Posted on 08/27/2008 6:44:55 AM PDT by Ebenezer
BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal laid out the state's emergency preparedness plan this evening for the potential arrival of Hurricane Gustav, which he said could make landfall in Louisiana sometime early Tuesday.
The state's catastrophic action team has been activated and the governor plans to hold a meeting Wednesday of his unified command group, who are key officials with state agencies that would be dealing with the emergency.
If the storm continues to threaten the state, Jindal would declare a state emergency and request a federally declared emergency on Thursday. Those declarations trigger regulatory and financing programs to help the government deal with a disaster.
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Pelican State ping
Let’s see how Republican handles this crisis. The dems failed miserably in 2005, not calling for state of emergency despite the President’s suggestion to do so.
Time for Bobby to step up and make Kathleen Blanco look like the fool she was. I hope if Obamalamadingdong tries to make it some sort of photo-op, Bobby will order him out and make a statement how all the press and his entourage are just getting in the way.
But, but ... it was Bush’s fault!
Good luck getting what remains of NOLAs tards to get up off of their asses during this one. If they didn’t learn their lesson during Katrina, they sure as hell aren’t gonna prepare themselves.
Has the NOPD deployed to Houston yet?
He should announce now that Nagin should stay the hell out of the way and let the adults handle it from here.
wrong bobby..just wrong..do as kathleen did..as the hurricane is just miles offshore..ask the president to give you 24 hrs to think it over..and when everything goes crazy..go into your room and cry your eyes out and come out with red eyes and show how helpless you are..that is leadership bobby..
Just waiting for the DUmmies to start saying that Bush only got involved this time because Louisiana now has a Republican governor.
Jindal would make a great Veep for McCain — but Louisiana needs him, too.
“hello Mayor Nagin this is Gov Jindall-I will be taking control of the city effective immediately. You will do what you are instructed to do, when you are instructed to do it. Should you fail to follow instructions you will be placed under arrest”
At long last...leadership.
I would be more like, “Hey Ray, I understand you have relatives in Dallas, I think now would be a real good time to go pay them a visit. Take a few weeks off.”
Wow!!!! A plan!!!!!! What a concept!!!!!
Did you see the CNN crew after the Hillary speech? They were salivating at the idea of Gustav hitting during the Republican convention. “Just think of the reminder of Bushes failure it would be” they mused. “And for sure we’d have to cover it, which would interrupt coverage of the convention”. They were giddy at the prospect!
This might be a good time to go to the mountains in Arkansas.
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