[buckleyfan]

I hope you work for FEMA, because you obviously have the plan all worked out. If not, what a great mind and resource is going to waste. Maybe we can put you in place before the next quake in Cali, or volcanic eruption.

In all seriousness, what can you do? You need all emergency staff in the city, on the ground, during the crisis, not trying (vainly, is very possible) to shuttle people to higher ground who don't even want to leave. Some of them would probably hide in there houses anyway. What's happening now is a pretty hardcore effort to save people who made a big mistake. And i'm not blaming them for it - that's just what a disaster is sometimes, people in harms way, whether they put themselves there, or ended up there by chance.

JMHO.

[Flux Capacitor]

Wait a minute, now I'm really confused -- apparently the hurricane is actually Haley Barbour's fault. See, Barbour didn't have a plan for dealing with the hurricanes he should have known he'd be creating by opposing the Kyoto Protocol.

So I guess we can say that the carnage in Mississippi can be directly traced to a lack of planning and preparation on the part of its governor.

Sounds fair to me! ;)

-Dan

[tcrlaf]

***I hope you work for FEMA, because you obviously have the plan all worked out.***

When I was a CD volunteer,(20 years agao) they had plans to evacuate Indianapolis residents within 24 hours, using everything they could find, from rail-cars to buses, in the event of a Massive Tornado or Nuclear strike.

And they recently updated those for New Madrid a couple of years ago....

IMO, They screwed the pooch, BIG-TIME, in order not to scare the tourists, and remember, they had just gone through a RECENT(Last Year??) evacuation for one that missed them...