This whole thing was unrealistic. Why wasn't the Superdome being stocked, at least with water, from the very first moments? I heard on the first day that the NG had brought MRE's with them when they arrived at the shelter, but the city and state had clearly not laid in any other stock.
I think the SD was a last-minute choice when they realized that the storm was actually going to hit. No preparation, no stocks, no plans.
Do you remember the weather report before the thing hit, and all of the NO local mayor and emergency management director said that this whole thing was "alarmist?"
That's why they put the people in the Superdome and told them to bring their own food and water. And what is amazing is that it was the poor who voted for these people...and this is the treatment they get? To be caged up like animals in a place that is certainly going to be demolished with little or no provisions?
They could have bussed people to Baton Rouge, could've been a bit more inventive. But no. And now the political backpeddling begins. Blame George Bush, Denny Hastert...whoever. Now there is anarchy complete with rapes, thievery, murders...this is unbelievable. "Alarmist," my eye. Katrina was a category 5 headed for an area that KNEW that it couldn't withstand a 3...what's alarmist about that?
No preparation...perhaps the Mayor did not want to frighten the tourists?
/extreme sarcasm off
"To: jeffers
This whole thing was unrealistic. Why wasn't the Superdome being stocked, at least with water, from the very first moments? I heard on the first day that the NG had brought MRE's with them when they
arrived at the shelter, but the city and state had clearly not laid in any other stock.
I think the SD was a last-minute choice when they realized that the storm was actually going to hit. No preparation, no stocks, no plans.
"
You have to open your view an order of magnitude to see this clearly. The city was expecting 35,000 people at the dome. That's 35,000 gallons of water.
Four semi-tractor trailer tankers.
Per day.
No brains in the governor's mansion.
Not true, the Superdome was always the planned place of refuge. It worked during the hurricane.