To: Peach
Peach, it sounds like the people staying at the Superdome can't really AFFORD a motel room, or even have a car they can hit the road in.
It's a shame they never made plans for a Mass evacuation, using public transportation and tent cities for these people to go to.
After the loss of life, they might do it...who knows.
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1,012 posted on
08/28/2005 11:43:46 AM PDT by
spectre
(Spectre's wife (God Bless New Orleans)
To: spectre
It's a shame they never made plans for a Mass evacuation, using public transportation and tent cities for these people to go to.
The tent cities would have had to be put up west of Houston or east of Pensecola, and if they really did try to do this, the ACLU would have likely gotten a court order forbidding it.
When this is all done with, our nation needs to take a serious look at our emergency system and actually put into place a series of enforceable laws to declare mandatory evacuations, to seize public and private transport to put those evacuations into effect, and the material to set up shelters for millions of people.
Woulda, coulda, shoulda - too late for this storm, but with the way the world is today, it won't just be for natural disasters that these systems need to be in place and ready to be used.
1,069 posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:03 AM PDT by
kingu
(Draft Fmr Senator Fred Thompson for '08.)
To: spectre
Hi, spectre. I wouldn't want to be in that superdome...there's just no way of knowing if it will withstand the storm. I feel for those folks who can't afford to leave and the city made no plans to help them with transportation to safer/higher ground.
1,076 posted on
08/28/2005 11:50:36 AM PDT by
Peach
(The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
To: spectre
I hate to admit it, but Fidel Castro did a better job of evacuating his poor and elderly to high ground during the last hurricane down there.
1,160 posted on
08/28/2005 12:05:42 PM PDT by
Palladin
(America! America! God shed His grace on Thee.)
To: spectre
It's a shame they never made plans for a Mass evacuation, using public transportation and tent cities for these people to go to. With a plan in place, to use public busses and school busses from around the state, they could have gotten everybody out. Using cots and blankets from National Guard supplies, they could have gotten them bedded down in school buildings inland
But that would have required a governor with actual competence, and what they have is a 'Rat
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