New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin speaks in New Orleans, April 22, 2006. Nagin said on Wednesday he had settled a fight with disaster officials over trailer parks in the city, giving hope to people still seeking temporary housing months after Hurricane Katrina. (Lee Celano/Reuters)
Did he give priority to chocolates or is that implicit?
Conviently, his evacuation plan doubles as a "get out the vote" plan...
relies more on buses
Not unless he makes then amphibious.
Yeah, I bet Amtrak's all atwitter about the possibility of evacuating "Nagin's Raiders!" Ugh.
In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers on board.
I was expecting a link to Scrappleface but see that its a real article. Amazing.
How high's the water, mama?
Two feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Two feet high and risin'
We can make it to the road in a homemade boat
That's the only thing we got left that'll float
It's already over all the wheat and the oats,
Two feet high and risin'
How high's the water, mama?
Three feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Three feet high and risin'
Well, the hives are gone,
I've lost my bees
The chickens are sleepin'
In the willow trees
Cow's in water up past her knees,
Three feet high and risin'
How high's the water, mama?
Four feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Four feet high and risin'
Hey, come look through the window pane,
The bus is comin', gonna take us to the train
Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain,
4 feet high and risin'
How high's the water, mama?
Five feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Five feet high and risin'
Well, the rails are washed out north of town
We gotta head for higher ground
We can't come back till the water comes down,
Five feet high and risin'
Well, it's five feet high and risin'
I'd like to get it in writing from Nagin that his promise of no shelter of last resort also includes Houston. :-) The Katrina refugees from New Orleans, including several violent criminals, are wearing out their welcome and I think many residents of Houston believe we have enough for this decade.
Don't get too excited, Busboy Nagin ......... you may just lose that chocolate look.
In the future, Nagin said, the Convention Center will be a staging point for evacuations, not a shelter.
More of the politically motivated idiocy we've learned to expect from Nagin and his fellow politicians in New Orleans.
Other than lies and false rumors spread by an irresponsible mainstream media, how did the Convention Center and Superdome fail to serve the City well as evacuation centers? Were the problems that did exist due to those being bad shelters or because they were poorly prepared?
From what I understand the previous evacuation plan was not a bad plan, it simply wasn't followed.
I'm sure there were lessons that were learned and ways to improve upon the plan. One of the best improvements would likely be to find ways to minimize the reliance on incompetent and negligent civil servants and make it so the plan is still functional even if a considerable portion of the government is lacking in competency.
That may be a reason for having a plan that concentrates on getting people out of the area where they have a greater chance of finding competent aid.
However, I suspect that Nagin and his cronies favor it because it allows them to better shift responsibilities and expenses onto others if their is an emergency.
I oppose allowing them to do that without making them pay for it.
New Orleans did have a lot of poor people, but it also had an immense amount of wealth. There is no reason why New Orleans should have been allowed to shift so much of the burden for building and maintaining levees before and after the storm as well as the costs of recovering from the storm onto others.
These people elected corrupt and incompetent government officials. The paid a serious price for those bad choices, but they also have managed to shift a lot of that burden onto the rest of the country, and haven't seemed to have learned their lesson.
They should be allowed to pick their own state and local governments, but we can't allow the rest of the country to keep paying for their irresponsibility.