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Posted on 09/20/2005 5:12:33 AM PDT by Billie
Edited on 09/20/2005 5:41:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Well, yes, and my response was too unqualified too. I'm sure that, despite the Washington bureaucracy, there were lots of local FEMA heros.
A lot of the trained responders, remember, are not employees of FEMA but citizen-volunteers with training elsewhere that are called up by FEMA. I have nothing bad to say about those guys -- but even those guys now have a mouthful to say about FEMA. A lot of them were prevented from helping. Very sad.
And I'm not a pile-on-the-gov't type on this one. E.g., I think the US Coast Guard people were heros. But there's just nothing, nothing to be recommended in FEMA's response. Even now, it's silly lets-by-some-trailers response is an absurdly incompentent, ill-informed, and wasteful response. Downright scarey.
Heh, heh, I guess I do feel pretty unqualifiedly down on FEMA, huh? But not the citizen-responders. I'm one of them, trained through DHS in CERT.
Oh, no, Freezie. *Dark* charcoal grey is even worse. I hate to tell you what that means, but your monitor is probably about gone. :( That is exactly what happened a couple of years ago to mine - I thought everyone else was seeing things when they told me about some of my *colors*! LOL. Every dark color, to me, was BLACK or almost black! It was a wake-up call when Aqua said something about a pretty 'green' color, that was 'rust' to me. I asked others then what color they saw - there was only one other 'rust' answer - the rest were green. I bought a new monitor, and HATED it because all my graphics that I had 'fixed' so perfectly for me were WAY TOO LIGHT!!! I started making every one of them darker! LOL! jkphoto came to the rescue and told me to STOP!!! (Neither Lori nor Louie had the heart to tell me!)
Anyway, Dolly, I'm telling you all this because Lori's husband helped me get it calibrated, and I've loved it ever since!
Gold, blue, dark grey are the colors that I'm seeing.
"Doesn't the Governor/Mayor have to request FEMA and others to come in and help. Aren't ultimately the Mayor or NO and the Governor of LA the ones responsible."
Response by NGOs, including Red Cross, was slowed down at the federal level. Even now, as we speak, FEMA is blocking stuff from arising.
Look, of course the Mayor and the Governor are thoroughly incompetent. Compare Lousianna's Governor with the expert response of Haley Barber of Mississippi.
But FEMA didn't do what it was supposed to do. It can't account for -- show any forward progress -- in pre-storm preparation or after-storm response. I know lots of disaster relief people -- I volunteer in this area too -- and they are shaking their heads in disgust. If FEMA wants to block aid from arising until things are perfectly safe, they should stop being a federal disaster response agency and turn into a Girl Scout troop leader association. The ill-trained burueacrats at the top fundamentally didn't get their job.
Fact that might not be popular to post on a political website: a lot of good federal gov't work is good execution. Lots of things aren't political, and there's just one good way to do them, and you *do* need experienced career people who know how to execute to do the actual execution. Fact: FEMA has become a dumping ground for political hacks. I have no loyalty for these bozos simply because I like their politics: they are still ill-prepared and stupid hacks. If people want to use federal agencies as dumping grounds for a party's political patronage system, use the Small Business Administration and Commerce (and oh they do) and leave an agency as important as FEMA out of it, I say. And so say a lot of good gov't workers at FEMA. Morale there's been terribly low because of this silly hackery.
The Admiral Allen's of this world -- this is what we need more of at FEMA. I strongly believe in FEMA's mission and I of course understand that the fed'l gov't can't be everyone's parents and protect everyone from their idiot mayors, their lack of preparation, etc. But FEMA is still supposed to act, execute, and minimize life/property damage. And FEMA just didn't. No excuse for it, none. The ball was in their court and they didn't execute either.
In short, the failures of the local gov't do nothing to dissuade me from the need to fix this federal agency immediately.
That's okay, we understand, don't we Billie?
Since the story is short, I'll go ahead and post it for you, Rus..:))
Having explained I lived out in the boonies with few passersby, a Florida gal then always had to have a nice tan. Problem was there always seemed to be ugly white lines showing, wearing some clothes.
The summer between 8th and 9th grades, therefore, I had a brilliant solution.
"I'll go down to Canal # 9 and up from there halfway to # 1, where no one ever goes..."
Took a blanket, portable radio, and suntan lotion and selected a spot high up a bank to bask Ala Newborn.
No lines..:))
That was fine and dandy until school started in September, and going to the shower in my first PE Class.
Scene: Locker Room
Eyes riveted on Maggie-with-the-Endless Tan!!
Oh, boy - at least no one seemed to have ever told any of the fellas, or they'd SURELY have brought it up through the years!!
LOLOL
"DOG IN BOAT"
On September 10th when Best Friends rescue workers were on the Interstate heading back to the Best Friends/St. Francis Animal Sanctuary, they noticed a small boat on the side of the expressway.
But that isnít what caught their eye. It was the red spray-painted writing on the side of the vessel, which read, "DOG IN BOAT."
They pulled over in their van. Sure enough, hiding inside the boat near the outboard motor was a dog, a young white pit bull. Besides the writing on the boat, the person had left the dog a bag of dry food. Unfortunately, diesel fuel from the motor had spilled into the hull and saturated not only the food, but the dog.
"She was sunburned with blisters and covered in diesel," said Best Friends staff member Kit Boggio. "I talked quietly to her and just picked her up in my arms."
The rescue team took her to the St. Francis sanctuary, along with 40 other animals. In four days, her condition has dramatically improved.
"After 72 hours, she's had a bath, a lot of her sun blisters are healing. She had her first chewy. She looks and feels great."
On September 14th, the dog, who is now named Diesel, was moved from the triage area she's been staying at to a kennel area ìwhere sheíll have her own ëapartment,í Boggio said. "We're going to tuck her in."
Cathy Scott at St. Francis
Photos by Troy Snow, Best Friends Animal Society
Be sure to click on the above image to view the special tribute
Phew, thought I was going blind although - didn't you see the gold stripes around the outside?
Hi Larry.. not sure if I already asked you this (maybe when I first joined FR).. were you stationed in the Panama canal zone in early 70s? We were at Ft Armador & there was a Larry Johnson ( CEC) and his wife Susan that were in our 4plex tropical officer housing. I went by handle of Darlene Haverkos at that time...
Yes, there were also gold stripes.
And my monitor isn't going -- it's a new monitor, so I think that's not the issue.
I think what is true is that there are "web-safe" colors where all monitors see the same color, and non-web-safe colors where it can very by user.
And I think Billie's graphics may involve the former.
I also think it doesn't matter -- it looks pretty to me! -- and the difference in our points of view in color, as in politics here, just adds to the spice! So not to worry!!
Seems FTH & me need some guidance. I have no clue where to begin to correct the problem.. and I have no clue what size my screen should be. ( think I know where to fix that)
I will be in & out most of day.
Well, at least my computer is now FAST as it brings up poorly colored pages!!!!
The had me on the guerny in the hallway at Pensacola. The doctor was delivering twins in the labor room and it was 9:59pm - Pain - yelp - This baby is coming NOW (very emphatic)10:00 - they gave me a spinal said relax and 10:01 Matthew made his appearance. The doctor had told me it would be early morning before he came. Oh well, if only doctors would listen to us at these times!
They are so totally helpless in a crisis of the magnitude Katrina was, and it's wonderful to know there are many humanitarians willing to act and help them - and us.
awe.. so glad diesel is safe. There will be so many stories like this.. the poor little things surely did not understnad all the terror and pain they experienced - as if the humans truly did.
Thanks for posting this
I still can't make myself use that resolution, but have set this 17" LCD flat panel at 1024 x 768. (though recommended is 1280 x 1024) I like it better than the 800 x 600 on this one, which almost screamed at me, it was so huge! But still, if *you're* using 1280 x 1024, these tables must not be wider than 6 inches on your monitor; and you HAVE to have enlarged your font for viewing, haven't you? I haven't, but the text is considerably smaller than it was at the 800 x 600 resolution I was using on the 15" LCD flat panel monitor.
THIS particular monitor was actually set where I didn't have to do anything to adjust color, brightness or anything!
Yummmm! Fresh apple pie? :)
yes, mine looks pretty also. Like dark grey suede.
My monitor is about 2 weeks old. A 17 (or is it 19" ) flat.. Westinghouse brand. you mentioned yours was relatively new also. Today is my first time online however with it. I have done some photo editing (with my digitals) so far only.
Billie, please don't say that about the monitor - I just got a new one and I'm seeing the same thing Freezie is.
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