own emergency management plan in the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans officials also failed to implement most federal guidelines, which stated that the Superdome was not a safe shelter for thousands of residents.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[The plan does not say how such an evacuation should be executed, but states that a full evacuation of the city would take 72 hours, and that the city knows that there are "approximately 100,000 citizens of New Orleans [who] do not have means of personal transportation."

The guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has little jurisdiction to act on its own but is designed to work with local authorities, suggests that local evacuation plans "coordinate the use of school buses and drivers to support evacuation efforts."

Neither New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin nor Mrs. Blanco ordered buses to take people out of the city before the storm. Two days after the storm hit, the governor issued an order for buses to roll, but by then hundreds of buses in New Orleans were underwater and useless. ]

About says it all.

Paging Sentator Landrieu. Paging Senator Clinton. Paging Senator Kennedy. Paging Congresswoman Pelosi. Paging hairman Screamin' Dean. Etc.

[PhilipFreneau]

>> New Orleans Ignored Its Own Plan <<

And Stone Philips of NBC just finished his "report" on what when wrong in New Orleans (a propaganda piece to shift blame to FEMA) with final recommendations and warnings by His Royal Mayor Nagin. I cannot believe America has digressed so low. I worry about the possibility of God's Wrath on this modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

"Hell, Weekly World News puts the New York & Los Angeles Slimeses to shame."

That calls for a pic:

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Where did they not follow their plan?

You're joking, right?

[hoosiermama]

approximately 100,000 citizens of New Orleans [who] do not have means of personal transportation."

DO we Know how many people have been evacuated since the flooding began? Thought I heard 180,000 today? But, that seems high.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

I had so much fun looking at WWN covers, I thought I'd post another:

[GloriaJane]

Anyone know what NO did in previous hurricanes? Did they use buss to get their citizens out before?

[swheats]

One of the most amazing things is that it appears that our local officials are not or will not take terrorist attacks seriously either. It would have been very convenient to strike us in the midst of another calamity such as a natural disaster.

I'm somewhat surprised that we haven't seen or heard a tape from bin laden or his cohorts commenting about the flooding in NO.

After viewing this photo essay it does cause one to ask what happened. The timespan between Katrina and the flooding.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=14ewb3ap.b147fdut&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

DO we Know how many people have been evacuated since the flooding began? Thought I heard 180,000 today?

Sorry, I don't know, but I had thought the number was at least 100,000 from various reports that I have read. Today, some agency announced that everyone who "wanted to leave" has been evacuated. I assume that included this elderly citizen: :O)

[gov_bean_ counter]

For Hillary's sake the American public cannot be left with the image of a female's lack of leadership during a crisis.

[navysealdad]

Look-let's face it-it's all GW Bush's fault. The evacuation plan would have worked if Bush had not had the Dept. of Def shoot down the space ship that Louis Farrakhan and the infamous Rita X have talked about. That space ship was the REAL evacuation plan.
Rita, myself and Louis had the space ship ready but Michael Brown of FEMA had the Air Force hit us with a cruise missile and we had to go back to the "black hole" to get repairs.

[kinsman redeemer]

...and straight to the (several) point(s). I am glad they identified the following details:
+ evacuation requires 72 hours,
+ Governor alone has power to "carry out" evacuation,
+ CEMP predicts problems moving people who lacked resources,
+ City/State needed to execute the evacuation,
+ FEMA had long ago urged the City NOT to use the Superdome as a shelter, and
+ the Red Cross was barred entry into the City.

I sincerely hope (but doubt) this gets legs.

[kinsman redeemer]

...but that was all AFTER George Bush authorized initiation of the the Meteorological Adjustment Damage Manipulation Against Negroes (MADMAN) project in order to move his personal oil drilling operations right into downtown New Orleans so he and Dick Cheney can simultaneously raise gas prices to get rich quick. Anyway, that's what I heard.

Or something like that.

[kinsman redeemer]

That plane is on the ground, right?

[When do we get liberated?]

Actually, the Senators have an average of one ball between them

[When do we get liberated?]

I watched her say it, it is true.

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[quantim]

They're after Nagin too. All works to protect Blanco.

Their collective bases are in other states now that may never come back.  Look for the political, electoral, state house, and mayoral faces to change in the next election cycle.  Pity this is what it may take for improvement.

[kinsman redeemer]

Curly or Shemp? I wonder.

[Happy2BMe]

NOLA ignored it's own evacuation plans ..